Chicago MMXII

LL what is the twitter for your tumblr? that's a better way for me to follow it since i'm never on tumblr

nevermind, i figured it out

@Yearbook_Editor

i think i hate twitter

i like-a the twitter

something about it makes me feel like i am just barfing up words and then they just sit there on my lap in a mess
nothing i have to say is important enough to broadcast scattershot like that
like seriously NOTHING

at least on ilx there is a semblance of conversation and topic
i dunno, i realize this is just me

that's why you don't tweet anything important. it's only for dumb stuff.

i don't have that many dumb things to say, i guess

well i'm sure people who know me would contest that but ykwim

twitter! it's not for everyone!

i just miss jibjabbing with you guys here i guess ;_;

personally I really liked the puppy mspaint portrait yr hubs posted last night

my handiwork is best represented in picture form i guess

c&d, keep her on the dl asap

i think i hate twitter

Me too. I tried, but it's not really for me. I like reading funny absurdist stuff on it, but it sucks for conversation - especially group conversation - pics, and events.

I think it suits my brain better than long form discussion. All my ideas start to fall apart after 140 characters.

Twitter is much better for beefs than blogs. Can't go on too long.

I have no interest in beefs.

Sometimes beefs find you, or so I've found.

Another good reason to hide then. I guess I just wanted to say I miss u, chilx.

that's why you don't tweet anything important. it's only for dumb stuff.

For example, I tweeted about The Toadies today and not for the first time.

tenative deal for the CTU

tentative too

Carl fyi yr toadies post made me lol in the breakroom earlier this afternoon. Luckily I was alone in there.

I was on my third go-round of Possum Kingdom when it occurred to me that with the windows open, I was surely not the only person listening to the song (just possibly the only person voluntarily listening to it).

I also like Twitter for keeping up with people that I used to be FB friends with but don't know well enough to communicate regularly via email, and for following writers who don't have dedicated RSS feeds for their stuff (so for example, Lindy West, because fuck following all of Jezebel on Google Reader). It's not idea for the latter because at least three times/week I have to declare Twitter bankruptcy and just mark all 100000000 tweets as read. Also sometimes I want to reply to someone but it's been four hours since their tweet and the tweeter has long since moved on.

Come to think of it, Twitter kind of sucks.

Anyway, I follow the LL's tumblr output via Google Reader because if I just followed it on Twitter, I'd miss half of the posts and that would be :(.

Also it is definitely very warm in the direct sun, at least out in the auto-centric wasteland that is the Elston/Logan big box shopping center mecca/gateway to hell.

I don't know that I would be all about Twitter if I weren't tweeting as part of my job. Even though we can technically tweet whatever we want, the context in which I'm doing it definitely shapes the kinds of things I tweet -- lots more links that I would normally share, for instance. I'm not really a "hey check out this out" guy, but it's a useful Twitter mode.

Also, I just tweeted at a noted jazz musician, and he tweeted me back. High five!

i have a professional twitter account too but it's pretty boring, mainly i just use it to tell people if we're going to be closed during weird times, i can't really figure out how to make it more interesting.

of course it's got like 4x as many followers as my personal account

I gave up on my professional twitter. I even locked it when I was interviewing for my last job, since it's one of the few related results that come up if you search for me via my full name.

I'm better off keeping my dumb thoughts to myself even if it means I'm a little lonely for jibjab.

I like your dumb thoughts.

I think 85% of my twitter followers are spam bots, but then I also rarely have anything worthwhile to say. I'm so bad at tweeting though, I always see so many clever people on there that I feel intimidated into trying to be clever and I try too hard and suck at it. Super jealous of clever tweeters.

I don't like spending a half hour figuring out a precise wording that conveys the right tone, is comprehensible, and is also within 140 characters.

I bought some dryer ballz today.

see deez dryer ballz

I made a deez nuts joke to my cat this morning.

I also like Twitter for keeping up with people that I used to be FB friends with but don't know well enough to communicate regularly via email

See, it doesn't meet my expectations for this purpose. It's tiny-information overload, it's too fleeting, and it's too one-way.

exactly

i'm not jealous of clever tweets at all, and i don't even aspire to produce them, i just don't really like the medium because it's not how i interact with people

i'm just going to start calling you all on the phone. i'm all about phone calls now.

How retro!

my experience of twitter was basically "i feel so god damn alone"

Yeah, I think it helps that I am doing it alongside colleagues.

Which I realize is also kind of weird and brings its own set of challenges.

i guess i am not looking for more opportunities to put on the La Lechera show and that's what twitter feels like to me

Yeh that makes sense. It feels like announcements instead of socializing in a way that FB, MySpace, etc don't or didn't, so it feels isolating.

Just pretend you're mingling. That's the way I do it.

Hey if anyone is interested in going to the Hideout block party today/tonight R and I have two tickets we're not going to use.

So this strike is about to get really real, isn't it? Rahm went nuclear tonight.

I was out of state, but I gather on Friday they were close enough that they thought there was a chance students would be back in school today. And now I hear at least three more days of striking (?), which makes me think someone moved the football. If Rahm went nuts, I imagine it was the teachers.