June 7, 2006

something

Some things I learned today:

Running a drill bit into your finger hurts.
People say very revealing things on the internet.
My cousin (who is like a [distant] brother) in fact has two brothers that I never knew about.

Ok, so the first two I sorta knew already. I didn’t know that a Torx head bit would shred so much of my cuticle, but one could probably have guessed this. And the internet thing is the whole appeal of weblogs. I find my own writing is more interesting when it’s personal. (I also find it less likely to be posted when it’s that personal.)

When I post I write like I never met you. This is because I have not met the majority of my readers (do I have any readers? I don’t know. Probably not. I don’t post much and it’s never personal. Plus I turned off comments due to major spam.)

It’s also just really scary these days, isn’t it? People can look you up and find out all sorts of stuff. They can take it the wrong way and maybe even take you to court. Who knows for what... talk about your job — watch out. Talk about your Friday night — watch out. Talk about your politics — watch out. [As a related note: Irwin tools owns the right to use blue and yellow, so... watch out if you have those colors on your website.]

You don’t have to be saying anything wrong or harmful. You just have to be talking... er, writing. I can’t seem to get a reply via email from my cousin the past couple of months. We haven’t spoken on the phone in about a year and we haven’t had a face to face in even longer. We’re busy in different places. If we lived closer we’d be great friends. But we haven’t really talked in about 12 years.

It’s interesting getting to know someone you think you know so well in such a ____ way. (I don’t know what word to use here... weird, different, foreign, exciting, public...)

I could be getting to know you while you’re getting to know me and neither of us needs to “check-in” with the other about the progress of our knowledge. Would you call this a relationship? If it is, then does the six degrees of separation thing just get reduced to one degree (if the other person has a website)? So, say Kevin Bacon posts something on his website, I read it. Essentially Kevin is “talking” to me. Just as I’m “talking” to you. I’m one degree from Kevin then.

Hmmm... something to think about.

posted @ 8:55 PM

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