I've got a slew of posts I've been meaning to make.
Some are cross-posts of Youtube videos... Youtube supposedly allows you to easily post to your blog from their site, but I've tried several times now and it's completely failed... so maybe at some point I'll figure out why and do something about it.
Some are political commentary on the whole primary season. I've been remarkably silent about all of that here on my blog, which is incredibly unlike me. I suppose in general I feel as if the primary season has more than enough coverage and commentary as it is... but I would like to go on record with some of my opinions, esp related to McCain (who my roommate [insanely] is thinking of voting for) and the whole Clinton-Obama in-fighting (which is just stupid and counter-productive).
Some are about my love life... about The Fucker and about Daywalker and about the various other nutjobs I've been subjected to as of late. Those I'll definitely get to soon to spare my sanity and get that shit off my chest.
The rest are random... my druid hit 70 (Elianthor on Thrall), it's Kelly's 30th this wknd, my family's got both awesome and super-shitty news, school's been going well/weird... etc.
So... there may be a blitzkrieg of posts coming... or there may not. I'm going to try to start slamming these things in to get them out of my head, but my schedule's so packed for the next week that by the time I have time to write I may have lost the bug to do so. =P
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Thursday, March 20, 2008
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Finally caught up!
Praise the Lord!!! I’m finally caught up on e-mails from my Summer o’ Fun. And by caught up, I mean that my inbox is now empty… because I moved everything to other folders. =P So technically, I still have a couple hundred e-mails that need relatively immediate attention. But at least they’ve been categorized!!
Oh, and that’s just for my work account. School is, as always, insanely behind, and I don’t see how I’m going to catch up. E-mail sometimes sucks… it lures you in with the promise of interesting readings and conversations, and then traps you into thinking you have to read everything that comes to you. I’m starting to learn that I can just delete shit that I don’t have time for… but I still feel guilty about it. There was an article on salon.com a few months ago arguing that we’re not actually socially obligated to read every e-mail, or to even keep our inboxes clear. I need to go read that article to see if it can help me justify myself.
Isn’t it weird how like 15 yrs ago no one on the planet had e-mail, but now it’s this big deal if you don’t respond to someone’s message within 24 hrs? Same with phone calls and text messages, though on a different timescale for each. Most of these methods of communications don’t have any cost associated with sending them (save the execution time), and almost always require more time and resources for the receiver to reply. I think we need to devise a system that disincents people from sending messages. That would help throttle back the traffic on the internet (porn spams!) and in my inbox, specifically. Like a slight cost per e-mail sent.
Actually, there’s a start-up I’ve heard of that’s created a sort of e-mail-based currency. When sending a message that’s important to you, you attach some currency to it as an incentive for the receiver to respond (and as an indicator of its relative importance to you). Each person on the system is only allocated a set amount of currency per month, so you can’t over-use it. I like the idea of that… it would really help me prioritize my responses if I could sort based on relative importance to the sender.
This post would fall under the “nonsensitudes” category. Or ramblings, if I were to update the name of my blog.
Oh, and that’s just for my work account. School is, as always, insanely behind, and I don’t see how I’m going to catch up. E-mail sometimes sucks… it lures you in with the promise of interesting readings and conversations, and then traps you into thinking you have to read everything that comes to you. I’m starting to learn that I can just delete shit that I don’t have time for… but I still feel guilty about it. There was an article on salon.com a few months ago arguing that we’re not actually socially obligated to read every e-mail, or to even keep our inboxes clear. I need to go read that article to see if it can help me justify myself.
Isn’t it weird how like 15 yrs ago no one on the planet had e-mail, but now it’s this big deal if you don’t respond to someone’s message within 24 hrs? Same with phone calls and text messages, though on a different timescale for each. Most of these methods of communications don’t have any cost associated with sending them (save the execution time), and almost always require more time and resources for the receiver to reply. I think we need to devise a system that disincents people from sending messages. That would help throttle back the traffic on the internet (porn spams!) and in my inbox, specifically. Like a slight cost per e-mail sent.
Actually, there’s a start-up I’ve heard of that’s created a sort of e-mail-based currency. When sending a message that’s important to you, you attach some currency to it as an incentive for the receiver to respond (and as an indicator of its relative importance to you). Each person on the system is only allocated a set amount of currency per month, so you can’t over-use it. I like the idea of that… it would really help me prioritize my responses if I could sort based on relative importance to the sender.
This post would fall under the “nonsensitudes” category. Or ramblings, if I were to update the name of my blog.
Finally caught up!
Praise the Lord!!! I’m finally caught up on e-mails from my Summer o’ Fun. And by caught up, I mean that my inbox is now empty… because I moved everything to other folders. =P So technically, I still have a couple hundred e-mails that need relatively immediate attention. But at least they’ve been categorized!!
Oh, and that’s just for my work account. School is, as always, insanely behind, and I don’t see how I’m going to catch up. E-mail sometimes sucks… it lures you in with the promise of interesting readings and conversations, and then traps you into thinking you have to read everything that comes to you. I’m starting to learn that I can just delete shit that I don’t have time for… but I still feel guilty about it. There was an article on salon.com a few months ago arguing that we’re not actually socially obligated to read every e-mail, or to even keep our inboxes clear. I need to go read that article to see if it can help me justify myself.
Isn’t it weird how like 15 yrs ago no one on the planet had e-mail, but now it’s this big deal if you don’t respond to someone’s message within 24 hrs? Same with phone calls and text messages, though on a different timescale for each. Most of these methods of communications don’t have any cost associated with sending them (save the execution time), and almost always require more time and resources for the receiver to reply. I think we need to devise a system that disincents people from sending messages. That would help throttle back the traffic on the internet (porn spams!) and in my inbox, specifically. Like a slight cost per e-mail sent.
Actually, there’s a start-up I’ve heard of that’s created a sort of e-mail-based currency. When sending a message that’s important to you, you attach some currency to it as an incentive for the receiver to respond (and as an indicator of its relative importance to you). Each person on the system is only allocated a set amount of currency per month, so you can’t over-use it. I like the idea of that… it would really help me prioritize my responses if I could sort based on relative importance to the sender.
This post would fall under the “nonsensitudes” category. Or ramblings, if I were to update the name of my blog.
Oh, and that’s just for my work account. School is, as always, insanely behind, and I don’t see how I’m going to catch up. E-mail sometimes sucks… it lures you in with the promise of interesting readings and conversations, and then traps you into thinking you have to read everything that comes to you. I’m starting to learn that I can just delete shit that I don’t have time for… but I still feel guilty about it. There was an article on salon.com a few months ago arguing that we’re not actually socially obligated to read every e-mail, or to even keep our inboxes clear. I need to go read that article to see if it can help me justify myself.
Isn’t it weird how like 15 yrs ago no one on the planet had e-mail, but now it’s this big deal if you don’t respond to someone’s message within 24 hrs? Same with phone calls and text messages, though on a different timescale for each. Most of these methods of communications don’t have any cost associated with sending them (save the execution time), and almost always require more time and resources for the receiver to reply. I think we need to devise a system that disincents people from sending messages. That would help throttle back the traffic on the internet (porn spams!) and in my inbox, specifically. Like a slight cost per e-mail sent.
Actually, there’s a start-up I’ve heard of that’s created a sort of e-mail-based currency. When sending a message that’s important to you, you attach some currency to it as an incentive for the receiver to respond (and as an indicator of its relative importance to you). Each person on the system is only allocated a set amount of currency per month, so you can’t over-use it. I like the idea of that… it would really help me prioritize my responses if I could sort based on relative importance to the sender.
This post would fall under the “nonsensitudes” category. Or ramblings, if I were to update the name of my blog.
Mmmm... bursty!
Is there anything so truly restorative after 10 hours of travel as a pint of chocolate ice cream and a bottle of beer? Well... yes, there is. Limeaid. Carrot cake. A massage. A good shag. Cuddling. Mexican hot chocolate. Fresh-baked cookies. I could go on.
But I won't. Instead, you may note that true to my own form, I'm totally on/off with the blogging. 2 weeks go by with nothing, and now I'm going to spam out like 10 posts that I wrote on the various planes I was on today, in between the roughly 75 e-mails I sent out (roughly half of which were work-related... see how productive I can be when provoked!).
Wheeee! Enjoy!
But I won't. Instead, you may note that true to my own form, I'm totally on/off with the blogging. 2 weeks go by with nothing, and now I'm going to spam out like 10 posts that I wrote on the various planes I was on today, in between the roughly 75 e-mails I sent out (roughly half of which were work-related... see how productive I can be when provoked!).
Wheeee! Enjoy!
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
I suck
OK... so I totally suck at updating this thing. So much has happened since last I posted... the State of the Union (laughable), I've read some books, an incredibly important relationship in my life has crumbled, and... I'm fasting!
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