Just call me Locutus of Plurk July 1, 2008 ~ 4:03 pm
Posted by Julie in : Technobabble, Urban Family , trackbackAnd if you get that reference, baby let your geek flag fly!
Is it possible to be too connected to the ether? I wonder about this lately. In the past, I’ve had a habit of being very passionately interested in something on the internet, and then move on after a few months. IRC, Victor Garber (there was a website at one point…it is gone now), MySpace…the list could go on, but it would embarrass us both, so I’ll leave it. This blog is the one thing that has stood the test of time - it has been…holy crap, has it really been four years now? My blog is in pre-K? But of late I have let the blog lapse a little bit, because work has been too chaotic to come up with a single coherent thought, let alone blog about it, and the evenings…well, there are distractions in the evenings as well. My mind these days moves in short phrases, more suited to Facebook status messages than even Ravelry forum messages. Twitter would be good, but Twitter is often a little bitch and tells me I’m refreshing too much when clearly I am *not*. That annoys me. But Plurk, Plurk is cool. Plurk has a lot of knitters on it, so it resembles a cross between the beloved Facebook status message and IM, where we talk about socks and spinning a lot. That does it for me, I dunno about you.
And so I think in short bursts of third person thoughts, like “Evil Julie wants a jelly donut” and “Evil Julie is going on a ten-minute spin break, anyone in?”. Those do not make good blog posts, by the way, so my pre-K blog is probably being abused by the people running its daycare. My verbal skills are probably suffering, and looking back on that last sentence, it becomes quite obvious that my ability to come up with a decent metaphor has been compromised as well. And my attention span is not long enough to update Twitter (little bitch), Facebook, Ravelry, Plurk, and the blog. Sometimes, being this connected to the internets reminds me of the hive mind of the Borg…I haven’t lost the ability for independent thought, but I am always, always wondering “Has anyone written anything cool? What are these people up to? Have I blogged this week? No? Damn. Oooh, has anyone written anything in the past five seconds?” It is something I am going to have to work through. But I’m still taking my laptop with me when I hang out with Aimee and Sloth this weekend. So there.
(That last sentence totally caught your attention, didn’t it? Blog post when I get back. Promise.)
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Plurk, blog, ravelry and e-mail…what else is there time for? I can barely get any knitting done. Then there is the crochet project and I keep saying that I want to learn to spin, but when????
Let my geek flag fly baby!
I have noticed that when I’m talking to people I want to say “thekidyquat says __________” that’s when I know I’m probably need to take a little break. I never did twitter but I’m loving plurk.
Know what you mean girl, lately I’ve had trouble getting the energy to blog.
Say hi to Sloth and Aimee for me! Hopefully I’ll see you in the fall when I’m in NYC.
Or perhaps get a chance to see Sloth when I go to Boston in October. I’ve never been to Boston in the fall (super geek points to anyone getting that reference).
I am tempted by your lure of the Plurk, but I’m going to have to refuse to get on there on principle. I too feel way too connected to the intarwebs and sometimes I wonder if I’m fading and the web is taking over.