I wanna live in a more high tech town
A while back, I decided to join Twitter. Now that I have, I’m completely hooked. I even downloaded Twhirl after Mace suggested I use a Twitter client and after seeing Christine posting from it. I’ve been using it ever since. Makes it much easier to keep up with the new ‘tweets’.
I’ve been starting to follow more and more people. It makes it easier to follow conversations when they’re not one sided … LOL. And it jut so happens that most of the people I follow live in Houston. It’s all Christine’s fault. I started following her and Mace and started adding people she follows. Since she lives in Houston, she’s bound to follow people from there. Following their conversations makes me wish it was more techie up here. I know that there are geeks up here, but I just don’t know where to find them. I’ve done some searching from time to time for blogs from the area. But the only one I know of at this point is Mace. Maybe he knows of more. Or maybe I just need to get out of my apartment and start hanging out at coffee shops. LOL
But even if there a lot of geeks up here, I don’t think they’re as social as they are down in Houston. I was really jealous reading about the Twitter meetup they were having this past weekend. I would love to go to something like that. To meet people who blog and have Twitter accounts and are geeky like me. But until I find people like that up here, I’m living vicariously through them. :biggrin:
What really makes me jealous about following all these Houston Twitterers (is that a word? LOL) is their talk of coworking. OMG … I would love to be able to do that. While I don’t work for myself, I do work from home. I could really work anywhere that had wifi (I’d need a power source too because I have an external hard drive with my work laptop that would need to be plugged in). Being able to do that would solve my space issue and it would give me some much needed social contact. I did find out that there are people doing the coworking thing in Minneapolis, but that’s too far away for me. Maybe I should try to get something like that going up here. But I don’t know if there are others who would be interested in it. And I’m not the kind of person who would be good at getting it going. I’m too much of a follower.
I know … I sound like I hate living up here. Well … only during the winter. Other than that, it’s not a bad place. That’s why I still live here (that and ‘cuz my family and friends are here). But I do wish I knew more techy/geeky people. I wish I new the people whose blogs and Twitter feeds I read. So … if you live up around here (the Fargo, ND area) and you happen to be reading this and have a blog or Twitter feed, leave a comment with a link to it.
Now I have to go. It’s almost time for General Hospital (I love having SoapNet on digital cable … 😆
Yeah, I don’t know any geeks around here either. I think Christine is the only person from Houston that I follow though. Most people I follow are in San Fran or Canada is seems. The only other blogger I know in Fargo is Jake at wiredforgadgets.com and he is still in hight school.
I don’t know any geeks where I live either. I used to when I lived in Ft Wayne, but now that I moved to Warsaw, an hour away, its like an old people hick down here.
have you tried http://pownce.com ? I like it better then Twitter. I also have a Facebook presence thru the college. Since my wife left me for another guy at work last year, guess you could say I’ve been geeking out a bit more then usual. LOL
enjoying where you live is at least as important as what you do for a living. I’m in Seattle (for the last 3 years and luvin’ it), and recently got more involved with the social tech scene. Two things really opened the door – Refresh Seattle and participating in barcamp. Since then things have been awesome. I’ve met lots of great people. Alot of these people are on Twitter and so that experience has also become richer. If things don’t pick up for you in ND, you can always try Seattle.