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It's a boy!
Apr 15th
As usual, I had my twhirl going last night and @feliciaday was attending an event with Joss Whedon and Nathan Fillion. She posted a couple of comments about Nathan stealing her phone and posting to twitter, then Joss posted under @drhorrible‘s twitter account and pretty soon…
@nathanfillion/ is on twitter. And he already has more than 13,00o followers! I really hope he follows through and actually uses it. I love his sense of humor and I think he could have some fun with it. We’ll see.
It was fun semi-observing the process and being just a little bit of an insider.
Yo new twitter tweeple
Mar 2nd
Because a bunch of my LJ friends are finally embracing twitter I thought I’d list a few pointers here:
1. Avoid the public stream. There are a few people in the world who want to keep up with the goings on of billions of twitter users but I don’t think any of my friends will want to. Find and follow your friends, see who they respond to, and follow the ones that seem interesting. There are some celebrities on twitter but only follow those that actually appear to have conversations. Because twitter is about communicating both ways.
2. Do not accept follow requests from people without checking their page. If they only post business links, have only posted once or twice, follow hundreds of people but only have few followers – AVOID. Don’t sign up for any autofollowing crap.
3. If you want to respond openly to a specific person: @theirname with no space. Most clients (twhirl, twitterberry, tweetdeck, etc.) highlight your @name. If you want to talk to someone privately: d theirname with a space – that’s a direct message that won’t go out on your timeline.
4. Use your real face for your avatar. Seriously, twitter is about communication and real people. Us local Phoenix users meet up all the time and it’s easier to identify new people by face than wonder if that person over there is a new member of your group or just some random guy – who we inevitably get on twitter anyway.
5. Don’t use 4 or 2 or U or any of that crap unless you absolutely HAVE to. We get that 140 characters ain’t a lot so shorten your comment rather than shortening your words.
6. Tell us what you’re doing, what you’re watching, what you just found that is amusing or interesting, or just that your sox don’t match today and you just figured it out. Send out questions. Report when something interesting happens in your neighborhood or town. Just not all at once. Don’t go on and on and on about nothings.
I imagine twitter as a giant cubicle zoo and you know how you might pop up and mention something funny or something interesting to the person in the next cube? That’s twitter. Short, quick and to the point.
Welcome and have fun. Any questions? Anyone have any other pointers to add?
PS. Twitter seems to be having issues over the last couple of days. It’s not usually this slow or problematic. They’ve come a long way since it started. Hang in there and have patience and pretty soon she’ll be back to normal.
If you're going to commit, then fucking commit.
Feb 17th
Such a little thing to get so pissed off about but I can’t seem to let this go. I know Internet causes and petitions are usually pointless – I know that. I know the whole thing is probably a complete waste of time anyway. I get it.
But . . .
If you’re going to commit to a cause, especially one with such simple guidelines and instructions, do it as asked. Don’t add your own cute little embellishments, your own personal thumbprint, your cute little whatthefucks.
Don’t know what I’m talking about? That’s okay. Go here: http://creativefreedom.org.nz/blackout.html
They simply ask that if you want to be supportive, change your internet avatars to black and post why along with the link. Period. Does that sound difficult to you? Nope, me neither.
And then wander Facebook and twitter and other social sites, and see what SOME people feel is commiting to the cause. Adding their own person “brand” to a black background? What the hell is that? First of all, people seeing your internet avatars on Facebook and twitter already fucking KNOW you so you don’t have to advertise. Secondly, the whole thing is over at the end of the month. Do you really have to personalize your black avatar? So stuck on yourselves that you can’t let it go for a few days? Ever heard of the saying Lip Service? Dunno what you’d call it online.
If you’re going to play along, then play along. If you don’t believe anything will come of it and it’s all just a waste of time, then fine, don’t play along. Whatever you decide is up to you, but if you’re going to play along THEN FOLLOW THE FUCKING DIRECTIONS.
Seriously, I don’t know why this is bugging me so much but I feel better now. I posted a couple of comments on twitter earlier. A couple of my friends are doing this half-assed and I thought veiled snark would maybe change their mindsl.
I thought the whole idea behind the blackout was to have a completely blacked-out avatar. Not to be cute about it. http://is.gd/jDKz
I think it’s like embroidering your logo on a pink ribbon. Why bother pretending to be supportive when you’re just paying lip service.
We’ll see if this makes any difference. If not, oh well. Tomorrow is another day. Oh wait, it’s after 12. Today is another day.
Why you should be on twitter
Feb 9th
My play-by-play of the Grammy Awards last night:
Seriously, see the fun you missed? And this doesn’t show the people talking back to me. We were having such fun.
About last night
Jan 25th
Well, we didn’t end up going to Karaoke after all. Something better came along. Jack called and invited us to join him and the group he was with which turned out to be some of the Farpoint Media people and some voice actors from the con, and Aaron Douglas. Yes, I hung out with Aaron Douglas!
CJ, Scotty and I met them all at some restaurant in Tempe but we quickly shifted the entire party to Four Peaks, where Scotty and I were seated between Aaron, Yuri Lowenthal and another extrememly interesting voice actor whose name I was never sure of. He said Boris, but I think he was pulling my leg. All very nice, very funny people. I had such a good time and I’m pretty sure I didn’t make too much of an ass of myself. I was well behaved, honest! Athough in the end when we were heading out onto the street to wait for their limo/van and I said, “I guess we’re walking out on the street.” Boris quickly replied something like “I would think you’d be used to that.” Dude!
We’d told jokes, chatted about twitter and other similar internet stuff, fear, government conspiracies, a little about their careers and lots about podcasting. Very fun night. Even when CJ’s car wouldn’t start we immediately got a jump from some other people and kidded around with them, too.
Edited: Boris is actually Boris Kievsky and he was amazingly interesting to talk to.
Sep 24th
Someone made a legitimate complaint (it’s only legitimate because I completely agree) about twitter posts on LJ. So I’m trying something new and in theory it should work. Indulge me for one more auto dump tonight to test this plan.
On Loudtwitter, you have the option to insert text before and after the auto dump of your daily tweets. If I preface with < .lj-cut text="tweet tweet tweet".> (with no dots) and end with < ./lj-cut.> (again, no dots) in theory it should put my tweets behind a cut.
Now if I could get it to automatically select this avatar AND tag I would be like, ecstatic!
*crossing my fingers*
And by the way, lj cuts don’t work on RSS feeds so you people reading this on RSS readers will continue to get the whole thing up front. So sorry, get some whizz-bang internet brainchild to figure that one out.
Edited: Woot!
HEY HEY HEY! As I turned my feed back on at LoudTwitter, it dumped yesterday’s tweets right then and it worked!!!!! I hope that helps my friends’ friends page not look so bloated.
Une journée pleine de faux pas
Jul 27th
Boy, yesterday was full of highs and lows and false steps and FUN!
The swap meet was a waste of time ↓ but we ended up going to a couple of other places before hitting pay dirt ↑ on the item she wanted. I suggested a restaurant for lunch ↑ because I’d been craving something specific and it turns out they don’t ↓ have it anymore. But I tried something new ↑ so that was cool.
(Just because you’re not a flowery person, it doesn’t mean that gorgeous items that ↔ happen to have flowers on them don’t make you look gorgeous, too.)
Damn, was it hot yesterday. Some bank thermometer said 101°F but I think it was hotter than that. The humidity was nasty.
Anyway, hung with them ↑ for a bit in the pool. Checked my phone twitter after and CAsizemore had posted he was getting dinner and then meeting machinegirl and I to go to a Burlesque show. Wha? When did that get planned? I called machinegirl and confessed I’d ↓ forgotten. My bad. I raced home and colored my ↑ own hair (because Ladawn ended up having other plans, too) and raced back to Tempe ↑ in time for a drink ↓ before the show.
↑↑↑↑ Romantasy Cabaret:
Act one: Cool! (Have another drink Debbie ↓ )
Intermission: I have a great buzz on.
Act two: Better! (Have only one more drink Debbie ↓↓ cuz they’re small) Win a prize basket ↑ for being the first in the audience to have a pink lighter ↑ and run up to the stage. Okay, so it’s actually purple but I told her it only looked purple ↓ because of the yellow stage lights. machinegirl won a prize ↑ for having a tube of whore-red lipstick and they made her jog up and down so her booblies ↑ would bounce.
Intermission: Out to my car so CA can stash his motorcycle helmet and I could charge my phone ↓ for a few minutes. I’m still walking okay, but the heat ↓ and no food since lunch (and the three apparently strong drinks) got to me and a-barfing I went ↓↓↓↓↓. A little better, so back inside for:
Act 3: Pasties ↑ ! Pole dancing ↑ ! Back outside for another round ↓ with my stomach! Wow, my head’s (and stomach) almost clear so back inside just in time to catch the nymphet in the fountain ↑ act.
We decided to go to Denny’s and yes I let machinegirl drive. I felt okay but better to be safe and all that. My phone wouldn’t charge in my car or with Ca’s port-a-charger gadget but by the time we ate I was fine. Took her home (and suddenly my car charger worked again) and called Casey, who only lives a couple of miles from her. He said I could crash there but neglected to inform me he already had a houseful of sleepovers. I’m too damned old for the floor, so after hanging there (and giving out some of the stuff from my prize basket – those fuzzy dice look better in his new car) for another hour I headed home. To die.
Roller coaster day and all mistakes were mine. But I had a great time anyway!
Where does the time go?
Jul 19th
I feel like I haven’t had 10 minutes at home. Besides sleeping, that is. In and out. My DVR must be ready to explode.
Thursday morning I took Casey over to look at the available cars on this one lot. The deal is, every car on the lot is the same price, you’re actually paying for a certain level of warranty. Finance $8,999 – $10,999 for a warranty and a little down payment gets you a car. Anyway, he needed to gather paperwork so we had to come back the next day. Dropped him off at work and went to hang out at Ladawn’s. Fantastic lunch – she’s a pastry chef when the kids are back at school – and then we took the kids to the pool.
HUGE MYSTERY:
These whatchamacallits were spread out next to the pool and we cannot figure out what they were. Up close it looks like someone used a cookie squirter to squirt out little sour cream and chive instant potato cookies. Next to the pool. On a shower curtain. And then left.
After her kids were picked up, we played dress up. She’s helping me take more glamorous shots and this is a sample; one of the best actually.
Notice you don’t even have to see my face!
I left there and picked up Casey to take him home and he freaked out. I still had the corset on, just to annoy him. I changed back into normal wear and met CASizemore and new friends at Chili’s for dinner before the midnight show of The Dark Knight. That is the best movie I’ve seen in a long time. The Joker pwned that movie. I don’t really care for this interpretation of Batman. There’s no humor. That character is really one-dimensional and depressing. But Heath Ledger was absolutely riveting as the Joker. I know people will tend to give him extra credit because of his tragic death, but seriously he was phenomenal in that role. And I normally don’t use words like phenomenal. Awesome!
I was supposed to stay at Casey’s but the butthead latched his back gate and I couldn’t get in and ended up driving all the way home . . . where I slept maybe four hours before heading back over so we could do this car dealio. FOR FIVE HOURS. I left him there with his new red Dodge Neon (I can’t remember the year) and came home to die for a couple more hours.
Then Ladawn held a gun to my head invited me to go out last night and see this band perform at a rockabilly club in Phoenix. I’m actually twitter friends with one of the guitar players so it was nice to meet him, and I’ve met his girlfriend/wife/roommate/SO before. She’s one of our PodcampAZ people. I had a good time. We went back to the guy’s house for an after party thing and then I dumped Ladawn at her place and finally got home around 3:30 this morning.
And I wake up and there’s no twitter! Grrrr.
Lord, I was born a ramblin' man . . . oh wait.
Apr 21st
Nothing super-interesting going on.
Friday night I dumped The Screech back with her father and they had plans so I got to the twitter/social media/podcaster meetup place an hour early. It did give me a chance to read more of INFECTED and people watch a bit. I haven’ t been able to read as much of it as I want. I tend to read while I’m eating and that’s seriously NOT a good idea for this particular story. It seems so different to the (first) audio version and I was wondering if they were parts I missed because I don’t listen as well as I should, or if he’d made so many changes.
Evo was the next to arrive. Eventually everyone else wandered over and excellent conversation and visiting commenced. Met some interesting new people and of course, I can’t remember half the names I need to to add them onto my twitter. CJ and Dan brought the Tuckers and TSDivaDani brought natahlee. There was a funny guy named (some form of) Suni that I want to follow but I dunno his stuff to find his twitter name.
Dudes, you HAVE to get on twitter. Think of us all in a giant office and twitter lets us shout non sequiters over the cubicle walls. Sometimes nothing, sometimes hilarious, sometimes informative, always entertaining.
Sat’day morning, I got up early and grabbed Ginnie and that boyfriend and headed out. I neeeeeeded a decent meal so we tried the Iowa Cafe and had hella great ham and eggs/cinnamon roll french toast/pancakes and then off to Home Depot. I got my ladder, more painting supplies and jetted home. Finished the chocolate wall and tried a sponge effect on it then decided uh, no. Looked like crap, so I repainted all but a small area chocolate again.
Finished that just in time to change and go grab machinegirl and go do WI3D. Great show! If you’re not listening, fuck you.
Back home, and immediately started on the rest of the living room walls. Once I started taping off and painting trim I couldn’t quit! Ginnie came home and helped me for a (tiny) while. We got one wall and all the paintbrush work done and stopped for the night. The color is kind of sage green. No Casey. He was supposed to show up Saturday evening and help with the tall work. We got up Sunday morning, I made french toast with cinnamon bread and we finished the rest of the painting. Except the top 2 inches. I still can’t reach the ceiling enough to tape it off and Ginnie’s even shorter than I am. The taller ladder was $10 more than I wanted to spend and Casey had promised to come help.
Wow this is getting long so I’ll cut . . .
My Tweet Cloud
Apr 14th
Just for shits and giggles.
http://www.tweetclouds.com/user_pages/spellwight.html
