Monday, March 16, 2009
Day Dreaming, Night Dreaming
I have been having a lot of scary dreams lately, and then I wake up and feel wonderful. Is this some sort of cleansing? Working out my anxiety by being chased by shooters every night? It's sort of nice. Mornings are quiet, and I am always alive.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Argh!
God.
I have too many internet site things to keep up with, and it's so frustrating. Sometimes don't you just feel like a pioneer? Like how it took them FOREVER to get to the freaking west, and by the time they got there, they were pretty much all dead anyway. Like, seriously, sometimes the internet feels like that. You have all these different networking sites, each with a different purpose, but many for confusing, overlapping purposes (like Twitter, and now facebook status updates, for example), and they are always evolving (for better or for worse). New sites are always cropping up, new trends emerge and are destroyed or worshiped by the internet community with a terrifyingly fast turnover rate, each comes with its own pointless privacy policy that no one reads, and the information our parents keep in locked safes in the coat closet, we give out for the opportunity to show off our winning personalities on the internet. It's so frustrating to me--waiting for the internet to figure itself out. It's just such a jumble right now! So many accounts, so much information just floating around, and so much of it completely pointless. I love keeping in touch with people as much as the next guy, but honestly--I have a twitter (for witticisms), a soup (like a scrapbook), a blogger (for thoughts), a facebook (for friends), a myspace (for music friends), and a flickr account (for my own images), all of which report snippets of what I deem the most interesting parts of my life, and almost all of which overlap. When is someone going to invent the ideal platform? We're watching facebook try to do this, borrowing features from whichever site happens to be the flavor of the week. But will they manage? Sure facebook is huge, but it's not perfect.
Then, when will this supernova internet hub pop up? I guess asking that is as pointless as the pioneers asking "Are we there yet." In the meantime, I guess I'll keep pathetically tweeting, facebooking, blogging, flickring, souping, whatevering, until this internet thing figures itself out.
This was a drawn-out excuse for my sparse updating as of late.
I have too many internet site things to keep up with, and it's so frustrating. Sometimes don't you just feel like a pioneer? Like how it took them FOREVER to get to the freaking west, and by the time they got there, they were pretty much all dead anyway. Like, seriously, sometimes the internet feels like that. You have all these different networking sites, each with a different purpose, but many for confusing, overlapping purposes (like Twitter, and now facebook status updates, for example), and they are always evolving (for better or for worse). New sites are always cropping up, new trends emerge and are destroyed or worshiped by the internet community with a terrifyingly fast turnover rate, each comes with its own pointless privacy policy that no one reads, and the information our parents keep in locked safes in the coat closet, we give out for the opportunity to show off our winning personalities on the internet. It's so frustrating to me--waiting for the internet to figure itself out. It's just such a jumble right now! So many accounts, so much information just floating around, and so much of it completely pointless. I love keeping in touch with people as much as the next guy, but honestly--I have a twitter (for witticisms), a soup (like a scrapbook), a blogger (for thoughts), a facebook (for friends), a myspace (for music friends), and a flickr account (for my own images), all of which report snippets of what I deem the most interesting parts of my life, and almost all of which overlap. When is someone going to invent the ideal platform? We're watching facebook try to do this, borrowing features from whichever site happens to be the flavor of the week. But will they manage? Sure facebook is huge, but it's not perfect.
Then, when will this supernova internet hub pop up? I guess asking that is as pointless as the pioneers asking "Are we there yet." In the meantime, I guess I'll keep pathetically tweeting, facebooking, blogging, flickring, souping, whatevering, until this internet thing figures itself out.
This was a drawn-out excuse for my sparse updating as of late.
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