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shadowkatI got a new printer finally - Epson. Hopefully it will be better than the Lexmark. Was cheap, more or less. Certainly prints better than Lexmark, if I can get the paper gage to stay in place. Hate these things. There are days I miss my old typewriter. No, I'm not a luddite. But technology occassionally gets on my nerves, was never much of a gadget geek.
At any rate the new printer has allowed me to print off the last three posts, so I can read over them and figure out where in the heck I screwed up on the last one. I'm pretty sure I know and it should only take a bit of tweaking to fix it. Just doesn't work in my gut, which is more or less how I write from the gut. Will probably delete that previous post - or rather yesterday's live journal entry, eventually. So if you want to see it? Do it now. It will most likely be gone tomorrow or at the very least completely rewritten. Nice thing about livejournal is one can do this - delete and edit posts. Discussion boards? Not so much.
By the way - Gibson's book Pattern Recognition deals with the wonderful world of chat rooms and discussion boards. Quite well in fact. Just into the third chapter and am struck by how deftly he's captured it. Certainly captured why chat rooms don't work for me in a few quick sentences: "there are three people in Chat, but there's no way of knowing exactly who until you are in there, and the chat room she finds not so comforting. It's strange even with friends, like sitting in a pitch-dark cellar conversing with people at a distance of about fifteen feet. The hectic speed, and the brevity of the lines in the thread, plus the feeling that everyone is talking at once, at counter-purposes, deter her." (And me, very much me. The five times I've tried chat, I got overwhelmed and never been back. Course probably doesn't help that I have dial-up and while I can type 40 wpm, chat seems to move at 70 wpm.)
At any rate the new printer has allowed me to print off the last three posts, so I can read over them and figure out where in the heck I screwed up on the last one. I'm pretty sure I know and it should only take a bit of tweaking to fix it. Just doesn't work in my gut, which is more or less how I write from the gut. Will probably delete that previous post - or rather yesterday's live journal entry, eventually. So if you want to see it? Do it now. It will most likely be gone tomorrow or at the very least completely rewritten. Nice thing about livejournal is one can do this - delete and edit posts. Discussion boards? Not so much.
By the way - Gibson's book Pattern Recognition deals with the wonderful world of chat rooms and discussion boards. Quite well in fact. Just into the third chapter and am struck by how deftly he's captured it. Certainly captured why chat rooms don't work for me in a few quick sentences: "there are three people in Chat, but there's no way of knowing exactly who until you are in there, and the chat room she finds not so comforting. It's strange even with friends, like sitting in a pitch-dark cellar conversing with people at a distance of about fifteen feet. The hectic speed, and the brevity of the lines in the thread, plus the feeling that everyone is talking at once, at counter-purposes, deter her." (And me, very much me. The five times I've tried chat, I got overwhelmed and never been back. Course probably doesn't help that I have dial-up and while I can type 40 wpm, chat seems to move at 70 wpm.)
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Date: 2005-04-08 04:47 pm (UTC)Online seems to work a bit like RL for me. I like reading and so enjoy reading the posts, even when I don't have anything to contribute. When it comes to RL interactions, I favor one to one, and online that translates to email over other forms. I am not sure why but I don't care for the phone maybe because of the pressure of silences. In email, I feel like I have time. Although, also in RL, comfortable silences are one of the things I really appreciate about good friendships, and I think one off the ways I judge them good.
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Date: 2005-04-08 08:13 pm (UTC)Interesting. This may be my difficulty with phones as well. Not a huge phone person. Keep telling myself to buy a cell phone for instance, keep putting it off. And rarely call people - we either talk via email or
in person generally.
Silences. I struggle with the awkward ones, the pressure they have. The tension. Whenever I meet new people or people I don't see often - I often find myself worrying over the silences.
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Date: 2005-04-09 08:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-09 02:31 pm (UTC)Not sure continuing with Pattern Recognition - Gibson has a writing style that requires a tad more concentration that I can give it at the moment. It's fine once you get into the rhythm, but it can be jarring.