• if you hate get­ting caught on cam­era at the club, wait till you see what you look like caught on video! #
• If we are more than just the sum of our parts, could it be our soul is the unquan­tifi­able por­tion of that sum? #fb #
• If ur an idiot in real life and have idiot thoughts, Fb sta­tus and Twit­ter just make it pos­si­ble for the world to know ur stu­pid quicker #fb #
• we are cur­rently in the mid­dle of a par­a­digm shift …but then again, when are we not? #
• every stereo­type is born from a grain of truth …and a moun­tain of racism #
• does not have a weak­ness for word games. his weak­ness IS word games. ..can’t spell. it’s a fact. #
• http://twitpic.com/275z3 — It’s so big! …that’s what she said. #
• Is about to pop is Kogi cherry. #fb #
• http://twitpic.com/29o3y — Not even open yet and there’s a line 25 deep. #
• http://twitpic.com/29o7m — Wait­ing for Kogi on sun­set and man­zanita #
• Some things never change. There are still Mex­i­cans inside the Kogi truck mak­ing my tacos. #
• http://twitpic.com/2asus — GTA Chi­na­town? Can’t wait to see if this is racist. #
• @vio­let­mae touche #
• @vio­let­mae you know I am just the hat­er­ade to your kool-aid #
• Lac­tose intol­er­ence and going to melt­ing pot on a date don’t match. #fb #

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There’s a new trend: Broad­cast my life! I am so interesting!

Now that every­one has the abil­ity to, every­one feels the need  …no, the oblig­a­tion to tell the world about every lit­tle thought they have and every bowel move­ment they make. No seri­ously, search for poo or bath­room on twit­ter, you’d be sur­prised. As I was telling my online neme­sis @violetmae (who by the way doesn’t know is my neme­sis yet), I don’t think there is enough inter­est­ing content/people to sup­port a site like Twit­ter for much longer. And now, with the main­stream­ing of Twit­ter, it will be over­loaded with com­plete drib­ble. Every­one from McCain, who doesn’t know how to email, to your mom (…lit­er­ally, your mom. I’m not try­ing to insult you) will be tweet­ing. It’s going to be a com­plete clusterf##k. Imag­ine if you got everybody’s Face­book sta­tus update in your news­feed. That’s going to be Twit­ter. It’d be the same as Youtube tak­ing over DirecTV …but worse! It’s 24/7 lol­cats, old man rants, and fat peo­ple dancing!

Then the next step in the Twit­ter move­ment would have to be a Hulu equiv­a­lent, a more focused site that only has qual­ity con­tent on it. But we already got that; that’s fmylife. But now fmylife has got­ten so pop­u­lar, it has con­se­quently gone to crap. Every­one with a key­board thinks they’re funny and they’ve started gam­ing fmylife with fake posts, fake posts that aren’t even good! I tried to show my friend fmylife the other day and told him how funny it was. We went through two pages before we found some­thing even mildly amus­ing. I was embar­rased. Worse thing was, the post was obvi­ously a fake. You’d need a whole cot­tage indus­try just to shift through the mess and aggre­gate what was worth­while. And the sad truth would be, most of it wouldn’t be worth my pre­cious time. Money, friends, online accounts …my time is the only thing I can’t make more of.

Here’s an even sad­der truth: If you’re bor­ing in real life, you’re prob­a­bly more so on Twit­ter. If you’re an idiot in real life and have idi­otic thoughts, Face­book sta­tus and Twit­ter just makes it eas­ier for the rest of the world to real­ize this …which I guess in it of itself isn’t a bad thing. Then I can weed the idiots out of my life a lot faster. It use to take a while to fig­ure out if a girl was a snotty clingy psy­cho. Now I can just look at her sta­tus his­tory and I’ll know in moments she’s psy­cho when she has post like, “What is love? Will I ever know it? Why are all the guys I date 8554o735?” or “I was out­side his apart­ment again last­night. He says she’s his sis­ter but I know he’s lying.”

But despite hav­ing it’s upshots, like the exam­ple men­tioned above, as well as hav­ing a few inno­v­a­tive and pro­duc­tive ways to use Twit­ter, most won’t know how to use it prop­erly and they will unfor­tu­nately over­whelm those who do. The mes­sages of busi­nesses like Dell and Kogi BBQ will only be a whis­per on the Twit­ter­scape drowned out by the noise of the illit­er­ate masses vying for our atten­tion. In fact, it would serve a busi­ness like Kogi bet­ter to have an API on their web­site that updated their cur­rent loca­tion than risk get­ting lost in #Kogi hell on Twit­ter with a bunch of crap reviews and unin­tended com­ments. Actu­ally, they should already be doing that right now. For proof, just search #sxsw and you’ll get more  “No, I’m not wear­ing green and no, you may not pinch me” than any sub­stan­tial news. And these are sup­pose to be the pros!

To me, the only ray of hope is Face­book. The new Face­book UI is meant to be more like Twit­ter, and that’s smart. Because a site ded­i­cated to tweet­ing alone isn’t inter­est­ing enough to keep my atten­tion. Look at Friend­ster, it was about degrees of seper­a­tion. If it just stayed as that, no one would go there any­more. It had to evolve and that’s what Face­book is doing with its new fron­tend.  And as soon as Face­book offers the best fea­tures of Twit­ter, there will be no real use to tweet. Not only does Face­book offers so much more fun­tion­al­ity than Twit­ter, Face­book has way too big a lead on users for Twit­ter to make a dent. I already intro­duced peo­ple to Twit­ter by telling them it was like a stream of Face­book sta­tuses, it just makes sense for Face­book to take over the Twit­ter world. Do I sense another buy out attempt? Prob­a­bly not, Twit­ter should have seen this com­ing when Face­book tried to buy them out the first time. Either way, it is Facebook’s will­ing­ness to evolve and it’s abil­ity to stay on the fore­front of trends that will keep Face­book at the top of our browser history. A rev­o­lu­tion is at hand, one that started with the Guten­berg Press and that is now cul­mi­nat­ing with sites like Twitter.  Mass pub­lish­ing has been brought to the masses and just like any war, there will be col­lat­eral dam­age. It might serve us all to find a safe place to take cover until the whole thing blows over …oh who am I kid­ding, look to the right of your screen at the blue box and click the icon that says “Follow”.

• just sucker punched some bees in court. What I would give to be a fly on the wall of those damn liti­gious honey mak­ers. #
• thinks its funny when ugly girls say there r no cute guys at the club. Dont they real­ize guys r look­ing at them n say’n the EXACT same thing #
• has a love hate rela­tion­ship with his masseur Mr. Zhou. Some­times his war on my knots leaves col­lat­eral dam­age. Now on to the hot tub. #
• Even Obama haters are peo­ple too. They’re not just an annony­mous red color. That’s a harsh real­ity that I’m try­ing to come to terms with. #
• Wth? My 74 year old uncle uses skype and is talk­ing about wife swap­ping. This is turn­ing out into very weird din­ner. #
• is fas­ci­nated by old peo­ple talk­ing about tech­nol­ogy. Blue­tooth, GPS, skype. “It trav­els through the air!” #

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Gat­taca

Would you genet­i­cally engi­neer your baby? Now you can.

A Los Ange­les fer­til­ity clinic is offer­ing a new ser­vice that would allow cou­ples to choose their baby’s phys­i­cal traits, includ­ing eye and hair color.

This is straight out of Gat­taca and I really believe it’s the future. We have the tech­nol­ogy. We know how. We just need to get over the moral hur­dles we have placed in front of ourselves.

In a recent U.S. sur­vey of 999 peo­ple who sought genetic coun­sel­ing, a major­ity said they sup­ported pre­na­tal genetic tests for the elim­i­na­tion of cer­tain seri­ous dis­eases. The sur­vey found that 56% sup­ported using them to counter blind­ness and 75% for men­tal retardation.

First genetic engi­neer­ing will be used to weed out dis­eases. Then it won’t be long before genetic engi­neer­ing bleeds over to con­trol­ling phys­i­cal traits like eye color and more com­pli­cated things like height. And with just the right com­bi­na­tion I’ll be able to make my son Hapa.

I’ve already lived through the 80s once; and with all the neon col­ors design­ers are inte­grat­ing into clothes this year, I’m hav­ing flash­backs every time I walk through a mall. It pains me, lit­er­ally, to see a new gen­er­a­tion mak­ing the same fash­ion mis­takes we made in the 80s. Along with Flock of Seag­ull hair­cuts, neon col­ors should have been left in the last cen­tury. I have pic­tures of myself from the 80s and I cringe every­time I even think about my skate-or-die hair­cut with my bangs hang­ing down in front of my eyes and a gawdy neon print t-shirt bright enough to flag down an air­plane if I ever got lost in the wilder­ness.  Now these poor kids are going through it again. They’re gonna regret their fash­ion choices in a few years when they look back  and say, “What the hell was I think­ing?”  Now with the pop­u­lar­iza­tion of face­book, their pic­tures won’t just dis­ap­pear into a box under their bed, they’ll be for­ever imor­tal­ized on the every present world wide web. Now it looks like their gonna make the mis­takes of the 90s as well.

I caught this can­did pic­ture of a col­lege girl at Office Depot in the San Gabriel Val­ley. (Please, no com­ments on me tak­ing can­did pics of young girls in pub­lic places) Any­way, notice the tell­tale red and black lum­ber­jack plaid. Grunge was an anti-fashion move­ment that orig­i­nated in the 90s Seat­tle music scene, that was pop­u­lar­ized by bands like Nir­vana and Pearl Jam, and char­ac­ter­ized by its com­bi­na­tion of plaid but­ton downs with shorts or ripped jeans. Now it looks like this anti-fashion is becom­ing the lat­est trend for the uber-fashionable. Accord­ing to this arti­cle from late last year ‘90s Grunge Is Mak­ing a Come­back.

Despite attempts to be new and orig­i­nal, I think fash­ion is cir­cu­lar because when it gets too avant garde it becomes com­pletely unrec­og­niz­able and then it’s just mis­taken as hav­ing no taste at all. The way I see it, the trend­set­ters try to set them­selves apart from the rest of the masses by wear­ing items that are on the edge of good taste. Then every­body else picks up on this, and want­ing to be trendy but not too dif­fer­ent, adopts items and trends that are rec­og­niz­able with them, like trends from the past.  And every time a fash­ion era is recy­cled, it gets a slight update in some way, like with a more cur­rent cut or get­ting paired with more cur­rent acce­sories like the black tights and over­sized purse of the chick in the pic­ture above. In my com­pletely unfash­ion­able opin­ion, some­times it works and some­times you end up with the eye scorch­ing color palette of the eight­ies. Next thing you know, we’ll be wear­ing Birken­stocks and Doc Martens again.