Day 153
This morning I got my brother do sign up for google talk and we had our first video chat. The only thing is, is that the word "chat" implies talking. We did not do much talking. Though my brother and I have excellent vocal cords we found our time spent on video chat was better used holding up business cards (him) and plastic horses (me) in front of the camera and laughing. The only talk that happened was this sort of talking:
"Look at my pillar."
"Look at my crystal."
"Dental floss!"
When I held the webcam facing out the window my brother's reaction was, "That is Canada."
"Hold on, Mom's calling me," he said later. My response: hold up a stuffed guinea pig.
Then there was the camera dodging and the funny faces. Then there was the apex of our video session: my brother held up a Pilot G2 pen to his camera and a second later I held up a Pilot G2 to my camera.
All in all, I think our chat session was a wild success but perhaps google had better reassess the name "google talk" to "google talk if you want to."
Derby Training Day 5:
I moved my skates out of the walkway. The end.
In avoiding doing my real home work I have been doing two things:
1. I have been watching a videoblog between two brothers one in Indiana the other in Ohio. They call themselves "nerdfighters." I devoured over 2 hours worth of 3 minute videos today. I was so into watching nerdfighters that I even watched the 9 minute and 33 second video that was complied from tons of odd looking people doing the "happy dance."
I had finally found my community, or so I'd thought. Turns out in order to be a nerdfighter not only do you have to have awesome flowing through your veins instead of blood (no problem there) you need to also contribute to charities (no fundage, why do you think I write this effing blog? Duh, cause I am broke. blog=cheap entertainment. Oh, and I like to bitch) and you also must live a "green" lifestyle and we aren't talking Kermit the Frog (which would've been no problem) we are talking stinky compost bins and a land without paper towels (translation: hell). Judging from that information I still think I can manage to be at least 79 percent nerdfighter and I'm pretty happy with that. But, the real worry is that I am almost out of back videos to watch which means that I will have to start doing homework.
2. So, as I have mentioned before I have completely signed my life over to facebook. That crossroads that all old blues guys talk about exists and I have taken the wrong path. Anyway, after awhile facebook can get kinda boring--all this waiting around until your friends put up stupid wall posts for you to comment on and you can only update your status so many times before you realize that you don't have any comments on your wall because your entire wall is filled with semi-ironic phrasings posted by yourself. You know you've got it bad when even chat seems dull. This is the low point I started at this evening, chatting with friends, bored until...I discovered that instead of talking you can take a me-and-my-brother-google-talk type approach to facebook chat though you have no webcam. All you need to do is attack your chat conversations with like 21 penguin emoticons followed by a shark and a heart or a shark, devil and robot works well. You need to go out there and toss things around a bit and if that means a super red heart followed by a smiley with glasses so be it. It's time to live.
Question of the day: If you love pepper and you notice that there is pepper in chai tea and could possibly be what makes chai awesome does pepper make all tea awesome? You know, I could mix up some chamomile and find out but I think I'd rather it remain one of life's mysteries to ponder in those moments just before you fall asleep.
-Canadian Castaway
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