The snow doesn’t normally bother me much, through the winter months I can usually manage alright and with the addition to the occasional snow boarding trip we actually have begun to celebrate parts of the winter season HOWEVER; a few days ago we actually went below zero and with temperatures like that things change a bit. This brings joy to only those friends of ours who remind themselves why they do not live up north!
A cold winters day down by the Blue Water Bridge
Last week when the weather dipped this low the water actually gave off heat to the the rest of the city, creating a heavy fog that stretched accross to Canada. It added to the beauty of my morning drive, even if I was unable to feel my hands.
Also wanted to share a new wave of web development that I’m jumping on board with. Twitter. I’m amazed at the simplicity of the concept yet amazed at how their service has taken off so fast. To sum up what I’ve gathered, Twitter is an online text messaging service for friends to send quick 140 character text messages accross the web, mobile phones and even into email boxes of their followers. I now have their service linked to our blog (bottom right corner), Facebook, my cell phone (for friends updates), Shannon’s iPod Touch, Twitterific (the desktop app that I’ve found) and who knows where it will show up next. I have to completely disagree with Wally from Total Access when I say that its fun to know whats going on with our friends and family around us. http://twitter.com/michigangrahams this is the link to our (and by our I mean, that I’m hoping Shannon joins in) twitter page along with the links to our followers, and followies. Its fun AND it updates facebook for me so I’m not updating six sites. For what its worth, I Tweet.
January 20th, 2009 at 9AM
And I am glad that you tweet. TweetDeck is another good Twitter application to use for the Mac. It organizes the tweets into @replies, direct messages and all tweets making it pretty easy to use. Happy Tweeting!
January 23rd, 2009 at 4PM
You know, I used to work with this guy who was probably one of the smartest guys I’ve ever known…. he was one of the VP’s at the company I was working for at the time. One day I was talking with him and it came up he didn’t have a cell phone. Now, this was back in the day when not every 10 year old had a cell phone. However, every business man … and certainly one of his caliber … did. I said “Bob… why don’t you have a cell phone!?” He replied “I don’t want to be that available.”
I pondered for a moment. And then I saw the GENIUS of this statment. While everyone else in the company was running around like chickens with their heads cut off, experiencing sleepless nights because of phone calls and txt msgs and what not… he was there, handling everything the way it was meant to be handled…. 9-5pm. Don’t get me wrong, this guy did his job and he did it well. But he refused to let work monopolize his life. Who knows… maybe now he has crossed to the dark side. I have no idea, I haven’t seen him in years.
But, I have to wonder… with all these twitters and mobile options for facebook and blah blah blah… are we allowing our social lives to monopolize our lives? Do we REALLY care when our friends go to Meijer to pick up milk??? And I have to wonder how this all affects the prevalence of people to actually CARE what other people think (to a paralyzing extent that is). It boggles my mind to think of what my daughter will grow up knowing as “normal” behavior.
I think I will continue in the land of non-tweeting. I like it here… the sky is still blue, the grass is green, and if you listen closely you can still hear the whisper of the wind. I will not go quietly into the night.