You Should Talk to Strangers!

I feel there is a stigma associated with contact between strangers.  Just so we’re clear, I’m talking about the type of strangers that aren’t dangerous.  I’m talking about every day encounters at bus stops, libraries, and in class.  I’m talking about people who could know each other but don’t because they’ve never conversed.  You may [...]

Batman Beyond

I’m convinced that there are just some people that are incompatible for phone conversation.  My friend called me tonight to set up a tennis match.  Either our phones are always connected poorly through the network, or we have no conversational rhythm whatsoever.  I think it’s the latter because sometimes the same thing happens in person.  [...]

Childhood memories.

“Hello?”
“Hi, may I please speak to Jason?”
“Umm…I think you have the wrong number.”
“Oh…is this 244-7691?”
“No, it’s 224…”
“Oh…well I’m calling from United Blood Services…are you a blood donor?”
This conversation took place about five minutes ago.  It marks the first time that someone has solicited me while attempting to contact someone else.  That’s some damn good stuff [...]

Coming Home and the Weekend

It’s time to write again.  After all, TJ is going to kill me if I don’t.
I got into Reno around 4:30pm on Friday and it was like 95 degrees.  We have two rental cars right now until my parents drive to Carmel on Wednesday.  I’m driving a Nissan Xterra which is actually pretty sweet.  Sadly, [...]

“We come from dust; we return to dust.”

In response to this story (“‘Pet crematorium’ complaint leads to Pentagon change”):
The government sure takes quick action when there are complaints about honoring the dead, but they don’t act very quickly when handling matters concerning the living.
Is anyone aware the process of cremating a body consists of putting it into a furnace until only bone [...]

Almost done with my week of hell

I haven’t been posting very often in the last week and a half because I’ve been constantly busy – I have a 3-5 page paper and a huge programming assignment due tomorrow. But I’m done with the paper and the program is basically done. I have four hours tomorrow to write up the [...]

Who is T.W. Jackson?

I saw this ad on Facebook and it was like, “Get your ex back now!”. I’ll admit it made me curious. So I clicked.
http://www.getyourexbacknow.com/just_break_up3.html
If you want to see for your self, go to that link. It’s some self-help guru named T.W. Jackson that claims to have the magic touch in relationships, and [...]

Spring cleaning, Facebook style

I have both MySpace and Facebook, and I am pretty selective about who my friends are on MySpace.  I have less than 90.  For some reason, I’m not that way at all on Facebook, where I had over 350 friends.  That is, until yesterday.
I went on a friend-deleting rampage and cleared out more than 100 [...]

Social networking: the less you know people, the more they care.

I changed my Facebook status to “Abe is siiiick…”. Within five minutes I got a wall post from an old friend who, in the grand scheme of things, I don’t know that well. It said, “ I hope you feel better Abe:(“.
This is curious. I don’t expect anyone to express their [...]

Facebook offers IM capability with slick new toolbar

I haven’t liked all of the things Facebook has implemented over the last two years, but their newest creation is amazing.  You can now chat in real time with any of your friends who are signed in.  This didn’t sound that cool at first, but it’s actually very handy.
The old way of real-time interaction (AIM) [...]