July 7, 2004
Blogging, the New Penpal...
...or something like that.
Last night, I met up with Jens, who is from Sweden. It's funny, I've never met Jens until yesterday, but we've communicated a few times from our respective homelands. Him in Stockholm, me in New York. I can't remember how he found my site, but he stops by every once in a while, so when he said he was coming into town, I thought meeting up for a drink with him would be harmless enough. Unfortunately, I'm very busy this week, so I wasn't able to show him around town too much. Note to all creepy readers, just because you're reading this, doesn't mean I'll be hanging out with you too...kidding...or am I?
So have blogs become a new type of penpal? Probably not. I would think e-mail would replace the actual pen, but I think you know what I'm getting at. I've made a fair amount of friends via this blog thingy and it seems to be working pretty well. Sure, my life is an open book, but I get to choose what I write. I share what I want to share. It also allows me to communicate (albeit, it's very one sided) with my friends that I don't see too often.
Who knows where my site will lead and what I'll do with it in the next year and after that, but so far, I have no complaints. I've made some friends, gotten some shit off my chest, and had a pretty good time of it. Works for me.
Posted by tien mao in Blog-ing at 7:23 AM
Tjena Mannen!!! Läget??
^^^ Swedish for "Hey Man!! Whats up??"
It was nice meeting you too!! And thanks for the tips, We've added em to the ticklist. Today we will check out brooklyn, the bridge and ofcourse that pizza place!! I'll be back with a review later...
thanks again and you know, if you ever get a decent amount of vacation days and decides to spend some them in scandinavia - drop me line!! :-)
Posted by: jens at July 7, 2004 12:22 PM
You mean your life is an open "little read book," right?
Posted by: matt at July 7, 2004 6:09 PM
Voila! A review is to be found over at http://www.ijens.com/archives/000064.html
ch-ch-check it out!!
Posted by: jens at July 7, 2004 10:58 PM
matt, i was thinking of writing that, but i figured it was understood.
Posted by: tien at July 8, 2004 11:28 AM
"I've made some friends, gotten some shit off my chest, and had a pretty good time of it."
You forgot my favorite part of this blog, which is "share pictures of me stuffing my face with strangers." Oh, and the gay lion scarf picture, but that goes without saying.
Posted by: FlatGreg at July 8, 2004 4:14 PM
damn greg, you just love that lion scarf picture, don't you.
Posted by: tien at July 8, 2004 5:36 PM
Is the present participle form of "to blog" "bloging" or "blogging"?
Of course, I don't know what a present participle is, but it sounded like a good phrase.
I think you need the double "g", else you get the long O sound instead of the short o. Unless of course people pronounce blog as if it were the word bloke with the 'ke' removed and a 'g' added...
I figured blogging was pronounced like logging, but with a b at the beginning.
It's 12:28 a.m.
Posted by: joe at July 9, 2004 12:27 AM
joe, going back to this post, it's supposed to be blogging. like you, i wrote the entry late at night. should be fixed now.
Posted by: tien at July 15, 2004 11:58 PM
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