julen

The Snapshot

Things I Love

Music I Can't Stop Listening To

Books I Really Liked


On social media

I have, like many of my contemporaries, mixed feelings about social media, and yet I (have) used the most common varieties regularly. The current state of social media is a potpourri of bad decisions, resulting in aging and disgruntled audiences and a fragmentation and disintegration of communities.

So roughly: twitter is a festering cesspool with an unfortunate rebrand and diminishing usability -- but it is still the place for college basketball - and increasingly not the place for hyperlocal updates. All of my communities scattered to different alternatives, and I don't have time for 5 more Social Media sites. I very occassionally solicit book recommendations and post pictures from my critter cam and roadtrips to facebook (I prefer to have a context for folks on facebook - family, classmates, former coworkers, friends, witty internet pals, as opposed to total strangers.) I was shamed into creating an instagram account a few years back that I promptly ignored for a while. I do have a g+ account, but come on! I never check it because I don't work at Google and I have no need for hangouts.


Personal Heroes and Role Models

Jane Austen Novels Ranked by Preference

  1. Persuasion
  2. Pride and Prejudice
  3. Emma
  4. Sense and Sensibility
  5. Mansfield Park
  6. Northanger Abbey

Best Pie Flavors

  1. Apple Pie
  2. Lemon Meringue Pie
  3. Key Lime Pie
  4. Pear & Cranberry Almond Pie
  5. Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

Five Facts About Me