Tag: iChat

More iChat fun

It’s that kind of week already. Logged into iChat in case Elz was lurking and was immediately chatted up by awesomecoleyxo3 who is, allegedly, a 27F. I don’t remember that MOS but the Internet says that 27F is a Vulcan Repairer. So that’s cool, I guess. Anyway awesomecoleyxo3 might need some better off-duty hobbies.

Here is a transcript of our chat:

awesomecoleyxo3@aol.com: hey you

ME: Yo!

awesomecoleyxo3@aol.com: hey i’ve been sitting around sooo bored and figured i’d say hellooo.. hope i didn’t bother u

awesomecoleyxo3@aol.com: there is like no one around to talk to anymore…. 27.f here how bout u??

ME: Oooh. It’s that kind of chat!

awesomecoleyxo3@aol.com: ohh cool so whats up??

ME: Can you post some shady links and implore me to visit them?

ME: Still thinking?

awesomecoleyxo3@aol.com: well ii have an idea if u wanna have sum fun!!! i was gonna get on my cam and “unwind” a lil u should cum join 😉

awesomecoleyxo3@aol.com: l joined this awesome sitethat is just like fb but w/o the annoying kidz.. wanna check it out???

ME: I see what you did there.

ME: Clever.

awesomecoleyxo3@aol.com: it only takes asecond to signup and it’s 100% free 2!!! http://badUrlHasBeenRemoved.com/ just click the ‘Join Free’ at the top of thepage

awesomecoleyxo3@aol.com: once you signup u’ll be allgood and u can join my private chat and tell me what 2 do 😉

ME: I think I’ll pass. Can we just chat?

awesomecoleyxo3@aol.com: ya you will need a card of sum kind but they wiII not charge u anything!!!!!

ME: What kind of card?

ME: And, really, I just want someone to talk to

awesomecoleyxo3@aol.com: i can not wait this is going to be sooo much fun… wait till u see what i’m wearing right now lol i think u’ll like it;)

ME: Cinnabon? Cuz I’m kind of hungry and didn’t have time to pick up some peanuts from the Kum ‘n’ Go on the way in to work this morning.

awesomecoleyxo3@aol.com: are u in hun??? i’m going to go get some “toys” but ill brb and hopefully u’ll be in when i get back hurry uppp

ME: Oooh…that hurts. Women should never ask “are you in hun?” because, well, that’s just plain demoralizing.

ME: Also, is your ‘P’ key sticky? My kitteh knocked over a glass of koolaid on my favorite keyboard last summer. No matter how many times I cleaned that keyboard some keys just stick. Especially in high humidity.

ME: Hey. Do you like the silent membrane keyboards they make today or are you more of the old school, buckling spring type?

ME: Because I loves me an M Series keyboard.

ME: They’re more resilient. And the tactile feedback lets you know you’re *typing*. Know what I mean? I really really like them.

ME: Hey. Are you there?

ME: Man….just like my ex. All fun up front but no follow through. Meh.

PandoraJammin’

In which our humble narrator lays out an ambitious web portal plan under the guise of a paltry review of PandoraJam.

Just today I decided I’m making a commitment to keep iChat open when I’m online just because it seems like I need more distractions in my life. nickspictsatbfp in the event you’re in the same frame of mind… Anyway, this created the need to have my status message be updated with what I’m currently listening to. In iTunes, you get this for free. In Pandora–what I’m always plugged in to–you don’t. Enter PandoraJam, a useful stand-alone app to listen, scrob, and update. Free version seems to do everything I need so we’re all good on that front.

The upshot of all of this it seems is a strong urge to rearrange stuff on my vanity domain (the very same one you’re reading this blog post from). I want to keep the blog but would like to rebrand and rename it I think. Primarily, though, I want to create a dynamic about me page that pulls from all of my various online presences into a portal of shameless self-promotion. Kind of like Facebook, only without it being on Facebook. I also want to write a new portal for myself that pulls from around the web into a single page that I can use as a springboard.

It’s not a new idea by any means. My first web page did the same basic thing. The coolness of this one, however, is that it is more aggregator than springboard. It should also help clean up my inbox as I presently consume > 500 RSS posts a day via my collection of feeds. I do this because I want to archive the damn things, but, after a few years of usage, I haven’t really used the archive in any meaningful way.

Besides, I’m feeling sad about the decline in my webmonkey skills, having primarily written C# and Java the last few years. I haven’t the faintest clue as to CSS and HTML5 support in modern browsers, much less the degree to which they successfully implement W3C standards. In all, this would be a useful learning experience now.

So…we’ll see how far any of this goes given Cataclysm went live earlier today and the holidays are just around the corner.