The most terrifying blog entry I’ve ever written

I like nature. For most of my childhood, I lived in houses surrounded by woods, and I liked to explore them. I even went to an Audubon camp in Maine for two summers to hike and check out puffins. But spiders terrify me. Tonight, I was just sitting on my couch minding my own business, when I noticed a small spider crawling on my shirt. Fortunately, it crawled away from my face, and then onto my laptop. I was about to blow it off when it scurried under my laptop’s keyboard.

Watching the keyboard very carefully, I did what any reasonable arachnophobic blogger would do. I opened up a new blog entry and prepared to quickly announce my departure from the Internet, at least until I could get to another computer. But before I could even tap out a one-liner, the spider came back out, narrowly missing my fingertip and causing me to leap from my seat. As I was in mid-air, with gravity doing what gravity does best, I had to quickly act to balance three very strong emotions, all vying for priority: Fear of spiders, love of my MacBook Pro, and respect for my coffee table and body, which were about to collide.

I cannot remember what happened during the time between the realization of this situation and the moment I returned to the ground, but I ended up on my feet, laptop safely in my hands, and spider harmlessly on the floor. Oh, and my heart was beating about a zillion BPM.

Block Twitter followers who follow everyone?

If someone starts following me on Twitter, and I see that he/she is also following thousands of other people, should I just block him or her? I can’t think of a legitimate reason why someone would follow so many people. The only explanations I can come up with are that people are doing this just as a game, or doing it with the hope that those who are followed will reciprocate.

Unless someone can convince me otherwise, I’m using the block feature like it’s free.

The Internet is so confusing

Apparently Bebo and Meebo are not the same thing. This might explain why I recently got a funny look when I said to an employee of one (and I have no idea which), “I think I just talked to one of your coworkers.” Whoops.

 

My next car

I’ve recently become obsessed with the Tesla Roadster. It’s a fully electric sports car (not a hybrid) that gets over 200 miles per charge. If I had the money, I would order one now. Unfortunately it’s still a bit outside of my budget at $100,000. But think about how much I’d save on gas. Learn more at Tesla Motors.

Initial review of Transport

I haven’t seen any other reviews from other actual customers (other than a comment on some blog), but here’s my initial impression of the service after spending an embarrassing amount of money and trying it out this week: Not ready for prime time. It’s late and I’m tired, so expect a more in-depth explanation possibly at some point this weekend. But for now I’ll tell you this: I haven’t even completed a successful initial backup yet and I’m frustrated.

Hopefully their support services will impress me and this will have a happy ending.