FREEDOM!!

I'm sure, just like my vacations of yesteryear, I'll get bored and wish school was back in very quickly. But right now:

WOOOOOOHOOOOOOO!

I suck at teh interwebs

I just realized that you can see my last memorial day post on the front page of this blog. That's how little I update. I'm no good at this thing. I did team write a blog-post at Divine Comedy's page and it's kindof almost funny, so yay for me.

School is half kicking my trash right now, but in a few weeks when spring semester is over I'll have so much free time I won't know what to do with myself. So lucky for you two people that read my blog, you'll have more stuff to read.

Happy Memorial Day. In our of it, read this wikipedia page. It's about John William Finn, the first medal of honor recipient during WWII. He got it for doing what Cuba Gooding Jr. did in Pearl Harbor, except he did it while getting shot. He passed away this last Thursday.

Valentines.

So my good friend Ayumi showed me a blog called jennyology. Whoever writes it (I'm assuming a "Jenny" of some sort) created some amazing valentines based on Lost (and a couple from 24). For example, she made both of these:

Brilliant. I'm a fan. In fact, I'm such a fan that I decided to make a few more, based off other shows. Mine aren't nearly as good, but maybe you'll find one you like. I don't expect you to know what they're all from.

Merry Christmas!

And the Chocolate Rain guys sings a Christmas classic:

A Week+ later...

...and it's still funny.

I just don't get this new fangled interbox machine.

I consider myself pretty hip and cool on the interwebs. I know about the youtubes and the viral videos and such.

But I do not get twitter.

And yes, I'm in advertising. I've attended quite a few forums and presentations on how twitter and other micro-blogging can help a brand. You want to know my take? It's extremely overhyped. Unless you're product fills a very specific, heretofore empty niche market, it isn't that helpful.

And that's just businesses.

For normal people, WTF? It's even worse than a facebook status message, because facebook lets you use more than 160 characters (and gives you an excuse to write in the third person). No, I'll tell you what twitter is. But I'll give you a couple hints first.

"eating breakfast."

"I'm mowing my lawn."

"Brother just set the couch on fire. brb."

Guessed it yet? This one will do it for you.

"I'm away from my computer right now."

That's right! Twitter has been around for a long time, in the form of an AIM away message.

BUT MIKE TWITTER LETS YOU BROADCAST TO THE ENTIRE WORLD!!!?!!1

Yes, and if you're an Iranian getting the crap beat out of you by your government, that's great. But for the rest of you, have fun with your away messages.

This is how awesome my little sister is.

She just showed me these videos on youtube.

I'm too lazy to embed them, so just click the links.

Karate.

Beautiful Doctor.

This one is my favorite.

Watch out, he says a bad word.