Flawed human being
March 31, 2008
Why are we so hard on ourselves and each other? My biggest feeling of failure is when a relationship ends, despite the new ones that have begun. There’s so much time spent in getting to know someone and investing emotion, but it can be quickly disposed of. Should I feel like the failure or should I be mad at the other person for their lack of regard for how much time we’ve invested in each other? We’re all just a bunch of organisms bumping into each other, sizing each other up and comparing our lives to each other’s. There will never be a day when we can all reconcile our flaws with intention and preserve any kind of relationship with one another simply to honor the amount of time we spent in the little, finite window of life getting to know one another.
Go Robbie!
March 28, 2008
Sorry Albert, didn’t mean to offend. You can come on strong to my brother and return the favor.
March 27, 2008
I call my brother Gilbert when his real name is Robert. He is going to meet my friend Albert on Saturday night. Albert meet Gilbert, and vice-versa!
Which reminds me of the night I met Alberto’s brother:
After lots of chapagne, swing dancing, and Pirates of the Penzance at my cousin’s big 20th and LEAP DAY birthday, Eric and I went to Pour House. Well I happened to run into my friend Albert who bartends there on Sundays…
For context: a. I’m drinking free champagne b. I’m being giddy from dancing with Eric-le-charmer all night
Albert’s brother-in-law happens to be :
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4510160
Apparently I was trying to get Mr. Green interested in our program for journalism. Albert called me the next day to tell me I slightly offended his family (sister was there too). I mean, I know you have a kick-ass job, but you’re not Brad Pitt. You should enjoy the attention and intrigue that your job garners.
So for you, Albert, I’m sorry if I offended the fam. But it won’t be the last time I’m offensive in P-U-B-L-I-C. Go ahead and offend Gilbert. I approve.
Emily on chat – cont. re: Ashley’s dog Galise
March 27, 2008
Emily: so i took him for a walk
Saturday plans
March 27, 2008
Kate Nash
March 27, 2008
Note to self: 27 year olds don’t take you seriously.
March 27, 2008
Eric: fri night?
if i last that long
me: nap in my bed.
Eric: not looking like i’m going to get sleep tonight
me: boooo
you’re going to cancel on me tom
Eric: please no drama today
me: i’m not being dramatic i’m inviting you to dinner and dog park. and i’m saying my bro is stopping by. it’s uber casual. why is this dramatic
Eric: “stop ignoring me”
“you are going to cancel”
me: why is me wanting to hang out with you such a hassle to you
lol
Eric: that part isnt
me: they are statements.
Eric: this part is
dramajill statements
This one takes the cake for most random wikipedia entry
March 27, 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_harness
…. since I’m dogsitting Galise, you’d think between my roomie Emily and me we’d figure out how to work one of these things…
Nope!
Emily on chat:
My brother and me on email today
March 27, 2008
Jill Phan to rbphaneu
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“Wikipedia – the geekier the topic the more reliable the info, not so for non-geek entries.” Garrett M. Graff, author, professor (mine) and Editor-At-Large at the Washingtonian
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From: “Jill Phan”Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:30:52Subject: Re: Airporthttp://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/capisce <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/capisce>
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:20 PM,Robbie:There is no h in capice, and you will either have to pick me up yourself or ask her to drive me if at any point I am confirmed on something she is not.Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile—–Original Message—–From: “Jill Phan”Subject: Re: Airportsure thing. i’m trying to get eric to stay for dinner. he and i are going to the dog park tomorrow. i’m dog sitting.
can’t wait to see you! so you and mer for sure are coming to my place for dinner. then we’re going to cap hill sat night with my friend albert and his friend chris. a nice change of scenery from gtown. capiche?Robbie:Ok I will go.Do you want to ask her or me?Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile—–Original Message—–
From: “Jill Phan”Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:06:53oooo pooey… that’s somewhat late. was gonna try to have you do dinner at my place.
why doesn’t meredith pick you up and then you two come over to my place for dinner?On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:05 PM,Robbie:Dulles at 8:47 PM tomorrow.Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile—–Original Message—–From: “Jill Phan”Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:03:45Subject: Re: Airport dulles or national? what time?On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:58 AM,Robbie:Meredith is getting me from the airport unless you want to.Any preference?Love,
Robbie
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Surfing, Searching, Syndicating
March 12, 2008
I remember when “surfing the web” was the buzz. I remember when we thought it was so cool to have a glimpse through these virtual windows called websites. But they were like walled gardens because they would not allow us the freedom to have information at our disposal. The web’s launching of popularity in the nineties seemed advanced at the time (I still remember being in elementary school and feeling really cool that my older brother taught me how to Instant Message on AOL 3.0) but retrospect affords us the luxury of understanding our tendencies and preferences in how we interact and use information a little bit better. Once google gave us a boost in our ability to search for things, we could slash search costs and articulate and refine our preferences even better and with more ease. But even google and other search engines required us to enter in what we expected to find. In Naked Conversations, chapter 14, Scoble and Isreal discuss how RSS feeds are becoming the new sliced bread in information on the web. Instead of continually cherry picking our searches when we feel a pang of hunger for information, the information is sitting in our inboxes waiting for us to eat. We are being fattened with information enabled by RSS feeds and tagging on the web. Ever since I’ve embraced Google Reader, I can read more blogs and keep abreast on different topics. We’re so fattened with information sitting at our doorsteps, now we even look for our peers to share their input. Are we getting lazier? Are we bored with searching on our own? Or are we advancing our web use and transforming it into an interface to gather information from large amounts of people with little effort in interacting with them. I think we are beginning to trust each other on the web more than ever. I know that input from others is also the new buzz. On TV, I see commercials for Hotels.com emphasizing their new customer review feature for others to view. I know that the currency of rating one’s reputation online is like no other reinforcement with e-commerce save developing the programs for ensuring secure methods of credit card payment. Forget purchasing an item on e-Bay or Amazon from someone with low trust ratings.
I have a friend who was doing video editing on a site based out of my hometown of Fort Myers, FL. It’s something called LoyalTV. While LoyalTV is a site obviously in its embryonic stages in web 2.0, the concept is neat. It’s a YouTube of product reviews. If you’re a fan of Diet Coke and you want to tell others how much Diet Coke is so great, you create a video and have others rate it. I’m still trying to figure out the relationship between the funding by advertisement and the popular brands who are advertised by general consumers and what the creators of the site had in mind. I don’t think I addressed whether or not there should be a Bill of Rights in blogging, but I think keeping the web as open a forum as possible for creators and keeping bloggers as transparent (honest, authentic) as possible are the only contingencies for blogging. The rights we have in America suffice and carry into the blogging realm (glad I’m not in Pakistan!). Bloggers should be able to blog about what they want without abusing their ability to influence a large crowd at virtually no cost.
I can’t wait to see what’s next after syndication (perhaps Scoble and Isreal will follow suit with something starting with an S. I love alliteration…)
