Hey guys... i'm a little late to the party this weekend (ok weekends over I know). Been camping on the kern river with 8 dudes. I have to say... hanging out with a bunch of guys is WAYYYY over-rated. I likes me some girls in the mix. Anyways, I definitely dream like crazy when I'm not smoking. Biggest difference in life I noticed when I took some time off last year was my change in appetite and my dreams. My mind went crazy from the moment I hit the pillow to waking up every night.
Marken, an old fishing village with houses built on stilts, now on brick though...What a weird place, people live there normally and you have tourists taking pictures of everything. One women was hanging her washing out and there was people taking pictures of her. I mean COME ON PEOPLE!!!! Camera's actually really annoy my wife and I. We go to art exhibitions and someone will walk up to a painting or a sculpture, take a picture and walk away....wtf is that all about. WE HAVE EYES, AND SOME OF US EVEN HAVE MEMORIES, USE THEM!!!!! Anyway, as usual I digress.
I'm a big sports fan and this kind of thing KILLS me. Peeps will see famous players (or people in sports) and all they want is an autograph. Handshake, no thanks. Talk to them for 30 seconds, nope. Take a picture next to them, not unless they sign the picture. Fucking KILLS ME!!!!! Can you tell it bothers me a bit? The worst is fuckers who send their kids to do it. There will be some fat fuck (the anger is just flying out now) with a backpack full of baseballs and he will see someone coming his way, he'll tell his 4 year old to run up to them and ask for a sig. Like what the hell is wrong with shaking hands with your hero and telling them they mean a lot to you? Oh yea, I know... you can't sell a fucking handshake on ebay.
Shit makes me sick.
What u talkin bout Tip Top? lol. No really, what's wrong with twitter? I know there's a lot of morons on it but I use it a lot for news sources, politics and keeping up on the groups that interest me. The other thing I find with twitter, and dealing with strangers, as opposed to facebook and dealing with friends and family is that, Whenever I tried to start an intelligent and stimulating conversation on facebook nobody wanted to bite. It seemed like nobody wanted to say something they'd normally say if they were sitting right across from me because there's so many other people on their friends list that they may offend, like Gramma or Auntie Jen. All anyone ever wanted to talk about was mindless dribble and their dressed up wisdom using copy and paste fortune cookie crap. That doesn't happen in a virtual room of strangers and that is great. Anyway, to me it's a great tool. Don't get me wrong TT, I totally get where your coming from. Just looking over at the trends column speaks volumes about your point of view. It is ridiculous what people find interesting and important.
I'm with you duchie. Twitter is an amazing tool that people use for really great stuff. The fact that it is short posts is the saving grace. You don't get so many preachers... just peeps putting cool shit out there. There are idiots on twitter. Just as there are idiots on Roll it up. Doesn't make me think RIU sucks, and I don't LOL at anyone who uses RIU even though I would say MOST of the users of RIU are complete assholes I would beat in the street. There are bad things everywhere, bad cops, bad cats, bad americans... doesn't make ALL of them or the ENTIRE system they use crap.
I think Facebook has a gross imbalance of productivity vs mindless time drain. That is why I tend not to use it. However, I have re-hooked up with people and have had some great times because of facebook. So if I would have just thrown the blanket of "This is completely stupid and I won't participate" over FB, I would have never had those time or met up with those peeps... and that is priceless to me. So yeah I think a lot of facebook is stupid. Doesn't mean cool shit don't come from it.
With that said, I go on facebook about once a month to message a person or two... and I've never had a twitter account. I just think it's a little close sighted to throw popular technologies in the pointless bin.
EDIT: Today is day 1 of not smoking again. You can probably hear the angst in the post.