Justin Johnson's almost daily web-log

samreich:

Yes, our apartment was robbed. Someone broke the bathroom window, climbed in, stole our laptops, and exited through the backdoor.

They could have taken the television, video game system, and my monitor, but didn’t. They could have left the door open and our kitten could have run away, but they didn’t, and he didn’t. The police, detectives, and insurance people have thus far all been very friendly, and very smitten with Mr. Hammers.

Live in New York long enough and this is going to happen sometime. Elaine and I mostly feel fundamentally blessed that it was as easy as this.

This is one of my worst nightmares. It’s one thing to have someone steal your things and violate you in that way, it’s an entirely different thing if you lose your pet, or your pet comes to harm in such an incident.

I’m so glad we live in a fifth floor walk-up, because if Gemma ever got out of the apartment, she’d have a hell of a time figuring out how to navigate the endless stairs to actually escape.

So, yeah, I’m glad it turned out like it did, Sam. 

RE: I admit it, I'm thinking about signing up for Twitter.

mdfsmash:

superdoofus-stratodrive:

justin:

Someone, please, talk me out of this idea. Or into it.

do it and i whup the fuckin’ tar outta yr ass.

the excellent thing about twitter is that you can avoid that annoyance he mentioned, and not have mobile alerts on, and instead choose to check twitter online whenever you please.

So, I’ve decided to give it a trial run. I think that a service like this can be useful for a specific thing, and that thing only. For instance, I use Tumblr to see entertaining things from friends, I use Facebook very very rarely now but it’s an awesome tool for setting up events and parties. The one thing I’d like out of Twitter is to give me a better idea, in real-time, of what my friends are up to as far as events on the weekend or week nights.

I don’t want to follow or be followed people that aren’t in the NYC area and that I don’t hang out with otherwise.

If it can serve that one, simple purpose well, then I’ll continue to use it.

As for posting a bunch of annoying shit, forget that. I’ll update it with what I’m up to if I want other people to join me, but otherwise it will be ignored.

And it will certainly stay the fuck away from my Tumblr feed.

I admit it, I'm thinking about signing up for Twitter.