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I cannot explain it as well as the lovely Amanda Palmer. So I won't.
http://twitter.com/berthablu27
From AFP:
so, this is a mostly a blog about the power of twitter.
as most of you know, i’ve become obsessed with twitter and what it can do. i’m not the only one. trent reznor is obsessed, neil gaiman is obsessed.
the sickness is catching.
last friday i was supposed to clean out my apartment and my email inbox and posted a twat to my fellow Losers Of Friday Night On Their Computers (aka LOFNOTC) that read:
i hereby call THE LOSERS OF FRIDAY NIGHT ON THEIR COMPUTERS to ORDER, motherfucker.
9:15 PM May 15th from web
one thing led to another, and the next thing you know there were thousands of us and we’d become the #1 topic trend on twitter.
zoë keating described it as a “virtual flash mob”.
the way twitter works (if you don’t have it) is that certain topics can include a hashtag (#) and if a gazillion people start making posts that include that hashtag, the topic will zoom up the charts of what people are currentl discussing. it’s a cool feature. for insanace, on sunday when i started writing this, the #1 topic trend is #3turnoffwords, and people were posting things like:
Inkspot_77 #3turnoffwords, you finished yet?
less than 20 seconds ago from Tweetie
reidsan #3turnoffwords bros before hos!
4 minutes ago from TwitterFox
essencerenata #3turnoffwords “I’m too tired”
2 minutes ago from web
s3gro3g50 #3turnoffwords - “I have crabs”
less than 20 seconds ago from web
staticfish #3turnoffwords I’m a republican.
5 minutes ago from Tweetie
for those of you still not familiar with the way twitter works, it’s basically a simple status update. posts are limited to 140 characters and must therefore be very very brief.
so when you read the long thread below and you see a post that starts with an @ (i.e. @ifuckedyourmom) that means that i am letting other people on twitter know that i am repsonding to something that @ifuckedyourmom wrote.
when you see something that says “RT”, it means “re-tweet”, in otherwords, a cut and paste of something that some else has posted.
so here, xXHotsauceXx is forwarding along something that @elixaday wrote.
xXHotSauceXx #3turnoffwords RT @elixaday pay me now
8 minutes ago from web
so anyway, there we were, on twitter on a friday night.
we hung out for two hours, came up with a list of things that the government should do for us, created a t-shirt (thank god sean was awake and being a loser with me because he throw up the webpage WHILE we were having our twitter party and people started ordering the shirts - that i designed in SHARPIE in realtime) and a slogan: “DON’T STAND UP FOR WHAT’S RIGHT, STAY IN FOR WHAT’S WRONG” (thanks emilyn brodsky).
and basically had a real-time party on the fucking internet. we ended with a long toast to the power of friday night loserdom and drank virtual wine togehter (well, i know MY wine was real. and tasty).
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| WTF did I do to myself? |
[05 Mar 2009|12:07pm] |
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My hand hurts. I woke up today with a bruise on the center of my left hand... like... the inside part. I feel like I tried to slap a rock or something. It's bruised and puffy.
The greatest part is I have no idea how it happened. WTF?
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| Squeezing out spare time is impossible |
[04 Mar 2009|01:51am] |
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There is so much I want to do... catch up on schoolwork, clean, catch up on paperwork sort of but not completely related to school... but I just cannot seem to squeeze out the spare time to do so.
Of course, I cannot have my dinner time, computer time, LJ time, or social time reduced. That, my friends, would be heresy.
Sleep is also moving up in my "things I give a damn about" list.
Yesterday was typical, involving work, school, therapy, grocery store. Not typical was TCF putting four checks into the wrong checking account. They say it will be back in my account where it belongs in 2-3 business days. They couldn't give me an answer when I asked why it would take 2-3 business days what it had taken someone roughly 4 minutes to fuck up. I just hope they fuck it up and give me extra money back.
Today was work and DV group and trying to go to the grocery store to get cottage cheese for the lasagna I was about to make. Which they were out of. Well, the sale stuff anyway. And I couldn't justify paying three times more for the same damn thing. So I'll make lasagna next week. Instead, I had sesame peanut sauce marinated tilapia and rice. It was pretty fucking delicious. I also want to make (try to make) chicken broccoli bake a la south quad pretty soon. Like... in a few days. We'll see how that goes.
I think my schedule will be better next quarter. Like... only 8-4:30 on Monday (instead of 8-6) and 9-4 on Thursday (instead of 8-5:30). And not working for two one-hour shifts on Wednesday, and instead taking naps/studying/doing paperwork/seeing clients. I think this will make my life much more manageable.
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| Sleep is so nice :) |
[01 Mar 2009|10:24pm] |
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Well, as planned, I did indeed go home on Friday and sleep all fucking day. I slept until about midnight or so, then got up and ate and talked on the phone, then went back to sleep. Got up around noon on Saturday, ate, and took my dog for a walk. Went back to sleep from 2-6. Jesus.
Then I went over to Melanie's, tried to get food from the $1 a scoop Chinese place, and failed because they were almost closed and all the food was gone. So, instead, we got food from the taco cart we saw while making an illegal U-turn in a parking lot. It was cold, but the food was delicious when we got it. Then we went out to this goth club downtown, were jealous of some of the outfits, laughed at some of the others. I got all nostalgic about the one I used to go to in Ann Arbor with Ulrich's people :( Then we went to the Denver Diner and ate more food :)
I came home around 4 and went to bed. Got up at 7:30 this morning to write a paper that was due by noon. Worked on it for about an hour, assessed my progress, and decided to sleep for another hour. WOke up, finished the paper, emailed it in, then took my dog to get his hair cut. While he was gone I washed his toys and bed and napped some more. And ate breakfast.
When I picked him up, his groomer pointed out that he had a little sty or infection on his eye. So that's gross. Hopefully it goes away in a few days. But he is adorable. Then we came back home, and I turned on my tanning lamp, and fell asleep. This was around 2. I woke up at 8 with no shirt on and my dog all cuddled up to me. I think I have mono or something. Hahaha. Not really. I just am SUPER sleep deprived.
But, on the plus side, I have two more weeks of school left, and then one final that I have to show up for the week after. And then I have a week off... so it's kind of like I have two weeks off. And I'm not picking up extra hours at the CS Office, because I'm already burning through my available work study hours at a phenomenal rate.
I think I'll spend the rest of tonight trying desperately to get caught up on some reading. We'll see how that goes.
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| Fat Tuesday fare |
[23 Feb 2009|03:35pm] |
Anyone know where I can find packzis?
They're super delicious, super-fatty, super-sugary filled donuts. Traditionally Polish (or maybe just traditionally Polish in the Polish areas around Detroit). Nobody around here seems to know what the hell I'm talking about, but if you're from Michigan or Chicago, I bet you know. Hopefully someone around Denver has taken the initiative to bring them out here.
Bonus points if you recommend anywhere that has prune/plum flavored ones.
MMM
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| Hungry hungry hippo |
[16 Feb 2009|11:53pm] |
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I'm hungry. I want pie. Apple pie, to be exact.
And if a certain herbal supplement were to be extracted and added to the butter in the homemade crust, that would make it especially delicious.
I also REALLY want some curry. I was planning to make some tonight, but as I ate leftover movie theatre popcorn and cookies for a late lunch, I felt pretty much like crap when I got home, and the thought of food was not at all appealing. So I had some Tums. Now I am just tired, so I may just have some more chocolate and go to sleep. Or just go to sleep.
I shall make myself curry tomorrow :) And carrot cake to bring into school on Wednesday. And some black bean dip for said school event. But the curry shall be mine.
But probably no apple pie. Maybe I'll hit up Taco Bell for a caramel apple empanada :)
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| This is surprisingly accurate. And where I come from (i.e. Michigan) they're caramel delites, dammit |
[09 Feb 2009|09:01am] |
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You Are Caramel deLites / Samosas
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You are blessed with a brilliant, dynamic mind. It's sometimes hard to figure out what your focus should be.
You're the type of person who does almost everything well. You are very competent but also unfocused.
You're not an easy person to pin down. You are vibrantly complex.
You have many facets to your personality, and they're often in competition with one another.
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| Twitter update |
[28 Jan 2009|09:36am] |
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Have you ever looked at your running programs and realized you had way too many? Me too.
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[26 Jan 2009|01:43am] |
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Clearly my dog is even more messed up than I thought... he smears and eats his poop.
I seriously wanted to throw up while I was trying to clean my carpet... and my dog :(
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[19 Jan 2009|03:16am] |
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Okay.
I did it.
https://twitter.com/berthablu27
The sad thing is, I'm actually legitimately pissed that somebody else got my usual screenname before I did. It's like... if you went to get a passport, and found out that somebody got your name before you, and then you couldn't have it, too. So it's the same as my AIM name.
Sadly, I think that if I had unlimited money, I'd totally buy my screenname off from the other people who think it's theirs.
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[24 Dec 2008|01:02am] |
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My heat went out.
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| Ice hurts. |
[15 Dec 2008|09:17am] |
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So... it's really fucking cold here. Like, world covered in ice type cold.
And I get a call from my supervisor about some form that should have been picked up last week but wasn't blah blah blah I ended up walking across campus.
Now.
Everyone who knows me knows that I fall... a lot.
Today was no exception.
Surprisingly, I managed to fall with a bit of style. Seriously, I felt graceful as I collapsed onto my ass onto the cold, icy ground.
This, however, did not make it hurt any less.
Especially as I fell and managed to align my knee PERFECTLY with a big sharp block of ice.
This is going to bruise like a motherfucker. (checks) Yep, already is.
Though, what I feel most sad for is my shoe :( I'm not even sure how, but I managed to destroy my own body (eh) as well as the top of my shoe... which will not heal itself. Perhaps shoe polish will, but it doesn't look good.
Damn you, winter.
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| Blogthings, nobody wants to live in Michigan! |
[01 Dec 2008|10:26pm] |
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You Should Live in Michigan
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If you don't want to live in Michigan, you might also consider:
Missouri
Georgia
Massachusetts
North Carolina
Tennessee
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They forgot to ask the question: "are you scared to fuck of a shitty economy?"
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From LJ support:
"LiveJournal developers are aware that some users have been reporting problems with incorrect userpics displaying. If you are having any problems with the userpics displaying incorrectly, please clear your browser's cache. If this does not resolve the problem, please open a support request containing links to all the affected userpics. Please be assured that your userpics have not physically been replaced, nor does it mean that anyone has accessed your account."
Well, at least I know I'm not crazy.
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| It's so good that I don't decide the fate of the world |
[25 Nov 2008|02:17am] |
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It's so good that I don't decide the fate of the world
Because if I did, I would say fuck world peace, fuck world hunger, fuck abuse, and fuck clean drinking water.
I would choose, at this very moment, to rid the world of flies forever.
I FUCKING HATE FLIES.
And I'm really starting to hate the nice weather in Colorado. If it was snowing for the past two months like it should have been, there would be NO FLIES!!!
I need to train my dog to attack and eat flies.
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| Userpic... what? |
[24 Nov 2008|08:17am] |
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Does anyone know what this userpic is from? It appeared as my default this morning - and I have NEVER seen it before (it's a picture of two people kissing, in case it goes away).
Also, wasn't this happening to people a few months ago, the random, out of nowhere userpic thing?
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| Funny typo/grammar error |
[19 Nov 2008|11:33am] |
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This is so mean... but whatever.
From my social psychology course website:
Week 10 Topic: Helping, Hurting and the Broader Roll of Empathy
Served up with some tasty jam, I suppose.
I am so tempted to write my entire paper using references to rolls of toilet paper, dinner rolls, etc. Because I'm an ass like that.
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| Just another reason why Sweden is fucking awesome |
[19 Nov 2008|09:29am] |
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From 1 january 2009 on, sadomasochism and some other deviant sexual behaviours (like transvestism and fetishism) are no longer considered illnesses in Sweden.
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