Random: A Post Of Epic Proportions

· by: melissa

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Michael Jackson died like when? April? May? And the minute I saw that very sad news trending on Twitter, it triggered something in my brain. Which, I believe, may be causing me to slowly go insane. Or maybe quickly. Depends on how you look at it.
Smooth Criminal. I sing it constantly and I tap the beat out on any hard surface with my hand.
It’s like Chinese water torture. A slow trickle. Drip. Drop. Drip. Drop. Only, it’s to the beat of Annie are you OK? Annie are you OK? Are you OK Annie?
Yeah. I know.

So. So?
Google Wave? Please, explain. So that a mom who lost brain cells during childbirth can understand. And I may have and invite left to reward the person who explains it most clearly. Because honestly, when I go and check out Wave, I get dizzy and leave.

Twitter lists?
I don’t get it. So everyone has these lists they are making, right? And you want to follow your friends lists? And you want your friends to follow your lists? Plus, you want to look more popular than the next Mommy Blogger so you want to have a HUGE number of lists that follow you?

WHY????

It just seems like an awful lot of work. I’m barely adding to the couple of lists I made. It’s just so much easier to follow my original Twitter stream. Where basically it would be the same people that are on my “list”. And when I see tweets from people that don’t interest me, I just unfollow them. It’s a much easier way for me.
Explain the point of this new feature to me because I fail to see the importance of lists on Twitter.

I don’t know about your blog traffic but I’ve been noticing that if I don’t tweet, I don’t get many readers. I know that many of my friends have been using Twitter in lieu of a Google reader. Admittedly, so have I. So I’ve been visiting blogs when they Tweet their posts. Vice versa, I’m sure. But I feel like, after the first or second time I Tweet my link, I’m begging. I hate begging. Is anyone else feeling like this?

Let’s talk H1N1 for a moment. My doctors office hasn’t gotten the stuff in yet. Quite frankly, I don’t feel like waiting for hours in line at a health clinic. And allegedly, the piggy season peaked at the end of October with a resurgence threatening to hit us in April.
PLUS. There are so many different opinions on this vaccination. Yes. No. Maybe. What to freaking do.
Hibernate. It’s the only answer.

I FINALLY made an appointment to see my guidance counselor at Oakland Community College. I’m wanting to take journalism and creative writing classes. Would you believe that I am seeing the same counselor that I saw 22 years ago when I first went to O.C.C!! He’s still there. Good lord, the man must be ancient.

Since when do districts call for no school on an election day? I remember seeing my Mom go into our school library to vote. Have things become that dangerous that it’s a liability to have students in the school while people are voting?

Now I must say goodbye. Seems I have to go buy cat food because no one told me they were out. The food is in the basement in a self feeder. I never go in the basement because it stinks like cat piss and turtle shit. And I’m much too delicate to be subjected to such putrid odors.

I’m going to Target. Wish me luck that I get out of there with only the couple of things on my list.

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  1. igster101 says

    Ok, imho, Twitter lists are pointless. Apps like Tweetdeck already had the ability to make columns for people you want to track the most. But lists? Why? You have to make a list then add people to it. As far as I know you can only view one list at a time. I made 1 list and gave up, I appear on 19 lists at last counting. Some contain anywhere from like 10 to 500 people. Who tracks 500? And that is not the only list people have made/follow.
    Googlewave is like an open ended email/IM. Instead of sending out/getting back chain emails, it’s all done at once. Anyone can jump in anywhere in the chat. No scrolling through 30 emails to find what you’re looking for. I can try and show you more, but I am far from very knowledgeable yet,

  2. Diana says

    Hmm. Google wave. Not sure. I’m still trying to figure out how to fit in time for LinkedIn. I don’t know how everyone does it.

    Twitter lists. I was a skeptic. But I have made a couple by topic and I kind of like that I can check in on a certain demographic with just a click. I follow too many people and miss a LOT of tweets, so this is nice.

    H1N1. Hype. That’s all.

    O.C.C. GOOD FOR YOU! I’m so proud! Keep us updated, mkay?

    Target. I went there the other day. The cashier announced my total. $21.01. I said “WHAT? Are you SURE? Did you miss something?” She laughed. Cheapest Target trip EVER.

  3. amber says

    I’m just not doing twitter lists. I don’t have time. period. the end…and I’m not all that popular anyway, so there’s no use in trying to pretend I am. I’m still just the geeky girl sitting in the corner…and that’s okay.

    I don’t like to seem like I’m begging either, but I post late. Late at night. Is it okay to retweet my own posts? I don’t know.

    Good luck!
    .-= amber´s last blog ..The Ins and Outs of Social Media According to Me. =-.

  4. Tiaras & Tantrums says

    twitter lists – no time – I have no time to look at them, create one or worry about them

    Google Wave – no clue, haven’t been invited

    twitter/blog traffic – I don’t know – I don’t tweet too much, here and there, I just don’t have the time and I don’t have a laptop. My kids, when they are home, have the computer. I don’t get as many comments as I used to but my stats are still high??

    H1N1 – no shots!! there were 3 cases at my kids’ school – but I refuse to inject my kids with any more mercury(Thiomersal)

  5. Huckdoll says

    Oh my God … I LOVE Smooth Criminal. Love. Just reading “Smooth Criminal” here has me earwormed.

    No H1N1 vacs for us. Never have done flu shots, never will. I’d tend to say that unless it’s completely necessary, I won’t be injecting foreign substances/poison into my body or those of my children.

    The rest, I have no idea about!

  10. Tara R. says

    I’m doing limited Twitter lists, ones that are very straightforward and hopefully not fodder for hurt feelings. I really dislike the feeling of cliques. I’ve apparently been blacklisted from Google Wave – no invitations. It’s so much like high school it hurts my head.

    I joined NaBloPoMo just to jump start my brain into writing everyday. Now that I have all kinds of time, I’ve actually been online less and less.
    .-= Tara R.´s last blog ..Filing for unemployment =-.

  12. HaB says

    Twitter has it good points and bad points. I get a lot of traffic from twitter to my blog – more so that I get hits that come directly from readers. IDK – it’s a catch 22. But the lists???? I haven’t built any yet and I am currently on 3. I will see how long that lasts. LOL

    And, the whole H1N1 thing – I am not worrying about it. I actually think I tweeted the other day about how my husband told me I should be more worried about it than I am. I told him that H1N1 would have to take a number and get in line on this mommy’s list of worries – right after how I was going to get all the bills paid and make sure there is food in the fridge.
    .-= HaB´s last blog ..Give_A_Way: Paisley Park Frame Set =-.

  13. Nap Warden says

    I’m sure Twitter Lists is nice…I just haven’t the time to do one more thing online. I really enjoy Twitter, but to break down who I follow into lists…I just can’t find the time. I hope I’m not missing something….am I?
    .-= Nap Warden´s last blog ..Hippopost =-.

  14. MomZombie says

    Don’t feel bad about Google Wave, I’ve listened to my other half go on about it, watched demos of its many and varied uses, and I don’t get it. I guess I don’t really see how it would apply to anything I do on a daily basis.
    As for Twitter lists and other things like that, I have so many places on the Net where I’ve set up accounts and pages and have abandoned for the complicated messes they end up being. One day I’ll go through and delete all of them.
    As for H1N1: read my post. I think I only pimped it on Twitter once.
    As for classes at OCC. Lucky! Enjoy!
    .-= MomZombie´s last blog ..Wallowing in swine flu data =-.

  15. Vic says

    I have enough trouble keeping my lists on tweetdeck up to date without having to worry about the ones twitter wants me to do as well. It all seems like another time suck to me.
    .-= Vic´s last blog ..Modelling Next? =-.

  16. The Retired One says

    Good Lord. I will be in BIG trouble then. I don’t use Twitter at ALL….between the blog and Facebook, I would have no face to face time with my family at ALL….I am lucky to have hung on to my 180 faithful followers without Tweeting….!!!! Thank Goodness!!
    I do sometimes shamelessly plug my blog on FB though…I have gotten some new readers that way, anyway!
    And today, a lady wrote me and want to BUY some of my photographs!! WOOOT! I am so pumped!!!!
    .-= The Retired One´s last blog ..Lake Superior and the Mouth of the Huron River =-.

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