dmotion

I have to say that 2008 has been the year of Limited Availability for me.

I can't think of another time in the last 11 years where I have been less available in all sorts of ways than now.

I haven't had a (Home/Cell) phone since May. I really haven't had (my own) an internet connection. I am physically 100 miles from most of the people whom I used to associate and hang out with.

Besides a handful of people (I'd have to say less than 20) no one really knows where I am and much less what I've been up to.

Most people haven't seen/heard from me for at least 3 to 10 months if not more.

My Limited Availability online is evidenced by not only lack of blog entires, but partically any site in which I have an account at.

For a brief time I had started experimenting with Soup via a site I entitled: Spill...

I also continued to try to update my tumblr with shared items from my Google Reader although now slow and unstable internet forced me back to usage of a desktop reader...

I had also been updating my Wordpress rather well with particular reviews of TV Shows and Films yet that too also fell through...

I attempted to re-kindle my affections with Twitter a little over a month ago but that ended rather quickly due to lack of internet connectivity and phone.

I even posted a rather long Utterz...

My Limited Availability physically is evidenced by myself seeming indisposed and averse to any sort of social outing, communication or otherwise--basically "…being uncommuncationable." Which is mostly based on the fact that I am not where I usually am.

I have thought my disappearance, my extended leave of absence; call it what you may, would wreak havoc upon all and any of my relationships be they close or slight...

Yet having been gone for so long I have come to realize that truly those whom know me, have come to know me, etc. have the knowledge that I do tend to 'disappear' and 'reappear' every now and again sometimes longer than other previous times...

My Limited Availability --this year, 2008 has been one of those years where I have done numerous disappearing and reappearing acts. Each longer than last.

Although each time I do reappear, as I am doing so now, I am apt to comment on my disappearance and sometimes...or eventually at some point come to detail my disappearance.

dmotion just has Limited Availability right now...

I haven't had a working internet connection at home for the last month and a half or something.

As of now I am in a Library which is firewalled to the brim--even Twitter is blocked which surprises me as are the usual things--YouTube, etc.

I have been switching from Panera to a Library for sporadic internet usage which usually consists of email checking, and Feed Reading as well as sparingly checking my various social network accounts. It's messed up that all of the available connections at my home now are all locked and I haven't bothered trying to even break into them and use them.

I haven't had a working phone since the beginning of May so if I was hard to get a hold of before it's almost a literal impossiblity to maintain a constant flow of communication with me through the available mediums.

Some things I have postponed to post:

I hardly watched any films in March it was more TV series month for me:




New Amsterdam well cut, well acted, and told wonderfully. Many have brought up that the series bears a striking storyline to the film Man From Earth however I don't share this belief as there are very distinct differences between their origins. The show's opening theme is one that I have had playing in my head for weeks now much like "There Will Be Blood" and it's just so beautiful. The show is gripping from beginning to end and leaves one craving for more.



"The Riches" I am unsure of how such a marvelous intriguing show eluded me last year. I first became interested in the show as I sifted through a Rolling Stone Magazine and saw an advert that I had to turn the magazine sideways to enjoy of an entire family with long noses (a la Pinocchio) that aired on FX on Tuesdays at 10PM.



The advert was all that I needed to peak my interest and I watched the entire first season of the show and the first three episodes of the second season, the other episodes have yet to air. (Note: Currently the second season has only gone up to Episode Seven and they have stopped there...)

This is I believe my first actual post in months. Possibly if I get the urge to and ability to post later I'll fill in the gaps of my happenings..

Beside my obvious list of favorite Twitter updates:1,577 updates at the time of this posting, I have kept a list of what I regard to be some of the most epic tweets from those that I have favorited.

Note: Some of these Twitter updates are no longer available due either to name change, locked Twitter pages, or even deletion of accounts.

When I say epic I mean: grand in scale or character.

They are as follows:

ello @dmotion. welcome to the internetsss.

02:06 PM October 14, 2007 indieosaurous

http://twitter.com/indieosaurous/statuses/335626242

my dog just peed in the next door dogs mouth.

04:53 PM October 13, 2007 immaSinner

http://twitter.com/immaSinner/statuses/333951282

where the hell is @dmotion ? i must speak to his mushyness

11:37 PM October 15, 2007 _Catharsis_

http://twitter.com/_Catharsis_/statuses/338887582

@dmotion.. come hide under my skirt.. *shhhhhhhhhh*

03:02 PM October 17, 2007 BrujitaLinda

http://twitter.com/BrujitaLinda/statuses/343153172

dº¿ºb

03:10 PM October 17, 2007 chattee

http://twitter.com/chattee/statuses/341766462

@xallthatjazzx @jazzandliquor, @dmotion is like a cat. Needs to walk about the neighborhood marking his territory.

06:10 PM October 19, 2007 treo700

http://twitter.com/treo700/statuses/349137172

Google is stalking me!!!! *looks around*

06:42 PM October 20, 2007 xallthatjazzx

http://twitter.com/xallthatjazzx/statuses/351181222

somebody pressed the don't-press-that-button button

06:13 PM October 20, 2007 misc

http://twitter.com/misc/statuses/351055362

I had to go back three pages to find a tweet from @dmotion. Is he ok?

02:29 PM October 20, 2007 lesliedub80

http://twitter.com/lesliedub80/statuses/350814292

Twitter took some LSD...

01:27 AM October 22, 2007 dmotion

http://twitter.com/dmotion/statuses/353835622

Hey twitter.. FUCK YOU.

10:35 PM October 21, 2007 indieosaurous

http://twitter.com/indieosaurous/statuses/353760892

My internet just went HURRRRRRR.

09:52 PM October 22, 2007 indieosaurous

http://twitter.com/indieosaurous/statuses/356330272

Listening to a guy (with no balls) sing opera via Skype with @dmotion.

04:30 PM October 24, 2007 djsteen

http://twitter.com/djsteen/statuses/359267202

I's ready fur bed.

12:34 AM October 29, 2007 indieosaurous

http://twitter.com/indieosaurous/statuses/371930002

does twitter think it's funny that its error page is literally flipping the bird at us?

05:47 AM October 30, 2007 misc

http://twitter.com/misc/statuses/374654062

Mother*

10:12 PM October 18, 2007 indieosaurous

http://twitter.com/indieosaurous/statuses/346811002

I just read everybody's secret. I feel kinda dirty. :o

07:38 PM October 17, 2007 jazzandliquor

http://twitter.com/jazzandliquor/statuses/343784332

I think I'm actually getting Tweets from the FUTURE

11:20 AM October 15, 2007 akelatal

http://twitter.com/akelatal/statuses/337835452

i would like twitter to yell at me

10:26 PM October 13, 2007 dlr

http://twitter.com/dlr/statuses/334400892

!?@*#,.@?!!!11d4GHDDV

07:59 PM October 12, 2007 jazzandliquor

http://twitter.com/jazzandliquor/statuses/332022322

@dmotion hey... um... are you pregnant?

09:43 PM October 12, 2007 _Catharsis_

http://twitter.com/_Catharsis_/statuses/332172422

@dmotion guys can be pregnant toooo.

09:54 PM October 12, 2007 _Catharsis_

http://twitter.com/_Catharsis_/statuses/332187002

@dmotion needs to wake up. My Twitter is lonely without his tweets. :(

12:25 PM October 11, 2007 jazzandliquor

http://twitter.com/jazzandliquor/statuses/328607232

I be in a twitter battle with Dmotion

10:45 PM October 10, 2007 L_E

http://twitter.com/L_E/statuses/327060492

@dmotion is so fuckin' GANGSTA!!!

08:55 PM October 10, 2007 LMC87

http://twitter.com/LMC87/statuses/326854942

We went to the mechanic and I waited in the car and read: חֲבַקּוּק ,צְפַנְיָה,חַגַּי and a bit of זְכַרְיָה

09:18 PM October 10, 2007 dmotion

http://twitter.com/dmotion/statuses/326790842

I feel like shit. Valium sucks. Well, I am infertile.

05:26 PM October 09, 2007 treo700

http://twitter.com/treo700/statuses/324055532

@dmotion and that which you is, you shall is, for you is.....mushy baaaaallll.... DMOTION.

12:18 AM October 09, 2007 _Catharsis_

I got into an accident...

I was unable to go see "There Will Be Blood" this morning at 12:00AM due to my accident.

I haven't sent a single update to Twitter in about 4 days and I am certain many people are wondering as to my whereabouts...

I haven't felt like using Twitter--I have also been very busy and wouldn't have been unable to update Twitter and do all the Twitter things I usually do so...it works out.

I am in a quandry...actually a great big quandry of sorts.

My accident early Saturday morning didn't help me in this quandry of mine, it only added a level of bizarreness to it.

This quandry of mine caused me to be perturbed early Saturday morning during the hours of 7AM-10AM...

Besides the stress and ailments that the accident had caused me, I was just discombobulated by my quandry...

and I am still...

At one point I was so discombobulated that I had the part in "Lawrence of Arabia" in my head when T.E. Lawrence is riding alone on the camel and begins to sing and listens to the echo...

Followed by me singing aloud whilst walking: "You can rumpty-tumpty-tumpty-tum. Te-tuttle-e-tum-te-tum-te-tum. I'm the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo!"

Alas there was no clapping at the end of my singing...just weird looks.

I have been thinking:

I must strive to use Livejournal...

Why?

Sometimes I miss writing in more than 140 characters...

That's the update I posted on Twitter.

About a year and 11 days ago I signed up for Twitter--after having found an article referring to it on Drudge

I entitled the post: "Twitter--It's What I'm Doing" and it's been what I have been doing and where I've been most of this time.

I asked the question: "...will it be what people are going to be doing?"

And it has two answers:

1) It's not all about what people are doing

2) Twitter hasn't yet hit the big big time

Safe to say that since then I haven't been touching anything remotely blogging-isque with the same vigor as I touch Twitter with.

One of the things that I enjoy about Twitter is it's instantaneousness connectivity with those whom you follow/befriend which is dependent upon the person's updating volume.

For example on average I, dmotion in one year sent about 44 tweets (updates) everyday which equals about 16,000 updates.

Of course those whom follow me on Twitter know that that isn't so true because there were days wherein I sent in upwards of 100 updates in one day.

Anyways Twitter has been by far amazing with the exception of it's tendency to 'eat' tweets (updates), time lapsing, shuffling of tweets (updates) and it's outages which have been more common recently.

Twitter unlike most things which dub themselves social networks I believe is more social and much more personal as one gets to see what people are doing. Twitter's whole premise is what are you doing...feeling, seeing, wanting, being, eating, etc. even though its initial question has always been "What are you doing?"

Yes, many people have adapted Twitter for other usages but for me these things defeat the purpose of Twitter--sometimes I'd like to tell people, "Get an RSS feed"

Recently many have commented that Twitter is Instant Messaging but in public--eh, it's a way of communication but certainly not IM.

Twitter is many things but Twitter is also not some things.

Twitter is not a blog...I had previously stated that Twitter was like the haiku of blogging...

Many people call it mirco-blogging--I do not.

I have seen Biz slightly cringe when people refer to Twitter as such.

Twitter is Twitter.

It's genre is Twitter.

Twitter is time consuming--it is due to the fact that it is what you are doing...

As I mentioned before I haven't touched anything remotely blogging-isque with the same vigor as I touch Twitter with because I just love instantaneousness--that is it's draw...

Many times during the time lapses I have mentioned that Twitter is no fun when Time lapsed...it feels more like a forum board more than anything.

When you blog it might take a couple minutes, days for someone to read or maybe not.

With Twitter in a couple of seconds a tweet (update) will be read...assuming Twitter is being Twitter and not the Twitter that is slow...

All in all Twitter is what I'm doing and what I've been doing.

Scanning The Drudge Report I came across: "Michael Kinsley: Ego Monsters of the Web..."



it's not in an eye catching place or with a shocking headline but it just caught my attention...

reading the article, brought to mind past times of the web wherein people's, er, homepages--and the rare websites made them seem like, "an egotistical monster."

That 'time' has long since passed away.

As Kinsley puts it, "All of the elements that struck us as obnoxious maybe eight years ago no longer seem that way. In fact, they are now virtually required for any writer's Web site."

He brings up solipsism--that is, the view or theory that the self is all that can be known to exist.

Anyways what made this all the more interesting is his example for the "ultimate in solipsism" towards the end



he mentions Twitter, wherein, "you can answer the question 'What are you doing?'"

Really it's as if it's the haiku of blogging...



which also vaugely reminds me of Facebook's status thing in the profiles.



It also made me go check out Biz Stone's blog which I hadn't checked in such a long, long, long time--since like he started to work at Odeo...



Biz Stone?

Yeah, Biz Stone..."Biz Stone is the author of Who Let the Blogs Out? and Blogging. He helped start Xanga, then spent two years on the Blogger team at Google, and is currently part of Obvious, the company that makes Odeo and Twitter."

It's Twitter--but will it be what people are going to be doing?