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Archives for May 2010

What I Tweeted, 2010-05-31 Edition

May 30, 2010 by krisis

My best and most blog-worthy tweets of the last week:

I’ve concluded that the internet hates me & is trying to shun me. That’s the only explanation for my life’s complete internet-fail right now #

It reaffirms my faith in karma when people who have treated me with respect ever since I was an intern are recognized for their achievements #

@BrandiNeloms So very true. Your credibility in a crisis can never be higher than your credibility on a regular, boring day. in reply to BrandiNeloms #

Sometimes a day is awesome only by the grace of my amazing hair. #

Verizon = poor SM support integration. Spent a week chatting w/Twitter rep, phone rep has no record of it. Taking me through the same steps #

I’m not sure what to think about someone who has a full color portrait of Freddy Krueger tattooed on his calf. #

Awesome video of my Philly music friend @ChristieLenee impromptu jamming w/Tim Reynolds (yes, occasionally of DMB)http://vimeo.com/12025218 #

I think @ChristieLenee is possibly the best guitarist I’ve met in Philly, both for chunky acoustic stuff and hot guitar leads. She’s amazing #

In my 1st month & a half of blogging I posted 550 times. What was wrong w/me? Yes, those were the foundation of my blog empire, but really? #

Five hours of sleep later, it’s now time to choose an outfit that will look good plummeting from 14,000 feet. #

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All of my tweets (minus some @-replies) are hidden below, mostly for my own reference. Some highlighted topics/conversations you might want to browse include:

  • Participating in #PR20chat on brand crises
  • Poor support from Verizon
  • Extreme Memorial Day Weekend
  • You should follow me on Twitter so you can read my tweet action as it happens.

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    Filed Under: Tweet Digest

    Extreme Memorial Day Weekend: Extreme Intermission Edition

    May 29, 2010 by krisis

    Today I navigated, off-roaded, river-tubed, off-roaded again, performed body-work on a Hundai, off-roaded a third time, performed extreme feats of engineering and human endurance to free a Hundai from quicksand, off-roaded a fourth and final time, and eventually slunk back to Gina’s house to sprawl across furniture for a few hours.

    If you think that sounds extreme, wait until you hear me tell the entire story.

    Before I do that, I’m due to be extremely thrown from a plane in about eight hours.

    Right now for an extreme intermission I am going to take an extreme shower to get all of the extreme river silt and sand off of all of my 2,000 parts.

    I don’t have anything extreme lined up for Monday yet, unless I can figure out an extreme way to take naps in the middle of the floor.

    Filed Under: memories Tagged With: driving, gina

    Helping you picture books

    May 28, 2010 by krisis

    The Whale - Illustrated by John Martz

    Picture Book Report posts original illustrations of passages from familiar novels. Each artist/blogger chooses a favorite tome to visualize.

    These two beautiful images from the illustrations for The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy (rendered by John Martz of drawn.ca) are what originally caught my eye, and if you are a Hitchhikers’ fan you’ll immediately know the passages they correspond to.

    The Babel Fish - Illustrated by John Martz

    Some of my other favorite images have been the illustrations of The Hobbit, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and Tarzan of the Apes but not everything is genre fare – see One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest or the Grimm tale The Bremen Town Musicians.

    Awesome blog concept, beautiful illustrations, and possibly a leisurely-paced book club – assuming you can read faster than the artist on each book can draw.

    (found via more(ish) : meg’s scrapbook)

    Filed Under: art, books, linkylove

    Support Net Neutrality (Bob Brady, I am talking to YOU)

    May 27, 2010 by krisis

    Yesterday Philebrity posted an article about 74 Democrat Congressmen who have come out against Net Neutrality.

    I struggled with how to define Net Neutrality for you, but then I discovered that I had blogged about it before. I love being my own source! That post (re)directed me to Save the Internet, who over the past four years has further condensed the definition to the following:

    Net Neutrality means that Internet service providers may not discriminate between different kinds of content and applications online. It guarantees a level playing field for all Web sites and Internet technologies.

    … With Net Neutrality, the network’s only job is to move data — not to choose which data to privilege with higher quality service.

    Life without net neutrality?

    What does that mean for you?

    Imagine if your internet provider could meter and limit your internet usage for different things, just like a cell phone plan or your cable TV subscription. Any of these statements could become true..

    “Like to shop online? Shopping sites are just $5 extra a month!”

    “Get your news from Fox – Fox sites load 10x faster than CNN on our network!”

    “Are you an online gamer? Game for free overnight, 1am-8am. Standard hourly rates apply to peak time gaming.”

    “Do you need to upload music for your band? Sorry, you’ll need our Business Plan to upload MP3s.”

    Basically, ISPs would gain the right to selectively charge, tax, or even restrict your internet usage based on their own internal policies for or against certain sites, activities, or services. Wikipedia can tell you more about the reality of this threat to our internet freedoms.

    I appreciate that the internet has been created as a level playing field for information, whether you’re a newshound or a gamer, a liberal or a conservative. It is terrifying to me to think that my blogging or music could be stymied because I can’t find an affordable carrier for it.

    Which brings us back to the 74 Democrats, including my representative, Bob Brady.

    Understandably, they are looking at the internet from a business and regulation perspective. In Brady’s case, Comcast is one of his biggest constituents. The reps hear companies and lobbyists saying, “We’re providing a utility, so let us regulate it!”

    The internet should not become that kind of utility. As soon as you make the internet equivalent to cable TV or electricity, you start pricing people out of the amazing era of democratized production we’re currently a part of.

    Yes, maybe businesses need to meter bandwidth, but should they really have power over the sites we access and the services we use? Once that door is opened it can never again be closed.

    That is why I called my representative, Bob Brady, to tell him I do support Net Neutrality, and I do not support his signing Rep. Gene Green’s (D – TX) letter to the FCC arguing against neutrality. I told him I would campaign actively against him if he continued his stance.

    Mr. Brady, consider this a shot fired across your bow.

    You can read the full Rep. Green letter at Balloon Juice. It’s a small step, but if left unchallenged it leaves the door open for further action or legislation against Net Neutrality.

    Below I have reproduced the letter and its list of signatories. If you see your representative on the list, please give their office a ring and comment – Philly residents, you need to call either Bob Brady (215) 389-4627 or Chaka Fattah (215) 387-6404. If you’re not sure what to say, I’ve included a sample script from Save the Internet.

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    Filed Under: linkylove, Philly, politics

    personal anti-wireless forcefield update

    May 26, 2010 by krisis

    Now heading into day seven of no internet in our house I decided to do a cursory inspection of the grounds to search for some external culprit, and it seems that a panel of our back fence has collapsed on top of the phone/internet switchbox.

    Now, I’m not saying that I don’t have a personal anti-wireless forcefield generated by the intense electro-magnetic powers of my hair. I’m just saying that maybe the my hair is not to blame for this particular portion of my life-wide wireless signal outage.

    Unless, of course, my hair caused the fence to collapse.

    Filed Under: thoughts

    my personal anti-wireless forcefield

    May 26, 2010 by krisis

    When you are an internet addict trying to buy a house and maybe launch a new feature on your website, it can be a little frustrating when your connection is spotty.

    It can be downright maddening when every device in your life stops communicating with the outside world at once.

    Evidence of potentially villainous hair. Note its awesomeness.

    To whit: The wireless in our house died, followed by the entirety of the internet connection. The GPS on my phone has stopped working. My broadband card keeps sputtering and dying.

    I’m not sure if the static electricity contained in my awesome curls has mutated me into some sort of electromagnetic pulse deploying super villian that surrounds myself with an electronic deadzone, but pretty much every wireless device in the vicinity of my body has stopped working. It’s only a matter of time before the effects extend to radios and digital watches.

    This is a steep price to pay for having one of the best heads of hair in Philadelphia, but we all have our burdens to bear.

    Filed Under: thoughts, Year 10

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