What Are You Reading? - A Seesmic Distraction

I was able to score one of the coveted invites to the beta site www.seesmic.com and started playing around with it today. I can't tell you yet if it is a fancy distraction or a useful communication tool. The best way to describe it is Twitter with video. It's not YouTube, however. Conversations are done entirely with video. Imagine hundreds of people using their webcams to reply to deep, philosophical questions while hanging out in their bathrobes. Isn't technology wonderful?

I look like something the Irish Setter dragged in, but I was willing to give it a go. (Cat's are much smaller and couldn't drag me anywhere. It's all that good food I ate and apparently tucked away like a treasured keepsake onto my waistline over the holidays.)




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Claire said…
you are a busy guy. I'm lucky to get one hour a week to read for myself.
December 31, 2007 2:42 PM
D.R. Cootey said…
Well, that's what I'm TRYING to read. I never said I was successful at it! :)
December 31, 2007 4:06 PM
Soozcat said…
ROFL

See, THIS is exactly why I miss showing up for Banzai nights. Fun stuff.
January 02, 2008 2:15 AM
Boris G said…
Hi Doug,

Therese Borchard told me about your blog.

When my psychiatrist was assessing me for ADD, he asked me how reading was for me. I'm a senior in a BSW program right now and it took me a few minutes to realize that was what he was referring to. I blushed and laughed and told him I don't read those. I scan them, peruse them, examine the bold words lists and explanations when I can. But I don't ever sit down and read non-fiction. And even then... never BAD books like Whuthering Heights. ;-) I can't get through anything that doesn't hold my attention from 5 different direction.
January 02, 2008 8:19 AM
Anonymous said…
LaughingImp,

After watching this episode. I'M ALMOST CURED!

What else have you started and have not completed?

-jes
January 03, 2008 10:40 AM
D.R. Cootey said…
soozcat ~ :) Thanks. We miss you, too. Let us know when you and Curtis are in town again. We'd like to meet up.

Jeff ~ Therese is so nice. Please thank her for me.

I've surprised myself by my ability to read non-fiction over the years considering in the past I equated reading non-fiction with torture. Reading Chemistry texts in college nearly killed me. After college my approach was to just take a chapter more or less at a time. And, of course, only read something that I found interesting.

Thanks for your comment. Hope to see you around again.

Jetsu ~ Almost cured!?! From ever reading again? From being just like me? I must have really scared you straight!

As for what else I have started and not finished, is Life too broad an answer? ;)

~Douglas
January 04, 2008 4:22 AM
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