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Twitter Updates for 2011-09-13

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Twitter Updates for 2011-09-12

  • Yes! I found my Dreamcast video cable! This thing still works! Sonic Adventure FTW! XD #retrogaming #Sega #
  • Just finished Angel Beats #anime ending kinda ripped my heart out and smacked it around a bit. Loved the music too! #
  • As I get older, questions of existence and identity only get louder and louder. I'm not afraid, just intrigued. #meaningoflife #

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Twitter Updates for 2011-09-11

  • Cleaning up attic office today. Woo hoo! #
  • Here's a pretty cool crossplay panel from Nan Desu Kan 2005. http://t.co/iIvPUrR #NDK #cosplay #
  • The Nan Desu Kan panel inspired some of The thinking man's guide to crossplay! http://j.mp/emXPoS #mtf #cosplay #ebook #NDK #
  • Ok, back to cleaning and setting up my retro gaming corner! ^_^ #
  • Yeah! Found my wife's music books! Bonus points for me! XD #
  • Free #SciFi for your iPad/iPhone! Rolled Up Dimensionality http://j.mp/gcpA6G #ebook #Giveaway #freeasinbeer #
  • Learncrest books are available on #Kindle #Nook and #iPad spanning #SciFi #anime and #cosplay http://j.mp/fote9R #ebook #
  • Ok, now gotta find space for another computer… Hmmm… #
  • Just talked with mom on the phone. Feels good! It's been quite a while. I kinda bad with phones… #
  • Gathering books to donate to the neighborhood book fair, I'm reminded of how Balkanized my reading has become. http://j.mp/nm1rSp #ebook #
  • I loves me some old school #anime Robotech rules! http://t.co/QjXugUZ #
  • Wife's home now playing some of the piano music I found earlier. <3 #

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Twitter Updates for 2011-09-10

  • yay! friday is here! ^_^ #
  • Celebrate Friday with some free #SciFi for your iPad/iPhone! Rolled Up Dimensionality http://j.mp/gcpA6G #ebook #freeasinbeer #
  • Run code! Run! #
  • @ButerflySamurai because San Fran is where all the cool kids are moving! Expensive as f*k tho…grumble grumble… in reply to ButerflySamurai #
  • LOL, I wasn't even at #DragonCon and I'm still trying to recover! XD #
  • Finally got around watching Angel Beats. Hmmm #anime #
  • Big shout out from The thinking man's guide to crossplay to all the #mtf cosplayers at Nan Desu Kan! http://j.mp/emXPoS #cosplay #ebook #
  • Oh My! The thinking man's guide to crossplay was written for beginners. If #NDK is your first try, take a look! http://j.mp/emXPoS #ebook #
  • Watched the first 4 eps of Angel Beats on Netflix. Seems to be an amalgam of other #anime series. Interesting enough to keep watching. #
  • @ThePandoraBoxx LOL, fake boobies are so much fun! Shake em! XD in reply to ThePandoraBoxx #
  • New corset just came. I feel like I have just received one of the nuclear weapons of crossplay! It's awesome! #cosplay #

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Twitter Updates for 2011-09-09

  • Saw a woman at lunch today who totally reminded me of Pi from .hack! #anime #

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Twitter Updates for 2011-09-08

  • Lots of code to write today, but pretty straight forward. #
  • My #SciFi collection Rolled Up Dimensionality is now a free #ebook for iPad and iPhone! http://j.mp/gcpA6G #
  • I'm suddenly reminded of the Peterotica ep of Family Guy. But my writing is better than Peter Griffin's! http://j.mp/gcpA6G #free #ebook #
  • Been watching Card Captor Sakura with peeps on Megatokyo. I'd forgotten how cute the CLAMP character designs are! http://j.mp/qQ0jtz #
  • Time to boot up the VM for work! #
  • Wish I could go to Anime Weekend Atlanta this year, but thought about it a bit too late. I need a lot of lead time for big cons. #AWA #
  • Youmacon this year is too close to my anniversary. Hmm, 2nd honeymoon at Youma? Nah! Wife's not buyin it…LOL XD #mywifeisnotafan #
  • While we are planning karaoke for the anniversary party, they will be no #cosplay And don't even think about #crossplay #
  • LOL, I guess the #DragonCon Disney Princess Dudes have not read A thinking man's guide to crossplay! Oh My! http://j.mp/emXPoS #kindle #
  • I love refreshing favorite cosplays. Just got a new blonde wig for my Yuujiro and an extension to build some big assed pig tails! ^_^ #
  • Was watching Simpsons and suddenly felt a need for beer. Holy Moses! No, that's the beer I bought. It's goooood! #kidsdontunderstand #
  • RUD, a little free space opera thrown in for the iPad. Free as in beer! http://j.mp/gcpA6G #scifi #ebook #

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Blogging Under the Influence

The TV ads say not to drink and drive. And while I may have written a blog piece or two after a beer without too much trouble, anger is another matter. True, a lot of stuff gets written fueled by rage, but after nearly sending out a rage induced missive the other day, I don’t think it’s a good idea.

And a little reminder for the folks that just tuned in, there’s no such thing as anonymity on the internet! Anyone who really wants to find out who you are, can do so. Therefore, write like a celebrity. The whole world may be watching!

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Twitter Updates for 2011-09-07

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Twitter Updates for 2011-09-05

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Twitter Updates for 2011-09-04

  • Just started reading Solanin. I like it. The art is great and it just fits my mood right now… #Manga #
  • @ButerflySamurai Next year I want to be in the parade! #DragonCon #cosplay in reply to ButerflySamurai #
  • Reading manga and comics on the iPad is great! This is the future of reading! ^_^ #
  • The Balkanization Of Reading – http://t.co/j1K7SHc — Or Too Many Toys! #ebooks #
  • I love you Chicago, but I'd much rather be in Atlanta for #DragonCon this weekend! ^_^ #
  • While reading Solanin in the Viz #manga app, I wished I could tweet about it from the app. Perhaps in the future. #
  • Reading is one area where integrating social media actually makes sense to me, especially with the demise of large bookstores. #ebook #
  • Sharing/loaning #manga and #comics is missing from the reader apps I use. These very important to reading as a social activity. #ebook #
  • Make that #DragonCon panel line move a little faster with Anime Aftershocks! http://j.mp/dESrQj #Kindle #cosplay #ebook #
  • Check out A thinking man's guide to crossplay for last minute #DragonCon #mtf #cosplay tips! http://j.mp/emXPoS #Kindle #ebook #
  • Anyone else think it's strange that Apple keeps losing iPhone prototypes in bars? #someonesbeingplayed #
  • finished I am an alien. I have a question 01(Graphic Novel) by yoshitoshi ABe and Jonathan Nawrocki http://t.co/udNecu0 #Kindle #

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Twitter Updates for 2011-09-03

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Twitter Updates for 2011-09-02

  • Whoa, what a long Thursday! But solved some code problems today, so not a bad day at all! #
  • @ButerflySamurai Woo hoo! #Dragoncon Next year for sure! ^_^ in reply to ButerflySamurai #
  • It tends to take me 2 years from the time I decide to go to a new con until I actually make the trip. #anime #comics #stuffhappens #
  • I've been tempted to hot glue a few things, but always get back to stitches. I just don't trust glue too much for my #cosplay needs. #

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Twitter Updates for 2011-09-01

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Twitter Updates for 2011-08-29

  • Feels good to clear my blogging drafts list! Started writing this months ago! http://j.mp/qRNU8w #realnames #virtualworlds #revolution #
  • Finally finished Cloaked Intentions on #StarTrekOnline last night! These featured episodes feel just like the original series! ^_^ #
  • Games like #StarTrekOnline are the main reason I keep Windows around on my Mac! #mmorpg #vidya #
  • LOL, looks like my crossplay guide is being pirated. A badge of honor…I think… Download for #Kindle here. http://j.mp/emXPoS #ebook #
  • I'd love to see what my wife would look like in a seifuku, but she'd probably bop me just for asking! LOL, ouch! #cosplay #

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Kings, Queens, and Children of a Virtual God

Awhile back, I read  on Gamasutra that Apple’s Game Center was now revealing players’ real names during the initial friend request. After that initial request, only gamer nicknames would be visible. The new policy is supposed to stop players from impersonating other people, but isn’t that the whole point of playing a game in the first place? Who plays a game to just be their real world selves?

This and the whole push to real names online, such as in Google Plus to give one example, feels like the old guard, the kings and queens of “Real Life” (RL) trying to extend their dominion into the online world. I suppose that’s okay if you’re one of them, but the geeks and nerdy folks who built the net and make up much of its most active population are decidedly not.

These children of a virtual god tend to get the short end of the stick in RL. There we are often bullied, mocked, and despised. This despite the fact that much of the science and technology upon which modern life depends was discovered, designed, and built by us! On the net, we are the kings and queens (sometimes both at the same time), and the oppressive rules of the real world are not applied. The net has become a space of the mind, where the human spirit is laid bare. It’s not always pretty, but I think that’s where real human progress comes from, which ultimately leads to greater beauty.

Unfortunately, the freedom and wildness of the net is seem as a threat by those who don’t understand. And in the name of “protecting the children” they push to impose the same broken structures on the virtual world as we do such a great job of imposing on the real one. But it may be too late for that. From Arab Spring, Lulzsec, and the London Riots to the BART protest, the virtual world is pushing back on the real one. The unfettered meeting of the minds online is having real world consequences that cannot be easily suppressed without a coordinated, global trampling of the human freedoms that many of us profess to believe in. That could still happen, but now I’m sure it won’t come without a fight.