Thank you Silicon Valley.

"I'm gonna go the the bathroom now LOL"
"I'm gonna go biking down the big slope.. I'M SO SCARED"
"I just ate at Dennys and didn't leave a tip! ROFL"

Come on tweeple, I mean people. Twitter is the cheap version of a mass text message. If you need to send an update to 5, 10, 15, or however many followers you have, then it better be pretty damn important, and most likely it's not going to be since one is only limited to 140 letters in the update box.

Don't try and use the argument that it's just like Facebook, because it's not. It only has one feature that Facebook has. Facebook you can look at incriminating photos of your fellow underaged friends drinking, write comments, and send private messages to ONE PERSON. And update what you are doing. But most of the time, no one uses proper grammar, or punctuation in their updates anyway. Sometimes it's a random rap lyric about da bitches, rimz and high grade weed! Or maybe just a one worded status like "loaded" or "baked". A lot of good evidence to use as blackmail. 

Yes I confess that I had a Twitter account October through December 2008. And let me say this, I literally knew only one person that I was following. That was about it. The rest of the people I was following were users who were following me. And it was totally weird knowing what a stranger was supposedly doing.

 The majority of them were a bunch of 10 year old technology nerds that had YouTube accounts and would make videos of them unboxing their newest MacBook or PS3 and then post the link on their tweets. 

"New video to come soon. I just got a new MacBook for XMas! Totally new omgomgogmogm I'm gonna record me opening it so everyone knows it's brand new and people who I don't really know won't think I'm lying!!!!!"

WTF When my generation was 10 we definitely did not care about technology. Maybe Giga-Pets or Nintendo. And  I'm glad to say I'm not 10 years old now especially with all of the technology there is, or else I would be the fat girl tweeting all day.

Then I had the random teenager from Montana full of angst who would post:

"omg u r so dumb. i can't beleive dis. u bitch. fuk u..my life sux. i h8 ur dog." 

No news stations, news anchors, weathermen, politicians, or celebrities had a Twitter back then when I had my account. Now every A-lister and many news anchors have one! ALL THE MORE REASON TO GET ONE!!!!!!! Psych. Before Twitter, I didn't care what anyone was doing, and I'm pretty sure most of the human race did not as well! And I still don't care!  

So now everyone that has a Twitter is just on a higher level of being a stalker than those who have not jumped on the micro-blogging bandwagon. 

With Teeth

As I was earnestly waiting to watch the fireworks as my pre-4th of July celebrations in Addison this evening, Wendy was on her new electronic toy (in other words the iPhone 3G) reading vital facts aloud from a free application which was downloaded. One fact which was unintentionally drilled into my brain was that 1,600 people in New York City are bitten by other humans annually.  

Score!

After taking the TSI test required to be take to be admitted into the prestigious school of Collin College, I was told that I had to go take my test scores down to the admissions office so they would then put them in the computer and my account would no longer have holds which was delaying me from signing up for classes. I waited in line for at least an hour. As soon as I get to an open admissions desk, I handed the lovely woman my papers and then she tells me that the testing center has already entered my scores into the computer. 

Maybe the woman that told me to go to the admissions office said that I didn't have to do that part of the process since my name was already in their records. That's what happens to you if you get instructions from a woman who was fresh off the boat from Africa Land. 

It's all part of the plan.

The news of Michael Jackson's death is very shocking and unexpected. I think I speak for the world when I say that. If you think about it, Michael did change the world of music, several albums, and with only one music video, so it seems. MTV never played black artist's music videos never before Thriller. He was very inspiring and indeed the King of Pop.

I got the news from a very asian friend of mine while watching the new Transformers movie. If it weren't for him spreading the news to me, I would have been very confused why every radio station was bumpin' MJ's beats. Anyway, I get home and onto Facebook (Story of my life!). I see that everyone's status is something along the lines of "RIP Michael Jackson", "RIP King of POP", "One less child molester we have to worry about", statuses like that. 

Current Even Check: Huge riots in Iran and the innocent Iranian people are being beaten and shot to death or maybe executed as we speak only because they want to free their country from oppression and want democracy. And this has been going on ever since the beginning of June. 

This whole situation reminds me of the Joker's speech near the end of The Dark Knight.

"Nobody panics when the expected people get killed. Nobody panics when things go according to plan, even if the plans are horrifying. If I tell the press that tomorrow a gangbanger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will get blown up, nobody panics. But when I say one little old mayor will die, everyone loses their minds!"

Human nature: we love order, we love to know what ahead of us. It's normal, but the problem with that is, we're so safe and so calm with our plans that if one thing comes to maybe even getting in the way we lose it.