Well, it’s official! The Diva’s Diary is now closed. If for some reason you have this site bookmarked and wish to continue following my Life, Love, and Lusts - then you need to redirect your self to http://TheDivaRockin.com.
I can hardly believe I was able to get this blog moved and operational all by myself, but I did!!…okay…I may have sent a small panic message to JV Steel, but I just needed lil hint and off I went!
YAY ME!
So Kat, my co-host, sent me a link to a site with T-shirts…to one that she found that was cute. I was checking it out and found the above item.
ROFL!!!! Okay, this just totally cracked me up….not only the slogan…but I wanna see this T in public! hahaha - I will buy it and pay for your drinks all night!! Who’s up for it?
hahaaha
Do you ever stop to think that perhaps you give people more credit in means of intelligence then you should? I work in a pretty technical field and most of my day to day activities and terminology are way beyond the understanding of most of my friends and family, yet I find myself assuming that my clients are well informed and knowledgeable when the truth is that 90% of the time they haven’t got a clue!
I get easily frustrated when they misinterpret correspondence, or don’t complete tasks that they are responsible for. I guess…as the saying goes…that make me an Ass! Oh and wasn’t there something about you in there too?
In other news - I survived PodCampNYC…barely! I’m prolly the biggest procrastinator in the world or I would have filled you in sooner. No worries though…I’ve ordered the Brian-Blogger 2000 series with the automatic RSS converter and USB expresso maker. Once that arrives I won’t have to worry about finding the time to get all these thoughts on virtual paper. The posts will be digitally transmitted from my brain through a series of infrared tubes direct to my blog and feed to you almost instantly! (I really am cutting back on the crack…I swear!)
So…PodCampNYC - I drank too much on Friday night and ended up skipping most…err…like ALL sessions to nap. I suppose that is what I get for not building up my tolerance enough beforehand. I had an awesome time meeting people at Slate on Friday and then hanging out on Saturday. Many of the people, like Jay Moonah and John Swords, who I had the pleasure of knowing from my Second Life…felt as though we did it all the time! How weird is that? I’ve become so digitally engaged that I am 100% comfortable with the non-pixelized forms of these personalities. I’m still processing the feel of it…. and can’t stop thinking about every time Jay would point out that we were in Real Life! That prolly makes no sense to many of you 2D-ers but it’s pretty freekin cool if you ask me.
I was pretty surprised to see many familiar faces in NYC who I had the pleasure of meeting in Cali last Fall at PME (Podcast and Portable Media Expo). Many of them said they remembered me too…kinda nice to hear even tho I’m pretty sure they were just being polite. 
I gave a full list of shout outs in the Podcast The-Broad-Cast #24 due out…when I get to it….and posted up some pics on Flickr if you are curious. 
Well, I don’t want to ramble on…it’s the end of my work day and I’m heading out to purchase an external HD for my new Mac Mini. Apparently I neglected to calculate the size of my mp3s and Adult film collections and the poor, five day old, 60 G Mini is crammed full!! To the extent that I can’t even install Skype! Psshh… anyway…my intentions of rebuilding a PC tower to be utilized as a server for said media files is superceded by my lack of patience and motivation…so to shopping I will go! Gotta remember to pick up a nice USB hub too while I’m at it…4 USB ports just isn’t enough…where am I supposed to plug in my USB Lava Lamp!??
Toodles for now…
I’ve been looking forward to this particular Friday for some time now…not only do I have the day off, but I’m heading to NYC for PodcampNYC AND my Mac Mini just arrived!!! I sooo want to open it up and play, but I’ve already got a full schedule so it’s gonna have to wait till Sunday.
So who’s going to Podcamp?? There are over 1000 people registered! I was intimidated enough when I first signed up that there were already 200 ppl but how in the world am I going to meet 1000+!!?? Not to mention I only have 500 business cards. LOL…unless i bring the ones that I oopsed on and misspelled the email address.
I figured I’d post up my plans so if anyone is interested they can try to find me. I’m kinda shy in new places so its likely I will be hiding behind Lynette Radio as much as possible…or a near by plant.
I’ll be arriving by train around 3:30pm this afternoon. Once I get into Penn Station I’ll have to try and find my way to the New Yorker Hotel. It appears to be reasonably close, so I’ll prolly walk. Already planned to wear my sneaks.
Check in, get settled and changed for dinner with Gideon Television. Then off to Slate for the kick off party! I’m going to try an behave…meaning not drink too much and definately no ciggarettes!! I tend to drink a lot when I socialize and before I know it it’s too late…so I’ll *try* to behave.
Up early on Saturday for a full day of information sessions and Podcasting related talks. I’m famous for yawning thru meetings, so it’s a good thing that there is a starbucks near by….and no offense to the speakers - I’m not bored, it’s just a bad habit.
Here is my tentative scheduel…I add tentative as I don’t know how Friday will leave me as far as sleep & alcohol will go…
9am: Social Media Convergence & Virtual Worlds
10am: Live Interactive Podcasting
11am: Effectively Reaching Potential Sponsors
12pm: Lunch / stop by to see Uncle Seth
1pm: Women’s Role in Podcasting w/ Lynette, but I really should attend Chris Penn’s Podcasting 103 w/ a Mac!
2pm: Legal Questions in Podcasting (not sure what this is about so I’ll stay to the back and maybe sneak out)
3pm: Forums, Wikis, and Voice mail
4pm: Beyond Magnetization
5pm: Sex, Sponsorship & Podcasting (If nothing else- I must attend this!)
Sat Night it’s back to Slate for more social interactions. They off to the Canal room to see Brother Love.
If anyone wants to try and reach me - email me at TheDivaRockin.com I’ll be checking the inbox via cell when I am not near my lappy.
I happened to be looking at my Technorati filter of myself…yeah I’m vane like that…and I noticed that I’ve been tagged! Thanks to Mrs.B who had tagged me with the blogging challenge of listing out 7 songs I love. She was tagged by Chris Brogan who had been tagged by 7 year old Aidan Hatch.
I should have figured that eventually chain letters, turned chain emails would soon reach the blogesphere. So here we go!
My music taste is pretty diverse, though I tend to favor the Hip-Hop. I will try to present some variety in my choices, but damn this is harder then I thought it’d be! I’ve decided my 7 will be songs that, for the most part, make me want to get up and move.
Baby got Back by Sir Mix a lot
Groove is in the Heart by Deee-Lite
This too shall pass by Matthew Ebel (a new fav)
Superstition by Stevie Wonder
Whip it by Devo
Moby Dick by Led Zeppelin (purely for teh drums)
Mickey by Toni Basil
(apologies for not linking all these songs, but my corporate interwebs restricts me from pretty much everything!)
Okay now, the rules are that you need to indicate the people in your chain so Aidan Hatch, Chris Brogan, Chris Penn, Chris Brogan, and Mrs.B. Then include this post when you tag the next person.
Now I gotta tag 4 ppl and this is hard ’cause I don’t really know that many bloggers so here goes….I’m tagging: Lynette Radio , Kit Maitland , John Swords, and Nick Starr
So I’ve been intending to write a lil something all week long, but never quite found the time. I even made a list of topics that I wanted to include so I wouldn’t forget when I finally sat down to write. That list will have to wait…..
I sent an email out today to everyone, with a few exceptions, in my address book announcing that The-Broad-Cast Forums had been relaunched and inviting all my friends and fans of the show to check them out, sign up, and hopefully even contribute to the lil community we are attempting to grow.
One of the responses I received came from an old friend, one who I was very close with all through elementary school, but had not been very good in keeping up with. I end up calling her on my ride home and we get to chatting about what is new and what we’ve been up to….much to both our surprise we’ve practically been living parallel lives. Pretty much our whole relationship history is identical! It’s so surreal and I’m still having trouble absorbing it all.
So, how on earth does this happen? Is it a result of our upbringing? Were we conditioned early on in a manner that would lead us down similar paths? Was it simply something in the water we digested at an early age? Or are we some social experiment for a higher being?
iTunes is “Mine Again”! Song purchased, glad to support the cause!!!
Yesterday I informed you all that my beloved iPod had shit the bed. Well, like I’ve heard many times before (and thanks again to BucketJen for reminding me) these things come in threes.
#2. Arriving home I was informed that Mr. Diva, en-route to the mall to purchase my new love, was in a car accident. He rear ended some kid who decided to stop short at a yellow light. Luckily he had not yet purchased the iPod, which was my 1st concern….Oh and Mr. D is fine too, but the bone head decided to leave the scene of the accident with out calling the cops to file a report. He told me that the kid admitted it was his fault so they just swapped info and were on their way. Now we are stuck paying to repair damages that could have possibly been covered by the other driver’s insurance. Ass.
#3. I walked in the house and set down my things, scowled at Mr. Diva for his ignorance, and opened up my new iPod. Sooo Pretty!! Not wanting to waste any time loading it up I go to my main computer to plug it in….hmmm…I could have sworn I left the PC running when I left for work that morning…I push the power button and nothing. Check the light switch, power cord, outlet…still nothing! Mr. D claims to know nothing…as if that wasn’t alreay apparent. SOB now my PC is dead too!? This, the very machine that I do all my banking on. The machine that I record all my podcasts on (including the recent unreleased Show #20). The machine which hosts all my music files for when I stream into SL! Un-freekin-believable!! I knew it was getting close to time for a replacement, but now it seems I have no choice. I just hope I can find a decent tower with Windows XP and none of this Vista crap (no offense to Crap). I’m just not ready to deal with a new OS and I’m really hoping I can install my current HD and salvage all of the software and media or I’m gonna be one ticked off Diva! ….to be continued.
My #1 LUST, never mind complete obsession, is to adopt a shiny new iPod…like NOW!
If you hadn’t yet heard (I can’t imagine you missing the headlines) my iPod mini took it’s last download on the morning of 3/8/07. I discovered the corpse of what was once my digital security blanket this very morning. After franticly performing mouth to mouth and massaging it’s aorta…I unplugged the lil guy and laid him to rest in on the book shelf next to my desk. *sniffle*
I keep thinking back to all the great times we had….the car trips, the vacations, the sunny days on the porch, falling asleep at night to it’s subtle glow. Then a cloud of guilt passes over me…is it wrong of me to want to replace it so quickly…as if it is so easily replaceable? Is it looking down on me from that great digital grave yard in the sky in disgust?
After wrapping up the memorial service and funeral arrangements I make a quick call to Mr. Diva and send him to the mall to retrieve my new baby….a shiny new 30G White iPod Video! After all, The Diva *always* gets what The Diva wants…YIPPEE!
Is anyone really listening? I mean, I don’t really expect that anyone would find me so interesting as to want to read/hear anything I have to say. I guess I’m really just going thru the motions with all this web 2.0 shit…besides, all my friends are doing it. I don’t even think I really know what 2.0 is. Was I supposed to upgrade or install a patch?
I’ve got blogs and micro-blogs and profiles and podcasts but some days I’m really not even sure why. Does it make me a better person? Am I contributing to society or just mucking up cyber space with my rambling?
*sigh*
These thought brought to you by the fact that I can’t surf the internets at work.
