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Sunday, September 13, 2009

6 more to add

20. Are you considered a nerd?

I think I have an inner nerd inside of me that comes out whenever I have projects or exams. Nerds spend a lot of time studying and get straight A's. I wish I had that much time to just read a textbook and get straight A's. The marjoity of the textbooks I have to read are extremely boring. I don't get how they can sit for hours reading a bio or chem textbook. I just read one paragraph and I'm about to fall asleep or I'm tempted to go on Facebook or AIM.

16. What kind of feeling do you feel when some distant friend texts you?

Actually, kind of weird especially if we haven't talked in a while or if we're not that close. It's just surprising to get a text out of the blue from a distant friend. But then after the whole, "Um, so what have you been up to lately?" phase, it would feel a little less weird.

4. Do you feel burdened by your desktop? Your laptop? Your cell phone?

I feel burdened my my laptop because I bought it so long ago and it's so ancient. All my friends know how slow it is and it's lack of capabilities. I don't feel like buying another one because it still works and I only use it for Internet and typing. Anything fancier than those two, I just go to the SINC site. Just the other day, I had my friends over in my room to do the orgo quiz and my computer was lagging and loading for so long that it was a little embarrassing.

22. Do you think like the enemy?

Sometimes. I think it's good sometimes to think like the enemy. The way I see it, when I think like the enemy, I get a competitive edge. You see things from both perspective and you can get some sort of feeling about what might happen. I observe my surrounding and see what I'm lacking in so that I can work on them. Thinking like the enemy helps me get more prepared.

19. Do you flock aimlessly looking for the hot gyro?

No because I don't eat gyros. And I'm not picky about the foods I eat so I wouldn't be flocking aimlessly looking for one specific food. If I'm hungry, I eat whatever is closest to me as long as it tastes good and not off the streets.

45. What do you think of the public feed on face book?

Facebook is too open. Anyone, as long as you're their friend can see your status. I don't like the home page where you can see everyone's posts or status updates. There's no privacy and I especially hate the "See Wall to Wall" option. People be stalking on facebook. No one wants to admit it, but some people just spend their days reading other people's conversations. I'd have a conversation on FB with one friend and then the next day, another friend would know everything by seeing wall to wall. That's just creeping.

Monday, September 7, 2009

the sex life of computers: a novel

Friday evening, in a fit of stupidity, I broke my phone. Good job.
Despite God's best intentions to quell my social life, I have been relying on my amazing(!) friends and significant other to organize and keep me up to date on gatherings that otherwise would be texted to my phone. I'm so lucky to have people who care about me and take care of me when my motivation is lacking.

Being phoneless has also made me realize just "hooked into machines" we are. We have wires leading from our pockets to our ears, "crackberries" glued to our hands like an extra digit and cameras in our back pockets. We converse back and forth through an alternate reality and forget about the moment in front of us and the friends beside us. Besides portable computers and palm-pilots, universities and cities are littered with places to plop down and hook into cyberspace. I am currently using a computer, owned by Stony Brook university, and I can't walk a mile without discovering another "sinc site" where I can update this blog.

Phenomena like facebook, once a mildly frivolous "professional tool" is now a far reaching extension of our social lives. If a subject is interesting, make sure to get it on the F-Book by taking a picture, or broadcasting it as your status. In the "about me" section, you can list yourself in a relationship with one option being "It's complicated." Though quite often in conversation I hear "it's complicated," when inquiring about someone's love life, I never ever heard it before facebook became so widely used. It seems to me that facebook has dictated new social norms and redefined what is okay/not okay in the dating world, simply because there is an option other than "In a relationship with _____." What exactly listing myself in an "It's complicated," entails, I'm not sure.

However I have no more time to blog, I have to check facebook. I know that there were pictures of me from this weekend uploaded, and I have to untag the nasties! Who knows what awful, incriminating photographs made their way to my friends' photo "albums" and I don't want my reputation tarnished. Keeping it nice and squeaky clean.

just keeping it real.
Eli.