Are blogs dead? Maybe just mine.

by JL on November 16, 2009

Anyone else having trouble updating their blog lately? It’s not that I don’t have any content, or random stories to share. I think that I’ve just become more adept at sharing them elsewhere (like the Facebooks and the Twitters). Sometimes I think I might just turn this thing into a Tumblr page and go mobile. Anyway, I’ve saved up enough bite-sized content for a regular sized blog post, so here goes:

1During a freak accident at a video shoot, my Blackberry plummeted several feet to its demise. All the more surprising, it actually wasn’t me that dropped it. I was forced to kick into “Operation Upgrade” several months early, and got myself an iPhone 3Gs (32gb). I no longer have all that “app envy” coursing through my veins. Quite the opposite. I think I need to download an application that will occasionally shock my hand, forcing me to put down the iPhone and pay attention to my surroundings.

2All these videos games are killing me. The crazy, pre-holiday momentum has really kicked-in, and I’ve done a great job of staying ahead of all the new Xbox game releases that I want to get. Which has been about one a week as of late. Thankfully, it’s over for me until the new year, and my real problem now is when to find time to play any of them. Currently I’m rocking: ODST, Borderlands, Dragon Age, Modern Warfare 2, and Left4Dead 2.

3I take too many photos of my toddler and robots (though rarely in the same photo). Looking to also break the mold was my friend Hangry, who invited me to start up a joint photography blog. I was going to wait until we had more posts going to mention it, but I needed more stuff to pad out this list. You can follow our semi-random photo-awesomeness at our newly minted site, Crop and Bracket.

4Somehow I’m still making time for television. I’ve been pleasantly surprised by V, considering that I’m crazy-possessive about the original mini-series. (I plan on writing a full nerdcore review of the show after the initial 4 episode run concludes.) Also, I’d like to give props to FX for awesome season’s of Sunny in PA and Sons of Anarchy.

{ 4 comments }

1 jade November 17, 2009 at 5:54 pm

I have two blogs,FB,twitter,youtube,Flicker etc.
I cannot imagine someone with a job/life keeping up with everything!
Dont you dare stop photographing robots/action figures!
I just got the Ipod 32GB and am trying to get all the useful free aps I can find-
suggestions welcome!
I like V so far but would like to watch the entire original somehow.
I have a friend with the Iphone & I do find it to be quite a distraction for him-I notice he is there head down at the strangest moments.
((HUGS))

2 Audio November 17, 2009 at 9:54 pm

#2 is killing me. Considering I’ve bought two video games in the last week and I have to pay about $600 more in rent this month it’s a wonder I still have money to eat. That would explain the ramen noodles overcrowding my cupboard as of late.

I also know what you mean about blogging. It’s like any time I want to say something or link something I just put it on Facebook. And with the Xbox update it’s about to get crazy stupid. I just need to brainstorm some lengthy topics to update my blog with.

3 JL November 17, 2009 at 10:03 pm

Yeah, I am definitely cooling down on buying games (for myself) for the next month or two.

As for the blogging, I just need to hack away a little more at it each night, I guess.

4 Hasser November 24, 2009 at 10:00 am

You like V? I’m really disappointed in it. First, I don’t buy Juliette (or whatever her non-Lost name is) as an FBI agent. And that kid from Party of Five as a respected news anchor? Aint buyin’ it.
Plus, the writing is horrible and the storyline is bland and predictable. I was hoping for something more along the lines of what they did with BSG… take a campy old sci-fi show and turn it into a dark observation about humanity and technology. Unfortunately I think V will end up like the remake of Knight Rider … in the trash.

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