the ronster

someday all this will be soooo simple

11 Dec 2009
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internetz whinge

I've been trying to work out what the simplest solution is to manage all the myriad social networks out there. I have a Facebook profile, a Twitter account and this blog. I don't really need any more than that. I've long since deleted BEBO and MySpace from my life (except the band MySpace - apparently it's THE LAW that you have to have one of those...)

However, I also have the same again for both my band and my comics podcast. It kinds of gets complicated when you want to have the same update sent to all three in order to effectively message disparate audiences.

Posterous is really handy, because any blog posts I send to it can be automatically forwarded to Facebook and Twitter. But the whole Twitter/Facebook updating thing is a bit of a minefield.

I use Twitter a lot. Way more than Facebook. I used to have all my Tweets sent to Facebook as status updates, but my heavy usage seemed to annoy people (who quite frankly would be better off using Twitter, since they seem to be using Facebook in that fashion). So I removed that service, but this means that I always forget now to forward tweets (using the #fb app instead) that I would like in both places.

So I'm trying Ping.FM now, coupled with an iPhone app called Social Personas. SP is, quite frankly, one ugly mother of an app, but it does the job quite well. Ping.FM on the other hand is a really great service that is basically a catchall for all the various micro-bloggind/status-based websites out there.

However, I've just added Posterous as one of my services in it, and I can't figure out how this is useful. In fact, I'm typing this very post into a box on the Ping.FM dashboard, and it's kind of difficult to understand why anyone would find this more convenient than the standard method of posting to that system, i.e. email.

Still. Just thought that it was worth a wee note about. I am going to have to log into Posterous now though to add links and format text via their web-editor, so this kinds of highlights just how useless Ping.FM is for actual blogging. Later perverts.

via Ping.fm

if I lost weight, would that improve my life?

10 Aug 2009
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whinge

I'm overweight. I don't really have any problem admitting that, nor do I have any overly neurotic feelings towards my body shape. I'm not overly keen on others seeing me with my shirt off (and I suspect the feeling is mutual), but I don't have crushingly debilitating issues with my gut. In fact, I'm probably fairly frank about it.

I've been considering recently though that if I don't lose weight soon though, I might never be in a position to lose it. Y'see, I'm naturally pre-disposed to laziness. If there's something important to be done, you can bet I'll be finding more pressing things to do instead, such as eating, or sleeping.

There are reasons that I'd like to lose weight, and most of them are practical. When I'm onstage in my band, I really do jump around a lot, probably more than most front-men. I don't mind admitting that after a half-hour set I am completely shattered. The tiredness towards the end of the set also probably contributes to me singing in a much-less efficient manner, and therefore in a much-less tuneful fashion.

My thoughts have also recently turned to the future, and the likelihood that I'll be a Dad sometime in the next few years. While I'm not the active type at all, and abhor competitive sports, I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to have a kickabout in the part with my kids while they still think I'm great, and the best Dad in the world (in my experience, kids wise up to this fallacy around the age of 4).

So, any suggestions? I hate exercise, but I'm willing to give anything non-competitive a go. I could do with losing about 4 stone, by my reckoning, but I'd also like to be a lot fitter.

Wish they made pills for this nonsense.

not really sure what the point of this was

8 Aug 2009
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belfast whinge

via youtube.com

But it looks like fun for those involved nonetheless.

I always hated pillow-fights as a youngster though, traditionally because some alpha male wanker always tried to use the opportunity to prove just how hard he could be.

This one time, at some school thing, I was knocked literally unconscious by one of these wankers. I've only ever used pillows for their intended purpose since.

john hughes

7 Aug 2009
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internetz movies whinge

It's not even midday, and already I'm sick to the back-teeth hearing about John Hughes. Was there this much fuss when Akira Kurosawa died? Or should he have made some inconsequential films about how crap being a teenager is, but it's worse when you grow up because your soul dies? Twaddle, I say. Like everyone else, I thought my life had been changed when I watched The Breakfast Club for the first time. I thought I'd finally discovered cinema.

Fortunately, the same day I bought The Breakfast Club in Our Price's buy 2 get 1 free sale, I also bought Taxi Driver. I watched it right after TBC.

Endy fucking story. Seriously, what do you think was going to have more affect on a 15 year old? This:

Or this?

Still, I like She's Having A Baby, and the Home Alone flicks (which he only wrote, to be fair) and a handful of others. Although according to Wikipedia, he only actually directed about 8 movies, so he was hardly prolific. In fact, I'm going to be the first to come out and call him lazy. The man never directed another movie after Curly Sue, and that was in 1991. To be fair, he was probably stopped.

Still, at least back then people like Hughes bothered to write movies that didn't necessarily talk down to kids, even if they did pander a bit to the narcissistic side of being a teenager.

warning, genuinely creepy

7 Aug 2009
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WTF!? whinge

Brought to my attention by my buddy Arlene, this is one of the most chilling depictions of an alternate reality I've ever encountered.

Brrrrr!

is this even possible?

6 Aug 2009
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BBS live music whinge

So, I'm going to be an extra in this movie that's shooting in Belfast, and I just got told my days are 26th, 27th and 28th of August.

Oh, and they're now night shoots. Isn't that great!? From 6 pm to 6 am the following day. Which means I'm finishing just before breakfast the day we go to play this show in Derry.

Can I do this? After 3 nights of night-shoots? I really don't want to be flopping around the stage like some sort of barely comatose fool. I'm kind of hoping the running order resembles the poster a bit, as I might be able to grab some shut eye for a while then.

Looks like it may be another Red Bull fuelled set.

Plus, this gig is actually on my birthday, and we'd been planning to spend the weekend there, maybe even kick back in Derry until the Monday, which is a Bank Holiday. But I've been told I'll definitely be working on the 31st, so no Bank Holiday for this scruffy peasant!

someday all this will be soooo simple

if I lost weight, would that improve my life?

not really sure what the point of this was

john hughes

warning, genuinely creepy

is this even possible?

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