Twitter (A Reconsideration)

Long story short, although not 140 characters short, I've joined Twitter. @mrtimothyjohn if you want to follow me. My justifications for this are severalfold:

• I can update from anywhere, which is nice whenever a thought strikes me. Even in class.
• It's a place to dump thoughts that aren't quite long enough for this particular venue of communication (my blog).
• It's a practice of weening thoughts down to the 140 character maximum. Which is good poetic technique.

The funny thing is I'm wasting a day's post on this blog on something all 7 of you mayhaps don't care about.

What do you think? Are you pro or anti-Twitter, or neither? If you do have a Twitter, hit me up.

Mousepoint Tracker

This is a picture of the path my mouse took while I was writing an annotated bibliography this past weekend. (Which, I might add, was one of the worst experiences of my scholastic career).

The lines represent wherever my mouse went, and the dots are wherever it stopped. The bigger the dot, the longer it rested there. A few of those big ones were restroom breaks. And another was when I went downstairs to make a few copies.

It is pretty interesting to see all the points you hit. I did it at work the other day and by far the highest traffic was along the tabs bar in Firefox.

If you want to give it a go, then right click this link and "save target as." Wherever you want. The picture file will save in the same folder you put the above file.

[Tip o' the Hat to Brandon Oxendine and Ryan Hollingsworth]

Everything's Amazing and Nobody's Happy

While the controversy is over, and Conan is leaving, and we'll have to wait 8 months to see him again (it's a stipulation in the departure contract), you can at least enjoy this little bit with comedian Louis CK:



I must say I wholeheartedly agree. Even though I get caught up in things like this sometimes, I think it would be awesome if we could shock ourselves out of this type of attitude.

Rarities Don't Always Make My Heart Happy

My phone is jacked up somehow. My technologically-astute-and-slightly-idolatrous housemate Joel tells me it's updating it's software. I'm not on the Geek Squad, but something tells me it should be taking 12 hours to do that.

So if you have called or texted me in that time, I'm not a jerk, at least not in this instance, I'm just unable to reply at the moment.