The Liar

I am a liar, through and through.
I am a liar, just like you and you
I am a liar and I know this fact
But the honest person in me, doesn't know how to react.

I lie and lie, about important things and not
I lie so often, that why I started I have forgot
I lie to help myself out of some confusing mess
I lie to you to help alleviate some stress.

I lie a lot, and this I know
Many of them are forgotten, fast they come fast the go
But the lie I remember most of all, past and new
Is when I lied down, in front of you.

Wrote this in the shower, where I often write short poems.
eh.

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Taking a break again from this paper

So I am pretty much halfway through this paper. Which I guess is a lie. It took me over a month to get here, so I really only have a fraction of that time left. So I'm almost done. But really, I'm so out of touch with writing papers that it was the getting started that was the hardest for me. I went through about 5 topics before settling one one/a blend of them. But it's going alright I guess. I am quite literally 3 pages into it and it's supposed to be 6 pages, I think.

Anyways, I figured I'd take a break and do something. I guess I don't really know what I want to write about so I'll write about....cameras! I've been browsing cameras and I got to thinking that I want a camera that will not only last a few years physically, but one that will be on the leading curve that is the technology industry. The main thing I was thinking about was the tech that I don't actually know the name of. I want to say geotagging, but I dunno. Basically it's where the camera, in addition to the image data it already has, date/time stuff, it records the location of the picture. this would be sweet on road trips or just cool mapping ideas for later. In looking at cameras I didn't see this feature, so I'm pretty sure it's only high end stuff for now. But something to look into.
Another thing is the wireless SD cards that you can use in place of a memory card. I think the idea is that it can connect to a wireless network and upload the pictures somewhere. Again, I should have looked into this all before blogging about it. But that's what happens this early in the morning. I haven't written a paper in college without staying up all night, just to let you know. That's how I did it last year and here I am again.

Also, I set up a tracking thing for the blog, it's the thing at the bottom of the pages, and it was cool to see macalester and italy show up as locations for connections. So, I guess I've gone global. Sweetballs.

I'm hungry, sick, and tired of writing this paper.

So here's a post I wanted to get into a bit.
Twitter vs. Facebook statuses.
So, Twitter had this idea to have a social network that shares short updates on what your doing. These are supposed to be between blog posts so people can see more of your day to day interests. This is a great idea and something I would love to start doing more with my friends. Except that the concept sounds awfully familiar. Facebook did the same thing. Not aimed at bloggers and more at people who want to find the best way to get attention but not be too direct. Admit it, you knew what you were doing when you set your status to "shouldn't have done that", "thinks you don't understand", or even "needs attention NOW!". Just waiting for someone to go, hey whats up so you can turn them down with the overly done, "no it's okay/not about you/leave me alone!". Sound familiar? Cause it happens every day on facebook. We check the status feed and kinda feel sad or pitiful. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, it is just kinda silly. I've done it before. And in the moment you just want someone to care.
But! Do you ever just want to facts? I don't care if they are angry at someone, I just want to know what they are doing right now or tonight. That way I can get a feel if I could ask to hang out or not. For an example, some of my friends work during the week and I always forget their schedule, if there is even one. So I hate calling to see if their at work because if they are, they don't answer their phone. So it seems pointless. But if I could check their status and it was "working till 10" or "work", I would easily know.
Also, the status feed is for all your friends, your "friends", and that guy you had in one class in junior high that your pretty sure moved away and have no real social connection. So, although there are times I'd like to know what he's doing, because why not. I also would like a way to remove him from the possible feed updates.
Does it feel like I'm going somewhere with this yet? Good. Because I guess you could consider this a call to my friends, or the ones who read this, to sign up for a free twitter account and add each other. With at least a small amount of us using twitter it would be so much more effective than the, say 3 people I know that use it currently. So, do it. Everyone else will be doing it soon, so don't you want to be one of those people who did it first and do something that gives you leverage over your friends later on in life. I know that's why I did it, and it's not too late.
1. goto Twitter
2. follow me, mpow or go here to follow me.
3. tell a friend.

mARTin unupdate

Sorry if the title got your hopes up and made you think you missed thanksgiving. But it isn't friday and this isn't a true mARTin update. I realize that I need a better way of getting the things I draw or do into digital format and my phone's camera is pretty low quality. Since I also would be using the images in illustrator or photoshop, I like them in high quality. Anyways, I've asked for a camera for christmas and so we'll see what happens. I might just buy one. But this will also give me a week or two of time consuming consumerism.

Here's a little story

So, I was making some tang in my kitchen this afternoon and I see a paper on the kitchen table. I kinda figured it was a piece of mail or some homework from my house mates. But on closer examination, it was a search warrant for our house. Awesome. So I figured that Ryan did something and they were trying to bust him. But no, it turns out that there is a house health and safety inspection every 4 years. And because my landlord, the legendary and mysterious Vance G, is almost always unreachable, even to the authorities, they had to get a judge to approve a warrant for the search of our house.
So, I don't know how this will turn out, but hopefully our house is still livable and safe. Because if it isn't...then shit.

Update to customizing things

So Colin and Jake asked me what I was using to update twitter from the terminal and I've changed my conky setup so I thought I'd post this.

The command to update twitter is using curl. Jake, I don't know the mac equivilant to this is. But this is the guide for it:
http://blogs.tech-recipes.com/shamanstears/2008/03/04/ubuntu-posting-to-twitter-from-the-terminal-window/

And here's my new desktop: