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Planning for the Future

Published on March 19, 2009 in life. 3 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

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Yesterday I posed the question “Is there a name for the concept of spending a lot of time planning for something that is not likely to happen?” and received a lot of responses.  Here they are:

Via twitter:

30THREADS: @kitch Yeah, it’s called working in a newsroom.
nugo: @kitch It’s called Mental Masturbation
kurtschlatzer: @kitch – they call it a career
RoninVision: @kitch: I think they call that “college”.

Via Facebook:
Don: Working for the State?
Chris: Oh! College!

It looks like the winner is college.  Not that exciting overall but I definitely got a kick out of it.  It’s by far the most response I’ve ever seen out of a tweet.  For the record the scenario that prompted this tweet from me definitely falls into the Mental Masturbation category.

Mission Accomplished: Tweetup

Published on January 30, 2009 in Tech. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , .

Made it out to the first triangletweetup of 2009 last night.  So many faces I haven’t seen in such a long time!

Started out with a few “pre-game” beers over at the fabulous new Tobacco Road, aka TR.  Made it over to edge office just in time for @DiMambro’s pitch about getting a real coworking space set up in Downtown Raleigh.  All the best to him on this venture, I think it would be awesome.  I’d totally be down for getting some space one day a week in order to get out of the office once in a while.  Make it happen!

The list of tweeple I haven’t seen face to face in a while was staggering.  Great to see you @therab @mattrmiller @wiggitywack @dgtlpapercuts @ryanirelan @southpaw20 @ladyishmael @ginnyskal @waynesutton @dimambro @dtraleigh @abbyladybug @ayeshamus @jefftippet @roninvision @prachig @eronel @nematome @jreesnc @hughlh @ocell.  I know I ran into others and met some new people as well.  If you read this and I met you for the first time please let me know and I’ll add ya!

Also enjoyed the after party back over at TR with everyone that made it out.

Finally, I feel pretty good about the fact that I’m blogging and I don’t even have a photo!  Freedom!  I do have a ton of pics from the evening, just haven’t gotten them off the camera yet.  I’ll be sure to post a few soon.

Oh Happy Day

Published on June 23, 2008 in Uncategorized and life. 4 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

It seems that this past Friday, June 20th, was the happiest day of the year.  I believe it.  Although given the amount of pure fun and excitement of the Raleigh Typhoon on Saturday it might be possible that they missed it by one day.  Let’s just call it the happiest weekend of the year to make it simple.

Cliff Arnall, a psychologist and former tutor at Cardiff University, devised the equation which follows.

According to the research this has been worked out using the equation O + (N xS) + Cpm/T + He.

O stands for being outdoors and outdoor activity, N is connection with nature, which is in full bloom now, S is socialisation with neighbours and friends, Cpm stands for childhood positive memories, T is the mean temperature which is now usually warm, and He is holiday expected.

So we’ve got some math (awesome) to help us figure out what makes for a happy day.  I think it works. Not only did I have a great weekend, but many other I know did as well.  Watching twitter a bit today and over the course of the weekend I noticed that all kinds of people had fun adventures.  The center of this for me, as well as 6 other tweeple (@dtraleigh, @nematome, @ginnyskal, @dimambro) and other friends, was the Raleigh Typhoon adventures.  I randomly bumped into a friend that was in from Philly for the weekend having a great time with old friends.  @chiatar was off vacationing.  @therab and @operationorange traveled off to heroescon in Charlotte, NC.  Add it all up and there were a lot of people having a lot of fun this weekend.

The takeaway is that those mathematicians\psychologist are right on the money and there theory has been validated.  Some might suggest that the “equation” is obvious.  People love great weather, the outdoors, good friends, and travel.  In the end, who cares, great weekend for all!

Via Lifehacker

Via UK Telegraph

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Century Mark. Breakdown. Tweetup

Published on May 29, 2008 in life. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

For those of you not involved with twitter this post will likely be as meaningless of most of the posts that I have made lately.  Twitter is topical for me at the moment and thus brings thoughts and words to mind.

Today I passed 100 followers and am therefore following nearly 100 people as well.  I took a look at my twitterholic and in the past 40 days or so I’ve gone from 15 tweeple and about 200 updates to 100 tweeple and 750 updates.  In the grand scheme of things this is pretty minimal in the twitter world.  That said, for me it’s been a continuous stream of change in how I react to twitter. @dtraleigh said it best today with:

Twitter is now like trying to talk to your friends at the loudest club and the 10 foot loudspeaker is next to your head.

Net result, it’s nearly impossible to keep track of what is going on with everyone on twitter.  I’ve been reduced to just taking a glance occasionally and checking replies to me.  There really isn’t any other way to keep track of the whole thing.  I dread the day that I might have one thousand people to follow or vice-versa.  Total overload.

The other big “news” at twitter this week was that it’s been dying a slow death on an almost daily basis.  I got a total kick out of this video blog post from Loren Feldman of 1938 media. The quickie summary is that basically most people on twitter are bored proffesionals starved for attention and blog hits.  This is why we tolerate this mess.

The most interesting thing to happen in the twitterverse, at least locally, is triangletweetup.  This will be my first tweetup of any significant numbers.  Definitely looking forward to the presentations and activities.  Since twitter is more social than network for me, the best part will just be to put names and faces with twitternames.  Should be good times to be had by all.