*me at 1:30 pm*
I feel like I’m forgetting something…
*2 hours later*
Oh, right! EATING.
Category Archives: Microblogging
Happy Pride Month!
It feels SO nice to have colorful nails again! It’s been way too long.
I wanted to do the polyamory flag colors, but I’d forgotten just how expensive this stuff is. Maybe I’ll have enough saved up by next year…
Filed under Microblogging, My Life, Selfies
Talking Into the Abyss
The abyss’ gaze is unnerving, I admit
But it is a very good listener
Filed under Microblogging, Poetry
Startup Idea?
Cyberstalking your high school sweetheart after they’ve deleted their Facebook account is a real pain in the ass. Can someone get on that, please?
Added 2025-08-01: I was careless when I first wrote this post and forgot that cyberstalking can be, y’know, actual abuse and not just a euphemism for “occasionally looking at someone’s FaceBook page without interacting,” and that making a joke out of it was in very bad taste and could be a trigger. My own sister’s been a victim of cyberstalking, so I really don’t have an excuse. I apologize.
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Pun-induced Seize-er
- Carpe diem – seize the day
- Carpe carp – seize the fish
- Carpe, free ’em – catch and release
- Carp per diem – fish per day
- Carp: ID ’em – no underage fish
- Carp Aegean – fish from west of Turkey
- Carpe me-um – please hold me
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Oh BTW I’m a Twilight Fan
Please join me in a moment of silence, as we mourn the cruel and senseless murder of the series’ best character:
Very, very convenient—too convenient—that my truck would wheeze its last wheeze just weeks after Edward and I had agreed to our lopsided compromise, one detail of which was that he be allowed to replace my truck when it passed on. Edward swore it was only to be expected; my truck had lived a long, full life and then expired of natural causes. According to him.
Rest in peace, old-timer. 😔
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Smarter
I’ve been comparing past thoughts and projects to ones I have now, and it seems like I’ve gotten smarter. I’m not sure if that’s actually true or if it just seems that way because my friends are all smarter than me and I haven’t been spending time with them. One more reason to spend more time with them, I guess!
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Microblogging
When my youngest child was about two, I turned off all my phone’s Facebook notifications. Back then Twitter was still bearable, so I lingered there a little while, but it didn’t take long for me to quit social media entirely.
It was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made, but there are some things I miss. The biggest and most obvious was staying up to date on the lives of people I hadn’t seen in years but still cared about, but I also missed the writing. A tweet is definitely not an essay, but the process of writing both is remarkably similar. And just like with my essays, sharing my little thoughts, jokes, ideas, and meditations publicly was much more fulfilling than keeping them inside my head, even when the audience was small.
Writing an essay may be similar to writing a tweet, but it is also a whole lot more work. Crafting a good essay was often a weeks- or even months-long process, and after having kids I simply didn’t have the time or spoons to keep at it. For a while I was still able to write smaller things through social media, but that was one of the things I had to give up when I quit.
Recently I was going through some of my old tweets and Facebook status updates, and I noted wistfully that many of them were quite good and that I missed writing them. That’s when I finally realized what should have been obvious years ago. I’d been thinking I couldn’t write tweets anymore because I’m not on Twitter, but a blog post can just as easily be 140 characters as 1400 words, can’t it? (Did you know I have a blog? You should check it out!)
I won’t be microblogging exclusively. Now that the kids are in school and becoming more self-sufficient, I’ve had more energy to devote to the big ideas, too. But as a way of dipping my toes back into the water I think tweet-length blog posts will be a great way to start.
One last note: I’ve disabled comments for now. I remember moderating and replying to them to be far too much like social media–lots of investment for very small or rare returns, yet addictive enough that it’s easy to spend hours on. If you want to comment or reply to something I’ve written, I encourage you to put something about it on your own site! (Even if your site is just your Facebook page or YouTube channel.) Pingbacks are still enabled, so I’ll likely see it.
To everyone taking the time to read this, thank you. See you out there.
Filed under Essays, Microblogging, My Life
On Games and the Making Thereof
I am almost finished making my first real game! “Real” being a relative term, that is: my first game was an abstract, experimental undergraduate project that no one in their right mind would have voluntarily played.[1] The one I’m working on now is a bit more enjoyable, though technically it is actually simpler. It’s called “Press A to Win.” Can you guess what it’s about?
I am making the game in Pygame, so you will need Pygame installed in order to play it. I know it’s a stretch, but I figure there’s at least a chance that some of you might not be familiar with installing, compiling, and running Pygame files, so as soon as the game is finished I figure my next project will be porting the whole thing to Flash.
At the moment, however, both of those projects will have to wait, as I am busy showing off my fiancé to my extended family in Muenster, Texas. I would say “nice place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live here,” except it’s not even a terribly nice place to visit. The views are great and the weather is (currently) lovely, but the town itself is tiny, the water tastes like sulphur, and taking a shower feels like coating yourself in a thin sheen of silicone. I can never tell for sure if I’ve gotten all the soap off.
Regular posts resume next week with a return to the “Agency and the Inevitable” series, after which I will likely write something about education again. I am a big fan of that topic, it seems! See you all then.
Notes:
[1] It was called “Clique” and it was about socializing polygons IT’S A GRAPH THEORY PUN GET IT WASN’T I CLEVER
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