Grimwise

Tumblr test post.

grimwise — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 07:39:14 +0000

I’m just gonna put this here to see if Tumblr imports it or not. And how it imports it, if it indeed does.

Flickr

grimwise — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 07:24:34 +0000

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

I like Half-Life, I like this.

grimwise — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 01:43:20 +0000

Example of how short film can be good.

grimwise — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:55:25 +0000

Liked this.

grimwise — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 02:23:45 +0000

From Pizdaus.

Damn Twitter badge won’t work.

grimwise — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:17:28 +0000

Twitter Updates

I’ve tried a good few times to put this badge (which will probably turn out to be raw code) into my sidebar. Bah.

This guy knows how to address introversion.

grimwise — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 15:42:42 +0000

I stumbled upon this post by a blogger who writes about the best ways to make money. He’s got a set of rules that an introvert should remember to follow when trying to make new friends, or ‘network’ as he says (after all he’s a businessman). But yeah, I found them to be fairly decent on paper, and a lot of them might well work in practice as well.

I found this one in particular to be quite interesting:

Stop the Mental Role-Playing

Part of the definition of being an introvert is having a “rich internal world.” You’ve got a lot of stuff going on inside your head, and one of your favorite things to do is role-play. You imagine what’s going to happen, what you’re going to do, and how it’s going to pan out. With complicated tasks, it actually helps you do things better because you’ve already done them so many times in your head.

It’s invaluable skill, but don’t delude yourself into thinking it helps with everything.

When you’re imagining meeting someone and you’re terrified of it, then every time you imagine it, you just get more terrified. It’s a never-ending pattern of imagining, getting scared, imagining more, and getting more scared. You need to break the pattern and think about something else.

Have a nosey.

A nation as one or many?

grimwise — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:28:36 +0000

I came across a problem of grammar when I tried to write this sentence:

On the note of proving themselves though, Germany also had a reason other than expansion to fight, for relations with France had been tense ever since the Franco-Prussian war of 1870.

How exactly can I use a plural pronoun to describe an entity that is best described as a singular ‘it’. I do think I can still use it, as it does make sense because we all know that a country is made of a group of individuals, about whom I could use a plural pronoun like ‘themselves’.

I just hate nations.

Edit: I just noticed a lexical error, oops. PS, thank you for the pointer Steve.

Posters.

grimwise — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:29:35 +0000

I wrote this after reading this comic.

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He’s sick of all the pictures on his walls. All they do is advertise the respective businesses that created them. The music industry, the art industry, the newspapers, local night clubs and that alcohol industry. He’s only just realized that his walls are real estate. They’re not his walls at all though, they belong to the company that he’s renting them off. So he thinks this; why should the corporate world own all of his environment?

He wants to go out to each of his friends and ask them all to make something for him. Something that will go on a wall. It wouldn’t matter to him what each thing was, just that it was made by someone he cares about, not by something that he doesn’t.

But he’s pretty certain that he won’t actually ask anyone to do this for him. He might tell people about what a cool idea it would be, but he doesn’t reckon that anyone takes him seriously enough to do him this quite obscure favour. Still though, if it is a pipe dream, it is quite a nice one.

I like the internet because it makes constructing an identity so simple.

grimwise — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:02:47 +0000

The person who I portray myself to be online is not who I really am. That guy is the one who people see the worst of, when he has no idea where he is, throwing up in a club somewhere then waking up the next morning to find cuts all over himself and wondering whether this will make a good story to tell to people. Well it does, so I do tell it, because it allows me to paint myself using the colours that I want. The internet allows this thanks to it’s slower pace, relative to real-life, you can think about what you say before you say it, doctor an image before you show it to someone, lay out your personality in such a way as to make it pleasing to the people you want to please.

The wide variety of social networking sites, forums and blog websites facilitate the engineering of a personality which is not my own, but the personality which will most appeal to who I want to be in contact with. Facebook is a place where I can show everyone just how zany my exploits can be, and this blog is a place where I can prove how articulate I can be. Forums, which I still occasionally visit – such as EuroFusion, run by my friend from Xbox Live – allow me to basically piss on a few tree stumps and gather allies about myself. I read reddit so that I have stuff to post on here in the hope that someone worthwhile will read it and get in touch with me.

With regard to the construction of an identity, I do it because it is a kind of false comfort. The knowledge that even if I get tired of my life in reality, I still have a multitude of users online that still see me in the way that I want them to see me. I have this back-up identity, a safety net which I can use to legitimate myself.

Now, I’m not saying that I do all this entirely consciously, that would be a rather chilling prospect, rather I am laying bare the drives behind all that I do online, and perhaps in reality as well.