i just flew back from los angeles, and boy are my arms tired...
after a quick and easy trip down to la, i realized just how easy it is to hop down to southern california for some hot weather and smog. the city of la still holds a special place in my heart. although i've yet to live in a 'cool' part of la. (the two jobs i have had in la county, were approx 30-45mins from hollywood, santa monica, downtown, manhattan beach, melrose, etc etc... ) i still spent plenty of time in and around those areas.
let me end with a quote you all know "i'll be back".
i joined friendster back when i was in college, and introdced it to almost everyone i knew. it was so much fun i then joined myspace, and eveyr other social networking site i was able to find, some of which i have since forgotted the url at which they live. everyonesconnected.com, orkut.com, something-cute-and-whitty-about-friends.com ???
the point, let's get to it.
i was a social networking account creating addict. there were at least 5 to 6 individual social networking sites that i joined. thing is, once i created an account and added a few friends, i didn't really spend much time on the site. i think 150 was my "acceptable" number of friends, and once i landed that many i 'gave up' and reverted to logging in only when i had a "you've got a message/comment/friend request" email. the allure of the social networking sites wore off quick.
then i met facebook. when i was on my account creating rampage, facebook was locked to users who had a .edu email addresses only. mine had expired by this time, so i was s.o.l. facebook was rather genius about limiting their users to college kids for two reasons. elimination of old perverted men posing as 18 year old boys/girls, in order to talk to 18 year olds. and everyone on the network was (in theory) smart or educated, i mean, they are in college! when facebook was proven hit, they opened the floodgates and enjoyed more advertising revenue than you can imagine [they allowed all people to join/register].
Facebook is where i drew the line, but not technically. i singed up, and didn't use my real name or my primary email address it was only a temporary thing. the reason i signed up was simply because a friend posted pictures on her facebook account, the only way to view them was to have an account myself. not too far down the line afterwards i deleted the account.
why did i draw the line at facebook? maybe i'm old school, or perhaps new school -i'm not sure which i am just yet, but i know i'm not "present school". if it's popular to the masses now, i'm either not caught on yet, or completely over it.
i remember the days of when, people had blogs and time. each day i could check each blog and see who's updated and who hasn't. entries, pictures, thoughts, new layouts, etc just about every friend i knew had a blog.
now everyone has a facebook, or a myspace. those pages are not only boring, they're ugly. at least facebook doesn't allow horrendous layout changes or bogus background images. nonetheless i'm not akin to them in my old(er) age.
i'm waiting for the new generation of social networking: location based and real time. with almost every person in my address book armed with an iphone, location based information generation is a slide of the finger and a few taps. i imagine being at a street corner when i pull up an app, and see who in my network has been where i've been, when, and possible notes/pics they took while there.
maybe i'm ahead, or behind. should i just go make me a facebook account now or what?
my coworker derek has a knack for whiteboard drawings. he likes to write on the everyone's whiteboard. some of these are pretty much an inside joke, but what's great is that most people know these signals in my office!
we hung in SD for a bit, and adam turned 27. mom made a cake and adam made some wishes. i remember back when we were kids, either of my sibling's birthdays felt like my own birthday. party, cake, friends, usually some theme (i think i had 'the hulk' themed plates/napkins/cups one year.
things are still the same, but i'm just lucky to be around when my brother's birthday hits (and we don't have themed cups/plates/napkins anymore).
whenever i come down to san diego, a few hours of fishing in la jolla must be in order. this time we went to a new spot where you have to first catch a small fish in order to then catch a bigger one (using the small as bait!). we caught bait, and of course have a few fish stories... "the one that got away was this big".
the great thing about being on vacation is the fact that you can chat online with working friends, while drinking beer and watching seinfeld duke it out with newman (his nemesis). too bad it's cloudy here in san diego, which san francisco enjoys sun and heat. i'm just not the lucky guy when it comes to weather.
When we cruise to sd as a family, there's plenty of things to do: go to the movies, hang by the pool drinking wine, work in the garden, teach younger sisters to drive manual transmission cars, or even hit up the local michael's craft store for some real crazy entertainment!
we do things pretty crazily, ever been to a Crybaby Matinee? it's where new mom's take the babies and don't get flack for breastfeeding, crying babies, or any other baby-initiated annoyance that may happen in a movie theater.
1997: daft punk released an album, named it homework, and put themselves on the map.
years later (2001) they released another album, named it discovery, and it was so hot that the map caught aflame.
further down this same path, -year:2005- daft punk released an album, named it human after all, and that's where this success story takes a turn. the album did not meet expectations. the duo created the entire album in just 6 weeks, but that wasn't enough to please the masses. was daft punk lucky their first two times? did they lose it?
answer: no.
in 2007 daft punk showed up to their hometown of paris, and played a set dressed in the signature robot suits atop a lighted pyramid. they used material from discovery, human after all, and a tad from homework. this live mix not only showcases their talent, but also the quality and genius of their art. the set was recorded, named daft punk: alive 2007, and has been shaking since.
do what you need to do to get your hands on this masterpiece. daft punk owns electronic music for a reason, alive 2007 is a solid example why.
