Working working working…
I can’t access my facebook. Can YOU?
EDIT: I guess it’s fixed. Why is facebook hiccuping so much in the past week… Oh, right. Maybe it has to do with Beacon, and how not a whole lot of people are enjoying the Advertising… 2.0.
And with that, I’ve met my quota of saying anything two point oh.
Screenshots of Google Talk’s Integration with AIM with Gmail
From the start, Meebo reeked of being a feature turned into a company. I’m sorry, but really? Taking a proprietary messaging service, building on top of it, and trying to pass it off with a profit?
Meebo was nice. I used it from time to time when I had to get online and the computer I was on didn’t allow for installing AIM. But that was it.
I’ve always wondered why none of the bigger companies like Google or even… Facebook didn’t do this. Especially Facebook: Heck, they could start their own internal instant messaging suite, upping their ridiculous “time spent” stat.
I’m sure uncov’s going to have a field day with this one.
Reducing the value of the word “friend”, horrible app spam, the questionable profit generation through advertisements (Where’s the $$$?), that random corner of whitespace on the upper right hand corner after the new version… Lots of issues I have with Facebook. But one thing’s for certain: It helps people to keep contact with those that they’ve naturally forgotten.
I’m not talking about the hurtful breakups or the friends you’ve turned out to hate (besides, you’ve probably unfriended them or you’ve cancelled your account): I’m talking about the random people you met at that one random day and shared that random moment.
And because of this gigantic database of networks, you could one day run into that person again. In RL! OP OP OP!
Sidenote: Sorry for the non-WoW players, for that last sentence will be fallen onto deaf ears… deaf eyes… blind eyes? Moving on…
It’s most interesting when you’re staring at a relationship that’s bound to just end up nowhere. I have to call a reference to Austin Powers; the scene where the henchman was facing certain doom as the steamroller was inching towards him as the camera kept cutting back and forth between his cries for help and Austin’s best efforts to get him out of the way. You know that realization is coming… but when?
Facebook to the rescue. Whether the reason be due to geographical differences too far to be reached by a simple car drive or just missing each other due to different schedules, you can actually have a continuing conversation, with no regards to time or location (through their own messaging system or the wall or status updates or annoying app spam or whatever). (I would say ex tempore, but silly English language changed the meaning of that phrase. Jerks.) It’s like an easier-to-use answering machine.
If this post sounded a little happy, I’m sorry. I’m normally not like this. The funny thing is this post was brought on because of my being sad, but… isn’t it wonderful where life takes you?
Yes, I realize there’s been a lack of actual content with the blog.
I apologize.
Instead, you keep getting my personal ramblings. Yikes.
I’m currently working on an entry on Facebook and how it’s changing social networking in the real world, as well as a post on why I started buying books again, especially technical books.
Yahoo! Homework is going swimmingly. I’m almost set, except for a little JavaScript magic which should take about an hour, as well as going for a couple more bonus points for compatibility with multiple browsers. That’ll be most of tomorrow spent at Grainger.
Which brings me to a few things I have to finish up as I leave Grainger. Subversion demo/presentation is tomorrow at 10, and so I am completing some documentation for that.
Need coffee. Not an all-nighter, but I just need a boost.
By the way, Dave Brubeck is amazing. Someone please point me to some other good Jazz musicians… this is a new genre of music I need to continue exploring.
Oh, and beer tasting. Something tells me I’ll be… slightly inebriated tomorrow.
Let’s see… more randomness…
Grainger’s full today. All the nerds are studying for their finals. Why wasn’t I like this back in the day…
Oh one last thing I’ve realized… I cannot get work done at my apartment here on campus. One thing, my apartment is not very inviting for work, because of the horrible desk height/chair combo (as well as the lighting). I’m going to have to revisit some ergonomic issues later, but… looks like it doesn’t really matter much anymore. I’m really amazed that I got any work done in the past 4 months there… wow.
A larger issue is that… I have a feeling I really do have to get out from where I sleep to get work done. Be it the kitchen table… or even a separate office room. This is all, of course, planning for the days of the start-up.
Look at the time, back to work!
Realizing more and more how much I lack… but realizing how much more there is to gain.
Started the work week definitely strong. I don’t know how, but I got up 20 minutes before my alarm hit. It was an angry 20 minutes of sleep, but I guess it helped a bit.
From 7:30 to 3, I worked straight through, without a lunch break. Afterwards… wow… I definitely was tired. I caught up on some XMan (Korean Variety Show), and headed for WIMPE. All this week, Dan Sun and I will be doing some much needed cardio. I definitely missed out on that while Dean was here…
Derek, why don’t you return my facebook posts? Boo! I’m going to call this one after work tomorrow to see if he wants to hang out… oh wait, after WIMPE.
I wonder if I should go into work tomorrow or Wednesday. I feel very tired… I didn’t get my 20 minutes of happiness.
Ah, and so now we’re into the meat of the post.
As I dropped off Dan with his groceries, I stopped by Gil’s apartment. Gil was a roommate I had my senior year… it was a pleasure of having this older brother still on campus… And this is when I realized my lesson of the day: It’s not about crying about what you don’t have, or just making do with what you do have. It’s about being so utterly thankful for EVERYTHING, in lack of or in abundance of ANYTHING… It can’t be one extreme or another. You can’t just be down on yourself for what you don’t have… but also you can’t be satisfied with just what you do have, and never reach out farther than you’re used to. Okay, in that last sentence, I mistyped “your”. Oh holy crap I’m getting tired.
Right, so let’s keep going with the brain on autopilot and run through a couple of things.
Backs and shoulders day cannot go after biceps and forearms. There must be something in between. Legs should be the fourth day in the regimen, and could be used as a break in between these two. Tomorrow starts up triceps and chest… Maybe the new schedule should be…
Chest/Triceps, Biceps/Forearms, Legs/More Abs Than Normal/Rest, Backs/Shoulders. For each day, have abs and cardio. Alternate between distance running (either on elliptical or track) and short distance (1 mile) per day.
Hooray for lifting gloves. Not only was WIMPE $130, but the gloves $10. More reason to go lifting… use that inner stingy Asian man!
And… I have nothing to report for today. Man… I need to get some time to myself and start writing some technical stuff.
Oh, and, MacWorld is tomorrow. It’s gotta be iPhone and iTV, but less so the iTV. Meh.
Might as well continue with the list.
I’m falling behind on the Bible reading. Gotta catch up slowly but surely.
Starting up back again for foreign languages. Daily… just like the Word.
Oh freaking rails… how much more I want to learn you.
If you’ve read this until now… wow, I feel loved. But really, you didn’t have to do that…
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