Maybe you’ve had the same scenario, you buy a sandwich, purchased from a local deli or bodega, and the meat or cheese always seems to slip out the back when you bite down.
*It’s 2003 people!*
We should have flying cars, flying cities, or jet packs by now and all I got is a sandwich where the cheese slides out the back. _Where’s “Arthur C. Clarke”:http://www.kubrick2001.com/ when you need him?_
People like the sound of it.
Digital Hubs, Web Presences, Web Portals, Online Communities.
Lifestyle keywords that mean absolutely nothing and ultimately will go the same way as the _Information Super-Highway._
The trash.
I have been busily meddling with the software side of this weblog in order to _(hopefully soon)_ have a fotolog of my own crackling in my menubar. The problem is, that I am a designer, not a technologist. I want to pick up my mouse and speak into it…
“Computer? Hello Computer?” Much like _Scotty_ in _*StarTrek V:* the search for Sperm Wales._
Technology, for being _”User Friendly”_ is not just that. I am a user and my computer is not my friend. The two of us struggle, on a day to day basis, for superiority.
I have been winning thus far, because I can still yank out it’s powercord, but for how long?
I want to create a fotolog that is beautiful much like my favorites:
* “Slower.net”:http://fotolog.net:8080/eshepard/
* “Red Screen”:http://www.redscreen.net/photolog/
* “KDunk”:http://fotolog.net:8080/kdunk/
* “Harrumph”:http://www.harrumph.com/
But I can’t just get something elegant up and running without painstakingly futsing with an electronic back-end that I was never destined to futs with. This is not the _Matrix_ and things in this world of computers isn’t cool and green drippy, like it is there. If the _Matrix_ were a real thing, out of the movies, it would have crashed because *Times New Roman* wasn’t installed.
The world as I know it, is not as slick as it may seem on your end. I enter code, get dialog boxes thrust in my face, and little click buttons that reproduce faster than rabbits.
And are not as cute, by the way.
I know I got myself into this little jam of computers, RAM(Random Access Memory), Memory Card, Mega Pixels, and Automatic Can openers, but sometimes all I wasn’t is a frigging PHOTO ALBUM!
Capisce?
What do you people think about Foto logs? I have been reading “KDunk’s Fotolog”:http://fotolog.net:8080/kdunk/ for a while and with my camera it sounds like something I might like to try.
*Like drugs only different.*
I have seen no sign of my worktime friend since our photo-shoot, but the little turds on my desk still surface at semi-regular intervals. He must be coming by to visit and just missing me.
I wonder what he thinks about the mouse trap on my desk covered in *Nutella*?
(Why Nutella? I was thinking about what would catch me if I were a mouse and I sure as hell wasn’t going to give him a *Chunky(TM)* bar.)
In the likely event that I sound like a complete and utter dork, I oppologise. I just finished _The Lord of the Rings: the Two Towers_ and it was awesome.
If I were on _Middle Earth_ I would want to be an elf, but unfortunately I think I would probably be a hobbit.
*Just my luck.*
-Where is my 12 sided dice?-
UPDATE: I have been sketching ideas for my own little book and have had an idea for an orc. The only problem I see is that he isn’t terrible or terrifying. *Back to the drawing board.*