Status Quo-tes

Here is a list of Facebook status updates from various folks:

- Jon is allergic to metaphors.
- Stephanie is thinking that she has the worst luck in the world.
- Heather is Happy and Playful as always :)
- Camille is almost back to normal.
- Andrew is America (and so can you!)
- Lindsay is crazy....that's right.
- Sally is tired.. tired of sneezing.
- Mandy is finished with you.
- Todd is watchin his little pumpkin play!
- Jared is moving on.
- Shawn is nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, as of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
- Alexandra is absolutely zonked.
- Candy is freaking about how much money she just spent on furniture.
- Terril is looking forward to the weekend. Is it here yet?
- AnnMarie is freezing!
- Stephen is angry at the Vikings ... were all those violent raids REALLY necessary?
- Andrew is pretty much jobless and still getting paid. He is a king among men.
- Lindsay is a loser.
- Kelly is a pain in the ass!!
- Cyd is wanting her muses to stop being wankers.
- Kim is making cupcakes - EVERYONE likes cupcakes!!!
- Trish is going to see the Dinosaurs!!
- Breanne is working while Mike eats a donut. What's wrong with that picture?
- Maria is so so sad.......
- Alexandra is busy trying to make sense of it all.
- Mia is just not sure anymore.
- Ashley is at the no pants party.
- Kim is desperately in need of a good night's sleep . . . . and a few other things.
- Adrienne is mad at Sears. Fuck Sears!
- Jill is sad because she lost a very dear friend far too soon.
- Neal is finding that Stina Nordenstam's voice makes an ideal soundtrack to evening snowfall... :-).
- Henry is an idiot for giving it another try.
- Kris is all like "hakuna matata bitches."
- Victoria is whatever.
- Matthew is mayking planes WOOOSH.
- Ashleigh is stressed.
- Andrijko is shoveling snow for the next 6 months. Yipee.
- Sonia is sniffly and coughy and generally all around feeling yucky!
- Jeremy is sick again. wtf.
- Armin is somewhere!
- Mike is contemplatin mah super eval plan...
- David is Is happy he got the newest scooter cd and is Jumping All Over The World!!!!!
- Scott is probably going to SNAP any minute now.
- Catherine is the proud owner of a new fresh Christmas Tree.
- Amanda is in need of neocitran, stat.
- Stacy is . counting the sleeps till Santa comes!!
- Dave is learning as he goes!
- Jaime says l'habitant
- Ashley is destined to only ever fall in love with fictional men.
- Jon is sad that his fingertips are melting :(
- Olesia is getting ready for opening night!
- Jason is working on "the project."
- Sheldene is numb...
- James is preparing to litter.


And as always, some totally unrelated videos (and since I am in a foul mood, the videos are not very tasteful at all.....be warned):

I Love Noodles


The Original Joke


Anyone Seen My Dignity


Superjerk Saves The day


Laterz
AH

Facebook - 2nd wave

So I thought my addiction to facebook had subsided.....apparently I was wrong.

I've heard it from many people, saying facebook was for those people who wanted to re-live their high school years. I didn't agree with them of course. I have many people on my friends list, and 99% of them were people I met after high school.

I went through the initial phase of facebook, where you are pretty much addicted, and are adding friends constantly, logging into see who you can find or who has found you, etc, etc, etc.

Once over, the addiction settles, and you start logging in once or twice a day to update a few items, check out a few things, and that's that.

I thought it would end at that.

But no.

Now it seems the high school friends are creeping into the picture. And I find myself with a renewed addiction.

I still disagree with those nay-sayers, I don't want to re-live my high school years. But catching up with friends from almost 20 years ago is very cool. Friends who fell through the cracks somewhere, but you always wondered where they are now.

I find I am now sending messages and having some great email-type conversations with these newfound old chums. And I don't see anything wrong with it.

Let the nay-sayers go on and on about facebook, I don't listen to them.

I think they are missing out on something fantastic!


And as always, here's a few vids:

Facebook Infomercial Parody


Facebook Song


Do you have Facebook?


Facebook Documentary


Laterz
AH

The Art Of Valentina

Since I am off work for a week at the moment (took a week of vacation time), I have been doing quite a lot of surfing. Specifically I am trolling around YouTube, LiveVideo, FaceBook etc.

There are people out there who don't care for the internet for various reasons. And admittedly, the internet is chalk full of scammers, porn, and other sewer level sites and characters. I think it's part and parcel of how the internet is made. It's something that will likely not change for a long time, and will likely not change for the better entirely.

In the future, there will be laws passed to protect the innocent, and regulate what we can see or post, but even then I'm not sure to what extent "they" will be able to control everything.

Time will tell.


But today I found something very refreshing while surfing around!

Amidst the plethora of garbage on YouTube (a place I have been frequenting lately), I found someone who is genuinely honest and upbeat. Someone who is a pleasure to listen to, and seems to have a zest for life. Someone who is doing what she has a passion for, and wants others to share in that passion.

Meet Valentina.

Val has a web site entitled valsartdiary and can be found at http://www.valsartdiary.com

Val is a painter, and creates vlogs of her life as such. She videos herself creating her paintings, and even gives away one painting every week to one of her subscribers (she has a YouTube and LiveVideo account where she gets her subscribers from).

Initially, you will see the things which attract people to her channels and web site - she's pretty, has a cute accent, she is energetic, and she edits her vlogs with flare and style.

But once you get to watching a few of the videos, you become enthralled in the things she is creating. All the while she is talking about quite a few different things, she is also discretely talking about her painting, and it draws you in, and you cannot stop watching.

Well, at least that's how I perceived it anyway.

It is very nice to find a gem like Val in a sea of idiocy. I would recommend everyone to check out her videos on YouTube, LiveVideo, or her web site.

I will leave you with a couple of her videos, and you can judge for yourself:








Laterz
AH