Dinhternet

Will N sug­gested to me recently that I need a hobby. I told him I do have hob­bies, but he doesn’t think my hob­bies count.

I think what he really means is that I need to get out and be social. For a long time now, I’ve been job­less, so I never really thought much about going out and doing stuff, which gen­er­ally involves spend­ing money.

Now that I do have jobs, I feel like I don’t have time for a hobby any­more. Judy T just talked to me about going to Yosemite, and I told her I’d be down, but my tutor­ing job needs a month’s notice when I’ll be miss­ing work. (I under­stand the need for advance notice, but a month seems excessive.)

Any­way, I’ve been think­ing about what I can do for this whole social “hobby” thing. I’m con­sid­er­ing tak­ing mar­tial arts lessons again. It’s fun, active, and use­ful. But I need to find a good dojo.

Any sug­ges­tions? Or sug­ges­tions on another hobby I should take up?

Another thing I thought about doing again was com­mu­nity ser­vice. Either with APhiO (IPhi or GB) or another orga­ni­za­tion. But that prob­a­bly means con­tin­u­ally look­ing for projects that fit my sched­ule, rather than a reg­u­lar weekly thing like the mar­tial arts lessons would be.

Remem­ber Hot Or Not? I was sur­prised to find that not only is it still around, it’s now flour­ish­ing as a dat­ing site!

Not only that, appar­ently other peo­ple have noticed, too. Sup­pos­edly Fuji has a new point-and-shoot in the works that takes facial recog­ni­tion one step fur­ther by putting hearts around attrac­tive faces. What does it do with the unat­trac­tive faces, you ask? It will beep to let you know that an unat­trac­tive per­son got in your frame when you snap, and it will try to auto­mat­i­cally crop them out of the frame or put an X over the intrud­ing face. Ouch!

Note to self: be in the mid­dle of all pic­tures taken until I com­plete the diet/plastic surgery reg­i­men. I won’t be sat­is­fied until I’m hot enough to star in porn! Or at least PG Porn -

Yes­ter­day, T-Mobile pushed a firmware update for G1 phones. RC33 doesn’t include Cup­cake, but it does fix some ran­dom stuff. The hang­ing on Mes­sag­ing was get­ting pretty annoy­ing. It would do it with any­one I had a long tex­ting his­tory with.

As a spe­cial bonus, it includes native sup­port for Google Lat­i­tude built into the Maps appli­ca­tion. If you haven’t heard, it’s basi­cally Google’s answer to Twit­ter. You can set updates to your friends with your loca­tion, a short mes­sage, or even a pic­ture (but it would be through MMS). You can man­u­ally post your loca­tion when­ever you wish, or you can have it auto­mat­i­cally track you through your phone’s GPS.

As you can imag­ine, there’s already a ton of arti­cles out about how dan­ger­ous Google Lat­i­tude could be.

Con­sider this arti­cle. Is the author’s wife right to be con­cerned that he has geo-tagged pic­tures of their home (with valu­ables in the back­ground) and then revealed that he was leav­ing town with­out her for a busi­ness trip? Are you scared that some­one could find a time-stamped and geo-tagged photo of you in a pub­lic place and then fol­low your stream to find out where you lived?

I don’t have much in the way of valu­ables or good looks, nor do I think I’m par­tic­u­larly offen­sive to peo­ple around me, so I’m not wor­ried about being stalked, robbed, raped and/or killed. (Not nec­es­sar­ily in that order.) But it could be a lot eas­ier nowa­days with all the location-based tech­nol­ogy there is out there.

I remem­ber back in the good old days when find­ing peo­ple was a chal­lenge and I was 1337.

By the way, I geo-tag my posts, so I’ve been track­able for a while. You’d have to catch me around the time I posted to be sure it was accu­rate, though. And I’ve enabled my phone to auto­mat­i­cally track me, so feel free to send me a stalk­ing invite if you’re so inclined.