My professor assigned us to create a twitter account, in which we are expected to post statuses, read what others are saying, and following herself and other classmates. Although i had a twitter before this assignment was given, i barely used it. I feel as though social networking is kind of overrated, me having a facebook, myspace, aim, and bbm can say that.I felt like twitter is just a waste of time and the only reason i have it is because my friends are constantly sending me outrageous party pictures that involves me being a member to see them. If it wasnt for this assignment I probably wouldn't have posted anything. During the twitter project I did realize something very common with alot of other social networks. These common things were people posting things that happen throughout their day and what they hope and want to happen. The assignment asks us to identify what time affects people the most from reading their statuses telelogical, chaotic, and stellar. From the statuses I've read, it seems that stellar time has the most affect on people.
Stellar time consists of intermingling scenarios that affect our daily lives. It’s also our past, present, and future being connected. The majority of tweets also had to do with major plans for spring break, summer, going away, and activities they wanted to do and something gets cancelled because something else came up or the weather, ETC. using myself as the first example I post things about things that happen on my way from and to school or work. Attending a party but can’t because the storm that occurred on Saturday. “It’s also raining today. I hate rainy days. Now I can't search for the flying spaghetti monster. 9:44 AM Mar 14th via web," although I am not sure what a spagheti monster is, it"s obvious that because of the rain he can't search it. Another example of chaotic time is " on spring break have nothing to do now cuz the stupid ass rain yo about 15 hours ago via web,” he’s on spring break and obviously had plans but got cancelled or on delayed because the weather we experienced over the weekend. “Think I'm gonna go hit up the gym.... Working out makes me feel better too bad Pilates class was cancelled 6:37 PM Mar 11th via mobile web,” she feels satisfaction from working out at the gym and planned to go that day but couldn’t because of a cancellation.
In conclusion from reading the hypertext reading of Borges text I was able to identify his concentration on time and its many approaches. Although I found it quite confusing it seems that the point he’s trying to convey is having control of the events in our life. He mentioned something’s that remind him of his childhood, things about ancestry, and events that were happening.
Monday, March 15, 2010
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Twitter in My Life
“What is Twitter?” After Professor asked us to open a Twitter account, this question appeared in my mind immediately. Actually, I never use Twitter before. If I don’t take this class, I won’t have this chance to know about Twitter. During these days’ experiences about using Twitter, I realize that Twitter becomes a useful tool in people’s life and also affects life. People like posing their status through twitter, which means twitter is a good place for people to express emotions such as happy, sad, and exciting, depress and so on. Maybe some people think using twitter is a wasting of time, because there is no purpose or meaning to life. But I am really interested in it now, and even get used to it already. For example, when midterm is coming, I always feel stress and nervous. How can I release my emotional tension? I know there are various ways, like talking to friends, exercising and eating. After I tried many ways, I found that using twitter is the soonest way. I can express my emotion during any time. This is the way how twitter affects my life and also my status will affect others at the same time; on the contrary, others also affect me. It can be considered as stellar time, which I think is the type of time most influences people. For example, people complain a lot this weekend because of the bad weather; many classmates feel tired because of their homework and tweet at least twice a day because this is a requirement. The other two types--- teleological time and chaotic time are seldom appeared in Twitter. I don’t think people like posting their status in a liner time everyday or tweeting something without purpose.
I also observe that people like using cyber language rather than written language when they tweet. Some words are really popular such as LOL, FML, OMG and etc. Those words make our posts more funny and simple.
The Garden of Forking Paths reminds me to think of a religious word “samsara”, which means life is coming again and again. This is almost the same point of view in the hyper text which is time and events can be circular. Maybe also seems like the infinity numbers and infinity universe. The other thing which I am really interested in is life is choices. “When a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of the others”, I am strongly agree with the author said. In our daily life, we always have to make choices. Different choices make different results; even a choice can change a person’s life. As a normal human being, what can I do is thinking twice before I act and trying not to regret about the choice I made before. If you want to achieve your goals as soon as possible, remember don’t look back, just look forward!
I also observe that people like using cyber language rather than written language when they tweet. Some words are really popular such as LOL, FML, OMG and etc. Those words make our posts more funny and simple.
The Garden of Forking Paths reminds me to think of a religious word “samsara”, which means life is coming again and again. This is almost the same point of view in the hyper text which is time and events can be circular. Maybe also seems like the infinity numbers and infinity universe. The other thing which I am really interested in is life is choices. “When a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of the others”, I am strongly agree with the author said. In our daily life, we always have to make choices. Different choices make different results; even a choice can change a person’s life. As a normal human being, what can I do is thinking twice before I act and trying not to regret about the choice I made before. If you want to achieve your goals as soon as possible, remember don’t look back, just look forward!
Teleological time, stellar time and chaotic time aren’t separated
After I finished reading the Garden of Forking Paths Hypertext and have used twitter for a week, I found out teleological time, stellar time and chaotic time aren’t separated. We can consider time into three parts, but you couldn’t divide into three pieces alone. Why? Because these three parts are intervened with each other, you can’t break it like you couldn’t separate salt water only used your eyes.
Twitter is a really reflection about these three kinds of “time”. First, teleological time is the time we embody only for ourselves. For example, we will sleep in the night to have a rest but everyone maybe sleeping in different time. So we can define teleological time as effect, beginning leads to end, linear time that relates to a purpose life. Secondary, stellar time is considered as in which our life consists of intermingling scenarios that affect our daily lives. But you may ask how Twitter tell ask stellar time. These days’ raining also is a good instance for us to explain stellar time. Because we also talked about the heavy rain, moreover we stay the same time which the rain was falling down. It’s very clear that we are in different places but share the same rain. That means rain is stellar time we embody together. The last one is chaotic time. I think chaotic time is a special thing take place randomly. Because of chaotic time, we can’t separate three kinds of “time” alone. It means that we can sleep in a raining day, but there will be something happened to stop or enhance our sleeping. For instance, alarm’s ringing, relax music, or dreams. So chaotic time is something happened by accident. Nobody can forecast when entropic will happen.
“He believed in an infinite series of times, in a dizzily growing, ever spreading network of diverging, converging and parallel times. This web of time一the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect or ignore each other through the centuries一embraces every possibility. We do not exist in most of them. In some you exist and not I, while in others I do, and you do not, and in yet others both of us exist.”—the sentences come from Garden of Forking Paths Hypertext. It’s a direction for us in order to understand why we couldn’t separate three kinds of “time’. We are all running in circles—every year, every month, every day, every hour, every minute, and every second.
Twitter is a really reflection about these three kinds of “time”. First, teleological time is the time we embody only for ourselves. For example, we will sleep in the night to have a rest but everyone maybe sleeping in different time. So we can define teleological time as effect, beginning leads to end, linear time that relates to a purpose life. Secondary, stellar time is considered as in which our life consists of intermingling scenarios that affect our daily lives. But you may ask how Twitter tell ask stellar time. These days’ raining also is a good instance for us to explain stellar time. Because we also talked about the heavy rain, moreover we stay the same time which the rain was falling down. It’s very clear that we are in different places but share the same rain. That means rain is stellar time we embody together. The last one is chaotic time. I think chaotic time is a special thing take place randomly. Because of chaotic time, we can’t separate three kinds of “time” alone. It means that we can sleep in a raining day, but there will be something happened to stop or enhance our sleeping. For instance, alarm’s ringing, relax music, or dreams. So chaotic time is something happened by accident. Nobody can forecast when entropic will happen.
“He believed in an infinite series of times, in a dizzily growing, ever spreading network of diverging, converging and parallel times. This web of time一the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect or ignore each other through the centuries一embraces every possibility. We do not exist in most of them. In some you exist and not I, while in others I do, and you do not, and in yet others both of us exist.”—the sentences come from Garden of Forking Paths Hypertext. It’s a direction for us in order to understand why we couldn’t separate three kinds of “time’. We are all running in circles—every year, every month, every day, every hour, every minute, and every second.
Twitter and Hypertext
I've been using Twitter account since 2009, but I rarely use it because I always thought the purpose of the Twitter is only putting your status update and knowing the other people's status that we followed. The words that are used for Twitter itself are also limited, so we can't really say anything much unless it's within 140 letters per post. As time passed by, I really think that Twitter is a great social networking after all, because I've been addicted in using the Twitter account now.
I've bassically wrote everything that has been happening with my life recently and it is just a great way to pour all my feeling and emotions so that I don't have to feel the pressure anymore. Observing what I had post in my twitter and what my classmates had posted too on their twitter, makes me believe that almost all of us are influenced by the teleological and stellar time. Most of us put their status that are related to school and makes me believe that we all have one purpose which is to graduate from Baruch College with a good grade. I've been observing this, because I had posted a lot about what I want to achieve from school and the tough time that I had from the assignments that I am assigned to do in order to achieve my goal for the future. It seems everyone that I know experienced similar situation as me. This makes me realized that I'm not the only one that is struggling on my school activities. In addition, every tweets that my friends had put on their twitter affected me in different ways. For example the bad weather that we had a couple days ago. It was raining on the weekend, and it seems most of the people had their leisure time only on the weekends. Many of them were complaining about it, expressing their anger and obviously it makes me upset too, because I was hoping that it was going to be a beautiful sunny day since I had made plans with my friends to go out but then it turned out to be raining the whole day, which causes my planned being cancelled. There were also a situation, where one of my friend tweet about the foods that she ate in one of my favorite restaurant, she even posted a link so everyone could see the picture of it and seeing her tweet makes me crave for the foods, although I'm not that hungry but in the way that she mentioned about the food makes me really want to go to where she was.
The hypertext reading of Borges text is very difficult for me to understand, I have to read over and over again just to get what the author's trying to say to the reader. When I read this, I felt like I'm in the maze trying to figure out the way out from the maze, but then instead of finding the way out, I kept on running into the same way over and over again. I think what the author's trying to say about this reading is to make us realized that we have our own life and its up to us on how we make our life into the way that we wanted to be for the future. We also have to remember on how our sorrounding is like, its not easy to pursue the life that we wanted to achieve, there will always be barrier everywhere we go, but in order for us to get what we wants is to learn over and over again from the previous mistakes that we made. As an example, if we failed for one course, and the course is a requirement for taking other courses that are ralated to our major. We shouldn't give up and throw away our hope, as long as we have an oppurtunity to take the course over, we should do it by learning more and not making the same mistake that we'd made from the same course that we did before.
I've bassically wrote everything that has been happening with my life recently and it is just a great way to pour all my feeling and emotions so that I don't have to feel the pressure anymore. Observing what I had post in my twitter and what my classmates had posted too on their twitter, makes me believe that almost all of us are influenced by the teleological and stellar time. Most of us put their status that are related to school and makes me believe that we all have one purpose which is to graduate from Baruch College with a good grade. I've been observing this, because I had posted a lot about what I want to achieve from school and the tough time that I had from the assignments that I am assigned to do in order to achieve my goal for the future. It seems everyone that I know experienced similar situation as me. This makes me realized that I'm not the only one that is struggling on my school activities. In addition, every tweets that my friends had put on their twitter affected me in different ways. For example the bad weather that we had a couple days ago. It was raining on the weekend, and it seems most of the people had their leisure time only on the weekends. Many of them were complaining about it, expressing their anger and obviously it makes me upset too, because I was hoping that it was going to be a beautiful sunny day since I had made plans with my friends to go out but then it turned out to be raining the whole day, which causes my planned being cancelled. There were also a situation, where one of my friend tweet about the foods that she ate in one of my favorite restaurant, she even posted a link so everyone could see the picture of it and seeing her tweet makes me crave for the foods, although I'm not that hungry but in the way that she mentioned about the food makes me really want to go to where she was.
The hypertext reading of Borges text is very difficult for me to understand, I have to read over and over again just to get what the author's trying to say to the reader. When I read this, I felt like I'm in the maze trying to figure out the way out from the maze, but then instead of finding the way out, I kept on running into the same way over and over again. I think what the author's trying to say about this reading is to make us realized that we have our own life and its up to us on how we make our life into the way that we wanted to be for the future. We also have to remember on how our sorrounding is like, its not easy to pursue the life that we wanted to achieve, there will always be barrier everywhere we go, but in order for us to get what we wants is to learn over and over again from the previous mistakes that we made. As an example, if we failed for one course, and the course is a requirement for taking other courses that are ralated to our major. We shouldn't give up and throw away our hope, as long as we have an oppurtunity to take the course over, we should do it by learning more and not making the same mistake that we'd made from the same course that we did before.
Twitter and Garden of Forking Paths
I never really understood the fascination with Twitter. I remember when it first started becoming poplar, I thought of it only as Facebook, just without the “face.” To me it was just status updates, which I am not very fond of. Ironically, as my New Year’s Resolution, I decided that I would make more status updates. So to my surprise when I found out that I would have to create and post updates to a Twitter account, I thought of it as a challenge. When I first created my account, I remember how against it I was. I procrastinated creating an account until the very last moment. My biggest obstacle was choosing what to post about. I am a very private person and do not like others, especially those that I do not know as well, knowing my business. It was mind-boggling to think that people would post every minute detail about their life. Although I never really got into the posting aspect on my side, I have become very interested in what others have to say. Even elusive celebrities are on twitter! Knowing what they have to say and realizing that they are real people was most intriguing.
Entropic time seemed to most influence my life based on my Twitter updates. My posts were about random events that happened to me that day. No one can really predict what is going to happen or even the outcome of a decision with 100% accuracy. I felt this was most evident when an unexpected event, as a death in my family, happened this past week. However such events as the horrible rain storm that has hit the city this past weekend, would suggest that our tweets follow stellar time, since a majority of the class tweeted about the weather.
The author, Jorge Luis Borges, has created a story that loops back on itself. It changes time and place and introduces characters that vanish and reappear (madden). The main character in beginning is later convicted of the crime in the end. He believes that we exist in a time that loops back and forth. It loops back into the garden of forking paths from his childhood later on in the story, that comes out of nowhere. The entire time, the main character is trying to escape from a terrible act that he does as a spy. No matter what he does, moving time and place, he still gets caught. The author is trying to make us question the fluidity of time. Is time fixed and set like a single place, or is time fluid like your memories of life (chaotic time)? I assumed that he was describing the memories of your mind are like a dream; you can float from one point to another, like the ebbs and flows of the ocean.
Entropic time seemed to most influence my life based on my Twitter updates. My posts were about random events that happened to me that day. No one can really predict what is going to happen or even the outcome of a decision with 100% accuracy. I felt this was most evident when an unexpected event, as a death in my family, happened this past week. However such events as the horrible rain storm that has hit the city this past weekend, would suggest that our tweets follow stellar time, since a majority of the class tweeted about the weather.
The author, Jorge Luis Borges, has created a story that loops back on itself. It changes time and place and introduces characters that vanish and reappear (madden). The main character in beginning is later convicted of the crime in the end. He believes that we exist in a time that loops back and forth. It loops back into the garden of forking paths from his childhood later on in the story, that comes out of nowhere. The entire time, the main character is trying to escape from a terrible act that he does as a spy. No matter what he does, moving time and place, he still gets caught. The author is trying to make us question the fluidity of time. Is time fixed and set like a single place, or is time fluid like your memories of life (chaotic time)? I assumed that he was describing the memories of your mind are like a dream; you can float from one point to another, like the ebbs and flows of the ocean.
stellar time & Twitter
I never had a twitter account before, so when the professor told us we had to make one I was a little confuse I didn't understand what was the purpose behind it. I always though of twitter as a Facebook where you have a status and people comment on it. However, twitter is different I mean it serves the same purpose to inform other people about whats going on in your life at the moment but it has a twist to it. with facebook you can comment on peoples status and it would show up on your wall if those are your settings,there are tons of apps that I find somehow ridiculous. For example play tennis with so and so or put your top ten friends in order. really? and the stuff that you can write on your status can be as long as a book, well maybe I'm being over dramatic but seriously there are people out there that actually do that and I find that annoying. So I guess the thing that makes twitter unique and in a way so catchy is that you don't have the privilege of writing a book as your status. you only have 140 words max, therefore you only write your main points and what you want people to know. I still don't understand why people want to tell the world whats going on in their life. well I guess we as humans we want to express out what we feel without anyone telling us to shut up, and we want people to hear our problems without them ignoring us.in conclusion, I think that's the purpose of twitter to scream out loud our life so that everyone knows about it and so in a way we feel better. I mean it does feel better when we get things out of our chest=)
The time type that I saw the most on Twitter is the Stellar time. I found out that most of the people on twitter talk about how nice the weather was and how they couldn't wait for summer to come. also, they were making plans to go out or to do something special outside because the weather was going to allowed them to do it. as a result they were changing their plans to do something different. Also, most of the people talk about how horrible was the weekend because it rain, and their plans got unexpectedly change because of the cancellations, last minute. And then when this kind of stuff happens you can only think what would had happen if it didn't rain and our plans hadn't change? we are only left to wonder.....
The time type that I saw the most on Twitter is the Stellar time. I found out that most of the people on twitter talk about how nice the weather was and how they couldn't wait for summer to come. also, they were making plans to go out or to do something special outside because the weather was going to allowed them to do it. as a result they were changing their plans to do something different. Also, most of the people talk about how horrible was the weekend because it rain, and their plans got unexpectedly change because of the cancellations, last minute. And then when this kind of stuff happens you can only think what would had happen if it didn't rain and our plans hadn't change? we are only left to wonder.....
Friday, March 12, 2010
Twitter and the Garden of Forking Paths
First time using Twitter, I was wondering why people could be so addicted to the status-update site such as this one, which limits your message to the world in 140 characters. Later I figured out it was the game nature of this website that makes it so special and addictive. You have to follow the rules: type whatever you want to say in less than 140 characters and that only, otherwise it won’t be posted. This rule brings in the most randomness, or a little sneak peek into people’s lives. Through my experience with Twitter, I can say that most people use the site as their emotion outlet, happy, sad or bored. These tweets, which can be categorized as chaotic time, reflect their emotions about the events that already happened, are happening and will happen. People get into an exciting situation, they tweet “Yay”, and horrible situation brings out “F****”. Those are the most two common words that I’ve seen on Twitter. Teleological time happens less often just because people find it boring just to post the regular events of their lives in order for others to see. I haven’t seen stellar time either, or it’s because to obtain a perception whether stellar time is happening, I would have to travel the road of tweets, pick up the seemingly irrelevant ones and connect the dots afterwards.
The Garden of Forking Paths gives me a nagging feeling. I imagine there are parallel universes in addition to the one that I’m in, with parallel selves of me living in it but walking different paths than mine. That thought is disturbing, in a way, if I ever find that I’m the enemy to my dearest friends in other universes. It’s like when I’m having a dream that I cannot control, no matter how much I want to. Thinking about different universes makes me feel like I’m waking up in great doubt about whatever decisions I have made in life. There are also events, in which I strongly believed in one way and after so many years accidentally there is a light shed upon the matter which shows me a whole different side of the story and tells me the path I took wasn’t what I thought it was.
However, I told myself that the path is what I have chosen, and there should be no regrets. The maze consists of many exits, and there’s no exit that I “must” reach. Whatever exit I reach, I will be glad that I have exited the maze that is my life, with grace.
To quote my favorite hip hop Korean band Epik High:
Three blind mice as we're lost in the maze route, lookin' for the easiest possible way out.
Day in and day out, you run into a closed road.
Turning into old folk, chasing after rose gold.
What they don't know is that it belongs to a fool.
Choosing wants over needs, singing songs of a mule.
Carrying their burdens when you barely know the person,
And that is the difference between a pharaoh and a servant.
…
Break down the walls of the maze and run through the finish line.
Life is like a maze, try to keep track of the days that take us from place to place.
Awaken and face-to-face.
Too many choices, possibilities, indecision is killing me.
And if you lend a helping hand, then I will follow willingly.
Life is like a maze... when I'm flippin' through the pages.
The Garden of Forking Paths gives me a nagging feeling. I imagine there are parallel universes in addition to the one that I’m in, with parallel selves of me living in it but walking different paths than mine. That thought is disturbing, in a way, if I ever find that I’m the enemy to my dearest friends in other universes. It’s like when I’m having a dream that I cannot control, no matter how much I want to. Thinking about different universes makes me feel like I’m waking up in great doubt about whatever decisions I have made in life. There are also events, in which I strongly believed in one way and after so many years accidentally there is a light shed upon the matter which shows me a whole different side of the story and tells me the path I took wasn’t what I thought it was.
However, I told myself that the path is what I have chosen, and there should be no regrets. The maze consists of many exits, and there’s no exit that I “must” reach. Whatever exit I reach, I will be glad that I have exited the maze that is my life, with grace.
To quote my favorite hip hop Korean band Epik High:
Three blind mice as we're lost in the maze route, lookin' for the easiest possible way out.
Day in and day out, you run into a closed road.
Turning into old folk, chasing after rose gold.
What they don't know is that it belongs to a fool.
Choosing wants over needs, singing songs of a mule.
Carrying their burdens when you barely know the person,
And that is the difference between a pharaoh and a servant.
…
Break down the walls of the maze and run through the finish line.
Life is like a maze, try to keep track of the days that take us from place to place.
Awaken and face-to-face.
Too many choices, possibilities, indecision is killing me.
And if you lend a helping hand, then I will follow willingly.
Life is like a maze... when I'm flippin' through the pages.
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