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Whether in the clouds, or down in the dumps, I gotta be me
Lincoln Adams | May 18, 2009 @ 2:18 pmYesterday I got a snarky email from a reader over my last post, where she said merely what an “uplifting” read my post was. I asked her if she was being sarcastic and got this response:
Absolutely. I think I was wrong about you. I was under the impression that you were the type of person who turns lemons into lemonade. But this last post makes me wonder if you have a bad case of sour grapes … Nobody wants to hang out with a whiner.
So I wrote back and told her nobody likes to hang out with a judgmental haggish little prude either, and man she just gets bent all out of shape, demands that I unsubscribe her from my “depressive” blog and announces that she will also be blocking me from Twitter.
You know, I really dislike it when people don’t allow you to be yourselves. It’s like you’re not allowed to express any kind of negative emotion or feeling because that might somehow disrupt their Oprah run universe where the law of attraction applies and little pink bunnies prance through lush, dewy meadows.
So I whine. It’s what I do. I can’t always turn lemon into lemonades. I can’t always be happy 24 hours a day. And yes I know no matter how bad I have it sometimes, there are always people in far worse predicaments than me. But that knowledge doesn’t automatically take the pain away.
And like I told Miss Stupid Haggish Ho Bag Prude, my blog is an outlet of how I feel at that moment when I write, whether good or bad. It’s not meant to be a perpetually uplifting read (although it can be for the right people.) But this thing where people try to keep you locked in a box and dictate how you must feel or act gets old real fast. As a popular saying goes: if you can’t accept me at my worst, then you certainly don’t deserve me at my best either.
Besides, people are always in a constant state of transition. Just because they haven’t learned an important truth now doesn’t mean it won’t finally sink in later. We live, we make mistakes, and the wiser among us will learn from the experience. But people who judge you without taking the time to get to know you and who jump at the first HINT of a different opinion should really just get bent. I understand now why so many people put on a front because the fear of being rejected and left alone is so palpable and real. It doesn’t bother me as much because I’m used to being alone, and most times I even prefer it.
What DOES bother me though is watching how people take an immediate liking to me, thinking I am just about the greatest guy on earth, and meanwhile they don’t have a CLUE about who I really am. They just like some preconceived notion of me, which depresses me to no end because I know the minute they see something they don’t like, they will cut and run. We can’t talk about it like adults or just accept that there will be differences between us. No, I absolutely HAVE to conform to their criteria and expectations or otherwise I am just not worth the doo doo of their shoes. Nice.
Not everyone is like that, thankfully. People who don’t initially know me well end up still liking me even when I show my dark side, and for that I’m grateful (if still somewhat surprised by it.)
Or maybe they are just drawn to the power of the dark side. 
Tags: feelings, friendship, judgment, judgmental, people, perception, prejudice, reader, truth, twitter
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Come check my new bloggie toys!
Lincoln Adams | April 10, 2009 @ 3:33 pmI’ve been trying to figure out how I could work side posts (mini-posts or the equivalent of tweets on Twitter) and a featured articles gallery onto my blog, that way it would be easier for new visitors to dive right into my content and get a good feel for what my site’s about. Normally what people do is build a front page that highlights the best content and then push the blog itself to a subdirectory. But then again I’m not normal. 
So check it out: the featured articles can be seen on my home page and the side posts can be seen on the top right. You know, where there’s a big honking image that says “SIDE POST?” 
And lookie here, I’ve even included a poll so you can tell me what y’all think of the minor changes! 
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Tags: articles, blog, gallery, plugins, posts, tweaks, twitter, visitors
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With Its Last Breath, 2008 Spits At Me
Lincoln Adams | January 4, 2009 @ 7:48 pmSo how is 2009 working out for me so far you ask? Well aside from the knifing sensation I’ve been feeling on my left face that had me screaming at the top of my lungs like a 6 year old girl in sheer agony for the past few days, 2009 is going just swimmingly. 
Right before New Year’s Eve I started feeling a dull ache near my left ear, which eventually turned into a full blown horror show of aches and pains that reduced me to a whimpering ball of misery. I was in the bathroom when 2008 turned to 2009, (you could say I literally crapped for a year), then came out and cried for a while in my bed with a heat pad on my face until sleep mercifully brought me some relief. Once again there would be no midnight kisses for this little wussy boy. I hadn’t been able to eat for the past two days either.
It seems fitting that 2008 would go out like this, since it had been the year that saw me crippled with a garden variety of health problems that made me utterly miserable, and I’m only beginning to come out of the woods now. My jaw ache (which I think was due to TMJ syndrome) finally began to dissipate yesterday, and even though I was in severe pain before, I still managed to clear a month’s load of work at my job so I could get a fresh start for the new year. I left early on Friday and was able to recuperate for the rest of the weekend.
I even found time to add a new feature here called “Asides.” There were many occasions when I wanted to express a thought or two on my blog, but it didn’t justify taking up an entire post for since these thoughts were never more than a sentence or two long. Usually I reserve this kind of “micro-blogging” for Twitter instead, but I was never comfortable seeing all my brilliant one-liners disappear into the Twitterverse without a record of it being on my blog.
So… with a little bit of tweaking and the help of a few plugins, now every tweet I make will also be posted to my blog in a vanilla “Aside” format. I’m even able to exclude them from my newsfeed so it doesn’t get inappropriately mixed in with my normal blog posts as well. Am I awesome or what? 
This setup should be really good for filling the gap between blog posts, as well as please loyal readers who don’t use Twitter.
Now if you’ll excuse me, since I never had my midnight kiss, I’m treating myself to a glass of choco milk and a bowl of Hershey’s Kisses. 
Tags: agony, bathroom, health, health problems, midnight kiss, new year, newsfeed, plugins, TMJ syndrome, twitter
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Smokin’ Hot Babe Gives Me Smokin’ Hot Reward
Lincoln Adams | December 17, 2008 @ 12:57 amMy smart mouthy little mouth has finally paid off! AJae from Freak News Daily has been so enamored of my Twittering repertoire that she has bestowed upon me the acclaimed Silver Flabber Award:
Oh, to finally and at long last be acknowledged and appreciated by a member of the hottie race! *Sigh* … it just makes me well up with so much joy joy happiness, ya know? 
Tags: Award, babe, happiness, hottie, twitter
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Tweeting for love?
Lincoln Adams | April 2, 2008 @ 2:05 pmI recently found a site called Twitter Local, which offers a way to generate an RSS feed that filters out tweets around a certain area. Who knows, I might be able to find a nice girl I could get together with for snugglies and lubs this way.
I narrowed the search parameter to within five miles, and the first Twitterer I found went by the name of Kristin, who describes herself as a “semi-geek lesbian transsexual in early stages of transition.” These were her latest tweets:
god nigt mfers
bad goddeie
fg**k you all. fk*k me.
beotch
and i dot care what u thingk about
yeah i know i am f**ked up andtalkxng shic bit ig have coood reason andi i dont core
f**k b ush, bugfk society, f**k men
I need to get out of this town.
Tags: crazy, funny, romance, tools, twitter, women suck
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Pouncing on Pownce
Lincoln Adams | July 9, 2007 @ 6:46 pmPownce. Bah. Just another Twitter-like fad that would ultimately serve me no purpose. Why would I want to join yet another network of butt ugly geekballs, none of whom I even knew personally, much less would share anything with?
But then I got some Pownce referrals, which led me to her, and her, and her, and her and….. 
SOMEBODY INVITE ME PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Update: Thanks to a liberal, I’m now a Pownce member!! I’m also going straight to hell. 
Tags: babes, fad, IM, network, pownce, sharing, twitter, women
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Thief Thief!
Lincoln Adams | May 28, 2007 @ 10:36 pmOne of the growing trends I’ve been observing in the blogosphere lately has been the arrival of social networking and Web 2.0 sites that all seem to have one thing in common: they’re all designed to encourage you to store your content on THEIR networks, rather than on your own site. Got photos you want to show the world? Upload them to Flickr. For videos, there’s YouTube. For music, there’s Last.FM, iLike, Garageband and so on. For those who like to write, network or blog, we have MySpace, LiveJournal, Xanga, Vox and blah blah blah, ad infinitum. And then of course we have the specialty sites like Twitter and Tumblr and blah blah blah ad infinitum. Good grief. While I admit that all these sites have their uses respectively, it also means you’re investing a whole lotta time and resources on just about everything except your own blog. People may not even come to your site anymore because your content is now available elsewhere, whether on a MySpace server or a YouTube channel or God only knows where else you’ve been going. Web 2.0 then has not only stolen your time and content, it’s taken your traffic too, and with it a chance for monetization. As a result your blog will eventually wither away until it becomes abandoned altogether, its distinctiveness completely assimilated into the Web 2.0 Collective. Resistance is futile.
Ok, I’m exaggerating, (somewhat), but I have noticed a pattern where bloggers no longer seem to attend to their own blogs with the fervor they once had in the past, and these social networking sites have a lot to do with it. Playing on all those networks can definitely suck up a lot of your time, so much that your creative and physical energy is usually completely exhausted by the time you’re ready to come back to your own blogging home. This actually started to happen with me as well when I noticed I was actually posting more often on StumbleUpon than I was here. Bad Lincoln!! Bad!!!!!
Somehow a balance needs to be struck between utilizing these networks while also maintaining the growth of your own blog, and I think the answer lies in part by observing Facebook’s recent move to allow third party companies onto their platform. For them it’s all about pulling the features and services these companies have into their own network, providing a central location for the very best these third party services have to offer.
In a way I hope that’s what I’m accomplishing here. While I belong to a variety of networks from StumbleUpon to Last.FM (and beyond), using widgets and other plugin technologies has enabled me to pull everything here in one place, rather than watch it all being pushed out there. Even my Flickr Album can be completely viewed natively without any requisite need to go to Flickr. That I think is the key. Follow the Facebook model, and use networks and services to help to promote YOUR blog, not the other way around. Resist the Borg! Fight the power! Viva La Blog Revolucion!
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