Overly Positive

As you figured out from my last update, I had to have my wisdom teeth extracted yesterday. These were two remaining wisdom teeth that had gotten infected and needed to be removed. As of today, I’m obviously still in recovery.

But enough about me. Rarely do I really write about what is going on in my personal life, but as it is relevant to geek media in this blog, I thought it was interesting to see how often I used geek tools during the day in order to fulfill obligations and tell people what was going on. For example:

-I used Digsby to communicate with people over IM about the appointment and to answer last-minute questions.

-I used Google chat in order to talk to work in real-time about the day’s issues and what would needed to be done in my absence.

-I used my Blackberry to respond to an interview that MythicEntertainment had sent me about WAR, and also to read the rather sympathetic response I got from my contact.

-I used Twitpic to send in real-time a picture of the tools used for a wisdom tooth extraction.

-I used Twitter to update my status as it was happening, which was also linked to Facebook, where friends sent well wishes and smart aleck commnets.

These were just some of the ways I used technology to create greater convenience for myself and my friends during the day. It’s interesting to note that geeks, more than anyone else, are cognizant of the way that technology and geek stuff rules their daily lives. It’d be interesting to see us go without it for a bit, just to see how it would affect our ability to communicate.

One would think that such impersonable tools would make commnication itself impersonable. Honestly, though, most practical people (and practical geeks) know that real interaction with people still have their merits and are, of course, necessary. There is, however, nothing wrong with making that interaction more convenient to our every day lives – something I take advantage of even when recovering from something like the oral surgeon’s drill.