Monday, June 25, 2007
I'm feeling somewhat agitated at the moment.Ever find yourself wondering if someone is not who they say they are?
That they are in fact someone who knows you, and are playing some kind of game?
It's very hard to pretend to be someone else, and it only takes a single word to slip up and give the game away.
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Thursday, June 21, 2007
Bloody hell!Our house was either just hit by lightning, or we had a *very* near miss.
There was a flash and an extremely loud bang... with no gap between them, and a bright flash coming from somewhere we can't quite figure, in the kitchen.
Nothing ouright exploded or caught fire, but the wireless router had a complete fit, and we were without internet access for a few minutes.
Freaky.
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007
There's a chatroom I hang out in sometimes where they seem to really enjoy it when I read kids stories to them.Obviously, I don't read the story completely straight, but add a certain dry spin to it.... and in a room full of americans, with the english accent on top of it all, it seems to keep them quite entertained.
So, I figured, why not record stories like that, and upload them to youtube?
Here's my first attempt.
Labels: video
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Thursday, June 14, 2007
It's surprising how wrong an impression you can get of a person when chatting online, especially when a) you can't see them, and b) they barely speak any english.So on a few occasions over the past couple of weeks, I'd spoken to a young chinese lad called sasa. It was quite a struggle, as he didn't really speak any english, and the translation tool he used was somewhat on the surreal side.
Talking to him though, I found it fascinating, how the entire structure of our respective languages were so completely different, showing how differing cultures produce entirely different ways of thinking, and seeing the world.
So anyway, while surfing on stickam recently, I noticed, and watched for a couple of minutes, a pretty chinese woman. There being no info on her profile page though, other than to state that she speaks chinese, I didn't go in to chat.
Moving on again, to this evening... I was sitting in my chatroom, just listening to some music, when who should wander in but that very chinese woman, who then proceeded to chatter away in a rather familiar, incomprehensible manner.
After a few minutes of swapping confused sentences, where clearly, neither of us had understood the other, she then said "I am sasa."
Young chinese lad indeed.
Labels: chatrooms
Steve 1:06 AM [+] (0) comments
Thursday, June 07, 2007
Bit of a gap between posts there.I've been busy chatting away on stickam... the site that hosts the webcam and chatroom elsewhere on this site, and my other sites. (So yeah, check out my chatrooms if you want to waffle, I'm there quite a bit just lately.)
Initially, I found it rather daunting, with all the teens... very much like myspace, but with audio/cams, but I've gradually gotten much more into it... got a grip on the "scene".
Now all the usual net chat daftness you'd expect is present and correct, from your screaming kiddies to your lecherous old pervs... but today, I found myself feeling quite... I can't think of the word...
A chap from Africa, in a net cafe, who wanted very badly to find friends outside of his country, just handed out his phone number, willy nilly.
First thoughts would be "scammer... he wants to rob you" and that might just be true, but if it is... then he was an extremely good one, coz my feeling was "here's some poor naive guy who's gonna get himself into serious bother if he keeps that up." (I didn't take his number, nor give him mine, in case you wondered.)
Whatever the case, he didn't make any obvious play to scam me... so I was just left with this feeling of having chatted with someone who had absolutely no concept of just how cruel net culture can be.
It was quite a sad feeling.
Labels: chatrooms
Steve 1:00 AM [+] (1) comments
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