More YouTube fun, clips of movies and scenes that scared me when I was much younger. In honor of Halloween and the upcoming election.
drip. drip. drip.
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.
Just relax son, everything's gonna be fine, just fine.
In the early hours of June 1st...
Nobody does it better than S. William Hinzman.
This is not a dream...
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Scary Part 1
Out of sight prices. Financial collapse. Sarah Palin. Things are pretty scary right now. And right before Halloween. So I went back into my past and found those things that scared me when I was young, when you had to go to the movies for a really good fright. And it didn't matter whether good or evil won, because the movie always ended and the lights came up.
Here are the first six, in no particular order:
Sand isn't supposed to move that way.
Ipod. Upod. Wepod.
Heeeeeeeeeere's Santa!
Wax on. Wax off.
It's not what you see...it's what you don't see.
There's a space - right between the charred corpse and the dead seagull.
Here are the first six, in no particular order:
Sand isn't supposed to move that way.
Ipod. Upod. Wepod.
Heeeeeeeeeere's Santa!
Wax on. Wax off.
It's not what you see...it's what you don't see.
There's a space - right between the charred corpse and the dead seagull.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Facebook is Easy
Real life is harder. Hal Niedzviecki has 700 Facebook friends he tells us in "Facebook in a Crowd" (New York Times Magazine, October 26, 2008). So, when he planned a get together and sent an invitation to all 700, he figured at a few would show up.
Only one other person came to the bar.
"Was I really that big of a loser?" he asks himself.
"Or was it that no one wants to get together in real life anymore? It wasn’t Facebook’s fault; all those digital pals were better than nothing. For chipping away at past friendships and blocking honest new efforts, you really have to blame the entire modern world. People want to hang out with you, I assured myself. They just don’t have the time."
I think we transfer the ease of sitting at home on our computers into an equal simplicity when it comes to real life. And that's just not the case. Technology only revolutionizes some things. Having a blog won't make you a writer "just like that." These things take time. Would Hal have had a better experience if he had done a bit more research, and focused his event around another reason to get together, other than just to meet each other?
"The Internet has allowed an enormous amount of fake networking to take place," said Seth Godin in a forum that you click here to watch online.
Only one other person came to the bar.
"Was I really that big of a loser?" he asks himself.
"Or was it that no one wants to get together in real life anymore? It wasn’t Facebook’s fault; all those digital pals were better than nothing. For chipping away at past friendships and blocking honest new efforts, you really have to blame the entire modern world. People want to hang out with you, I assured myself. They just don’t have the time."
I think we transfer the ease of sitting at home on our computers into an equal simplicity when it comes to real life. And that's just not the case. Technology only revolutionizes some things. Having a blog won't make you a writer "just like that." These things take time. Would Hal have had a better experience if he had done a bit more research, and focused his event around another reason to get together, other than just to meet each other?
"The Internet has allowed an enormous amount of fake networking to take place," said Seth Godin in a forum that you click here to watch online.
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