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Sad but true. Way to highlight rampant double standards, random deviant art twilight fan!

Dictionary.com doesn't have a definition for infrastructure o_O Is that... a joke? I'm confused.

In other o_O moments today, am sad for Texans who can't spell "y'all"

Apparently, people get upset enough about being 'defriended' online that CNN wrote an article about it

Cripes on a cracker, grow up people :V

It's an inverse proportion folks. I expect it is kind of like how the more expensive a hotel is, the more likely it is you will have to pay for internet.

Hooray for the little guys.... That means you, Fort Lauderdale!

There are Trekkies, and then there are crazy Christian Trekkies. (Link contains spoilers)
Seriously, let me quite for you: "I understand the Star Trek XI movie as a prophetic landmark for the church pointing us toward a correct understanding of not just the book of Revelation, but of the entire New Testament."

Yeah @_@

So, since I fail at the internet, anyone out there want to find me some Nero-centered fic while I wait for my novelization to come from Amazon? :V

Last night I stepped in a fire ant nest. Not as bad as it could be - mstly this am is is like having some mosquito bites, after runnig i=untder hot water, taking an allegra, and having Daniel do some awesome distance reiki.

This morning, I managed to fall almost flat on my fact running with Jola behind the grocery store behind my house. I twisted the good ankle and tore up my hands and toes (better than my face). Jola didn't come when I called her, but she did go straight home. I gave her a treat.

Don't run in crocs, mmm'kay?

ETA - Also, between the time I posted this and when I eventually left the house, my internet wasn't working :p

Does anyone out there know who Shadow1577 at gmail is?

I had given up on the showers here, because the water pressure is so crappy that it is almost impossible to get the shampoo out of my hair. Instead I figured I'd just do it in the sink, which might have been marginally better.... If the water hadn't run out! Run out! Bah! I had managed to get it more or less wet enough, but not actually wash the shampoo out. Grrrrr... >:|

On the other hand.... It seems like they have wifi in the lobby here. How I missed this information previously, I'm not entirely sure O_O I haven't trested it out yetr, but I'll give it a whirl for exia.

*sigh*

Emily Nussbaum of New York magazine posted a really fascinating article about the internet generation gap - how young people today view the internet and its opportunities differently. It is really interesting to me as someone who has had a long 'net presence, and has a lot of close net contacts.

I have been thinking a lot about how the internet connects you more solidly to your past and past relationships. Without it, would I still be as close to everyone from Fredericton as I am now? Would I still be in touch with people like skjaere, or longrat, or have friended people from Sheffield that I barely knew during the year I lived there? How else would I keep in touch with tsiankiio, or any other of the ECU friends for who I caved and got a myspace account? How does the maintenance of those old relationships affect my ability to grow as a person, and to move on and forge new relationships? It is a difficult balance of time to spend time with both my 'online friends' versus my 'real life friends'...

I posted a picture of my boobs in here a week or so ago without a single thought to any possible negative consequences. What does that say about my conceptions of privacy, and so forth?

The article implies that people younger than myself care even less for the distinctions. While I am fairly careful about posting personal information in some contexts.... I don't really care, and I'm not really concerned. I am not afraid of being stalked or what have you despite the fact that I know people to whom it has happened! Then again, I'm not really afraid of being mugged when I am out walking alone at night either, so maybe I'm just not especially cautious to begin with ;P

Anyway, it was very thought provoking to me. I am fascinated by internet culture, and I think ti would be cool to see more anthropological/sociological studies into the phenomenon...