"36 hour Sunday"

1. Discuss what type of time most influences yours and others' lives based on TWITTER. Were you at all affected by what your peers were writing? Did anything unanticipated happen that ruptured your daily construct of living?

I think that most of the people I was following did actually planned their steps in advance or, at least, they expected things to happen in a certain order, predicted one. Hence, I assume time is stellar for many twitters as well as for me. Through the Twitter activity I was able to find more about people surrounding me. I think my daily activities are planned ahead and I know how I am going to spend every minute of time so valuable for me. However, sometimes unanticipated events occur and at the moment you think that you will not be able to deal with that turn of events. But you able to adjust accordingly to all unexpected twists, even if the outcome is not favorable sometimes. By spending some of my time playing with Twitter, I came to conclusion that many people do the same thing as I do: they are able to adjust to unanticipated events in their lives. One of the multiple posts that attracted my attention is that where a person offered to expend Sunday to 36 hours. I would even offer a better “bailout package”, which will extend all days of the week. It is very true when it comes to me: time flies so fast that seldom all planned tasks can not be finished on time. I am a full time student who is part time employed and I know how time is precious. Where is that magic key that can turn back time? I was thinking of this subject for some sometime during my life.

I was not able to experience all “beauty” of having snow on the first day of the spring: my plane was heading to San Francisco. However, being a New York myself, I could portray the feelings of the people participated in Twitter. The idea that I was not at New York at the time contributed to my excellent mood.

2. Spend about 15 minutes playing with the hypertext reading of Borges' text. What do you think the designer intended for us to learn through this hypertext activity? Did you find yourself running in circles? Were you attracted to certain words more than others? If so, what do you think this says about you?

The hyperactivity seemed to be a bit complicated. I was not sure what direction to follow, which word to click. The hyperactivity depicts the truth about our lives. Very often we are given a number of possible solutions to the same problem and our responsibility is to pick the right one, more suitable in a given situation. The hyperactivity offers is an endless story. By clicking one work somewhere in the middle of the text, you are being transferred to entire different part. You have to be careful with selection of the next word to avoid going circles. In general, I am a very curios person and this activity was interesting for me, because I wanted to know the truth hidden under a next highlighted word.