just booked a flight to lombok for a month in november.

better start that clean eating character.

things are going to get real.

tasty times ahead.

GK

Today I did something a little cray. I accidentally stood right behind someone on the escalator. Like alllllll up in her grill girl. Not a step in between. Just right behind her. Like I owned the place. It was totally unintentional- I just misread the escalator step proximity (a nervous affair at the best of times) and there I was. I felt like I was breathing on her. I felt like she was breathing on me. There was a lot of breath. We both knew it was uncomfortable, but I couldn’t move, she couldn’t move and for that seventeen seconds of escalator ride pleasure, it was as if we were one. we were one.

You know what’s awkward? This picture of a dog sitting on a cat.

You know what’s really awkward? When an extremely good-looking co-worker talks to you and you get flustered and turn red and trip over your own feet when you are standing still.

What’s even more awkward is when you take the sandwiches for the lunchroom down to the lunchroom and trip down the stairs and they all tumble down the stairs in front of the window of the lunch room where the said good-looking co-worker is peeping out from.

What’s even more awkward than this is when you add them on Facebook that night because for some reason you think maybe there’s a chance that he doesn’t think you’re a complete goofball and maybe you could be friends afterall.

but then he doesn’t accept.

What’s the most awkward of all is that I will be seeing mr pretty face next week at work.

He will know I have added him. I will know he declined me.

Things are going to get real, they are going to get tight, and most of all, they are going to get awkward.

I’ll keep you posted with the fallout.

Should be gags.

This is why technology needs to die a slow and painful death. (course related section)

socially awkward always,

g-rizz

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The bonus reading Adrian provided us for this weeks class was crazy weird because some parts were highlighted and other parts simply were not. I took this to mean that the parts that were highlighted were the bits to be considered. My favourite of these highlighted bits concerned the essence of collages and the similarities they share with the editing process and beyond that, with the world of the blog. Collages for the main part are unique pieces of art that utilise other peoples art to create something with new meaning. Fragments of other ideas are combined to create a new idea and materials are being used that were perhaps not the intention of the artist, author, ideas man etc in their authentic and original form. In this way collages bare a strong resemblance to editing and the recreation of older works.

This week there was a link to wikipedia which freaked me out because all I have ever been taught in school and at uni was that wikipedia is the devil. Once I got over my initial shock of this travesty, I began to read the wiki page. It spoke of many interesting things that didn’t interest me particularly, but it made admittedly one good point that I haven’t really thought about closely so far in the course. It speak about ‘social software’ and the ‘community formation’ that has developed in light of the internet. Online communities vary from one to one (email, IM), one to many (blogging, V-logs, websites) and many to many (wiki). It goes on to speak about the realness of these platforms which got me thinking about just how life would be if we didn’t have them. Ya’ll know that I’m a hater thats gonna hate on the internet, but these systems really have created important communities. Whilst I would disagree with the ‘realness’ and authenticity of the online world that fact that it provides an abundance of good amongst the bad is irrefutable. The internet does not exclude, it is a platform that invites everyone to be a part of it and have an degree of control in the way they wish to use it.

There’s always that one kid in class who answers the questions when old mate (be that a teacher in high school or tutor at uni) asks a tough one to a class who simply do not have the energy to give a response. In networked media 2014 that nerd is LOUIS BLAKE-MCLEISH. I am allowed to say this as sweet Louis is one of my main men from back in high school days. Some say we will be together one day.

ANYWAYZ. Louis is an incredibly talented young man with a gift for knowing things. He just knows everything. His brain is very good.

So instead of reading the readings this week  I decided to peruse his blog and scope what he has been up to. This week, Louis responded to the idea of Cultural Materialism, which is essentially the notion that it is culture and historical events, wartime and so on that are the reason for technological developments. Or something. Maybe. I haven’t read it because I’ve had a few bits to do.

However the overriding question Louis asked at the conclusion of his insightful blog post just gave me goose pimples and rather than re hash it in my absurd language I’m going to use what i have learned in this course and copy and paste it like I own the place. So here she is….

“How ironic that our technological development would be so closely linked to our must darkest and destructive tendencies. How symbolic of the human condition that our collective progression be caused, in part, by the suffering of the individual.  Could it be that it is our very nature as an inherently violent species that has enabled us to create the technologies that have lead the human race in becoming the most prominent species on the planet.”

Magic stuff. A true wordsmith.

Isn’t he smart? He’s my friend. braggy brag brag. It’s so deep. I feel like ya’ll should give this bad girl a read and appreciate the intellect of Louis and respect me more for being a close friend of a smart person.

In all seriousness I feel his reflection that the suffering of the individual is what advances our world is not only true of technological ventures but extends to an array of formats- I was watching this crap US television show in a similar format to Jerry Springer the other day where people with bizarre phobias are confronted in an incredibly insensitive way- peaches and pickles are thrown around rooms containing a highly uncomfortable person who fears peaches and pickles and their discontent is made obvious by them flailing around the room, crying and screaming.

I’m not sure of the authenticity of these phobias and the people within them- it is the fact that people are entertained by such obvious suffering that seems to me to be quite a shocking trait of humanity and this is perhaps why we as a group have been able to rise above animals and assert our authority- through being heartless.

What the hell is this blog? I was kind of on a roll but then I got tired and now it’s finished. If you liked where this was going then read Louis’ one.

It’s a lot gooder.

Sleep tight and don’t let the bed bugs bite,

Simple George

*Felicia spelling

How good is Naan bread? Tonight I’m going out for dinner with my friend and guess what I’m having? Naan bread. It could be cheese naan but I don’t know how lucky I’ll get.

A happy Wednesday to you,

Naana George (the name I wish my grand babies to call me one day)