Buster Benson

spangley:

sciencevsromance:

Friends, I’m pretty sure that this is when I fell for ChatRoulette. I was super terrified of it (for non-murder witnessing reasons) for weeks, but then my friends were using it in the bar and I thought that it would be funny if, after leaving them, I went home and found them on it. But it’s kind of hard to randomly find someone among 20,000 people.

And then I guess I thought it would be funny to let ChatRoulette watch me cook dinner while I listened to new albums, which turned out to be very addictive. Later, I let it watch me read, and some guy who was also reading helped me remember that the Tableaux part of Infinite Jest is in the main text and not the endnotes. It’s all very, Old Internet all over again.

You have to wonder just how much this must be killing Josh Harris that he came up with We Live In Public so far ahead of everyone having webcams and broadband.

i am still afraid of - and don’t quite totally know - what chatroulette is. it’s like how i stopped reading perez because i felt like celebrity gossip was taking up way to much important space in my brain. i’m not sure i want to devote more than three brain cells to understanding this. uh, math is hard?

but i would pose this question to Stranger: what kind of publicist ISN’T all coked up?! please. department of redundancy department alert!

I’ve been waiting for all million billion webcams that have been propogated around the world to become useful… and I knew it wasn’t for video conferencing.  As soon as we can have a ChatRoulette constrained to our social network, I think we’ll really have something, cause hopping around from friends house to friends house and nearby bar to nearby bar while we cook our mac and cheese seems like the future, the beautiful future.  Right?