Believe it or not, LooseCanon's never been much of a chatter.
Now with blog sites, friend chat sites, dating sites, I am hammering the keyboard everyday...
I even managed to get a 'instant message' software to work on this thing...It took awhile..I got 'dial up'...Go ahead, say it.."Get up to speed Grandpa"...Feel better?
It's not my fault really...Living in the sticks I am too far out for cable or DSL...It's not a 'viable business decision' for big outfits to extend
themselves into rural areas..
There is the advent of satellite coming down the pike though...
I may find a way to get some major Kb's yet...It's expensive though.
I will probably have to trudge on with 28Kb's for another year or so
considering the pay check I get in the 'writing industry'...
Oh that reminds me...I wonder why on my blog sites all the front page ads are about sex sites? I don't have a single Greenpeace,
Save the Environment, or World Hunger ad going...
Maybe it's my bad...I've got to do something about that...
Not only is it demeaning to my blog front page, but more
importantly, I've got serious work to do here...Especially with 'dial up' I can't be clicking on that nonsense and waiting for the page to
load just to see if it's worth it...Damn..
That kind of diversion wastes the whole day..
However I digress...
The thing is... With the whole chat culture...The virtual culture..
I don't understand the abbreviated lingo. I think I got "LOL" down...
It's lots of love, or maybe lots of luck..
Maybe it changes depending on what's in the massager's mind at the time...
A lot of messages I get have three or more letters staring at me never to be explained, leaving me a bit anxious...
I don't know until I read the note if I am getting a love stroke or a FO.
It's not that anyone has FO'd me...
In fact everyone has been really nice and supportive.
I guess I'll learn to relax about that and just look forward to opening my messages.....
Soon as I get to that mellow state,...that's when I'll get FO'd.
Sometimes I 'get it' right off, like the other day I got a 'omfg'.
It was like I was in tune with the mind of the sender cuz it was right there in my head...
Most of the time though, I stare at those kind of letters for what seems to be,too damn long.
Trying this, trying that, until eventually I shrug and move on...
A lot of folks send pictures that get posted in my comment section.
These pictures are a example of the new visual communication that seems to be sweeping the world...
I was watching TV the other day, and I noticed how advertisers use A picture is worth a thousand words concept to make a statement...
It's fast, sensational, and kind of sheds some light on us as a society...
Eight years ago I worked for a telephone company here in California setting up Digital Subscriber Lines. More commonly know as DSL...At the time I was on a tiny team of twenty folks in an office of five hundred service reps.
Our little group was viewed by many as S.E.T.I. is by scientist in the field of astronomy....Out there...Not really producing much....
We had just one thing going for us that kept the Corporate office off our backs....
People want to go faster.....
I didn't say anything about the nagging concern that kept raising it's ugly head in the back of my mind during my entire five year career at Pacific Bell,SBC,AT&T.
After all one doesn't want to bite the hand that feeds ya....
That part of my life is gratefully over with and it's okay to say it...
Hard line telephone companies are doomed to failure.....
The advent of wireless communication was the future back then and an industry with all their infrastructure built on lan lines has no viable means to compete.
The best AT&T can do today is buy into a piece of another company's wireless network and pathetically hold on to a disintegrating customer base with lame marketing technics like "all your services on one billing"....
Anyway, I wonder if there is a chat lingo dictionary out there that novice's like me can master..
It would be kind of nice...If I fill out a job application I could put 'chat lingo' as a second language once I got up to speed...
I got to get LOL down anyway...
It's as common as spit..
My Grandson says it's "Laugh out loud"....
Ok that makes sense,...but so does "Log off Loser"...
Maybe I am more adapt with numbers opposed to letters....69 for example. I see this flag waved on user names in epidemic porportions.
I guess with the Baby Boomer glut of the population this is a reflexion of the post Hippy era...
Still it's a but confusing to me....
I like Jimmy Hendricks and all,...but who'd of thought "IF SIX TURNED OUT TO BE NINE" would be so popular a tune after all these years?
