First, I must thank Jose for telling me he saw a trailer for the legendary novel Youth In Revolt which is a journal by one Nick Twisp. This is awesome news potentially. It stars Michael Cera (of Arrested Development fame) which is nice because he’s a good actor, but I don’t feel he looks the part. He’s a too old and too tall for what was described in the book. But he’s an awesome actor. I’m still more excited about the phenomenal looking Where The Wild Things Are. Still, this bears watching.
Next, I want to remind those of you who are into that sort of thing that Team CMOT still exists for the Seti@Home project. I encourage you all to participate by using this as your screen saver at both home and work (not on a laptop — it’ll kill your battery) and, hopefully, you’ll join our team. From the above URL you will find links to download and install the software.
Health updates in this public blog are going to be vague and infrequent here for the most part, but rest assured I continue to see doctors every day. Actually, that’s not very assuring, is it? My primary areas of concern are my heart, head, and mouth — not necessarily in that order. There are multiple ailments and, yes, some of them are very serious. I’ll post a further update privately in a while.
In response to an e-mail, I rarely use MySpace. I made the account some time ago when it was the “in thing” but except for the music area, it’s damned near worthless. I have tons of “friends” but I don’t know most of them. Totally indiscriminate. I joined Facebook not long after MySpace at the invitation of my sister back when it was just opening to the public. I never much cared for it and treated it the same as MySpace and friended anyone who asked. Recently, it was getting to be too much, and I removed most of my ‘friends’ and the people who are left are people I know in some form or another. I removed pages, groups, and people. I also nuked a lot of applications too. I kept FarmTown, which I like to play. But FaceBook is becoming the same mess MySpace was. I tried Orkut but I’ve not even gone back to clean it up — overrun by people who have no regard for the community. I tried the NHLConnect but that’s never taken off because it’s wholly inadequate. I was never much into social networking anyway. I tried, but rarely use, Twitter and fail to see the fascination. LinkedIn is useful professionally, but I even cleaned that up earlier this year removing some people I had “collected” that didn’t really belong.
(I am asked why I didn’t remove the previous health posts and move them to the other place. First, I don’t delete posts from my blog as a matter of habit — the only time I actively delete some posts were the result of polite request by law enforcement in the identity theft case and those were mostly restored after the arrest. Second, once you post it, everyone’s already read it anyway so removing it only prevents future searches.)