{"id":149,"date":"2004-06-23T12:58:46","date_gmt":"2004-06-23T17:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=149"},"modified":"2004-06-23T13:04:41","modified_gmt":"2004-06-23T18:04:41","slug":"in-order-to-be-a-blogger-in-order-to-have-im-one-must-discuss-gmail-so-it-is-written-so-shall-it-be-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"In order to be a blogger, in order to have IM, one must discuss Gmail. So it is written. So shall it be done."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apart from this, my day&#8217;s been crap.<\/p>\n<p>SB: What&#8217;s this Gmail everyone&#8217;s so crazy over?<br \/>\nCG: Google&#8217;s e-mail service. Searchable. 1000MB of storage.<br \/>\nSB: And this is free?<br \/>\nCG: Yup.<br \/>\nSB: I haven&#8217;t any need of it so far as I can tell.<br \/>\nCG: Yeah, but it&#8217;s the cool kids&#8217; club. Well, not really. I&#8217;m in, so it must not be.<br \/>\nSB: I suppose if I had no way of transporting huge documents, I might want an email that can handle it. But then most docs of that size I wouldn&#8217;t want to be going through a service that is likely to be watched by all the wrong people.<br \/>\nCG: Yeah. You should transmit the porn some other way.<br \/>\nSB: I could care less if some cyberspy saw me moving pr0n over email. But MP3s (which are the only things I can think of that most people want that much email space for)&#8230;danger, Will Robinson.<br \/>\nCG: True.<br \/>\nSB: *shrug* Like I said, there are lots of tech things that I have no use for. Palm Pilots for one.<br \/>\nCG: I&#8217;m with you there. I have a low-tech one. It&#8217;s called a notebook.<br \/>\nSB: I guess I&#8217;ll take one, if you&#8217;re giving them out. I may come up with a use for it, I suppose. May as well get a username I like.<br \/>\nCG: As soon as I get an invite, you&#8217;re in.<br \/>\nSB: Sorry if i&#8217;m not very enthusiastic. I do appreciate it though. You could have made $5-10 instead.<br \/>\nCG: Oh, no worries. I don&#8217;t really know what I&#8217;ll use it for, either. But I have it. It&#8217;s not the having, really, so much as the getting.<br \/>\nSB: I guess it&#8217;s not technically clutter, since it just sits there as a magnetic field, instead of a physical piece of detritus. Like an unused Bowflex or something.<br \/>\nCG: But with less laundry-holding features.<br \/>\nSB: Another bloggable IM courtesy of Czelticgril.<br \/>\nCG: Well, at least someone&#8217;s blog is getting love these days. Sure ain&#8217;t mine.<br \/>\nSB: We need to get your blog laid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apart from this, my day&#8217;s been crap. SB: What&#8217;s this Gmail everyone&#8217;s so crazy over? CG: Google&#8217;s e-mail service. Searchable. 1000MB of storage. SB: And this is free? CG: Yup. SB: I haven&#8217;t any need of it so far as I can tell. CG: Yeah, but it&#8217;s the cool kids&#8217; club. Well, not really. I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p73iP8-2p","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":64,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=64","url_meta":{"origin":149,"position":0},"title":"With want for material&#8230;","date":"3\/8\/2004","format":false,"excerpt":"..I post this here edited IM conversation I had with the Mighty Research Girl herself, Czelticgirl. CG: I liked Mario 'coz it was slow. And you could get extra lives really easily. SB: Well, you can claim superiority there. I suck it up at that game to this day. I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Found Art&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":145,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=145","url_meta":{"origin":149,"position":1},"title":"Sodom and Gamhorra was just a lark.","date":"6\/15\/2004","format":false,"excerpt":"A wonderful little ditty brought to you by the number Czelticgirl and the letter Steelbuddha. CG: Wow. I got e-mail from Moses telling me he called and asking why I didn't call back. SB: See? The jews are right. CG: Then he tried to sell me porn. Bad Moses. 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