Post posted by Sacha on April 1st, 2009 at 22:45
So, this is what I was thinking today.
I was enjoying my very very hot bath and thinking how that’s not healthy, I’m always wondering if suddenly my heart just wants to quit because of all the heat around me. So, I never drink cold drinks in my hot bath, because that may just stress my body too hard: very cold coming in while it’s extremely hot outside. The only option for me is coffee, which I drink anywhere, baths not excluded.
OK. Bath. I had ants running around my bath tub. Some of them fell in and I think they died. Must have, with all that heat. So then I had ants in my bubbles. I didn’t want to move too much, because then the ants would break the water and float down. Then they would be IN the water and could possibly float into body orifices. Eeeew.
So, I was in my bath. Thinking how the heat isn’t healthy. I saw my heart beating on my arm. No, that’s not really what happened of course. I saw the blood pumping through my veins because my heart makes blood do that. And that got me thinking: if my heart decided to just quit, would I then see my very last heart beat (i.e. the last motion of the vein I was watching) or would my mind stop before that last pump? Would my mind register that the vein suddenly stopped moving and would I have the time to think ‘Oh, shi…’ ?
My mind is weird like that. Could be because of all the caffeine I put in my body. Today I learned from the TV (do people still know what a TV is?!?) that a lot of caffeine can make you hallucinate. That explains a lot to me. I have been seeing things from the corner of my eyes for years! I always hoped I had some psychic abilities that I would understand some day. Now I understand that it all came from my caffeine addiction. Unless…. My super psychic abilities hallucinated the TV show so I would never find out how extremely psychic I really am. Because I would psychicly rule the universe if I understood my powers. And there you have it.
What I also learned from TV: a cold virus on a bank note can survive for 17 days! That’s over 2 weeks! Can you imagine how many people one bank note can infect before it gets touched by another sick person, only to infect the bank note again? I now completely understand how everybody gets a cold all of the time. Also, I think it’s very healthy that we are in an economic crisis right now.
Enough talk, I will try to think as much tomorrow so I can blog about it. Talk to ya later!
Post posted by Sacha on March 29th, 2009 at 15:43
Hi tweople!
Twitter is such a fun tool. It’s definitely very hard for someone like me, because you have to cram anything you want to say in just 140 characters. Boy, that’s HARD. But it’s so very cool when I can use exactly 140 chars! I love that. Of course, that is without cheating on the characters. So, no using extra letters in a word just to get to 140. The messages where I use exactly 140 chars are extra special to me :)
Besides twitter challenging me to think in short message flashes, it also challenges me in understanding how it works with followers. I still haven’t figured that out completely. I do understand that I can follow people, so I can read their messages. And people can follow me, so these people (the following) read what I write. However, I can’t write a message to somebody that doesn’t follow me back. Unless I’m replying to a message they sent first and only if I use the _reply_ button in my twitter client. Are you following me (yeah, pun intended!) ?!?
I wonder how people (I call ‘m tweople) that follow a lot of other tweople can keep track of all their messages. I can get kinda crazy when the messages start piling up in my twitter client when I haven’t checked it in an hour. I really want to read all of it, because I want to know what everybody is saying! Don’t wanna miss that one big message, you know. And my list only contains 27 tweople at the moment. At some moments, it’s very easy to keep track because when I get out of bed here in Holland, most of my list has just gone to bed (US). But when they wake up, they all start twittering and twattering. Especially the authors. They lllllove to write, it’s in their blood. I love that, but some days it’s just a big message overflow to me.
So, how do tweople keep track of everybody? I have absolutely no idea how those #hashtags work and I don’t know if I want to know. I think it’s a big secret, because I haven’t found a cool short list of twitter tips (twips?) online. Just like the reply-to option, that is being kept secret too! I had to find out by accident that it really IS possible to write a message to a non-follower. Okay, I’ll explain how I found that out, because that’s another thing about twitter.
There are tweople with bots that search for specific words being used by anyone on twitter. Or tweople search for the words themselves, possibly. It’s just a lot of work IMO. Anyway. For example, somebody or some botty is looking for the word ‘carrot’ because this person just loves anything about carrots. And I twitt “Today I heard that joke again about the carrot cake. How old is that joke?” Then the bott picks up the carrot and puts me on the following list. Because if I talk about carrots, I must be a very interesting person and who would want to miss a word I say? I wouldn’t! Well, it’s a way to get your following list filled, I guess.
I mostly follow authors of the podionovels I’m listening. But that’s a whole new story, I’ll talk about that another time. Right now, I have to get used to the daylight savings time change we had last night. We just lost 60 minutes last night. 60 minutes gone. Poof. I weep.
In case you want to know how I – girl of many many words – can write messages in 140 chars or less, add me on twitter. I’m zzacha. If you talk about carrots, I may follow you back ;P
Post posted by Sacha on March 21st, 2009 at 18:42
I finally decided what to do with my blog. I always have so many ideas and I couldn’t decide if I wanted a blog about my travels through the podioverse or a blog about anything else that I want to write about. In the last 18 months I have listened to a lot of audiofiction and I want to put my travelling experiences as a true Podionaut on a blog. But, I also want to blog about anything else that’s not really audiofiction related, just about plain old me.
So, I came up with two blogs! This is my Zas Blog, just blogging about Zas. The other one will be up soon and I think they will look about the same. That saves a lot of time styling the new one. All I need to come up with, is a cool name for my audio blog site. Suggestions are welcome!
And then I can really start blogging. Now all I need is an audience. Or not; blogging in secret is kinda fun too, at least I don’t have to worry about offending anyone or just saying stupid things. I like saying stupid things, so if you’re offended by it, you may not want to be part of my audience ;P
But first, I have to eat. I just bought me a nice microwave dinner: Stamppot with Gehaktballen. Stamppot is ‘mash pot’: a few potatoes mashed with vegetables. In this case, with endive. You say potato, I say potato, let’s mash it up with endive. And put 4 little meat balls (Gehaktballen) on top, then you have a nice stamppot. Or rather, I have it. You make your own dinner.
Talk to you later, dear diary!
Sas
Post posted by Sacha on March 9th, 2009 at 12:23
I have oh, so many plans for this blog. I want to write about all the audio fiction podcasts that I love, promote them all. Especially my most favorite podcast: The Drabblecast!
And I want to write about all the audio novels I have listened to and am listening to and am planing to listen to.
O, and I want to fix my stylesheet problems, so the sidebar will stay put when you go to the comments page. And I really don’t like the Stupid Bullet that keeps popping up in my Pages listing, I can’t find where the UL is put in. And I’m sure there are loads of other problems, which I haven’t seen yet.
And I would love to talk about other things than stylesheets and audio, but I haven’t figured out WHAT.
Also, I want to make a page with “Random Photos of Me”, next to the “Random Info About Me”, but it’s very, VERY difficult to find nice pictures of yourself when you’re an insecure girl like Sacha.
I do love that I’m always full of plans :)
Post posted by Sacha on March 7th, 2009 at 13:52
I have this wonderful cool awesome phone with a little keyboard so I can write everything everywhere anytime. W00t, W00t, double W00t!
Too bad I have absolutely nothing to say at the moment. I can say that I created a Page on this blog with some random things about me. And I’m thinking about making a page with some random photos of me but I haven’t found enough pics I like.
Here we go, I’m posting this excellent first G1 post (for those of you who don’t know – if anybody is reading this anyway – G1 is my Google1 Android phone. Awesome thing)
Post posted by Sacha on March 6th, 2009 at 18:43
Hai!
Lemme think… I have absolutely no idea what I wanna blab about. But I love to say HAI, so I do it. Again and again and again. HAI!
See ya around :)
zZzacha
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