The Thrift Shop Romantic's All a-Twitter!

Just a quick announcement to let you folks know that The Thrift Shop Romantic is now on Twitter!

I've been Tweeting on Twitter under my own name for quite a while, but this new account-- http://www.twitter.com/ThriftRomantic is designed specifically to talk thrifty ideas, decorating, crafts, and other home-related topics.

So, if you happen to be on Twitter yourself and care to join in the fun, Follow Me there. I'll follow back folks who aren't spammers, aren't trying to get me to buy motivational courses, or show me their nekkid photos. :)

(Plus, Tweeters from the Pittsburgh area who love thrift, I thought this would be a great way to get to know each other.)

Hope to see you there!
-Jenn

The Thrift Shop Romantic's All a-Twitter!

Just a quick announcement to let you folks know that The Thrift Shop Romantic is now on Twitter!

I've been Tweeting on Twitter under my own name for quite a while, but this new account-- http://www.twitter.com/ThriftRomantic is designed specifically to talk thrifty ideas, decorating, crafts, and other home-related topics.

So, if you happen to be on Twitter yourself and care to join in the fun, Follow Me there. I'll follow back folks who aren't spammers, aren't trying to get me to buy motivational courses, or show me their nekkid photos. :)

(Plus, Tweeters from the Pittsburgh area who love thrift, I thought this would be a great way to get to know each other.)

Hope to see you there!
-Jenn

The Terminator,Twitter, and the Economy Reboot

I thought I would bring up an older post I wrote about the economy since the California budget is still in the hole, one year ago the Stock Market plunged to new lows, people are still denying anything is wrong with the economy, and forget about getting the truth from the mainstream press about the entire economic mess in the world. We have change alright, for the worst, in my opinion.
Here is the original post:
How does the Terminator, Twitter, and the economy relate you ask yourself? Well I received a most interesting e-mail from a friend who is into economics and knows how much I love science fiction and thought I would get a kick out of reading the article and I did. The article is relating Skynet, from the Terminator series, which is a computer system that is created for defensive purposes, to Twitter and other social networking/info sites that provide us with quick information and connection to others. How, once again you ask, does this relate to the economy? Well, Skynet in the Terminator became self-aware and viewed humans as a threat to its existence and thus began the quest to wipe out the human race (I believe the Governator of California has become self-aware that he cannot fix the budget problems of that State in the US but that is another post!)
The article, which is found in Marketwatch and I will link at the end of the post, states that Tweeting and Twittering about the internet is making our attention spans shrink with the massive amount of data being downloaded into our minds each day. It makes us forget that, for example, GM would not survive through December '08 without a bailout and bankruptcy would be devastating for all involved to fast forward to June 1st, 2009 and bankruptcy is the best thing in the world for GM and "Skynet", I mean the major networks and online papers are cheering the bankruptcy and telling us the economy is improving!
This entire thing reminds me of an episode of Stargate SG1 called Revisions(2003) in which each member of a very small society that lives in a bubble has a neural interface that keeps each person linked with the computer and when a "revision" is made, all memories of the previous persons or situations are erased as if it never happened. So if we had placed on our heads a neural interface, Skynet, or insert here your favorite government agency, would have just revised the data and we collectively would have forgotten the whole GM debacle.
I love technology and I know this article sounds pessimistic but with high quantities of information available to us these days, it is important to be discriminating in what we read and make sure our long term memories stay intact.
Anyway, I thought the article interesting and worth reading HERE.

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Wil Wheaton Vids

I found two funny Wil Wheaton videos, funny that is if you are a nerd like myself and love Star Trek, The Big Bang Theory, and the Family Guy television shows. Wil also has a very cool BLOG that is fun to read as well, and he loves twitter and you can catch him tweeting quite regularly.
Enjoy the videos!