- Would you say that you’re good at keeping in touch with people? – Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Depends on the person, depends on how close of a friend (s)he is, depends on the nature of our relationship. In other words, like most things in life “it depends.”
- Which communication method do you usually prefer/use: e-mail, telephone, snail mail, blog comments, or meeting in person? Why? – Yes, no, no, yes, and especially yes. I’m not a “phone person,” and I couldn’t even tell you why. That’s just how it is. You might not suspect it of me, but I really prefer to meet face-to-face. Email and instant messaging and blog comments are merely little ways to keep in touch between real get-togethers.
- Do you have an instant messenger program? How many? Why/why not? How often do you use it? – Once again, note that the Friday Five is actually the Friday Ten Or So. *sigh* I started with ICQ, got Yahoo! for the hell of it, and eventually gave up and went AIM. I’ve dabbled in Jabber, but it tends to universally suck dingos. ICQ has gotten flakier and more spam-prone over the years, and Yahoo! is just plain “nucking futs.” AIM is the IM system of choice. And yes, if I’m connected to the Internet at all I can be found running at least AIM if not all three.
- Do most of your close friends live nearby or far away? – Um. Let’s see, Mari lives in the Portland metro area. Heather moved to Cali. Ben lives in town but he only gets in touch once every four-to-six months then vanishes again. That’s all of my close friends, folks. There are some other folks who I hope grow into being close friends, but…
- Are you an “out of sight, out of mind” person, or do you believe that “distance makes the heart grow fonder”? – Yes.
Author: Karel Kerezman
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Keeping In Touch With My Friday Five
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Oh-Dark-Thirty
It’s 11:00 on a Friday night. Ordinarily I’d be parked in front of the television, or perhaps playing a bit of Diablo II with The Missus.
Not tonight, though. I’m at the office, watching large audio files transfer from one server to another, one at a time, one after another, one by one.
The current estimate is that this process will be completed early on Sunday morning. What am I doing here, then? Babysitting. I simply cannot get any rest until I’m reasonably confident that the file transfer won’t go horribly wrong during the first few hours. This is just a part of how seriously I take my job.
Wendi’s due to pick me up as soon as she wakes tomorrow morning, which will probably mean I leave at 9:00. Don’t worry about me… I have my internet and my music to keep me going. Life’s really not that bad.
I apologize for being moderately incoherent. It’s been a long day. Oh yes, and that new version of Qualitap won’t land until early next week, right about the time I’m on that department-heads retreat. Mwahahaha.
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Hand-gesture Anthropology
Via Blogatelle, a delightful response to this delightful image…
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Dribs and drabs
Let’s see, a recap (oh no!) of recent events:
I’m starting a new music video. It’s on the order of a special request, and as soon as the idea took hold in what passes for my brain I couldn’t resist the idea of making it work. Film at eleven, as it were.
Wendi has her airline tickets, as does her father. Next Wednesday afternoon they’ll be leaving for a week. I’ll be on vacation, more or less. For me the word “vacation” tends to translate as “watches kids for a few days while praying the phone never rings.” I’ll manage to enjoy my time off anyway, have no fear.
The itinerary for the Dept. Heads retreat next week has been distributed. Meetings, meals, repeat. Oh, and there’s some golf scheduled, but I opted out of that. There are worse ways to spend the two days before my vacation starts…
I have tried Winamp 3. There are some inventive skins available for it, but do they all have to be impossible to actually use? Note to skinners: We want to actually use the software too.
I’m taking the laptop home this evening. If all goes well, I’ll get a chance at finishing off my remaining TMTT episodes over the next few days. I’d like to have that project completed for my own peace of mind, thank you. I’m still closer to completing my Thumbnail Theater than EK is on hers, though. Nyah nyah nyah!
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When I said DBZ stinks, this is not what I meant.
I haven’t completely forgiven Chuck for hiding his great 9-11 rant immediately after 9-11, but I suppose I’ll link to his latest bit of evil anyway. Ladies and gents, I link you…
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Music is my life. Or is that sex?
Thanks to some tips from the creator of XMMS Infopipe, I have been able to restore the “Current Music” function to this website. This time around it’s less kludged (though still a bit) and details the current song position. If no song is playing, “Current Music” simply vanishes from the sidebar. Viola!
This is the kind of thing I do for fun. Maybe I need to get out more…