Tuesday, February 22, 2011

myspace facebook.com coup?

Granted it's kind of the middle of the night, but it's still a little surprising that I can't find anything on the web about this. It sure seems from where I'm sitting that myspace has pulled off some kind of DNS coup on facebook. When I point my browser to any facebook page, I get directed to myspace. It's weird, very clever (assuming it's intentional) and starting to get annoying. 

Speaking of annoying, myspace has gotten a lot more annoying-looking since the last time I wandered by. I wonder if they're trying to annoy me out of my facebook habit.

on the other hand...

Of course, maybe my sleep issues aren't really issues after all, but just me getting in touch with a more natural rhythm:

http://www.livescience.com/12891-natural-sleep.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Livesciencecom+%28LiveScience.com+Science+Headline+Feed%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo

Interesting. A big thanks to my lovely wife for sharing the article with me.

general unrest

There seems to be a lot of general unrest in the world this month--from Egypt to Wisconsin, for Pete's sake. OK, file this blog post under d for duh, eh?

The thing that's strange to me is how that general unrest is manifesting in my own life. From unexplained (and seemingly unexplainable) sleepless nights to computers acting wonky, it all seems to be hitting the fan right now. I even ran out of gas the other day for the first time in about 10 years, then locked my keys in the car two days later. I know what my scientist dad would say about our inane need to assign order to chaos--to see patterns in random occurrences--and that's probably all there is to the computers, the cars, and other little things I'm noticing. The strange sense of unrest in my soul, though, that's the one that worries me. Like there are big things happening in the world, and I'm missing it.

In the meantime, I'm loosing focus on the world around me. I'm so worried about missing out on some big picture event that I'm not paying enough attention to the world around me... my son, my wife, people I work with and meet every day, my friends online, my parents on the phone, etc.

And, you know what? This computer is driving me nuts. I don't care what my dad says.