SNUBBED

Yesterday I finished my script for "Palaver" Episode #2.  Now I need to 
record it.  That may have to be done in fits and starts, which is not my 
preference at all, but there might not be time otherwise.  Seems like it 
might morph into a busy day...at least until the afternoon, and I might 
be exhausted by then.  The afternoons are becoming a real problem for 
me, as I get dizzy and tired around early afternoon almost daily.  
Strange.  I'd suspect blood sugar or something, except that it's so 
reliably timed.  Maybe I'm just getting old, and need to take naps; most 
days, I just need a siesta of a half-hour or so, but other days, much 
more.

Anyway, I'm borrowing trouble right now.  It's still morning, and the 
day has yet to start.  I'm enjoying a cup of truly horrendous coffee, so 
that ought to tell you how serious I am about getting my day started.  
And if I can choke that down, maybe I can wrap my head around 
Gnewbook.org.

Sorry, shitty segue there.  Anyway, Gnewbook.org is a FOSS answer to 
Facebook, with community-run policies and management.  Seems interesting 
to me.  Supposedly it can do much of what Facebook can do, 
communication-wise.  I didn't see any provision for games and such, but 
that seems minor.  It might not be so for others, perhaps, but if 
someone is so motivated by the concept of FOSS that they are interested 
in trying this sort of thing, they might not be so stuck on the whole 
gaming issue anyway.

Anyway, I signed up for an account last night, but I never got an 
activation email, which, as I recall from their site, ought to have 
only taken a few minutes.  I suspect it has something to do with them 
wanting my "real" name to be associated with the account.  See, if 
that's the case, then they suck, because it wasn't stated anywhere on 
the site that that's a requirement.  I dunno.  Maybe they're just 
activating these manually as a shield against spambots.  If I don't hear 
anything from them in a day or so, I'll write and inquire.  Maybe I did 
seem like a spammer when I signed up, and got the bum's rush 
accordingly.  I don't have too much motivation for wanting an account 
right now, besides curiosity, but even that's worth a little effort.  
They have a very small user base at the moment, the majority of which 
seems to be centered in Chile, where the project started.  There's 
almost no purpose for me to have the damn thing, truth be told, but 
again, I'm curious.  I've never had a Facebook or Myspace account, so I 
don't really understand what people get out of such things.  This might 
be a low-impact way of my finding out.  Or not.  We'll see if I can even 
get an account.  Maybe I'm destined to spend my days down the gopher 
hole.

But that's okay.  I can live with that.