Internet Island Topic Post #22.00: Our Internet "World"

We'll start at the beginning of your "stay" on the "internet world".

22.03. The Blogoshpere (Your "home away from home")
You're not only here on the web, you're here on good ol' Xanga. Did you know what you were doing when you signed up with Xanga and wrote your first blog entry? I don't want to know "why you blog" now, after you've done it for a while. Each of us blogs for different reasons, and through the comments feature, we can talk to each other, and sometimes see "communities". The "Internet Island" is such a 'communit'. What I want to know is what you thought when you first signed up and took your first babysteps through Xanga. Was there a plan? Did you go exploring? What prompted your own first comment.  

STASH WAS THE REASON FOR ME JOINING XANGA..... SHE HAD A XANGA AND I WOULD GO AND READ HER STUFF AND LITTLE BY LITTLE BECAME INTERESTED IN DOING THIS MYSELF. 

I WAS VERY SHY ABOUT IT THOUGH.   MAINLY IT WAS ME AND HER GOING BACK AND FORTH WITH EACH OTHER FOR MONTHS.  I VENTED, I SHARED, AND I WAS JUST VERY SHY ABOUT IT.  I NEVER VENTURED OUT.  EVENTUALLY MARSHALL_MATTIE STARTED COMING OVER AND BECAME A PART OF MY LITTLE BLOG.  I STARTED DOING A DAYS OF OUR LIVES UPDATE EVERYDAY.  THEN RI_RA CAME AND VISITED ME ABOUT A MONTH INTO MY LIFE ON XANGA, SO SHE WAS MY THIRD FRIEND ON HERE.  THEN HERE CAME BUFFY ABOUT A MONTH AFTER THAT.  MAN GETTING FRIENDS ON HERE WAS VERY HARD...HAHAHA!!! 

FINALLY, IN NOVEMBER OF 2004, I DECIDED THAT IF I WANTED TO MAKE FRIENDS ON HERE, I WAS JUST GOING TO HAVE TO GO TO THEM.  THAT IS WHERE MY MIRACULOUS CHANGE ON XANGA OCCURED......  I WENT TO ALL OF MY FOUR FRIEND'S FRIENDS AND THEN JUST KEPT GOING, VISITING MORE AND MORE SITES AND LEAVING MORE AND MORE COMMENTS.  I MET SO MANY OF YOU DURING THAT TIME.  BOGDANA, ACE38, CNDFRND, PRADA_FREAK, TORONTOGIRL, AND KOFFEEKWEEN.  IT JUST STARTED GROWING FROM THERE.  SO BASICALLY IT TOOK ME FROM JULY OF 2004 TO NOVEMBER OF 2004 TO FIGURE OUT THAT IF I WANTED FRIENDS, THEY WERE NOT GOING TO COME TO ME, BUT I HAD TO GO TO THEM. 

I THEN FELT THAT I GOT A BIT MORE CREATIVE IN MY BLOGS, I STOPPED JUST VENTING AND STARTED TALKING ABOUT THINGS THAT WERE SOMETIMES INTERESTING, NEWS, ENTERTAINMENT, AND STARTED POSTING MORE PICTURES AND GETTING CREATIVE WITH MY PAGES. 

I MET ANONOMOUS BABBLING GIRL, WHO BECAME MY STALKER IN CRIME...HAHAHA!!!  SHE KNOWS WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT.  SHE WAS ONE OF THE FIRST ONES I STARTED TALKING TO ONLINE, THEN TALKING ON THE PHONE. 

ANYWAY, I AM SORRY IF I DIDNT MENTION EVERYONE ON HERE, BUT I COULD KEEP GOING ALL DAY LONG AND WE WOULD BE HERE FOREVER.  THERE ARE SO MANY OF YOU THAT I MET BACK THEN THAT I STILL VISIT TO THIS DAY.  WELL THAT IS MY FIRST EXPERIENCE ON HERE AND I WILL LEAVE YOU WITH MY ACTUAL FIRST POST!!!  TRY NOT TO LAUGH TOO HARD!!!

MY FIRST POSTS!!!

 Internet Island Topic Post #22.00: Our Internet "World"

We'll start at the beginning of your "stay" on the "internet world".

22.02. Hardware, Software, and nowhere
Write or somehow present your "internet history". I wrote an essay for my website called "A Short History of the World Wide Web" in 1999. It wasn't a "history" of the internet, but of my own experience "online". I'd like to know what journeys through cyberspace you've taken over the years. Straight sailing? Detours? Virtual collisions?

MY EXPERIENCE WITH THE INTERNET STARTED ABOUT 10 YEARS AGO.  MY MOM GOT A COMPUTER.  I DIDNT GET ON IT ALL THE TIME, DID THE BASICS LIKE LOOK UP A FEW THINGS, DIDNT EVEN HAVE AN EMAIL ADDRESS NOR KNOW WHERE TO GET ONE.  SOME FRIENDS TAUGHT ME HOW TO PLAY MUDD GAMES, THEN OF COURSE THERE WAS THE UP AND COMING GAMES THAT ARE COLORED AND ACTUALLY HAVE VISUAL EFFECTS AND WHATNOT, CARDS, TRIVIA, ETC.  I ALWAYS ENJOYED DOING THAT. 

THEN ABOUT 8 YEARS AGO, I DECIDED TO START DOING MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION.  I GOT MY OWN COMPUTER, DESK, AND GOT STARTED ON MY REAL ADVENTURES OF THE INTERNET.  EVENTUALLY I LEARNED ABOUT DIFFERENT EMAILS, DIFFERENT MESSENGERS, PROGRAMS, AND WEBSITES.  I FOUND THAT I LIKED TO CONVERSE ONLINE BETTER THAN ON THE PHONE. 

I LEARNED TO BECOME GREEDY WITH MY COMPUTER, AS MY EXHUSBAND WOULD GET ON THERE AND OF COURSE HE WOULD LEAVE BEHIND A HISTORY TRAIL, WHICH CAUSED ME TO LOCK DOWN MY COMPUTER AND KEEP HIM OFF OF IT.  I REALLY LEARNED TO BE A SNEAKLY INVESTIGATOR ON THE INTERNET BECAUSE OF HIS WRONG DOINGS ON THERE.  I ALSO LEARNED THAT THE MORE PEOPLE ON ANY ONE COMPUTER, THE MORE PROBLEMS YOU WILL HAVE WITH THAT COMPUTER. 

I FOUND SO MUCH ON THE INTERNET THAT IT SOMETIMES FELT OVERWELMING, NOT KNOWN WHAT I WANTED TO LOOK AT FIRST OR WHAT WAS MORE INTERESTING.  STILL TO THIS DAY, I AM LIKE THAT AS IT GETS BIGGER AND BIGGER EVERYDAY!!  I HAVE SO MANY BOOKMARKS OF PAGES THAT I REALLY WANT TO CHECK OUT, BUT YET NEVER FIND THE TIME.  I HAVE LEARNED THAT YOU CAN PRETTY MUCH FIND ANYTHING YOU WANT TO KNOW ON THE INTERNET.  WELL, THAT IS PRETTY MUCH MY HISTORY OF THE INTERNET. 

ANSWERS TO LAST NIGHTS QUIZ

TRUE OR FALSE ANSWERS

The following are true: 4, 5, 6, 8, 12, 14 and 18.
All the rest are false.

 SO ANYONE WATCH THE
GRAMMYS?

MY FAVORITE OF ALL WAS THE POLICE!!!!

AWESOME JOB!!!!


I LOVE STING, BUT I NEVER NOTICED
HOW LONG HIS NOSE WAS!!!
JUST IN CASE ANYONE MISSED THEM
 

ENJOY THE VIDEO!!!
FOR ANYONE INTERESTED
WORLD TOUR
ANNOUNCED
TODAY!!!!!!!!

I WATCHED A 3-1/2 HOUR GRAMMY SHOW
IN A LITTLE OVER 1 HOUR....
IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE MARY J  DIXIE SHOW!!!
HATE DIXIE CHICKS, LOVE MARY J, BUT HATE
HER ACCEPTANCES SPEECHES, THEY ARE LONG
AND DRAWN OUT AND A NICE THANK YOU WOULD
BE NICE FOR A DAMN CHANGE!!!!

ANYWAY, MAKES ME GLAD I RECORDED IT!!

I LOVED WATCHING JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE, JAMES BLUNT,
AND SHAKIRA (IF ONLY I KNEW HOW TO DO THAT!!)
BUT THE REST OF THE SHOW WAS PRETTY MUCH
A WASHOUT FOR ME!!!

SO SINCE I HAVE BEEN GONE, I HAVE A LOT OF STUFF
TO CATCH UP ON AS FAR AS WORK, BUT ALSO
AS FAR AS DEADLINES ON CERTAIN POSTS...

WILL TRY AND GET AROUND LATER TODAY!!!

Internet IslandTopic Post #22.00: Our Internet "World"

We'll start at the beginning of your "stay" on the "internet world".

22.01. Internet "start page" or "home page".
What is the first thing you see when you get on the internet. What do you check first? Your email? Stock quotes? The news? Do You Yahoo? Do you set Google as your home page? A personal website? The AP or Reuters news feeds? ABC.com? How about  Your Xanga? Or is it like the "blinking 12:00" on most everyone's VCR in the 80s. Did you just keep the MSN home page that came with Internet Explorer? (Yes, it's interesting to note that VCRs and computers arrived at almost the same time, although computers didn't really "take off" until Windows 3.1 and the advent of the World Wide Web, which introduced "graphics" to the previously text based internet.)  

WHEN I OPEN UP MY BROWSER, MOZILLA IT GOES STRAIGHT TO MY GOOGLE PAGE, WHICH IS SETUP FOR MY PERSONAL LIKINGS.  I HAVE MY DICTIONARY, MY XANGA LINKS, MY CALENDER, CLOCK, WEATHER, NEWS, ETC.   MY EXPLORER PAGE IS SET UP WITH XANGA AS MY HOME PAGE SO FIRST THING I DO WHEN I OPEN THAT BROWSER IS SIGN INTO XANGA.  

THE FIRST EMAIL I CHECK DEPENDS ON THE DAY.  IF IT IS A WEEKDAY, I CHECK MY WORK EMAIL, WHICH IS ON OUTLOOK WEB ACCESS, THEN I CHECK MY PERSON EMAIL ON OUTLOOK, WHICH HAS MY COMCAST, GMAIL, HOTMAIL EMAIL IMPORTED INTO THEM.  THEN I CHECK MY XANGA AND THEN MYSPACE PAGES TO CHECK COMMENTS, POST, OR JUST LOOK AROUND AT OTHER XANGANS PAGES.

I HAVE YAHOO, MSN, AIM, AND MYSPACE MESSENGERS. 

MY LIFE DOES TEND TO EVOLVE AROUND THE COMPUTER IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER AND WHEN MY INTERNET IS DOWN, I FEEL TOTALLY DISCONNECTED FROM THE WORLD!!! 

FOUND A NEW SERIES!!! 
THIS ONE IS REALLY REALLY INTERESTING!!! 
 
IT IS ON TV LAND, WHICH I REALLY DONT WATCH A LOT
OF STUFF ON, BUT I ACCIDENTALLY RAN UPON THIS SHOW!!!
IT IS CALLED MYTHS AND LEGENDS!! 

HAS ANYONE WATCHED THIS SHOW?

I MISSED A FEW THEM,
HOPEFULLY THEY WILL AIR AGAIN!!

I WATCHED ONE LAST NIGHT, IT WAS CALLED
"MUNCHKINS AND MISBEHAVIOR"

ANYONE HEARD ABOUT THE MUNCHKIN THAT SUPPOSEDLY
HUNG HIMSELF ON THE SET OF WIZARD OF OZ? 

THIS IS THE PORTION OF THE MOVIE THEY SHOW ON THE SHOW,
BUT AFTER GOOGLING THIS ABOUT THE MUNCHKINS HANGING,
I ACTUALLY FOUND THREE DIFFERENT PLACES PEOPLE SAY
A MUNCHKIN HUNG ITSELF!!! 

WHAT ABOUT BARRY WILLIAMS BEING STONED ON
THE SET OF THE BRADY BUNCH? 

JULIA CHILDS DROPS A CHICKEN AND THEN PICKS
IT UP OFF THE FLOOR AND DUST IT OFF
THEN USES IT? 

HEARD ABOUT WALT DISNEY'S HEAD
SOMEWHERE IN THE PIRATES OF CARIBBEAN RIDE
AND HIS BODY SUPPOSEDLY FROZEN CRYOGENICALLY? 

THIS SHOW BASICALLY TELLS THE TRUE SIDE OF
THE STORIES.  VERY INTERESTING, YOU
SHOULD DEFINATELY TRY TO CATCH IT!!!

HERE IS SOME TRUE OR FALSE TRIVIA FOR YOU........
SEE HOW MANY YOU CAN GET CORRECTLY,
I WILL POST THE ANSWERS IN ANOTHER POST!!

Some of these urban legends blossomed from facts,
while others grew entirely out of a bed of cultural
assumptions. Can you pick the true ones out of
this crop?  

1. TV reporter Geraldo Rivera was born Jerry Rivers but
later changed his name to appear more Hispanic.

Bill Gates and Microsoft will pay you $245 for every
person to whom you forward a certain email.

3. Walt Disney received a dishonorable military
   discharge in the First World War.

4. Lemmings, which are not naturally inclined toward suicide,
   were induced to jump off a cliff during the filming
   of a Disney nature documentary.

5. Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer was originally created
   for Montgomery Wards department stores.

6. Movie star Charlie Chaplin once placed poorly
   in a Chaplin lookalike contest.

   

7. Comic actor Stan Laurel is the father
   of actor/director Clint Eastwood.

   

8. The woman that actor Jack Nicholson thought was
   his sister turned out to be his mother.

9. In the movie The Crow, the scene where actor Brandon Lee
   is accidentally and fatally wounded can be seen in the movie.

10. By contract, straight-faced silent screen star Buster
    Keaton was legally prevented from smiling on camera.

11. Movie critic Gene Siskel was buried with his thumb pointing
    up, per his will—the same sign he gave to films he liked.

    

12. Contractually, preparations for Van Halen’s performances
    must include bowls of M&Ms with all the brown candies removed.

13. Rap star Tupac Shakur faked his own death and is alive.

14. Many of the actors in the Poltergeist trilogy of
    movies have died premature deaths.

15. Fred Rogers, the late, gentle PBS children’s host,
    had been a Navy Seal and a sniper in Vietnam.
    
     
16. Actor Robin Williams paid actor Christopher Reeve’s medical
    bills after Reeve was permanently paralyzed, because of a
    promise they made to each other in acting school.

17. Defense attorney Johnny Cochran’s
    tombstone declares: “OJ did it.”

18. At one time, Coca Cola contained cocaine.
    
    
19. Actor Humphrey Bogart was the model for
    the baby on the Gerber baby food jars.

20. Back to the Future II, which came out in 1989, made
    an accurate prediction about the 1997 World Series.

WHAT A SHOW....

I DIDNT WATCH THE SUPERBOWL, ONLY THE COMMERCIALS!!!
SO FUNNY THAT I FAST FORWARD THROUGH ALL COMMERCIALS
EXCEPT DURING THE SUPERBOWL..
I WANTED TO SEE THEM.

EVERYONE SEE PRINCE? 

AWESOME AWESOME SHOW!!!!! 

FOR ANY OF YOU  WHO MISSED IT

WELL I WILL HOPEFULLY BE BACK SOON...
I MISSED SO MUCH WORK LAST WEEK WITH BEING UPSET
ABOUT PETEY THAT I NEED TO MAKE UP A LOT THIS WEEK.

I WILL BE POPPING IN SOON THOUGH!!

ART_RAGE_CHALLENGE
This week's topic is

Travel

I JUST WANTED YOU TO KNOW THAT I HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN ABOUT ANY OF YOU, BUT IT HAS BEEN A HARD PAST FEW DAYS.  MONDAY, I HAD TO HAVE MY BEST FRIEND, PETEY, PUT TO SLEEP.  HE HAD LYMPHOCYSTIC CARCINOMA.  IT WAS ONE OF THE HARDEST THINGS I HAVE EVER HAD TO DO AND BASICALLY THREW ME IN A DOWNWARD SPIRAL OF DEPRESSION.  ANYWAY, I HOPE TO GET AROUND TO VISIT EVERYONE THIS WEEKEND AT SOME POINT. 

SITTING ON THE PORCH BEING PETEY


THIS IS WHAT I WILL MISS THE MOST. HE USED TO COME UP TO MY DESK AND NUDGE THE BACK OF MY ARM AND IF I DIDNT RECOGNIZE HE WAS THERE, HE WOULD COME AROUND AND GET BETWEEN ME AND THE KEYBOARD WHERE I WOULD HAVE TO STOP. 


BEING WILD!!


CHILLING IS WHAT HE DID THE BEST

I HAVE BEEN ON FOODSTAMPS BEFORE...
DILLON HAS BEEN ON MEDICAID..
DILLON IS NOW ON THE INSURANCE THROUGH THE STATE THAT
IS THE SAME AS MEDICAID,
BUT I HAVE TO PAY $10 A MONTH FOR IT.

YEARS AGO I TRIED TO GET HOUSING,
NOT IN THE PROJECTS, BUT ASSISTANCE..
TO SAY THE LEAST, I NEVER GOT IT...

I GOT THIS IN AN EMAIL THE OTHER DAY AND IT
REALLY MADE SENSE TO ME SO I FELT THAT I
SHOULD SHARE IT....

CLICK ON THE PIC SO YOU CAN READ IT
THEN GIVE ME YOUR OPINION.....

SO WHAT IS YOUR OPINION
ABOUT THIS ISSUE????????

ALSO, WE ALL UNFORTUNATELY
KNOW WHO KEVIN FEDERLINE IS...
BUT HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THE
NATIONWIDE COMMERCIAL UPROAR
CLICK HERE

BASICALLY IT DEPICTS HIM RAPPING
WEARING DIAMONDS AND WHATNOT
AND THEN SUDDENLY,
SOMEONE SHOUTS "FEDERLINE"
HE IS SINGING INTO THE CAMERA AT
A FASTFOOD RESTURANT, ONLY FROM
BEHIND THE COUNTER BECAUSE SINCE
THE DIVORCE HE IS NOW ON BOTTOM
AGAIN AND THEN HERE COMES THE
NATIONWIDE SLOGAN
"LIFE COMES AT YOU FAST"

THE UPROAR IS THAT IT DEMEANS FAST
FOOD WORKERS AND THEY ARE PISSED.
WHAT IS YOUR OPINION?

I HAVE WORKED FASTFOOD, WAITED TABLES
AND AFTER HAVING DONE THAT, IT DOESNT
BOTHER ME TO SEE THIS COMMERCIAL..
IN FACT, I THINK IT IS PRETTY DAMN FUNNY!!

SO YOU THINK IT IS DEMEANING OR DO YOU
THINK IT IS DONE IN GOOD HUMEROUS TASTE?

WAITING FOR THE BUS

DILLON HAD A GOOD BIRTHDAY.
THANKS FOR ALL THE BIRTHDAY WISHES FROM ALL!!

HE GOT THE APRON AND CHEF HAT FROM HIS GRANDPARENTS
AND A COOKBOOK FROM THE PAMPERED CHEF
HE HAD TO BAKE COOKIES!!

WHEN I GET MY CAR FIXED WE ARE GOING
TO GO BOWL OR TO CHUCK E CHEESE OR
SOMETHING FUN....

IT WILL BE ALONG WEEKEND AS
I DIDNT REALLY GET MUCH WORK DONE
YESTERDAY.

I HAD TO FILLOUT TRAVIS' APPLICATION
TO THE 160TH NIGHT STALKERS...

THIS IS THE GROUP THAT THE MOVIE
NIGHTHAWK DOWN IS ABOUT...

EVERYONE CROSS YOUR FINGERS THAT
THINGS WORK OUT AND THEY ACCEPT HIM...

I SAW THIS ON SEVERAL DIFFERENT SITES
SO SINCE TODAY IS FRIDAY AND I WILL
BE REALLY BUSY MOST OF THE WEEKEND,
I FIGURED THIS WOULD BE A GOOD ONE TO
LEAVE EVERYONE ON FOR THE WEEKEND!!
HAVE FUN, I WILL POST ANSWERS AS I
GET A CHANCE THROUGHOUT THE WEEKEND!!

RULES:
In the comments section you post a category...
not a question...just a category
and I have to respond with a fact about myself or
my feelings regarding that category.
For example - you post a category like.... sports And I say...
I am not a sports person, I like Musicals, and plays but sports bore me.

THOUGHT I WOULD TRY AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS.

ON THE ONES I SAW THEY HAD TAGGED SOME PEOPLE AND
THAT IS WHAT IT SAYS TO DO, BUT I AM JUST
GOING TO LET IT GO, IF YOU WANT TO, DO THIS!!

Regginald WANTS TO KNOW ABOUT PHILOSOPY I WILL JUST QUOTE ON OF MY FAVORITE SONGS "PHILOSOPHY IS A TALK ON A CEREAL BOX, RELIGION IS A SMILE ON A DOG. I'M NOT AWARE OF TOO MANY THINGS, I KNOW WHAT I KNOW IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN, DO YA............."

RedHairedCelt WANTS TO KNOW ABOUT FLIPFLOPS ALL I CAN SAY IS SUMMER GREAT SHOES WINTER I WANT MY FLUFFY SLIPPERS   ilsurvive WANTS TO KNOW ABOUT MUSIC ANYONE WHO HAS READ ME FOR THE PAST FEW YEARS KNOWS I AM A DIE-HARD 80S HAIRBAND LOVER!! soonaquitter WANTS TO KNOW ABOUT HATS I JUST LOVE HATS, PROBLEM FOR ME IS I CAN NEVER FIND ONE THAT LOOKS GOOD ON ME.  GREAT FOR THAT BAD HAIR DAY!! jerjonji WANTS TO KNOW ABOUT TV STARS WHAT CAN I SAY, I AM A TV JUNKIE, BUT I THINK I WOULD BE ONE OF THOSE CRAZED FANS WHO SEES THEM ON THE STREET AND THINKS THEY ARE ACTUALLY WHO THEY PLAY ON TV AND EITHER HATE THEM OR LOVE THEM!!!

FIRST OF ALL I MUST SAY

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO

DILLON

LOOK AT HIS NEW CHEF HAT AND APRON

HE MADE SOME CHOCOLATE
CHIP COOKIES!!

NEXT.........

CAN EVERYONE SAY

IAN BERNARDO!!!!!!!
Ian Bernardo, no.1 loser wrapped in mink
WHAT A FREAK!!!!!!!!

NEW FEATURE GROWNUPS.....

I AM HAPPY WHEN...

MY BILLS ARE PAID ON TIME

I FINISH MY WORK ON TIME

SPENDING TIME VISITING EVERYONE ON XANGA

IT IS A PERFECT DAY

THE BIRDS ARE CHIRPING

IT IS SUNNY OUTSIDE.

PLAYING BALL WITH THE DOGS.

READING AN INSPIRING BOOK.

SPENDING TIME WITH GOOD FRIENDS.

INSPIRING SOMEONE OR BEING INSPIRED.

MAKING SOMEONE LAUGH.

BUT THE THING THAT ME ME THE HAPPIEST IS........

SPENDING TIME WITH MY CHILDREN.