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Sunday, September 18, 2011

I guess i just don't care anymore...

So let the complaining begin

What's the point of interacting here with anyone? Trade jokes, recipies, insults, political banter? Is that all this is good for?

I guess so. Nobody leaves comments on my guestbook, and usually not more than 3 people bother to read the postings I make which some of are actually good, even for me. But unlike a few years ago, there seems to be the constant urge to move on to something else.

Technology- we all used to have desktop computers, then laptops were hot, then netbooks, now tablets are the rage. Some people are so addicted they have them all, like me.

Desktop, multiple laptops, a netbook, and tablet...not to mention work provided blackberry...

and as the technology changes, so has the social media, from AOL Homepage, to Yahoo 360, to Multiply and its many siblings, to Facebook and Twitter.

Aging...you know you are old when you dont understand TV commercials anymore. There is a commercial for a smartphone where the guy is changing a baby's diaper and talking w a freind about a football game he didnt see, and he uses the phone to access a video of the game so he can make relevant comments, when his wife appears, and he says to the caller "I gotta bounce"...I understand that to mean "I have to leave",  I have never heard that expression used by real people in conversation though, ergo proof positive I am old...

another sign of aging, I realize I have become a story teller. When an employee comes in and talks to me, I usually have a experience based story, and proceed to tell it, quickly realizing that the glazed look on their face is an indicator they didn't really want to engage in lengthy conversation...so the other day I told them when that happens all they need to do is say they need to go back to work. Although, since the youngest employee I supervise is 49, we are not a young group, so we all sometimes drift into "I remember back in ..."

Health...lets dont go there. Too many pills, aches and pains, etc.

 

11 comments:

  1. Maybe a lot of it has to do with a distancing of the relationships. I notice you don't always visit my posts and I don't always visit yours. It is not that I don't like you; and I hope you don't exactly dislike me :-). Yes, we do have some strong debates but at the end we should be able to head to the pub together for a few laughs.

    I notice you have 21 contacts, a little less than half of what I have. I only get a few people in my contacts to visit and a few who are in the neighbourhood. You could go out and seek out like-minded folks and see if they want to be contacts. However, that will get you a bunch of yesers when you post; I have seen that on other blogs where I jump in and dissent LOL. I mean if you want 20 people saying "yeah, those damn democrats are killing the economy".....

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  2. Yeah, those damn democrats are killing the economy!
    Oops, I mean...ok, uhm, just gimme a minute to more thoroughly read what you just said. (Oops, no, wait a minute my telegraph is clicking. And there goes the land line, old foggies wanting to talk genealogy, I bet. Nope, my aunt probably wanting me to turn on my transistor radio and listen to some commentator's rant on whippersnappers.)
    Actually, I still have only a pc and only because I have to have it to get p***-poor Internet via land line because AT&T won't pull up these archaic corroded copper wires and connect this area using fiber optic (or whatever the non-stone age thing is). I could get cable, but those plans are way too expensive and they want to bundle junk and I just do not like to listen to the various and sundry companies' sales pitches. Even the cable company wanted me to switch to a digital device (to convert their signal for a really high quality analogue tv I did not want to just throw out back when broadcasters switched to digital junk (absolute crap!!!). I told them, what's the point of cable if I now have to have a converter box, so got one and just use the antennae (they weren't worth the fee for basic cable and one extra, stupid channel, featuring the van full of white "Indians" going around making citizens' arrests!) Technology sucks! I really enjoyed life and culture more back when there were only three tv channels (broadcast in black and white). It's a fools errand trying to keep track of all the new cheap glitzy trash that is so here-today-gone-tomorrow. Glad I joined the back to basics homesteader movement ages ago.

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  3. The server is circa 2005, no cable, no sat, transport is circa 1993 and has rust and the engine is malfunctioning since six weeks?, seven weeks?, can't even remember now and it is the only transport I have, holidays? That is a laugh, not even remotely. Don't tell me that it is because I haven't worked at it, the years in school, long nights of study; No, the companies would rather hire some Hispanic that can not read or write English (and I know because I was beside him; and his translator, during the tests and not only could he not read or write English, he could not do basic maths and I am talking about adding and subtracting fractions and reading a scale). I finished the idiot test in just a few minutes and my reward was pushing me out the door and I mean that, I was guided towards the door and sent on my way..

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  4. Lots of people have just left Multiply. Of my regular circle of friends on here, I only hear from like six when I post a blog or a link or whatever, and otherwise hear via PM's from maybe four. I'm afraid social networking via blogs has become the technological dinosaur. FaceSchmuck has lured away everyone under thirty to the one-liner "interactions" of it's latter-day digital "Laugh-In" ... "Hmm, verrrry interrrrethting!"

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  5. I can generally count on having one reader, and sometimes two if my post has a sexy title.
    I don't think I even have ten contacts yet. When I am writing a post it is usually because I have an idea and I want to save it somewhere, and in this case it is something that I thought others might be interested in. Even if there are hardly any others.
    Your posts are usually a nice short read, and enjoyable. I don't always comment, but I think I catch most of what you write.

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  6. I finally got a laptop this past January. Before that just PCs for me.

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  7. For the record, I post a lot of stuff that rarely gets comments. Two of my contacts, (whose names shall remain
    anonymous post tons and tons of stuff and hardly ever get a comment.
    Don't feel bad. Sooner or later someone will run by your stuff, even if they don't comment. They'll still check
    out the pages.
    I Cr 13:8a, Love never fails !

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  8. It's been like that ever since I got to Multiply. One glitchy day and everyone starts bellyaching about how the place is becoming like Y360 and wants to jump ship.

    Add Meebo? "This place sucks lets find something new!!!"

    Change the Inbox? "This place sucks lets find something new!!!"

    Site is down for announced maintenance? "This place sucks lets find something new!!!"

    The funny part is they all embrace the changes eventually.

    As far as the rest of it. I'm too achy yet this morning to talk about old age. Let me get some coffee in me and clear my eyes before I start into a story about how living in the cold and damp NW is hard on my many formerly broken appendages.

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  9. I noticed people talking about going to the curb. I have no idea what that is from. It seems to have to do with getting rid of stuff. I mean I know it's about putting out the garbage, but why using that phrase now for many aspects of life?

    I don't have a TV or cell phone plus living in France--I am out of it as far as American culture. Is that really a serious problem? :-))

    So this will make you 6 people and 9 comments. Things are looking up, non?

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  10. I talk to Due all the time now because our political views don't matter much. He hates Democrats and I'm trying to engineer a raptor to eat Republicans. But Cassie Ross has disappeared and we both like her so we team up to try and find her. I found the best way to get responses is to come up with something novel. I only blog when I can come up with something I think might prove novel - Exploration of the Amazon, Expedition to Mexico, Exploration of a cave, Discovery of significant fossils, A report made by one of my graduate students that he put a few rifle rounds into a primate creature 9 feet tall, and my last blog concerning a cypress swamp and our adventures therein. I like a good ghost story, which Dude can be counted on to provide. I loved Cassie's short features about architecture, pub signs of old, historical figures, Rome, and the wonderful music/ music videos she gave us all. Cassie and Chris Sampson really added a lot to my message book. I spend a lot of time chatting with Kim. Not many add to my message book now. I write about the history of the earth and get a reasonable number of responses. I spend a lot of time commenting on other people's blogs rather than in their message books.I'm not a cook, I care less if some one gets a tooth pulled, and I try to avoid politics. 2010 was a lot different than 2011. Candice, we had a lot of fun and activity going on here then.Almost the entire membership has changed. Dark, Chris, looks like Cassie, Penny, have all slipped away.

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  11. I actually read your stuff pretty regularly, but I cannot remember EVER going to someone's guestbook. It's nothing personal.

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