Sunday was not the best of days. She who must be obeyed had planned a massive Pet Society session, and I had planned a massive keeping her company by fiddling around on the web and making banal comments session, in the absence of wind.
Then the internet disappeared. Some monster problem affecting many people apparently, and not to be fixed till Monday when the TT&T engineers (and I use the word loosely, as in “can wield a hammer”) returned reluctantly to work (and I use the word loosely, as in “arrive late, half pissed and do as little as possible”).
She who must be obeyed filled in the time by cooking a rather splendid lunch and re-organising her extensive collection of pens. I played with Twitter on the iPhone.
I have always viewed Twitter with a degree of suspicion, a mini-blogging service for those who have so little to say that they can fit it into 140 characters. And such is the case with many twitterers (is that what you call them?). But of course there are the exceptions, and once you have found a few; it is easy to find some more. I started with Richard Dawkins, someone I admire as a writer although I find him a little severe in person (not that I have ever met him). Interesting posts with interesting links, and then I start to check out who he follows on Twitter and find some more interesting people I have never heard of.
Then I add a few more. Darren Brown, Stephen Fry (along with 800,000 other people), Jenson Button, Jenson Button’s girlfriend and Deepak Chopra who is now bombarding me with deep thoughts:
DNA is a quantum computer that localizes a non local omnipresent consciousness or spirit into space time energy information and matter
You are not a human being. You are being human—a spirit having a human experience.
I know he’s right, I’m just not sure what it means.
Suddenly I am a convert. This is an ideal toy to fill my toilet time; browsing posts (OK, tweets) and following links. For example, did you know there is a cafe in Japan where you order something but are then given what the person before you ordered? I didn’t, now I do, and I also know that my body is not a physical structure. It is a process in consciousness. Thank you again Deepak.
The Tweetie 2 application on the iPhone may have a wanky name, but it does have a very cool feature which shows you tweets being made in your vicinity by displaying blobs on a Google map. So I can see people tweeting in Pattaya and send them abusive messages should I wish to do so, which of course I do.
Expect I will waste most of today seeking out new people to follow. If you want to follow me (but not in a Jesus sort of way), then @spiketennyson is where to look. Pattaya Days posts will be linked so you can get all your Pattaya Days goodness in one place.
And, as Deepak tells us: Meaning, context ,relatonships, archetypal motifs, create the soul’s journey through cosmic time. Nice to meet you on the cosmic highway.
I think I am probably roadkill on the cosmic highway ‘cos I have no idea what he is on about.
Comments 🔗
2009-10-12| NeoteenX sayshahaha i am ok with u following tweets locally and abusing them :P but haha deepak is just way to much for me to handle i read his work once few pages :D and guess i still will keep my life private and not go into tweet :)
2009-10-12| Spike saysI have read a couple of his books and he is interesting; but I don’t think I am spiritual enough to follow his path.
2009-10-13| Lloyd saysI prefer ‘Twats’ for people who follow or post Twitters, a more apt description!
2009-10-13| Billy saysI think you are right Lloyd …. but am willing to think about it further
2009-10-13| Spike saysLloyd, I see where you are going with the Twitter/Twat thing, a nifty play on words.
Richard Dawkins has just told me that: “A scientific worldview is cognitively and emotionally more difficult, and hence at a disadvantage.”
And Deepak is as obscure as ever: “Your physical body is conceived governed and constructed in consciousness. Only in consciousness can it be reinvented”.
What a pair of twats.
2009-10-13| genuinej saysCan we get back to “normal” fare, as soon as possible, please.
2009-10-13| Spike saysOf course, as soon as I have covered: Why I dig Digg MySpace, YourSpace, OurSpace Facebook sucks arse
You know you want it.
2009-10-14| Spike saysIt was interesting following this yesterday:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125546894968983301.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
2009-10-25| Jock saysmmmm .. prefer twatting to twitting and Facebook …. Facebook in particluar should be reserved to those in retirement, or dead, .. think that the bosses at the Great Pecten / current employer / partner … might find out what you’ve actually been up to in the last 24 hours (at least in the old days rumours were subjective to alcoholic fuzz until the week-end had blown over … but now it’s all out there … good peeps incriminating themselves, more often than not accommpanied by a digital image from their mates mobile phone etc etc … it’s not Big Brother you need to be worried about these days .. it’s yer best mate !!