With Wings As Eagles: Craig P. Steffen's Blog

slippery slope

2009 February 22 08:47

Some things don't live up to their descriptions on paper. On the other hand, some things end up being profoundly more than what they're cracked up to be. A couple of TV shows come to mind:

A several-hundred-year-old vampire is a police detective. He works the night shift of the homicide division. Subplots include his sort-of friendship with his painfully mundane partner and his friend, the medical examiner. Lots of flashbacks to earlier times before he'd turned to good. [Forever Knight. Ran for 3 seasons in the 1990s while I was in college. Very good writing.]

More recently: They're going to re-make the 70's sci-fi show Battlestar Galactica. The star is going to be the police chief from some 80's cop show. Oh, and the first Cylon we see is going to be played by a model who's really hot.

I have to say, the idea of microblogging, and the particular site twitter, had felt like those descriptions to me. Not realy something that I would get into. Although I certainly do see the appeal of text messages, that's very useful for small amounts of fast communication, without having to occupy someone's time exclusively.

However...I got a new phone recently, for unrelated reasons. Which I'm pleased with; I'll probably talk about that later today. And I got unlimited text messaging, because that seems to be the way of things. And recently I started posting occasionally on twitter, because other people I know do so and it's interesting.

So when we took a shopping trip to the Big City yesterday, I found myself having fun tweeting about being in the AT&T store, and shopping for Rock Band. It was satisfying and fun in a way that I would never have predicted. I think that my tweeting at home will probably be pretty low key, but when I'm out or travelling, I think I will use it to do travelogues.

Feel free to check out my twitter page. I will try to hook it in to this page at some point, so that you can get updates here as well. And I expect that I'll tweet a lot when I'm on the road, but less so otherwise.