UNA Football Schedule

Just a quick note. I added a GCal UNA Football schedule to the sidebar. It is a public calendar, so if you use GCal you should be able to subscribe to it if you would like. The first game is an away game on 29 Aug. I'm really excited about this season. UNA should be fun to watch, Alabama should have a good season, I'm not sure which I'm more excited about. Setting up to be a great year for football. If you want to read some more about UNA check out the official site.

If any of you out there don't like football, it would probably be a good idea to avoid this blog until after January. Just FYI.

Thought this was cool

Discovered a cool website the other day: Ficly. It's a site designed to let you publish your works of fiction under a Creative Commons license. This isn't terribly unique I suppose, but the twist is that the works can be no longer than 1024 characters. Also, anyone can write prequels or sequels to what you publish. I thought it was a really interesting concept. I've got a couple of stories up there now (one of them will be familiar if you have been reading my blog for a while), and hope to have some more soon. You can see them here.

Twitter Two Cents

Over the past couple of weeks I've noticed an increasing number of people on Twitter saying that Twitter has gotten lame, gone mainstream, or that it has "jumped the shark". There was a dramatic rise in these type of posts last week with Ashton Kutcher/CNN's race to 1 million followers, and also with Oprah beginning to actively use the service. Honestly, I have been a little confused by all these tweets. To me, the beauty of Twitter is that you don't have to read things written by or about people you have no interest in. As of now you have complete control over what shows up in your feed. If you don't care what the Big O had for breakfast, don't follow her. If reading about what Kelso did over the weekend bores you, don't follow him. That's the beauty of the service. Each user can essentially customize it to be whatever they want it to be. If you are one of these people that want to know every detail of celebrities' lives, you can find out probably as much as you want. If you just want to talk to people you know in real life, you can do that too. You can see as much or as little as you want. If you are seeing too much info about stuff you don't care about, it doesn't mean that Twitter has suddenly become lame, it probably means you suck at choosing who to follow. That is not Twitter's fault.

So, following this logic, if I see people in my feed talking about Twitter being too mainstream, be warned you will probably be unfollowed.

Read This Book

I just finished reading another awesome book, The Road by Cormac McCarthy. It's a post-apocalyptic story about a father and son traveling across a burnt-out USA. It's depressing heavy and disturbing, but man is it good. It's not very long (I read it in about 2 days), and it moves really quickly. I highly recommend it.

On an unrelated note, I am working on another short story. I hope to have it finished in the next week or so. Obviously I failed at this goal...

Just?

I found this cool website the other day. It's called Wordle. It lets you upload a bunch of text, or link to your blog, and it will generate an image of the words you use. The bigger the word in the image, the more you use the word. You can customize the layout, font and color scheme to make it look however you want. Pretty cool, I thought.
So, apparently I use "just" a lot...