Miniblog 1: Parliamentary Procedure

Unfortunately, a multitude of organizations that use parliamentary procedure or Robert’s Rules in an attempt to appear professional use the rules in a lax way or inconsistent manner. People who see the procedures as a way to accomplish in large organizations are continually disenfranchised by the lack of respect boards and bodies pay to their respective constitutions.

When ideas, thoughts, or parliamentary errors are suppressed because of inattentiveness or an irresponsible chair, the rules set forth to encourage orderly operation become an obstacle to progress

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The Horror of Twinkle I: Dipping My Feet into The Cesspool

Having received my shiny new iPhone 3G, one of the first things I did was to add a number of Twitter apps from the App Store — and my favorite is Twinkle, a Twitter interface that allows you to see other Twinkle Tweets from within a specified range (1 mile to Everywhere)

It was nice to see people in my area, a couple of whom I personally knew, but my experimenting has led to some horrifying experiences, which are inspiration for a new series I call the Horror of Twinkle.

Twinkle users are a diverse group, with Twinklers from around the world expressing themselves by tweeting with locality. Unfortunately, that also means that other Twinkle users can solicit others for sex, as this man did (with apparently poor results)

i can show you something dif

i can show you something dif

For some reason, everything I see on the internet further perpetuates this idea that everyone from California is a creepy/pedophile/desperate offender with nothing better to do than hook up with people they’ve only seen through what is maybe a 50×50 pixel avatar. He wasn’t the only one harassing the poor girl, but he was the biggest creep of them all.

Shame shame.

The next series of images is a little creepy; someone with nothing better to do than sit on their ass and twinkle provides a very interesting chat history and what may be a questionable solicitation — although he might have been a victim himself of someone that is also creepy.

whats every1 up 2

whats every1 up 2

Mines Bigger

Mines Bigger

Even if it’s out of context, it’s still CREEPY. Let’s only hope that people aren’t using twitpic for unsavory things (or savory depending on your own level of creepiness) like, well, that.

This guy also spends his time looking at pictures of people’s food.

hungryy

hungry

Who spends three hours talking to random strangers on Twinkle? What’s scary is that if this happened to you it would more than likely be from someone who is within 1 to 25 miles of you. Is Twinkle the next pedophile tool?

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Starting Anew, and iPhone problems

Well after a grand total of two days on Blogger and a run-in with the unintuitive mess I find to be Blogger’s CSS, I’ve decided to move to WordPress at the recommendation of Brandice, who runs a wonderful blog at Brandice.net that everyone should read.

In terms of the content of the blog, there will be not much change since, well, there wasn’t too much established content back at Blogger. But there is a less emo-sounding name for the blog which will probably be better in the long run because nobody wants their blog to sound like a bad LiveJournal or fanfiction title.

My old four posts can still be found at painstakingattempt.blogspot.com (yes, it’s that bad)

For new readers, my content ranges from playful observation to abrasive humor to dead seriousness. I don’t like to stay the same for very long, so I plan to post a variety of things unless at some point in the future I become a political/tech blogger, which is definitely possible, but won’t happen without a fair share of warning, and which won’t happen to the total exclusion of other subjects. I try to be interesting, I really do.

As for the brief rest of the post, I have upsetting iPhone woes (like so many others). Although I was originally led to believe I was going to get my iPhone last Friday, it’s become a waiting game, since I’m leaving Saturday and the phone has yet to ship. That doesn’t make it any less exciting, however. Lots of anxiousness and that really annoying feeling that you have when you’re impatient about something, but can’t do anything about it. It’s like standing in the line and being told they’re sold out when you get to the counter, but not so extreme. In that case I think I’d probably just give up on the iPhone and make nasty phone calls, something that runs in the family (but I am very embarrassed about when it happens!)

So comfort me in my iPhone anticipation by telling me how “meh.” it will be, or how exciting it will be when it comes very soon.

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