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and I find that I’m never alone
and I find that my heart is my home
and the music within makes me whole
A world that I built on my own

and I know that I’m never alone
and I know that my heart is my home
Every missing piece of me
I can find in a melody

Age 0-3: You don’t know anything.

Age 4-10: Early Childhood. Tag, screwups, naps, snacks, kool aid in little plastic bottles, chillin’ in general

Age 11-13: Late elementary, middle school. Learning the ropes. Still fun times.

Age 14-16: Early high school! Hate life sometimes, love it other times. “Life is so complicated. My parents can’t possibly understand me.”

Age 17-20: Late high school, early college. Possibly dating, a lot of academics, probably partying. You’ve got all the time in the world, right? [Boy | girl] drama here and there.

Age 21-24: “wtf” period. Get out of college. Possibly break a college relationship — holy crap, what am I doing? Move somewhere to do work.

Age 25-29: Wow I’m in my prime. Are those college loans paid off yet…? Hopefully [propose | get proposed to] by now…

Age 30-40: Either doing something great, or still trying to do something great. Either happily married, angrily married, divorced, or “wtf” still alone.

Age 41: Most people don’t get to do something great — midlife crisis?

Age 50-60: Nearing retirement, gee that didn’t take so long did it? Dick around for these 10 years, kids are in/almost out of college. God I hope I have a retirement plan.

Age 61-70: Oy, grandchildren! Yo crazy [gramps is goin FISHIN | grandma is darnin yo SOCKS (boy| girl)]! An mebbe I’ll write meself a MEMOIR, EH?! Or mebbe we’re all playin wid the latest technology.

Age 71-80: Eh, what wazzat [sonny|precious]? Can I still hear/taste/smell/feel/whatever? Oh crap I can’t remember anything. Maybe if I’m really smart, I spend my days doin’ math.

Age 80-100: Lah lah lah chillllll. Oh crap the world is at war. If I make it here before nuclear winter, seriously bless little baby Jesus. Okay time to die. If there’s anytime in life to find God, it’s now, EH!?

Notes: Only really have 20 years to accomplish something awesome. Not that many years to find love. Only about the same amount of time to raise children. Only 100 years to waste doing useless things.

Is it worth it living moment by moment, or should we be going for larger meaning?

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He didn’t blog. He doesn’t blog. Hey, Bill Gates blogs. Ever hear of the Gates Notes?

I think I like Billy G. better.

The Plan
5pm – Dinner
6pm – Mallard
7pm – Lon Capa
8pm – Programming
9pm – Math homework
12pm – Sleep

What actually happened
5pm – Sleep
10pm – WHAT THE —-

For the record, I was just upset that I missed dinner.

I would totally embed this video if it still looked cool on my own blog. It’s so much better just on Vimeo though.

Today, I had a lot of fun playing with twitter and its API. The reason for this is mainly because (as you may have noticed), I’m exploring why and how people can use twitter for marketing. This is a side of twitter that a lot of people don’t think about too much, but it’s still really interesting.

My conclusion is that getting a lot of followers isn’t particularly hard. There are a plethora of scripts out there that allow you to mass-friend people, and if you’ve read two posts I made earlier, it’s clear that CSVs full of twitterers who “follow you back” are available. There are so many twitterers who follow people back! It’s really quite interesting.

At the same time, there are limits. Twitter is aware that their wonderful software can easily be manipulated for the purpose of spam, and for this reason it has created follow limits as well as limits to the number of API calls any one account (or IP for that matter) can make. If you’re not a programmer: an API is an application programming interface, or essentially a set of rules/functions that have been made available by twitter to outside parties. So basically a third party can write software that automates a lot of stuff (e.g updating your twitter status or friending someone) — a good example is Twitterific or Echofon for your iTouch/iPhone. Limits to API calls basically restrict those softwares from updating every minute or say, following 300 people instantly. If everyone decided to check the latest updates on twitter every minute, the server strain would be unthinkable (and twitter would lose a ton of money just trying to keep everything up). So that’s why that is.

I’m still experimenting — sorry if you see some weird posts like those last two in coming days. The topic of using twitter for marketing purposes has really made me curious.

These people all have at least a thousand followers. They’re the high profile people. And they follow you back, or so I hear.

If you have at least 1,000 followers, follow people back, and you want to be on this list, just drop a comment and I’ll add you.

BarackObama, CraigTeich, GuyKawasaki, Jonathan360, MarcWarnke, Oliver_Turner, Debbas, DowningStreet, HashTags, Starbucks, StephenKruiser, _SamJones, Jerell, KMesiab, Scobleizer, SteveWeber, TheDigitalLife, TheOnion, Andrew303, BigRichB, BradHoward, Mark33, TUAW, Astronautics, ESPN, Foodimentary, KikiValdes, StanleyTang, Barefoot_Exec, CaseyWright, MrSocial, ScotMcKay, WayneMansfield, ChrisPirillo, EdStivala, JackBastide, PerryBelcher, USBargains, AlohaArleen, NicheTitans, Rex7, RockingJude, Stejules, CoffeeTweet, DaveMalby, MarketingZap, Nansen, ShannonSeek, Eleesha, LarryLanier, PragueBob, RadioBlogger, TheBusyBrain, JulieRoy, MikeKlingler, RobMcNealy, Twitter_Tips, JamesRivers, MichaeMillman, RonnieWilson, TwitPic, 00Joe, DanTanner, MikeFilsaime, Zaibatsu, JeanetteJoy, MikePFS, Montaignejns, WBAustin, OHHDLInfo, SeanMalarkey, TechXav, MariaAndros, SocialMediaClub, WebAddict, FLWBooks, JeanLucR, LarryBrauner, Kamper, Leplan, TMaduri, AaronMartirano, AndrewWindham, TwitLive, ImogenHeap, JeffPulver, NewMediaJim, Teedubya, DCRBlogs, MarkDavidson, OpenZine, ShawnRobinson, BryantSmith, KonaEndurance, TradingGoddess, TYSONtheQUICK, DrJeffersnBoggs, JohnReese, InfadelsAreCool, JayOatway, Techhie, Upicks, Gemstars, Nabbit, DiyanaAlcheva, MichDdot, SethSimonds, Unmarketing, JesseNewhart, Meteorit, TrafficGen, Zefrank, RichCurrie, StaffInSeconds, KarlRove, PeterDrew, LittleQuiz, SitePointdotcom, iPodiums, TeddyShabba, AlexKaris, DawudMiracle, HoleInHisEye, RightWingNews, OutsideMyBrain, Pistachio, Dollars5, OudiAntebi, DSMPublishing, MediaBistro, Adnagam, PeterSantilli, COasis, Orrin_Woodward, NicholasPatten, QueenoftheClick, AlexisNeely, StockTwits, EverywhereTrip, MarketingProfs, E_Stampede, MariSmith, ChristianFea, MojoJuju, eMom, RizzoTees, Anexemines, AmericanElement, TravisGreenlee, RickySantos, PawLuxury, KrisColvin, PinkElephantPun, JasonFinch, LonnieHodge, JanSimpson, Stickham, DaveLawrence, CaliDeals, JamesByers, JeffHerring, Linc4Justice, GSpowart, HowardBienstock, Peter_R_Casey, BettyDraper, MichaelEmlong, Dexin, The_Gman, BobCallahan, TrendTracker, TylerTorment, GarinKilpatrick, Jim_Turner, Ann_Sieg, Ken_Cosgrove, Frostfire, Pat_Lorna, WineTwits, BradFallon, TimJensen, PhotoCanvas, JasonMitchener, Bill_Romanos, MikeMayhew, HawaiiRealty, 9Miles, Sotero_Garcia, Loyalty360, WeirdChina, MarkRMatthews, SteveOuch, Socrates_Soc, Comcastcares, ChrisMoreschi, CoffeeCupNews, WillieCrawford, LouieBaur, Coolsi, Nicolane, NixTheNews, EzineArticles, Hubpages, ChrisSpagnuolo, FredaMooncotch, SheriTingle, JustingLover, ShortAwards, Flap, SuggestionBox, JimDeMint, TweetStats, theBilly, ThaPaparazza, WritingHannah, 0Boy, ThinkGeek, LanceScoular, MayhemStudios, TraderAdvice, Dana_Willhoit, JimmySmithTrain, JoelDrapper, Kidscash, KellyShibari, SteveGarfield, JasonTryfon, DanSchawbel, LookCook, JudyRey, MJBerry, EdwardMoore, BlackBottoms, DougH, CrumCake, ProsperityGal, Lotay, JudyRey

The word hello doesn’t mean anything. It just occurred to me after reading an interesting article — but the word hello’s definition is simply

hello –interjection 1. (used to express a greeting, answer a telephone, or attract attention.)

(via dictionary.com)

So trippy.