The internet is evil
be gone, oh evil internet, for thou art pure distraction
u come singing ur siren song of 'we have information, sweet sweet information
4 ur brain 2 bathe in" so I go amongst the waves, amused,
swimming, i am thinking, and before i know it I am drowned
I really can't write poetry LOL
Following guidelines & advertising
I pretty much follow everyone who I consider a real person back, although you must have tweeted something, recently. Even people selling stuff because even though they are selling stuff some of them say interesting stuff. We all need to make a living.
Anyway, I can get up to 500 mentions on twitter everyday and with people adding me to lists, RTing me, favoriting my comments, following me, its easy to miss someone following me. I especially love it when progressives/liberals follow me, so if you are progressive/liberal and I don't follow back, remind me when i am around and I'll do so.
If you unfollow me I will eventually get around to unfollowing back. There is this churning thing some people do to get a high ratio of followers to following which I think is just abhorrent in that you don't give a damn about the person who follows you - I like to think all my followers are my equals and I think all people have something worth saying and what I say isn't any more important or interesting than what anybody else has to say. I get that some people just can't get around to following everybody who follows them - I mean surely Obama has more important things to do than follow ppl who follow him back.
Anyway, I can get up to 500 mentions on twitter everyday and with people adding me to lists, RTing me, favoriting my comments, following me, its easy to miss someone following me. I especially love it when progressives/liberals follow me, so if you are progressive/liberal and I don't follow back, remind me when i am around and I'll do so.
If you unfollow me I will eventually get around to unfollowing back. There is this churning thing some people do to get a high ratio of followers to following which I think is just abhorrent in that you don't give a damn about the person who follows you - I like to think all my followers are my equals and I think all people have something worth saying and what I say isn't any more important or interesting than what anybody else has to say. I get that some people just can't get around to following everybody who follows them - I mean surely Obama has more important things to do than follow ppl who follow him back.
DMs
Please do not DM to thank me for following, with advertising or any kind of junk email. My friends know when to DM me and they are welcome to DM me anytime they like.
Whats in a name?
The other day I saw someone with a PhD in their name on twitter and I gave them a high-5 because they were asking something as random as which was the best album by Bruce Springsteen. Just because someone has a PhD doesn't make them essentially different from other people.
I do have a PhD in a hard science. If you wanna talk very specific areas of the brain processes then *perhaps* I am your girl, but no, I am not an expert on everything. What I did learn in my PhD is to organize my thinking, and now I am not sure if I still do that. But I do enjoy thinking. I like analyzing assumptions & implications of what people say. Thinking is the fun-est thing you can do by yourself.
So why do I use PhD in my title? In a world full of Maries, there is a desire to standout. It really started when I was making comments on the NYTimes website. I started signing myself as Marie, then as I was reading other people's comments I noticed other Maries who were also commenting. Often I didn't want their comments confused with mine, especially since there would be dialogue between the different people commenting. Thus I started adding the PhD. In a forum such as the NYTimes, it seemed appropriate.
When the NYTimes announced they were going to paid subscription, I abandoned them for the HuffingtonPost and twitter. Since I had spent time building up this persona at the NYTimes, I thought I would keep the PhD. I am sorry I didn't take up the NYTimes offer of a free subscription now. However, I have my spiffy new blogs so you can read my writings on life & death; follow my thoughts as we look at some of the assumptions and reality of situations; and, hopefully, with your input I'll get a better perspective on things.
Ms Marvel was recommended by a friend of mine (@AdversAerialOne) on twitter, which I thought was a pretty cool compliment! She's became my avatar there and elsewhere since. I am @1phd on twitter.
I do have a PhD in a hard science. If you wanna talk very specific areas of the brain processes then *perhaps* I am your girl, but no, I am not an expert on everything. What I did learn in my PhD is to organize my thinking, and now I am not sure if I still do that. But I do enjoy thinking. I like analyzing assumptions & implications of what people say. Thinking is the fun-est thing you can do by yourself.
So why do I use PhD in my title? In a world full of Maries, there is a desire to standout. It really started when I was making comments on the NYTimes website. I started signing myself as Marie, then as I was reading other people's comments I noticed other Maries who were also commenting. Often I didn't want their comments confused with mine, especially since there would be dialogue between the different people commenting. Thus I started adding the PhD. In a forum such as the NYTimes, it seemed appropriate.
When the NYTimes announced they were going to paid subscription, I abandoned them for the HuffingtonPost and twitter. Since I had spent time building up this persona at the NYTimes, I thought I would keep the PhD. I am sorry I didn't take up the NYTimes offer of a free subscription now. However, I have my spiffy new blogs so you can read my writings on life & death; follow my thoughts as we look at some of the assumptions and reality of situations; and, hopefully, with your input I'll get a better perspective on things.
Ms Marvel was recommended by a friend of mine (@AdversAerialOne) on twitter, which I thought was a pretty cool compliment! She's became my avatar there and elsewhere since. I am @1phd on twitter.
Broken Record?
Someone I used to know said to me Karl Popper only ever had one idea, but he repeated it so often it elevated the status of his idea. He did have an interesting idea, basically that nothing could ever be really proved, but things could always be disproved.
I don't think anything I say is particularly profound but I know how much stuff I miss in my twitter stream. At the same time I am surprised at how much I do see.
I have been retweeting my call for a boycott on Koch Brothers products for probably about two years now and I am still surprised at the number of retweets it still gets along with how much dialog there is as a result of the tweet.
Sometimes ideas take a long time to take hold and take off. For instance, the concept of trickle down economics is still strong in some sectors of the population, its just a lie that's been repeated enough that people believed it. Hopefully no one still believes it now after the 2008 crash.
I don't think anything I say is particularly profound but I know how much stuff I miss in my twitter stream. At the same time I am surprised at how much I do see.
I have been retweeting my call for a boycott on Koch Brothers products for probably about two years now and I am still surprised at the number of retweets it still gets along with how much dialog there is as a result of the tweet.
Sometimes ideas take a long time to take hold and take off. For instance, the concept of trickle down economics is still strong in some sectors of the population, its just a lie that's been repeated enough that people believed it. Hopefully no one still believes it now after the 2008 crash.
