I try to avoid navel-gazing on this site. I’ve shared a lot of little low resolution photos, but I generally don’t write your eyes off regarding stuff about me.
But since people have been asking:
- I got my private pilot certificate on February 9th. The very next day, the same plane I flew had an engine failure and a forced emergency landing. A wing and the spinner didn’t do so well. I’m glad I wasn’t there that day.
- My hiptop I was auctioning on eBay was “won” by a Nigerian-based scam. I wasn’t fooled by the fake PayPal email and the non-existant shipping address for the “British American Embassy In Nigeria (BAEN).” eBay finally refunded the fees and deleted the auction page. They wouldn’t let me give a second chance offer to the previous bidder, so now I’m auctioning car exhaust whistles for fun. The hiptop3 and everything else is all sealed up in a box ready to ship. Anyone want it before I unpack it all and put it back on eBay?
- Living off of my Nokia 6610 hasn’t been too bad. Weird.
- I’m barely in the March 2007 issue of Minnesota Monthly.
- I have a geeky interview on Technology Evangelist where I blather on about the early days of moblogging, device usability vs device features, the non-existant “holy grail” phone and my overall cluelessness of what I’m “going to do next.” You can even watch it in HD. When it comes to vlog production, these Technology Evangelist guys pull out all the stops.
- My aunt Laura saw my faded gnome on my front steps that I got from my sister for Christmas a couple years ago. She took it and repainted it. It looks better than new! Thanks, Laura!
- The Deets picks up and runs with a story based off of a photo I put on Flickr regarding Pizza Lucé’s coupon ripoff.
- After a lot of Dodgeball.com evangelizing over the last two years, I’ve decided not to use it anymore. A lot of my friends stopped using it too, some a lot earlier than others.
I’ll have a bigger post about the Non-Existant Rise and Fall of Mobile Social Networking in Minneapolis another day. - I’ll be back on Chasing Windmills very soon. I can’t tell you how it will pan out but you’ll probably see me get “rejected,” just not anything like last time.
- Writing traditional blog posts that actually have substance is a royal pain in the ass. I have two in the queue that I’ve been working on for a week but when all is said and done it won’t look like I put more than a half hour into them.
Anyone want to go flying? Let’s go. These days I’m flying an old Piper Warrior out of Lake Elmo but that may change soon too. I’m shopping flight clubs and fractional ownership. I haven’t found a perfect fit yet. Yesterday I flew to Winona and back. Tomorrow if the weather is okay I’m doing the same thing to Hinckley.
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1. The interview was “interesting”.
2. Dodgeball, mostly because it doesn’t work as intended but also because of many individuals who don’t want to use it properly, sucks in Minneapolis/St Paul.
I was happy to be one of the many to drop Dodgeball and rid myself of those annoying SMSs. It only took two days for me not to care where everyone had lunch the day before.
You not having to check-in to venues is probably why the Nokia is ok. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be able to send Dodgeball the SMSs and it would be a pain to T-9 all those.
3. I tried to offer you a Gnome of mine. You didn’t want it
Receiving stolen property is a crime though.
4. Glad to see something here — I was getting worried.
Meow!
Posted 22 Feb 2007 at 14:31 ¶I’ve noticed that I started leaning towards using Dodgeball in a Twitter-like fashion, and I’ve vowed to immediately cut that out.
I wonder how exactly you are supposed to use it if you consider Jenni to be using it improperly?
Posted 22 Feb 2007 at 23:38 ¶I wonder how exactly you are supposed to use it if you consider Jenni to be using it improperly?
As you said, don’t use Dodgeball as if it was Twitter. Dodgeball is meant for real check-ins to real venues. It’s not meant to notify everyone (who may or may not be your friend) that you are located in your friends car, I-94 in WI, or that Aaron is mean for keeping the database clean.
They had been asked nicely to use Twitter or to cut out the incorrect behavior on Dodgeball and they persisted. The problem is that other people, because of their large social group using the site, learned their incorrect behaviors and started using the site as such.
Posted 23 Feb 2007 at 10:25 ¶You can be sure that I was glad you weren’t there, either.
-C.
Posted 23 Feb 2007 at 12:12 ¶As you said, don’t use Dodgeball as if it was Twitter.
Gotcha.
Posted 23 Feb 2007 at 16:56 ¶Delightfully geeky interview, btw.
Posted 23 Feb 2007 at 22:43 ¶Yeah…but are you a super taster? Did you do the test yet?
Posted 25 Feb 2007 at 12:46 ¶Yah, I looked at twitter.. - it gave me a headache..
I’d prolly join you for a ride this summer, if not before over the Croix if you can get a hi-wing so I can shoot some photos, or just go up period, as I have little chance to ever ride with my father in his Experiemental.
Posted 28 Feb 2007 at 17:52 ¶Tim-
You reminded me of a flight I did from Winona to Lake Elmo… on the way back some small plane, from my point of view, looked like it was cruising down the river! Very low and riding down the river going south near Afton. I was wondering what the heck it was doing so low. Legally, if it is 500 feet away from any person, vessel, vehicle or structure and can safely make an emergency landing if his engine fails, he’s okay. Let’s assume he can make an emergency landing on water. Even then, if a plane was coming the other way it is a bit tight. There’s power lines and shit down there too. Not for me. Either way, we can still do a safe flight over the Saint Croix that’ll still be great for your camera.
And now that I have my PPC you should introduce me to your father.
Posted 28 Feb 2007 at 18:07 ¶Hip hip for another episode of Chasing Windmills! Excited that you’ll be back for another appearance…
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