Twitter

[Trihan]

http://www.twitter.com/sstrihan

I <3 Twitter. I mostly use it to follow Heroes actors (Greg Grunberg, Brea Grant, David Lawrence XVII etc.)

[HillBilly]

I mean, when we take part of the textual output of past generations, it is by lovely, handwritten letters, or passionate diaries with perfume and seals and whatnot.

Exactly. Like the love letters to Nora Barnacle written by James Joyce, you don't see that kind of craftmanship in writing anymore.

My love for you allows me to pray to the spirit of eternal beauty and tenderness mirrored in your eyes or fling you down under me on that softy belly of yours and fuck you up behind, like a hog riding a sow, glorying in the very stink and sweat that rises from your arse, glorying in the open shape of your upturned dress and white girlish drawers and in the confusion of your flushed cheeks and tangled hair.

At every fuck I gave you your shameless tongue came bursting out through your lips and if a gave you a bigger stronger fuck than usual, fat dirty farts came spluttering out of your backside. You had an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I fucked them out of you, big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole. It is wonderful to fuck a farting woman when every fuck drives one out of her. I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women. It is a rather girlish noise not like the wet windy fart which I imagine fat wives have. It is sudden and dry and dirty like what a bold girl would let off in fun in a school dormitory at night. I hope Nora will let off no end of her farts in my face so that I may know their smell also.

Today it's just "u & me behind starbuxx??" and "lol f'd your sis". No class.

[Sam.]

150 years ago, novels were considered racy and frivolous, even frowned upon. It is only with hindsight that we can see how important a step they were in literature.

Oh, and as an aside, language seems to be moving in cycles. When paper was expensive, playwrights and authors would abbreviate their writing, to save money. "you" to "u" and so on.

Peculiar that abbreviating writing is such a cause of consternation.

[Stupot]

Hillbilly. That Joyce quote is genius!
But nobody I've shared it with has seemed to appreciate it as much as I did.
I was cracking up more and more hysterically at every line the first time I read it... in the library of all places.

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

Who knew James Joyce was obsessed with farts?

[Dave Gilbert]

I've been giving Twitter a whirl lately. I still don't really "get" it, but I understand that lots of other people do.   If I didn't run an online company I probably wouldn't bother, but it seems to be a nice way to keep in touch with fans.  I have yet to use it seriously.  I only post an update every few days or so.  There are some folks who post several times an hour!

http://www.twitter.com/WadjetEyeGames is me. 

[DeviantGent]

I think Twitter is a pretty cool guy, eh spouts irrelevance and doesn't afraid of anything.

Also, get away from me James Joyce.

[monkey0506]

I don't personally use Twitter. In fact I had no idea what it was prior to hearing about it at work. We're coming out with a new phone which includes a free Twitter application. I assumed it was something like MySpace/Facebook...but from what I understand (now) it's like a gigantic IM program where people just post what they're currently doing?

Not really my cup o' tea. But then again I don't even like tea...so. :

[The Meek Geek]

  I do!

http://www.twitter.com/VGO_Tweets

Follow me, and I'll follow you.

Have fun gaming!

[Mr Flibble]

Twitter appeared almost over night and it seems like the world and his mother all have an account now. I'm surprised at how many people are taking it up, particularly businesses, TV channels, news websites...

I've never used it, I have no reason to. There's nothing so interesting to me that I need constant updates on it beamed into my brain.

[Hudders]

Twitter appeared almost over night and it seems like the world and his mother all have an account now. I'm surprised at how many people are taking it up, particularly businesses, TV channels, news websites...

The retention rate is abysmal though: just 40%

[Trent R]

I'd much rather follow a blog (which I rarely do). I think it's pretty stupid when the only news about a site like HOTU disappearing is found in 9 words.


~Trent

[The Ivy]

I follow a lot of indie game developers, and it's pretty cool to see a day when everybody seems to be making progress. It gets me motivated to work on my own stuff.

Me here: http://twitter.com/LivelyIvy. Please follow responsibly.

[Ponch]

... It is wonderful to fuck a farting woman when every fuck drives one out of her....

I shall never read Finnegan's Wake the same way again.

- Ponch

[The Ivy]

Nobody reads Finnegans Wake. It's the book that everyone sort of literary owns, but no one reads. Case in point: there's actually no apostrophe in the title.

[Ponch]

Nobody reads Finnegans Wake. It's the book that everyone sort of literary owns, but no one reads.

I actually did read it. About six years ago. For the same reason I read The Silmarillion -- To see if I could.

I shall never read either again. So amend my earlier statement to "I shall never think about Finnegan's Wake the same way again."

[The Meek Geek]

 

Personally, I think Twitter is another tool that you can use, for good or for bad. If you have a cool website, blog, home-made video, home-based business, selling something online, just have something profound to say, etc ... Twitter is a wonderful vehicle for such. On the other hand, if you're idea of using Twitter is to tell people every few minutes that you sat on the can or are eating a bag of Doritos and drinking a strawberry milkshake, well, let me say that Twitter has not been utilized to it's full potential. Heh.

I like Twitter. But for good use.

That's just me.

[Stupot]

I started Ullyses once, because my English teacher said it would be 'up my street'...
I think I made it less than a fifth of the way through.

[The Meek Geek]

Speaking about Ullyses... the James Joyce novel. I have not yet read the book. Has anyone seen the b/w movie? Does it have ANYTHING to do with The Classic Greek Mythological Poem, Homir's Odyssey? What about Franz Ferdinard's song, "Ullyses" is it based on the novel?

[Anian]

Speaking about Ullyses... the James Joyce novel. I have not yet read the book. Has anyone seen the b/w movie? Does it have ANYTHING to do with The Classic Greek Mythological Poem, Homir's Odyssey? What about Franz Ferdinard's song, "Ullyses" is it based on the novel?

It does have something to do with it, because the character is like Odysseyus/Ullyses but instead of travelling and being lost on the sea, he's walking through Dublin. Haven't read it except for a small part on some graveyard I think and that was enough for me, might be brilliant and critically excellent but damn if I'm gonna read a whole book about a drunk man's thoughts (not Joyce, but Ullyses).
I don't know all the words to FF song but the end chorus says "no you're not Ullyses, you're never coming home" or something so I think it's not directly connected but also like a metaphor for a lost man wandering while he's on drugs (although apparently not finding a way home like Ullyses does in the end). I think it's about trying to find a way out of you're problems with drugs but failing.
...God, this is so offtopic.