blue moon
boingboing.net editor Mark Frauenfeld packed up and moved to Rarotonga. He's documenting it for posterity. Maybe I've been traipsing far too deep into the escapist traveliterature of Moitessier's The Long Way, Tom Neale's An Island to Oneself and Kon-Tiki, but lately all this stuff has become pretty fucking trite. Maybe it's just my friends list, but aside from a few people posting readable, worthwhile stuff, it seems like most of the people on that list have reverted to posting batty catshit about nothing, propagating the latest "meme" and giving terse, uninteresting updates on their uninteresting lives. I don't know about you, but I get most of my best living done offline.
For some people, livejournal works. They post interesting stuff to think about (a la pjammer, ben, candid and perich, when he's on) or have interesting lives to post about (a la kenshi, ernunnos and faustin). Sometimes the people I want to hear most from barely post at all (a la hober and ninjalawyer). And some people are just fucking entertaining (stereolabrat and sonicblue).
But for most others, myself included, this is just a lame forum for substituting actual social lives for coy online "communities" with cute user icons and constant who-could-care-less one-upmanship. I prefer the real thing to the fake internet shit.
So if you want to know what's up with me lately, you're gonna have to send email or spin my digits. Don't have 'em but want 'em? Just drop me a line. I'm interested in actually meeting or talking to some of y'all in real life, so don't be shy about asking. I can use all the friends I can get these days, since, you know, I'm intellectually dishonest and all that.
At some point I might open a more refined rant site somewhere else. And you all know where you can get your mindless links of the day. (If not, let me know, I'll fill you in). But that's about it from here. For now, I'm patching a hole in my CS education (learning UML and software design patterns) and planning my trips to Tuscany and a month in the Tuamotu archipelago.
For some people, livejournal works. They post interesting stuff to think about (a la pjammer, ben, candid and perich, when he's on) or have interesting lives to post about (a la kenshi, ernunnos and faustin). Sometimes the people I want to hear most from barely post at all (a la hober and ninjalawyer). And some people are just fucking entertaining (stereolabrat and sonicblue).
But for most others, myself included, this is just a lame forum for substituting actual social lives for coy online "communities" with cute user icons and constant who-could-care-less one-upmanship. I prefer the real thing to the fake internet shit.
So if you want to know what's up with me lately, you're gonna have to send email or spin my digits. Don't have 'em but want 'em? Just drop me a line. I'm interested in actually meeting or talking to some of y'all in real life, so don't be shy about asking. I can use all the friends I can get these days, since, you know, I'm intellectually dishonest and all that.
At some point I might open a more refined rant site somewhere else. And you all know where you can get your mindless links of the day. (If not, let me know, I'll fill you in). But that's about it from here. For now, I'm patching a hole in my CS education (learning UML and software design patterns) and planning my trips to Tuscany and a month in the Tuamotu archipelago.