Back to the beginning with Garbage

   So a few days ago I ran across my old copy of Garbage's first record.  I can't tell you how much I loved this record when I first got it.  I would bring a CD player into the labs at school, and listen to it whenever I worked on my projects in PowerAnimator on the old SGI workstations.  I have been listening to the record recently while I work in Maya.  The songs on the record just take me back to that time of exploratory learning.  The combination of the music and setting up joints is invigorating.  I feel like I did back then, like as if I can do anything, and my creativity is boundless.  The computer is a tool for my expression.
   The second record, Garbage 2.0, is also excellent, but nothing as striking as that first record.

"Stupid Girl....  I can't believe you fake it...."

Going cold turkey on Facebook

I couldn't take it anymore.  The updates, the quizzes; the utter rediculousness of it all...

 

I had to quit facebook.

 

I was spending so much time on there, and updating my status so often, that I had little time for other, more important things.  I was starting to update my status IN MY HEAD.  It was too much.

I am not the kind of person who can just check in once in a while; ignoring the link on my drop-down menu that was calling "just look for 5 minutes, it won't take too long..."  Bullcrap!  30 minutes later I was still looking at vacation pictures, wishing I was on vacation.  Or doing a stupid quiz.

 

The real thing that was the last straw was the people who never respond.  I'd do a comment on their post, they'd say nothing.  But the comments from people who also responded, most of whom I don't even know, would arrive in my mailbox. 

 

The 'friends' who would rarely update, or comment, probably had jobs.  So if people who had jobs don't have time to post, but I do, then perhaps if I spend some cycles on other things, I might be able to find work.

 

One day and counting.  It's nicer out here.