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Thoughts at 3:15am

by ZombieSkittles on August 2, 2011

I’m unable to sleep, and am sitting alone with my thoughts.

I’ve been noticing that for a while my social use of things like Twitter has gone down, as have the amount of ventures outside apart from times I go to work, and times I see my partner. This is in major part because of my love of gaming, and in part because I always feel tired and find it hard to shake that feeling.

Recently I’ve joined a gym in hopes that not only will it help me get a little bit fitter, but that it will get me out and about a bit more, as it’s right in the middle of the city.
I’m hoping by going out more and doing active things, I’ll start feeling less tired and more willing to do things like hang out with friends, which is another thing I feel I’ve been neglecting majorly. Not for not wanting to see anyone, but I feel awkward trying to set up times to hang out with people. I’ve tried an awful lot in the past and have been stood up by these friends too many times. I’m just always paranoid of that happening again, and I really do hate that feeling.

Call this a bit of a self reflective post, but honestly, I do need to improve my life a bit. Maybe then I’ll feel better.

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Twitter is not a blog

by ZombieSkittles on November 3, 2010

I love Twitter with a passion. I’ve been using it for a while now and have made many friends from it, including the people I currently live with. It’s short messages of no more than 140 characters are something that I, as well as others, invest plenty of time in reading and replying to.

Today I want to talk about thrush a growing trend in tweeting. TwitLonger has been around for quite a while but luckily was never adapted that much, most people sticking with the limits of Twitter. TwitLonger is a website that allows one to extend their tweet past the 140 character limit in place. It does this by putting the tweet on an external site, then putting a preview and a link to the full tweet on Twitter. Not many people used the service, much to my happiness.

However, with it being integrated into more popular programs including TweetDeck and the official Android app, more people are letting their tweets extend the character limit. I’m slowly encountering tweets that are turning into full blog posts, and I do not like this.
If I want to read a blog post I will visit a blog for it. Twitter is for micro-blogging, and ideas like TwitLonger really bother me. If your tweet extends the 140 character limit it is no longer a tweet, and more of a post that deserves to go on Tumblr.

That was all a bit rambly, but this is a rambling ranty post. Basically, please stop using Twitlonger guys. Save those “tweets” for your personal blog.

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Twitter Timelines and You (Poll)

by ZombieSkittles on July 3, 2010

Which story do you like betterer...er

  • Zombie with vegetable allergy (86%, 6 Votes)
  • Poor zombie worm (14%, 1 Votes)

Total Voters: 7

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I follow 150+ people. However, when push comes to shove, I’m willing to admit I don’t read half of what you guys write. I’ll wake up in the morning, and one of the first things I do is check twitter. However, rather than catch up on everything that happened through the night, I’ll skip to maybe the last hour to half hour’s worth of tweets, and check the profiles of people who’s tweets I really want to see. My mentions are looked at last, as they’re the ones I KNOW I’ll take the time to reply to.

This isn’t to say I don’t appreciate what everyone has to say, or that I find you boring. It’s just that I really don’t feel I have the time to invest in reading hundreds upon hundreds of tweets, most of which would consist of witty observations, or links to the latest news. I do enjoy reading them, but going through just an hour or two worth of tweets takes up too long in my opinion. When we think of Twitter we think of a community joined by short concise messages. But all those short concise messages combined result one BIG mass of text. If you follow more than 100 active people, chances are you have an awful lot of reading to do.

This is basically me asking you, do you read all or most of the tweets you get in your timeline? How long do you dedicate to reading them? I’m interested.

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Thankoooo

by ZombieSkittles on April 19, 2010

In 10 minutes, at 10:25pm, I’ll officially be 21. I got a lot more happy birthday’s than I expected, and thank you to everyone. There were so many on Facebook, and lets face it, going through them all will take awhile (I am slow), so instead, I thought I’d list you all here (minus family, of course), and call you faggots.

On Facebook:
Shani,  Maddie, Kirsty, Brendan, Zebby, Bettina, Melanie, Kayla, Paul, KASE, Denai, Vicki (I think?), Rachel, Dan, Britt’s Mum, Charlie, Ali, Brenton, Swapnil, Dinny, Darren, Derek, Craig.

On Twitter:
Aly, Monnie, Tim, Cassandra, Omegatron, Shaun, Ryan, CrazySpeak

Via SMS:
Mel (again), Charlie (again), Craig (again), Mark, Haleigh, Denai, Steph

Update- It seems I scored a blog post by Josh Nunn over at The Geekorium too

As well as Brittany and Courtney who were awesome enough to CALL me, and as of a few minutes ago Josh Nunn who actually made a dollar donation via the coke can in the corner. Thanks for the shout man.

You’re all Faggots.
(Thank you so much)

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I do love playing with them.

by ZombieSkittles on April 7, 2010

Yesterday, my friend Craig was so fed up with my out of date Twitter background (he’d been bugging me about how it linked to my now defunct website and the like), that he actually made me a new one. I like it:

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I really just wanted to show it off, so if you want to see it in it’s proper glory, you can check it out here.

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What’s the Buzz?

by ZombieSkittles on April 1, 2010

I’m one of the many people out there on the internet attracted to the new shiny things. When things like Google Wave are released I’m there to check it out, even if I don’t really understand it yet. It’s a problem.

However, since the release of Google Buzz, I’m still not sure what the hell it is, or why I should care. Checking it out, it just seems to be a copy of the service Twitter does, but through Google. It shares your activity in a number of Google-connected sites (Google Reader, YouTube, etc) and any other sites you wish to connect to it (which Twitter does) with people who follow you  (which Twitter does). You’re able to comment on other people’s “buzzes” (as I assume they’re called. Bizzes? Bozzes? I would of expected Google to come up with something catchy.) and “like” them, which seems to be the only significant difference to Twitter, as Twitter instead lets users retweet anything another user wrote (effectively showing you like it and sharing it), and to talk to people directly using @replies.

Google Buzz logo All I know is I want to play UNO now…

I wish I knew what was so special about Buzz that Google would release it alongside Twitter. Can anyone enlighten me as to what Google Buzz is really meant to accomplish, and whether I should actually care at all?

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ATUBGIRL

by ZombieSkittles on March 1, 2010

I’m a day late, but in my defence the reason I didn’t write this yesterday was no I don’t need to explain this to you, shush.

Yesterday was the monthly ATUB meet up, where all those epic people who use Twitter and also happen to live in the glorious city that is Adelaide meet up, drink and talk nonsense. I’ve only ever been to one other meet up, all the way back in October/November, but this was by far more fun and just a little exciting.

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The meeting was held at The Highway Hotel where we had multiple tables reserved specially for the event. We rocked out the drinking, drawing on every conceivable surface and remarking on how much of a woman I am for jokingly wearing a skirt. I saw the old faces who I’ve talked to since I don’t know when (although as usual Rubenerd didn’t make an appearance. ONE DAY!), plus a fair few new ones. This is where I segue into a shout out to Brenton, Ash, that FlitterbyG person and that KerryJ person. I also finally met both Cypherage and HugePedlar (The antelope are fat this year) who I have to admit, wasn’t as British as I expected, but was still pretty awesome.

After hours of fun at The Highway and most people had left, the last of us went to the Ed Castle (?) for dinner. It wasn’t as nice a place, but with the meals being just ten dollars I wasn’t really going to complain.  After dinner, we all talked for a little while, before going our separate ways.

Thank you for the fun times guys, it was nice catching up, and meeting the new people. I’m going to try and be more of a regular to these events, and I do promise to be (slightly) less drunk.

Other places you can read about the Feb ‘10 ATUB:

There are photos about the place as well:

More will be added as I find them/can finally load them. CURSE YOU CAPTAIN PLANET HITLER CAPPED INTERNET!

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Success.

by ZombieSkittles on February 28, 2010

You know you’ve achieved success when you have your very own hashtag. By you I of course mean me though. No offence.

So hey, you guys rock, and I’ll make my very own “dear diary, ATUB WAS FREAKING AWESOME” post in the coming days, but right now I’m too tired and Star Wars turns me on something shocking.

But when it comes to me, which is what this is all about, make sure you tag your tweets with #whatawhore; because I’m awesome.

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John Chow; I lol’d

by ZombieSkittles on September 12, 2009

twitter-bird-logo-001 Since forever, John Chow has been praising and preaching the idea of following everyone on Twitter who follows you, in order to avoid “negative social proof”,  whatever that is. He went so far as to make a whole website dedicated to getting you more followers, as long as you follow them back (much like the MySpace whore trains).
Now suddenly, he’s backflipped and seen the error of this theory that we’ve known all along; that it’s pointless, unmanageable, and serves no purpose but to put a large number on your profile.

I started Twitter with no followers whatsoever, and spent my time just tweeting what I wanted, and following people I found interesting. From there, everything grew on it’s own. There was no need to spam people with requests to follow back, or direct messages thanking them, or anything like that (though to be honest for a while I did thank people…). I’m sure a lot of others are the same, right?

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Oh god. My mother…

by ZombieSkittles on August 31, 2009

Has a twitter.

No fear, no disaster, no terror compares to the shock of finding the following tweet in my mentions:

default_profile_bigger jilly10001: @Zombie_Plan will you be home for dinner

 

Really, what do you say to that. Your mother has just done the unthinkable and now has access to my every thought and feeling; That stuff is private and she has no right! How dare she access something broadcast on a public internet feed. How dare she. This is unacceptable, and something must be done.
But do I block her? Should I protect my feed and turn into the very thing that gives me the shits on Twitter? Or do I put a hit out on her because very soon she’ll know too much.

Alternatively, I could just make a blog post about the issue, and hope to god she doesn’t follow the links off my tweets. If she does, I hope she doesn’t read this next bit.

I am secretly a black Jewish lesbian with a fetish for having my nipples chewed on by two stray dogs while I get beaten with a broken buckling spring computer keyboard. Oh, and I made a kickass new About page for this blog.

Wow, I probably should of avoided making that so noticeable. Too late now though, not like this keyboard comes with a backspace button or anything. Oh snap.

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