I am not a twitterer
Yes, I have a twitter account. It’s just a feed from this blog to there, mostly. But apparently people use it for non-blog stuff. Who knew? Since I’ve done exactly 4 non blog tweets, I don’t really get the twitter vibe. And never really understood it. So, no, there’s not much there you haven’t seen if you read my site.
And, for the record, I did not skip out on my tab at the LuckyGunner shoot. I paid my tab with cash to get change for something else. I even have witnesses, namely the people I got change for. Thanks to Les for picking up the tab a second time. Even though, somehow using bar math, we managed to convince each other that me paying him back for half was the way to go. Even though we should have taken the issue up with the restaurant. I paid cash and couldn’t remedy it via my credit card company. I owe Les a dinner, especially since he manned the grill in my absence one night.
Note to self: In large groups, never pay cash at a bar.
June 12th, 2011 at 9:50 pm
Simple fix. come up to the next northcoast shoot and buy Les dinner.
June 12th, 2011 at 10:01 pm
I don’t get twitter either… Got WAY too many other things going to worry about everytime somebody farts and decides to share… 🙂 I ‘thought’ y’all had figured that out Sunday before we left.
June 12th, 2011 at 10:05 pm
Even if it’s mostly worthless, twitter is good for a couple things:
A. News breaks on twitter first, and it propagates like a damn virus.
2. It forces people to be brief. Not a problem for you, I guess.
😀
June 12th, 2011 at 10:07 pm
“2.”
You would think that. but after tagging 4 people, i was running out of room.
June 12th, 2011 at 10:21 pm
I don’t really get it either, but I tweet to help stay current with social media trends. Both of my professions demand it.
June 12th, 2011 at 10:59 pm
You’re way ahead of me. I’ve got a Blogspot account with exactly zero posts proudly since October of 2007.
I figure if I can’t get oddly off-topic in post replies, why should I befuddle things with my strange stream-of-consciousness crap with a blog? Oh, wait. I just remembered what I tend to junk up FB with.
Nevermind.
June 12th, 2011 at 11:36 pm
Few weeks back I found twitter search was good for finding news about “tornados on the ground”.
Just sayin
June 13th, 2011 at 1:40 am
I wasn’t involved in the skip out BS, but I heard about it on the dock. The first thought that came to mind was: “Face it Flounder, you f***ed up. You trusted us.”
June 13th, 2011 at 8:56 am
or get a receipt….
June 13th, 2011 at 9:49 am
Wait a minute, you all had a bar at the machine gun shoot? That is awesome.
June 13th, 2011 at 10:01 am
No, the bar was at the restaurant afterwards.
June 13th, 2011 at 10:12 am
Twitter is the only reason I was able to find parking at the recent NRA Con in PA.
June 13th, 2011 at 10:34 am
I love me some social media, but I don’t feel the love for chat or Twitter and I can rarely bring myself to text message.
June 13th, 2011 at 10:51 am
Twitter functions as Facebook for my nom de plume, I guess.
June 13th, 2011 at 5:07 pm
@ replies are a strange beast. If your tweet starts with one, then only people who follow both you and the person to whom you’re replying will see the tweet in their timeline.
If everyone you’re replying to follows you, you might as well just forego the handles and just post it to your timeline.
You can make everyone who follows you see your replies by starting the tweet off with .@handle, in case your reply is relevant to people who follow you (but not the other guy); that will cause it to show up in their timeline normally.
That said, I prefer twitter to facebook; the former puts you in contact with people you share interests with, and the latter puts you in contact with people you maybe knew at one point.
I’d much rather tweet back and forth with an author I like than learn all about the personal lives of people I quit hanging out with for a reason.
June 14th, 2011 at 7:45 pm
Note to self AND Uncle: when paying any damn way, get a receipt. Nothing wrong with cash, and carrying sufficient of it gives an emotion-tied reason to carry concealed. You don’t need such a reason, but any Grand Jury will see your carry and subsequent use of deadly force much more clearly if you were carrying several hundred in cash.
Just be careful, carry some larger bills so you don’t have to handle a huge “roll”, and don’t flash it.
Another advantage: occasionally you run across something in a bar you want to buy, and the seller wants cash. Getting by the issue of stolen goods as you should, the purchase is almost ALWAYS made at a lower cost than you could get it elsewhere. Had an offer to buy an Automag 44 for $200 from a bar patron, and it wasn’t hot, either (took him and gun to the Sheriff’s station house and ran a check on it). Didn’t have the cash, but a richer buddy did.