I'm finding that the more and more the internet tools try to emulate real conversation - the less I am using them.
I used to use ICQ way back when, and there was no expectation of an answer - conversations weren't fluid, but made up of small parts. So you'd go off browsing, check icq bulk answer the messages and go back to browsing.
Some days I could have three different conversations with the same person.
Now people expect me to answer. Instead of going "Hey I am off to the pub about 8" they go "hey?" "ping?" I go "yeah" 10 minutes later, and much later I actually get the conversation.
Livejournal also sucks for commenting. The email notification often breaks, the tools avaliable to check active discussions are crippled for free users.
Aside: Gale is quite nice architecturally - but the clients suck.
As the communication becomes more conversational, I find it hard just to paste urls at someone. (I will just stick it on livejournal instead)
I volunteer for memeage, but make no guarantees that I will reciprocate on my journal. If you wish for my answers regarding you, I can always reply here. (Hurrah for verbosity).
Stuff that is neat:
programming perl - I realised that my perl was shoddy (I didn't know what %foo={} did exactly. (and no, it doesn't create an empty hash named foo.)) this is the funniest programming book I've read. It's also making me rethink my programming language ideas.
I find I usually use aim as an answering machine nowadays. Why be constantly on when that's what email (or worst case, cellphone/texting) is for? Trying to have an actual conversation on aim is a time drain. I usually skip the formalities and only IM things like, "party 9pm" or send specific links to specific people (trying to convert more people to stumbleupon for this, but they're resistent).
Anywho... (this is sort of hard, seeing as we've never met) 1) When I see your handle, I think of figs. 2) You were the one that tipped me off to last.fm, so that. :P 3) grape 4) Do we have inside jokes? :( 5) We talked about hacker cons in the_hot_nerds community 6) eh, probably some sort of monkey... I'll go with spider monkey 7) When are you coming to the States?
When it's affordable. I'd like to go to defcon or hope once, and there is a lot of cool stuff over there. When I can go without being interrogated: Currently, I have to either go to belfast or london overnight to get a visa application sorted, and then I can fly over. This makes it more expensive.
I don't tend to associate people with movies, film or animals. You remind me of neruoscience. I remember your utter joy at seeing your name spelt out in neurons. When I think of you I think of someone else who has an insatiable demand for new information.
I guess I'm not that imaginative. 1 If you got that without clicking the link I will be impressed (Mainly because no-one ever gets that joke.) (I have a more obscure joke involving chinatown and the curry-howard isomorphism).
lol, sadly enough, I got that. I have a friend who'd always talk about that paradox, although I've never heard the joke before. :)
I also don't tend to associate people with movies/music, unless there's some specific memory attatched. I find it sort of weird to assign things like that based on personality.
Interrogated? Eep. I think it's bad enough the (female) security guards feel the need to grope the underwire in my bra when that goes off in the metal detector.
I'm finding that the more and more the internet tools try to emulate real conversation - the less I am using them.
I used to use ICQ way back when, and there was no expectation of an answer - conversations weren't fluid, but made up of small parts. So you'd go off browsing, check icq bulk answer the messages and go back to browsing.
Some days I could have three different conversations with the same person.
Now people expect me to answer. Instead of going "Hey I am off to the pub about 8" they go "hey?" "ping?" I go "yeah" 10 minutes later, and much later I actually get the conversation.
Livejournal also sucks for commenting. The email notification often breaks, the tools avaliable to check active discussions are crippled for free users.
Aside: Gale is quite nice architecturally - but the clients suck.
As the communication becomes more conversational, I find it hard just to paste urls at someone. (I will just stick it on livejournal instead)
I volunteer for memeage, but make no guarantees that I will reciprocate on my journal. If you wish for my answers regarding you, I can always reply here. (Hurrah for verbosity).
Stuff that is neat:
programming perl - I realised that my perl was shoddy (I didn't know what %foo={} did exactly. (and no, it doesn't create an empty hash named foo.)) this is the funniest programming book I've read. It's also making me rethink my programming language ideas.
http://www.google.com/search?q=perl+peculate+gpl is a crib that finds online copies of the book.
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Anywho... (this is sort of hard, seeing as we've never met)
1) When I see your handle, I think of figs.
2) You were the one that tipped me off to last.fm, so that. :P
3) grape
4) Do we have inside jokes? :(
5) We talked about hacker cons in the_hot_nerds community
6) eh, probably some sort of monkey... I'll go with spider monkey
7) When are you coming to the States?
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What's an anagram of Banach-Tarski? Banach-Tarski Banach-Tarski*
When are you coming to the States?
When it's affordable. I'd like to go to defcon or hope once, and there is a lot of cool stuff over there.
When I can go without being interrogated: Currently, I have to either go to belfast or london overnight to get a visa application sorted, and then I can fly over. This makes it more
expensive.
I don't tend to associate people with movies, film or animals. You remind me of neruoscience. I remember your utter joy at seeing your name spelt out in neurons. When I think of you I think of someone else who has an insatiable demand for new information.
I guess I'm not that imaginative.
1 If you got that without clicking the link I will be impressed (Mainly because no-one ever gets that joke.) (I have a more obscure joke involving chinatown and the curry-howard isomorphism).
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I also don't tend to associate people with movies/music, unless there's some specific memory attatched. I find it sort of weird to assign things like that based on personality.
Interrogated? Eep. I think it's bad enough the (female) security guards feel the need to grope the underwire in my bra when that goes off in the metal detector.
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