Working from 1AM to 10:30 AM all week, but thanks for asking!
<–you can see the current state of affairs at my flickr account.
In other news I have been extremely unproductive lately, and I can’t really put my finger on why. It might be the weather. We did get DirecTV again so Dawn can watch hockey and I must say, unblurry television is quite nice, though I find that almost everything I need from the tv is completely replaced by my xbox media center. Hacking it for wi-fi (again) has been quite fun however.
Taxes are done. Time to start looking for a house to buy.
Finally, I have lost 35.5 lbs. Would you believe that despite this loss I am still only reaching my freshman 15 weight. Still, I haven’t been this weight since 1994, so not bad. Honestly I don’t think I *look* like I’ve lost that much, but the scale says I have so I’ll take it.
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I am very depressed as this week ends. I suppose it is because of the come-down after the high of preparing for/celebrating our anniversary and V-Day. Sad stuff talking to family, don’t really have the time or the will to go sledding. Work sucks this week. Hopefully this will pass.
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Remember this? Still stands:
Yes its absurd. Yes its cliched. Blah blah blah. I’m going out on a rickety limb to say that I love Valentine’s Day. I look forward to it. I love trying to find the right thing and I love sharing it with my lady. Yes its just another in a long line of strategically placed hallmark holidays, but so what? Everyone says why should you only use one day a year to show someone you love them, but they’re missing the point. As I see it, the point is this: Yes, you should cherish every moment of every day, but how about once a year you take a day and really celebrate that love! Give it a little something extra (and I don’t mean good and services, though they’re nice too)! Share it with the world! Sure not everyone has someone to share it with, but that doesn’t mean they can’t enjoy it themselves. Take a day, treat yourself! One day out of the whole year to celebrate the awesomeness of our animal, emotional selves is not so bad. Its something we are truly blessed with. The capacity to love, and to share that love with others- Its what makes us, well, us. I see all the crassness and I see all the lameness, but I choose to embrace it, and make it my own, and enjoy this one day where we get to recognize the very best part of our nature.
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Sometimes my iTunes looks like this:
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I have to put a new hole in my belt. Literally.
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I’m an agent of Project Blood Team. Code name Scrabble Dictionary.
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As the wave of video on the net slowly overtakes traditional broadcast as the medium of choice for watching things, a lot of people are trying to get in the game.
One of the chief arguments aggregators and commentators have made regarding the current video revolution is that there is simply so much of it, we must have some kind of mediator who is capable of sorting out “the good stuff”. So we have places like Network2, who accept video feeds based on the notion of “shows” and some relatively vague criteria of “quality.” What these folks fail to realize is that the mediator is dead. Channels are dead. They are hanging on to old paradigms without even realizing it. Update: Coincidentally, this is what is killing Joost, which I’ll get around to reviewing at some point- I’ve been beta testing it for about a month.
The social networks of today- and by social networks I mean social websites, the blogosphere and ad hoc networks of friends and neighbors who create communities on the net- provide mediation through hyperlinking, message boards, email threads and the like. Viral distribution is all that is needed to get a video into the hands of those who want it, and aggregation through a few mediators at the top of a site is completely unnecessary. Will some things be overlooked? Absolutely. I would love to see 54 Hours be more popular than it is. But then that raises the question of whether or not we are truly participating in a way that we could actually see our videos find increased mindshare. By not jumping into YouTube more fully and relying on the podcasting/vlogging methods, are we avoiding opportunities?
Pardon the digression. My point here is that the assumption that filters need to be provided is as dead as the television broadcasting paradigm. With limited bandwidth (both broadcast and temporal), television could only afford what it deemed most acceptable to the most number of people. Contrast that to today’s world of near limitless bandwidth and the ability to time-shift programming to suit your schedule. Why revisit that world by placing boundaries to content that people should be free to discover for themselves? We will create the filters we need through our networks of connected people. By participating in different networks we will witness and redistribute other content. Any new boundary based on these new freedoms is- whether intentionally or not- aimed at limiting access.
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