we at TAXI (my day job) launched the new equation site for One Laptop Per Child last week. We urge everybody to take a second to visit and make an equation. Then grab the embed code and post it on your blog, link it up on facebook or do the old fashioned thing and email it to somebody.
This was a tremendous effort accomplished by my co-workers Jeff and Matt. I sat idly by making HTML thank yous while these two cranked out this site under a deadline most people would fear.
So you got a fancy smartphone and while you really enjoy the device as a phone the qwerty keyboard for SMS messaging and email ypu really are only skinning the surface of what you could be doing with this great piece of technology that just sits in your pocket.
It’s not secret that I take the GO-train twice a day from the lovely confines of the burbs into the city on a wirlwind of 40 min on the express train. One of my favorite things to do on the train after playing videogames or sleeping is to people watch or better yet people listen. Nothing covers up eavesdropping like playing bejeweled on your treo.
Today the people in the same pod as me were talking about a website, naturallly my interests perked. They talked about galleries they recently updated and comments they posted… myspace I thought, but then I began to second guess myself. Could they be on facebook? virb? some new nice site people in the shwa were all hot onto. After a few minutes of them discussing I figured out that it was indeed facebook they were talking about (phew my games still legit) it was the new addition of these free gifts facebook was offering that set it off for me. I asked the people if they were indeed talking about facebook. How just recently they came to discover it and how I had a similar experience with many of my olld friends finding out about facebook and me either finding them or them finding me.
We also talked shortly about how kids social behaviors are changing, how kids would soooner MSN or facebook their friends than pick up the phone. Hell they would rather chat onine than walk a block to actually hang out with their friends. I know that when I was younger that the internet served as a tool to get stuff done, sure I socialized over ICQ and ran my own KDX server but those were quite basic back in the day and I still spent most of my time interacting with people on a more human level, the phone or in the flesh.
While I dont discredit my love for the internet and technology having a kid to raise in such a technologically advanced time is going to prove to be a small challenge, while I want my kid to grow up knowing how stuff works and how to conduct yourself online in the safest of manners I cant help but want to teach my kid the joys of interacting outside of the 1’s and 0’s and get some human on human time.
it sure is going to be fun
Here’s to the crazy ones.
The misfits.
The rebels.
The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
Happy 30th.
*poached from mr. bell
so I got myself a new toy. picked up a treo 650 as my phone for the next few years, at the same time I switched wireless carriers, from rogers to bell.
above is a photo montage of how I spend 90% of my weeknights, with laptop infront of the tele. more on the treo later
miss terri got me a PSP for x-mas
posting from it right now!
typing takes a bit though… thanks ter!
