Chatroulette: A throwback to 90′s style internet randomness
Since December I’ve heard rumblings about this new one-to-one chat service. However, the chatter was so low I dismissed it as perhaps another social-media-wanna-be-the-new-facebook type of thing. Then a few weeks ago I saw a surge of discussion over Twitter and blogs documenting the beauty and the depravity of what is called Chatroulette. Not familiar with Chatroulette? Ok, here’s the...
Read MoreThe Party is Over, My Family is on Facebook
In the beginning, Facebook was limited to your close high school friends, college buddies… oh, good times! What a perfect place to relive those memories, laugh about them again in the virtual world. Facebook was your perceptual class reunion–without the people sitting at the adjacent table over hearing you talk about how fat and old so-and-so looks. Then came the co-workers, bosses, (we...
Read MoreThe Language of the Human Spirit
I’m inherently terrible with words. They often fail me. From meetings to endearments of the heart, I get caught in the mental vortex of translation. The translation of ideas, emotions and visions into strings of consonants and vowels… the greatest gift to the human species can also be it’s greatest curse. Naturally, a tongue tied weirdo like me was drawn to music. It became my...
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