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For those of you not on Twitter at the crack of dawn, you might have missed my new video: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Very cool video Gavin. looks great!
- Chris Cavs
It is official: I will be starting a new job on or around Jan 4th. I will be leaving the job I have been at for the better part of 11 years. Wow. :).
what's the new gig?
- Chris Cavs
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- Chris Cavs
VIDEO: Trek - A Journey on the Appalachian Trail&|&Part Time Vagabond - http://www.parttimevagabond.com/2009...
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- Chris Cavs
My Bike | something found - http://somethingfound.net/...
From the page: "« twitter lit from within » My Bike September 2nd, 2009 . My Mom finds it funny. âÂoeYou would have hated that bike if I had picked it out for you!â Probably true. After all, IâÂm somewhat stubborn, sort of a âÂoebasic blackâ kinda girl, not to mention a serious klutz. Living in Brooklyn and riding a bike seems about as wise to me as the idea of playing in traffic, even for the most agile among us. I love to walk, hate to run, and the last time I had a need for speed, the big wheel I was zooming along on disintegrated underneath me. The mathematical aspect of physics only scares me second to the actual sensation of velocity. The kind you learn about when youâÂve sent yourself in motion at high speed with friction, flesh and pavement stopping said momentum. Then there was the time I saw the worst of what happens when human and bicycle meets automobile, and wellâ¦no need to go into the details. The point is, if someone had asked me if a neighbor was...
- Chris Cavs
I need a life.
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updated chart to come. the answers are pouring in.
- Call me Bronco
I love Excel!
- Mark Davidson
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I love Google Docs!
- Call me Bronco
NEEERRRRRRDDDDDDD!!!!
- Chris Cavs
Chris: yeah? So?
- Call me Bronco
just sayin'
- Chris Cavs
my good friend @tapps made this tshirt for our buddy @samtaters who was hit by a light rail train in B'more last wk: http://www.zazzle.com/samtate...
He was hit by a train? Is he okay?
- Admiral Anika
well, SHE. But yes, she's relatively ok. Lots of scrapes, bruises, and a few staples in the head. Getting some tests done this week too to make sure the insides are ok. I'm sure she'll recover well.
- Chris Cavs
it's interesting to see who we make friends with. just the way people look physically.
Penguin It's Cold Outside, Helen Sventitsky, Jason Huebel and Admiral Anika liked this
I don't base my friendships on how people look. I like people for their minds.
- Admiral Anika
Chris also writes: @faboomama i'm not saying we do it consciously. but from what i see, we're somehow attracted to certain types of ppl based on ourselves
- Admiral Anika
+1 Anika. But just because someone does hang with other people partly because of their looks doesn't make them wrong. Subconsciously we gravitate toward people that are familiar to us. Also, this isn't necessary a commentary on race. Ones physical appearance is defined by your clothing, your posture, your manner of speech. In my mind, the color of a person's skin is just an identifying trait, not something you would make a moral judgement on.
- Jason Huebel
What does everyone else think of this? Do you friends look like you? Mine don't. My friends represent countries from all over the world. My friends are in different shapes and sizes & speak a variety of languages. My friends can fall into cliques based on how they dress, but they don't dress like me.
- Admiral Anika
I base my friendships on the person, not the physique.
- Helen Sventitsky
I've noticed a lot of my female friends are very short, it's been this way ever since I was a child. I don't actively seek out short friends, it just seems to happen.
- Heather Solos
When I was younger, I never understood why the goths just hung with the goths, the hessians hung with their own, the black students were over there, while the drama/choir/band kids hung out on the other side of campus. I spent my lunch times wandering groups. I figured they'd grow out of that once they matured a bit. Maybe I'm naive.
- Admiral Anika
ok first, I'm not saying we BASE our friendships on looks. Like Jason says, we tend to gravitate towards certain people who make us feel comfortable in personality and physique. This stems from pictures of some of my friends' weddings I've seen recently on Facebook. One friend is on the larger side & all of their wedding party - who are likely to be people who are close friends/family -...
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- Chris Cavs
Anika, it's not a matter of choice. It's a matter of who we feel comfortable with. you feel comfortable with a varitety of people, but those 'goths' probably felt comfortable with people like them. We hang with people who share something in common with us in one way or another. I have a variety of friends of varying degrees, but they're not all like me. In fact, I have several different groups of friends.
- Chris Cavs
No, I get what you're saying Chris, I just don't see it in my everyday life so it's outside my frame of reference. As I said, I thought it was something one outgrew as they got into their later teens or early 20s.
- Admiral Anika
what's creepier are people who date only people that look like them. i suppose it's only a gay thing though, right?
- sean808080
Sean...I haven't seen that either! I do kinda of freak out when people date people who look like the same person. I have a friend who apparently dates the same crack-ho looking blonde. I just call her Jenna because usually her name is Jennifer/Janine/Jean/Jana/Jenna mix. He doesn't think they all look the same. I tell him that's he's going to wind up marrying a brunette name Zoe, so it's all okay.
- Admiral Anika
Home from burlesque rehearsal. Simply put....taking off my clothes gives me utter joy :)
Admiral Anika liked this
How fun. Are you going to be doing a show?
- Admiral Anika
I like your style.
- Chris Cavs
how cool would it be if I could work for Airstream, travel the country, produce media & evangelize for them, all in an Airstream Trailer!?
Admiral Anika and Lynette Young liked this
i seriously think they should hire you & pay for all the fuel ;)
- Lynette Young
i totally agree lynette! I think it'd be the perfect job for me.
- Chris Cavs
So, I'm taking it that Twitter is doing massive fail again? I haven't gotten an update on Twitter in over an hour.
Justin Yost, mjc, K.D. and 2 other people liked this
yeah, i haven't seen anything either.
- Chris Cavs
I miss the Fail Whale.
- Michelle McCormack
I haven't received any posts nor my posts from FriendFeed -> Twitter. Utterly fail!
- imabonehead
actually, I see it's a 2 hour lag now. This is horrible!
- Christine Chan
Good thing it's free or else they'll be out of business by now :P
- imabonehead
haha. very true. But they had maintenance today - is this a result of it? Like, wtf?
- Christine Chan
hehe, good chance it is. I can imagine they're furiously fixing bugs right now.
- imabonehead
Same here. Twitter is having issues.....
- Carlos
Perhaps it's a new business model. Pay as you tweet.
- imabonehead
+1
- K.D.
pay as you tweet? then I'd be running myself into a big debt! lol
- Christine Chan
haha, no need when there's FriendFeed! :)
- imabonehead
hah yeah. I haven't used friendfeed much tbh but liking it now more than twitter :)
- Christine Chan
Wait til you experience all of its features and you'll be more addicted to it than with Twitter (and probably Facebook). :D
- imabonehead
facebook isn't all that exciting to me anymore. i hardly visit it anymore lol
- Christine Chan
facebook is overrated :)
- imabonehead
Same - looks like everyone...
- Dave
yes, facebook IS overrated. I find it boring. Lol
- Christine Chan
Same thing here with Twitter. @Michelle we need an I miss fail whale group or something.
- Justin Yost
Sigur Ros playing in the Prince of Persia ads was a surprising choice, but I kind of like it. Epic.
Ryan Tiffany, Helen Sventitsky, Alex Scoble and 4 other people liked this
My girlfriend ran from the other room when this ad came on, she thought I had stumbled across a Sigur Ros concert On Demand..sadly she slumped back to the office
- Ryan Tiffany
so it's Epic, but you kinda like it? i think "epic" just jumped the shark.
- Chris Cavs
it's impossible for epic to jump the shark. it's too epic.
- Veronica
That's epic-ly preposterous.
- David Wilson
@briandonohue who the hell would actually WANT to eat pork roll (ps-it's Taylor Ham!)
Ummm hello...who WOULDN'T want to eat pork roll/Taylor Ham?!?!?!
- Bob Bichler
it's Porkroll! made by Taylor Ham!
- Chris Cavs
Yeah...she doesn't know what it is...nor does she know anyone formerly from NJ who loves it....<sigh>
- Bob Bichler
Fantastic Patchwork Panoramas Made With the iPhone's Camera - http://digg.com/apple...
"p0ps does some great work. And he's a cool guy too!"
- Chris Cavs
Best website ever WITHOUT PANTS - http://digg.com/apple...
"Trylon is peppermint and the kitten is effervescent."
- Chris Cavs
I like London. I could live here. And there aren't that many Brits around so that is cool.
Francesc Rosàs, jfayel, Mathieu Ayel and Christian Van Der Henst liked this
: ) are there any americans around in SF?
- murat kaya
Must be in the wrong part of London ha
- Joe Dawson
I only visited briefly, but I love London too. Thought about moving there last year.
- Chris Cavs
Oops, careful Loic ... :-)
- Kate Foy
Agreed no brits, all expats
- Mathieu Ayel
no expats... INPATS only one world
- jfayel
Bye Coney Island, Bye Yankee Stadium, hello massproducedwellmarketedbottomlined garbage. Humans are fucking unbearable sometimes...
yeah, it's really a sad day for New York.
- Chris Cavs
that baby of mine was flippin' *crazy* today. i guess he was making up for being near-perfect yesterday at podcamp philly.
he was great! good lookin' boy ya got there!
- Chris Cavs
who else won't be at podcamp philly? i'd like to pretend i'm someone else for the day...can i pretend to be you?
why? who's not going to PC Philly? I might not go either...ugh.
- Chris Cavs
let us never speak of the root beer experiment again.
wow, you actually did it, huh? ballsy.
- Chris Cavs
So I was thinking about Seesmic and 'going there for a bit' and realized why I haven't used it in a while.. which speaks little about the service and more about human's social interaction (at least mine) with services. More after the jump...
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I forget who I was talking to, but we both were talking about heading over to Seesmic for a bit (like it's a place, right?). Anyway, I never made it because I noticed I don't get replies like I used to-- but beyond that-- I know very few people. The EARLY days were VERY tight, because there was a set group of folks, they connected (very similar to the early vloggers of '04). They've sinced moved on, got busy, did other stuff-- so the compelling sell is gone.
- Eric Rice
Seesmic has a natural hype cycle because of the celebrity behind it and the celebrity that installed it (it's a seriously who-you-know-connecton-coup)-- but that's not what I'm talking about here. It's interesting to note where circles and tribes move-- the 'my friends are there'. Part of this could apply to Rejaw too. It's not about whether or not the service has some differentiated feature/benefit, it's about where it lands on our personal timelines. Has anyone experienced this with Seesmic or others?
- Eric Rice
I'd also like to note how many services FORCE social first, and groups second (if at all). When I refer to anti-social media, I'm really referring to 'discrete' media, not private (or media = networking, whatever). I'm loving things that give me the ability to have 'small social' because of the various theories like Dunbar's number and such. Community evolves into society, and those are two different things entirely.
- Eric Rice
i don't know Eric, there's still a core group of people (many of us from the early days) who interact with each other on a regular basis: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Chris Cavs
Yeah older than that. Actually, those pictured that I met there--- we've moved together into other mediums and spaces AND maintain a higher level of relationship-- which is a hard thing to do when everyone is look at me-me-me--- how do you stand out (so to speak)? Note: I do think video is one of the most powerful mediums for connections and human interaction.
- Eric Rice
BTW, by 'older than that' I meant, to me, that group is second gen... not sure what generation we're on now... at least 5 or 6.
- Eric Rice
well, *I* was there in November. I do remember those folks, and yeah, most of them have moved on. I'm actually a little bummed about that. But I've made some great relationships with those people in the picture. So yeah, video is a very powerful communication medium. I'm still not sure why you don't post though? There are more people now, so you have to be active to get noticed. AND...there are different times during the day that are more active than others, with different people engaging.
- Chris Cavs
Maybe there's just certain people too arrogant, too needy, and too self-important--I'm wholeheartedly including myself here--to be "just another member" of a gigantic group and who need to be always part of a select few. I'm not good with crowds...
- Seth Eagelfeld
well, i miss you there. not that i'm there often with my webcam issues, but i got a new webcam today, a 2nd wind and I pop up twhirl to see what's going on and it's--once again--a whole lot of nothing. there's too many cliques there and since i don't belong to one, it's back to me observing like back in april.
- Admiral Anika
Chris: maybe because it's the same social effect of going to a new club making new friends and starting over from scratch? (well almost)... the one thing I dont think any web 2.0 folks look at is the issue of *social* scalability. Servers and code = easy. Scale socially? That's waaay different.
- Eric Rice
Seth: I will be straight up honest and say that there are some people there who I just couldn't effing STAND to see-- not that they had anything to do with me drifting (maybe they did, heh) but yeah, that's a huge part of it. Maybe there's this 'do i want to become that barfly' in any social service?
- Eric Rice
aww <3 faboo although interesting we interact more here and we're both from different 'generations' so to speak. God I love these weird-assed scientific social things. This is why we need sociocyberneticists and sociologists in social media, not more Twitter fanboys lol. :)
- Eric Rice
do i count as first generation? :o) ...i feel bad. i dropped off too. more because of work and the fact that i'm still waiting for them to roll out group functions. but i am thankful to have met some really nice people when i was actively using it. hopefully when they roll out groups, there can be a reunion. :D
- Christine Lu
I was just checking for group functions and GOOD GRIEF on your avatar Christine <3
- Eric Rice
Eric, the scalability issue is definitely a problem. But I'd certainly welcome you back! it's funny, because I started in November, then in January, I fell off until April after PodcampNYC. Now i'm on there again, and there have been at least 2 "generations" since then. Crazy.
- Chris Cavs
feel ya eric - moved on awhile ago but i do that a lot, i try everything and only stick f/t w/ a few - it's a time mgmt & balanced life sort of thing for me, nothing against the service or the people - its all my fault or seth's maybe ;)
- mike "glemak" dunn
glemak makes a good point. There are just too many socnets now. Some will fall through the cracks in our lives. It happens. I'm on both Seesmic and Phreadz, and Phreadz has kind of fallen through for me. Twitter & Plurk are my main microblog sites, while rejaw, pownce, jaiku, and identi.ca all fell through.
- Chris Cavs
Yeah I get evangelized on Rejaw a lot and it's like come on, enough. They might have better features, but it falls into the trap of selling features, not benefits-- and there's high barrier to switching. And even tho there's differentiators, it's not different enough to prevent it from being Yet Another Twitter Clone. (this was kinda off topic, but had to address Rejaw honestly for a moment. (It's social scalability sucks)
- Eric Rice
interesting about phreadz, chris. after a lot of berating (peer pressure me?) i got an account. it's been two weeks and i just recorded a video profile today. the thing is that, i look at the users and it's just another clique of people. pretty much the same people who ignored me on seesmic. do i need that?
- Admiral Anika
yes, eric...it's not loss on me we interact more here even though we 'met' on seesmic. funny considering the text limitations, though a lot of what you share and i remark on here won't translate to seesmic.
- Admiral Anika
Yeah I find I'm not on seesmic, and I haven't really found the "next app" where my friends are to replace it. I try and stop by seesmic, but the responses aren't the same and a lot of the group that was there isn't there any more. I do try and stop by occasionally but the same "stop by all the time" feel just isn't there, I have to think to make myself visit.
- Goldie Katsu
First tweet from Twitterific & the iPod Touch. This keyboard is definitely gonna take some getting used to.
Kreg Steppe liked this
congrats on the new toy!
- Chris Cavs
You had to go with the Touch....you'll love it. What size did you get?
- Kreg Steppe
Oh no he didn't! Yes, a fail whale tattoo. - http://www.geeked.info/critter...
Voyagerfan5761, Niall Connellan, Daniel Krech and 24 other people liked this
What the.. LOL!!
- Mona Nomura
Ouch.
- Rudy Amid
you're gonna sooo regret that tatoo
- Susan Beebe
I'll bet that cost him an arm and a leg!#
- Jason
Took it a little too far
- Nick
Talking to his "imaginary" grandkids- "you see there was this thing, before we just beamed everything."
- michael sean wright
That's hilarious!
- SciFi Ranter Girl
oh...brother
- Matt
There is another way, he could use the skin of his arse to cover the mess
- Jason
Please see http://www.last.fm/music... "Oh yeah every woman wants you now with that new tattoo!"
- michael sean wright
i know the man. he won't regret it, considering he has a seesmic tattoo on his thigh as well.
- Chris Cavs
Oh.My.God. That will be rather regrettable in the space of a few years...
- Crystal
that is almost worse than the zune guy
- Matt
wtf fucking what
- Caroline
It's the real deal. Here's the photo I took: http://tinyurl.com/5agf7p
- Kevin Gamble
tough to top this devotion - I'll have to make sure sean osteen makes a 'the more you know' public service announcement at ROFLcon. FailWhale fandom can be permanent.
- Tom
It's not my first tattoo... I have pretty good coverage.. anyway.. this is part of a theme.. it is /not/ just a standalone tattoo.. *shrug*.. I do have regrets in my life.. my tattoos are not one of them. :)
- Critter
oh... btw.. that pic is shite because it was still covered with blood :)
- Critter
freakn dumb ass
- Cesar H Castro Jr
I haven't laughed that loud in a LONG time. OH WOW.
- Jennifer Mitchell
List of peeps tweeting at the DNC; feel free to add others. http://twitterpacks.pbwiki.com/Packs+b...
don't forget @creepysleepy on those lists.
- Chris Cavs
Listening to http://www.meadowsonline.com/... On the Log - Really Enjoying this episode!
re: meadowsline.com: there's no info on what the podcast is about. Perhaps this podcaster should post an about page.
- Chris Cavs
Now, I've gone and done it... We'll see if engaging in Social Networking can help my corp, or just get me fired...
don't think that way man. It WILL help, and you WILL do well. there is no "fired."
- Chris Cavs
@wankergirl should I bring the jello for our wrestling night? or just extra soap? :)
ummmm....whoa. this is gonna be a fun weekend!
- Chris Cavs
What are your thoughts on the word "geek" vs. "nerd"? Is "nerd" more negative?
yeah, nerd has a more neg connotation. we've taken the word "geek" back for ourselves. I like being a geek. is good.
- Chris Cavs
To promote its new album, The Cure will release a new single every month until debut. Serialized music.
Jack (a.k.a. Jeber) and Tim Finucane liked this
now THAT'S an interesting model. kinda like it.
- Chris Cavs
Nathan's Hot Dogs, 1310 Surf Avenue, Coney Island - http://www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com/bigmap...
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Man this was the orginal junk food palace. The best hot dogs, greasy delicious fries, chow mein sandwiches, seafoood, pizza you name it. 24/7 under one roof a city block big. Cars double and triple parked there on summer nights.
- Mark Forman
from Bookmarklet
Anyone else ever been to Nathan's Coney Island? Stand up and be counted.
- Mark Forman
I've been there twice now. not a big nathan's fan, but i had to have the experience.
- Chris Cavs
It's just a train ride away but I haven't been there in years. Glad to see it's still around.
- Sprague D
Sprague D which train?
- Mark Forman
yes, my sister and her friends took me when I was about 9.
- edythe
It's kind of odd for me to look at the place now. Like going back to visit your elementary school as an adult. Everything seems so much smaller.One time on class trip we even went in back to watch them make hot dogs:weird science! :P
- Mark Forman
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