March 2008

And I can see why.

Guitar Hero

I’ve been wanting to try this game out for awhile. I went home for the weekend to spend time with my family and it turns out they had the game and have been having a wonderful time. We spent a good part of Saturday afternoon taking turns playing together and watching each other. It may seem silly to the outsider, but you really have to give it a try. We liked it so much that we picked up our own game for the Wii.

Here’s a picture of my ‘Rockstar’ sisters.

On Wednesday night, I joined some friends to see Tim Gunn at the Herberger’s Roseville.

He was so positive and pleasant. I actually don’t have cable so I’ve barely seen Project Runway — which he is famous for — and now I want to watch it.

We need more people like that in the world. Even the “negative” things out of his mouth were positive. Yay for fabulousness in our world.

Yesterday I was notified of the passing of Arthur C. Clarke by my Twitter feed.

The link from Twitter sent me to his Wikipedia page.

For me, yesterday was March 18th. According to Wikipedia he had died on March 19th. So from my perspespective he died in the future. The screen shot below is from Wikipedia.

——————————-SCREEN SHOT FROM WIKIPEDIA ON MARCH 18TH, 2008————

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Things are getting wacky.

I had plans this weekend. I was going to see my nephew, the one I’d never met. I was also going to celebrate his brother’s birthday. But my doggie got sick and I had to stay home. He’s actually a little more than sick, the x-ray from the vet yesterday told us that he might have an obstruction in his system because his stomach was full of food. It really sucks when you have to pick one family over another.

When I told my mom about this story, she told me about the time she and my dad had watched a dog over the weekend for a friend. That dog had an obstruction and died while the owner was out of town. My mom said she understood and that sometimes life gets in the way of our plans and that we did need to stay home and take care of our pet.

So at least when you have to make that choice, a good family understands.

I’ve always wanted to go to SXSW. I think the first time I heard about it was when I was a DJ at my college radio station. It sounded to me like a freaking mecca of cool.

Sadly, I’ve never made it to the event. Due to things like work and not having an extra $1000 or so on hand for something like that, that stars have just never aligned.

Now I’ve been reading all kinds of things about the event this year that make me feel like it might be too late to attend this event with the expectations I’ve carried with me since college.

Here’s a few things I’ve been picking up through my various social media channels.

One of the sessions was not giving participants the content that they thought they could expect from the panel. Since the audience was filled with a bunch of social media savvy people, they all started talking to each other about this on Meebo. Unbeknownst to the panelist and traditional journalists in the room, an entire conversation about how this happened without the presenters.

There was also an article in Salon.

The kicker of it for me was the info graphic I found in the latest Fast Company.

And the twitters that people are sending, point to the end of an era.

I’m not saying it won’t be a great event next year, I’m just saying I don’t think the event I’ve always heard about happens anymore. No judgment, but sometimes , ‘their old stuff WAS so much better’. Things change.