Fall Colors
Fall foliage and sunsets from Swarthmore:
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Read Full Post | November 17 2009 | The Swat Fit |
The Star Wars Cantina Band
Read Full Post | November 09 2009 | The Swat Fit |
The Star Wars Cantina
This weekend, a couple of friends and I transformed Paces (Swarthmore’s party space) into the cantina from Mos Eisley in Episode IV. We had some attendees with great costumes, including five Han Solos and two Chewbaccas. The highlight of the night was live music from the Modal Nodes (video coming soon). You could never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy:
Read Full Post | November 08 2009 | The Swat Fit |
Social Media Overload
Keyboard
I’m starting to feel a bit overloaded by Twitter et al. I think older generations are trying to access what they have deemed the “ADD generation” by assuming we like our communication to be incessant and in packets of 140 characters or less. There was a tweetup and a social-media-focused poet at the Episcopal Church’s General Convention. At the Tau Beta Pi National Convention last week, one of the first business announcements was that delegates should use hashtag #TBPconv. And one of the things that Astronaut Mike Massimino of this summer’s Hubble Repair Mission highlighted was that he was the first person to tweet from space (even though he technically emailed Houston and they tweeted).
I think social media has become a fad that needs to fade a bit. I’ve been working with the Renewal Project to help develop some of their social networking tools, and there’s just too much pressure to have all of the latest online fads available. This New Yorker parody describes it perfectly:
If you already have a blog, make sure you spray-feed your URL in niblets open-face to the skein. We like Reddit bites (they’re better than Delicious), because they max out the wiki snarls of RSS feeds, which means less jamming at the Google scaffold. Then just Digg your uploads in a viral spiral to your social networks via an FB/MS interlink torrent. [Read full article]
Maybe I’ll have a different perspective after the talk on Friday by Twitter Co-founder and Swarthmore Alumnus Dom Sagolla:
Sagolla’s book, 140 Characters, examines how to best write for social networks’ new form of short tweets, status updates, and text messages. “Wherever possible, use fewer words,” explains Sagolla. “This is harder than it sounds, but once you get past the basics of grammar you start getting into the really interesting aspects of poetry and word design.” [From the Swarthmore College Communications Office]
Read Full Post | October 19 2009 | The Swat Fit |
Fall Break in Boston
MBTA Route 73 Bus to Mt. Auburn in the Harvard Bus Tunnel
I spent the first half of fall break in Boston. Other than a quick overnight earlier this fall, this was my first chance to spend time there since the summer of 2008 when I worked with ACE. Overall, despite the ten hours it took me to travel from Swarthmore to Somerville (thumbs down for Bolt Bus, thumbs up for Megabus), it was a great trip. I got a chance to catch up with ACE and spend time with a number of friends from high school and college. I also had some great Indian food, made it to Kimball’s, watched the undefeated Tufts water polo team play their alumni game, and rode the Silver Line to South Station on its first day of operation. And I hopped on an Amtrak train to head back down south before the snow started. Pictures from my trip to Boston are below:
Read Full Post | October 18 2009 | Anson and The Swat Fit |
