Here’s to the Future

I was going to start this by saying that I look forward to the day when I can tell my grand kids about how the internet used to be, but then I started to get really depressed and didn’t want to think about how old I would be.  But hey maybe they will have made some really good age retarding drugs, removed a bunch of protiens from our body to slow down organ failures, or I will have died and been put on ice for 15 years.  It doesn’t matter because even though it is depressing, I am still excited.

Excited to be able to say to them, “You kids don’t know how good you have it.  With all the information feeding into your brain directly.  Hell, you even got iBubble where music seems like it is playing within a four feet bubble all around you, only you can hear it.  Back in our day, we actually had to sit down in front of a thing called a personal computer to access the internet.  That lasted until about the time I was 17.  But lets talk about the internet on the personal computer first.

I guess you kids don’t have any idea what a browser is?  No?  Well that is a hard concept to explain seeing how your brain does all that work for you now.  God, you have it easy.  We actually had to double click (physically), wait for like two minutes for it to dial through a modem and phone line, shit you guys don’t even know what a phone line is, just for us to connect to the internet.

Once we were connected, this is like 1997 you know, all we could view was black text on white back grounds, and occasionally, very occasionally.  I mean so f-ing occasionally, we got a picture, in black and white, from the Hubble telescope.  The 1998 rolled around and finally we got some color.  It was bad, you ever heard of 16 bit Nintendo?  No?  Alright then, bare with me.  We were limited to like two shades of green, blue, yellow, red, black, grey, pink and purple, oh yeah and of course white.  So naturally people put yellow text on pink background.  Horrible.  And!!! You know that font we saw in the museum the other day?  Yeah? Comic Sans?! Yeah that one!  They actually had the nerve to use it to make websites.

It got better when we got more colors and more pictures from the Hubble.  A few years after the turn of the century, we were hit with Web 2.0.  And that was really cool.  Green and purple bubbly fonts were everywhere.  You had your blues and pinks in Helvetica, and green, blue, red and yellow in something like Times New Roman.

Things were looking up when we finally got cell phones.  I know, I am showing my age, I was around for that.  And they came with really low level browsers that distorted all we had strived for with Web 2.0.  Then came the iPhone and it has all been down hill from there.”

That is what I am going to say to my grand kids.  Plus all the new stuff that happens until then.  What with cloning and all, that could be like 18 months.

Streaming to ‘Find People, Progress’

The last week or so has left me with little to write about.  Today I started a class on Adobe Illustrator which I am extremely thrilled to learn.  I am starting to look at pictures that people have created and am understanding which parts they used Illustrator for and in which parts they used Photoshop. I personally find it hard to stay motivated and inspired on my own, and have a hard time focusing on tutorials or reading the help menus of programs.

That is why I was not exactly thrilled today when I asked the professor teaching Illustrator, what he knew about InDesign.  He said he knew a lot about it and a good place for me to learn was the Adobe help files.  Granted I could take the InDesign class on Mondays and Wednesdays, but I would have already missed a session.

Which really makes me sad, because recently, my friends and I thought it would be a good idea to start putting together a PDF magazine.  Which means, I will be the one looked to, to do layout and spread the word via the internet.

I may also note, that spreading the word via the internet, will probably be hard, because this site doesn’t pull in more than several visitors a day right now.  I makes me sad, but what content am I offering my visitors?  I mean really, there is nothing of use on my site, just useless babblings.

That being said, lets continue.  I kind of want the new Samsung Instinct and because I have Sprint, I could get it for somewhere around 50 dollars when my contract has matured.  However, I do feel that it wont replace an iPhone an would probably be a waste of my time.  In which case, I can’t wait for Google to release Android.  I think I read that Spint is getting into that because they have dim future.  Oh well.

In other news, I was almost scammed the other day.  Some guy tried to get me to wire him money be sending a check that I knew wouldn’t clear and saying to send X number of dollars to some other person right away.  I didn’t and he hasn’t contacted me since, add another oh well to the list.

I might have a sprained wrist, and I have a semi-recovering ankle.  Both injuries are from skateboarding.  Plus I met some new people to skate with. Which brings me back to the post I have been trying to write all day and failing miserably at.  “Find People, Progress” was going to be the title.  My theory is this, find people who share the same interests, will help guide you and hold you accountable, and then you have to pursue a relationship or at least a correspondence with them.  In this way you will learn to your fullest potential because they will see to it.  If you don’t have anyone holding you accountable, or no one where you live shares the same interests, then you are going to find it hard to learn, progress, and become better at what you like.

So find some people who want you to do your best, exchange knowledge, learn and progress.

Soon I will be doing heelflips, making cool images in Illustrator, and getting a new car.  All because people are holding me accountable.  I just wish someone would hold me accountable for falling less.