Class was canceled, plainly I forgot about this.

Well, Plainly and simply, I forgot all about having to do a blog but Wilkes University actually had a snow day. Super exciting in my opinion. So exciting that I did indeed forget this, and then in all the excitement (ha) and long hours of banqueting, I came to realize, as I rebuilt the coffee cup towers, that I forgot I didn't blog.

My bad.

Anyhow, since we didn't have class, I'm just going to talk about how socializing through this and other ways I found out how the weather is bumming people out...or making them happy, whichever.

So, I'd have to say that the billion feet of snow the east coast received in a two day period was a little bit over zealous. My personal opinion: We could have totally had class Thursday because the roads were just wet all night until around 10 or 11pm. But I wasn't one to argue. I checked out facebook and twitter just to see what is going on and how people feel and I actually found that people were commenting on how Wilkes could have been open on Thursday. Since when did any of us college students actually WANT there to be school. A little assbackwards.

But yeah, so I checked out my brother's wife's facebook and apparently they got slammed with even more snow. It was crazy. They live in Maryland, about half an hour from Baltimore and the amount of snow they've received is nuts! They take really good care of the roads though because no one is used to driving in the snow. I believe so far they've had almost 8-10 feet of snow this winter alone. That's unheard of if you don't know. Here are some pics I thought were funny...

Those are there corgis, Maddock and Belle. Snow is a little bit above them...


This is a picture of Maddock, the bigger of the two dogs, trying to get through the snow haha:


When my brother and his wife moved into his new house in MD, they had a play set in the backyard. Not quite for kid kids...but my brother's "Kids":



so yep...I found out what the weather like was from a lot of different places. And also a lot of places around PA too to witness the crazy difference when it's only an hour in whatever direction.

an interesting article

Check this site out:

http://www.futureofrealestatemarketing.com/fun-friday-top-5-real-estate-social-media-blunders

After reading all of them I have to comment on 1-5 because I have noticed that.

So number one is obviously most important. You obviously can't make a post all about you. It just turns into a journal then, and that's rather obnoxious in my opinion. I've already touched on how I feel about my journal entries when I was in highschool and like I said...if I could, I would punch myself in the face then. It's all just very self-serving.

the second one, well...that in itself assures that you'll have zero content, along with zero readership ha.

the 3rd, All I can say is "Duh"

the 4th, I think it's very interesting what some people consider too much information and what people claim as just discussing their everyday life. It's weird. Some people obviously have very little inhibition about what they are posting, and then some people have no personality because what they post is so lifeless. There is no essence of a personable entry or colorful author. Bland.

the 5th, I honestly didn't realize this happened until this article pointed it out. I then go and look through Facebook status statements, and by george, they are posting as if it's twitter. Weird. It just made me laugh because I never realized it. I'll notice typos and other errors before I notice someone threw a pound symbol before a name ha.

Free Comics + Marvel Olympics = love

Marvel has been twittering their butts off making it quite clear that there is a lot going on. The biggest thing they are pushing is free comics and their version of the Winter Olympics.

Alright...first off. Free is free. Come on... Free comics to me is like free wings and other fun free things to whomever else. Anyhow, they show a lot of different comics on their site. Other than actual comic script style, they also show TV cartoon episodes of Spiderman and The Hulk and things like that. So, in short, it's fantastic.

Now...this is a clip of their version of the Olympics. It's the opening of it and it's hilarious. My favorite is the fact Deadpool's flag is a pair of underwear. haaa

"Some will win, some will lose, some were born to sing the blues"

hahaha, I loovee it. I think that it's a well put together spoof on the the olympics that are going on...but full of comic book heroes. It reminds me of Robot Chicken a little if people watch that.


Then my friend Reva threw me a meeting of the minds between Marvel and DC. Rorschach from Watchmen and Deadpool are playing a good cop/bad cop situation and it's pretty funny. Alright, so there you have it. A lot of footage to check out and that's basically what Marvel has been tweeting about a lot this week. Til next time Marvelites.

The PR class that wasn't...

I didn't go to my PR class this week. Plain and simple. haha. The first senior farewell was that night so I decided to bond for 2 hours of free food, sushi, and adult beverages. Let me tell you...the food and sushi was typical of wilkes...pretty gross. I am a connoisseur of sushi. I love it, I know it well, I know how to make it, I know what I like and don't like. Let me tell you: Imitation crab and smoked salmon is not sushi. I was bummed. Robbing me of a full glass of beer was a relatively large no no as well. The food...mehhh....I've worked in the food industry all my life; I know what good food is, and Wilkes shot a double-bogey on that hole. Soo...yeah...it was alright I suppose. I enjoyed myself for the fact I socialized...which is sort of like social media...

Did you catch that segway? ha.

In class, after reading over the slides, they went over social sites like myspace, facebook, and LinkedIn. I have nooo idea what that LinkedIn is. Which intrigues me a lot...but such are things I don't know about. From what it looks like, you can post resumes and such...I kind of get the idea that it kind of promotes you sort of. Not to say facebook or myspace doesn't...but I see LinkedIn as more of a professional way of promoting oneself through social media. Mind you...I wouldn't know for sure, I wasn't at this class. I was too busy receving half filled glasses of beer and sub par sushi.

I've never personally posted anything on Youtube, but I go on their occassionally and watch different videos. I have used Photobucket though for pictures and I think I may have a Flickr account lurking somewhere in cyberspace. I can't say I am too familiar with this side of media socializing other than just watching some ridiculous video on youtube or looking at pictures on Flickr. That'll be all though...

Merc with a Mouth, the Olympics, and MARVELous May

I think I'm in love with having Marvel as my twitter company. I wouldn't know all the stuff they post unless I hit up some of the local comic book stores. Through their postings I find out that Deadpool comics are due out in May, along with several other comic series...but to be honest, Deadpool is a little higher ranking in my humble opinion. ha.

http://marvel.com/news/comicstories.11280.the_heroic_age~colon~_deadpool

Alright...I was going to post a picture, but blogger.com obviously thinks otherwise. So I'll try it again for my next post. Whatever blogger.com...you win this time.

Anyhow...so I noticed that Marvel is also getting into the Olympics as well. US Snowboarder Louie Vito was interviewed by Marvel because he loves his comics. I'm sure comics love him as well. I simply love the fact that he was Batman for Halloween when he was little. Simply because so was I...among a pumpkin, a clown, a bowling pin, french fries, and a throw pillow. He talks about his favorite superheroes, who he would compare him and Shaun White too, and also his stint on Dancing With the Stars. Stating that he would rather snowboard then dance I thought was Ironic...but I could see why when he puts it as having 4 days to learn a dance, performing it live on TV, being judged, and knowing you have 30 million people at home watching. I'd rather snowboard too...

Besides those things, Marvel has to just keep on keeping on and keep posting things worth blogging about ha. Both would be beneficial to me :P

PR Class...huzzah!

I'm actually surprised what being forcibly launced back into social media can do. I signed up for this PR Class expecting nothing of what I'm actually getting, and it's fantastic. I dropped twitter awhile ago when my friend Reva decided to make me one. I tweeted a couple of times and then was like, "Well, screw this...I do this on facebook" yes well, first day of class was spent talking about how we're going to have to have a twitter account and yadda yah and I grumbled but after actually giving it a genuine chance I find I'm twittering wherever I go whether it be happy hour, out to see local bands, out bowling, hanging out with friends. I laugh because I always laughed at Reva for twittering everything. I would literally look at her as she texted and said, "Are you twittering dude...seriously?" and yeah...now I do it. I have coined this as the term, in my definition, (sorry Disney) "Twitterpated" I know it's not the same thing as Disney's version, but I find that it's a word that suits me well. I never gave it a chance and then WHAM-O...it happens.

Now, that I've given that a chance. We're learning allllll about all the different things you can do on twitter like putting photos up, retweeting things, following people, etc. And also we have had to use blogs...obviously. I used to blog wayyy back in the day but it was more so me complaining about my mundane highschool life. If I could, I would have punched myself when I reread those. Bleh. Blogging has become something I could see myself getting back into, not necc. just for only talking about this class and then Marvel comics...but also just in general making comments on things that are happening in the news. Could be lots of fun as well!

So...besides the irony of us not being in a computer lab, and then acquiring a mobil computer lab, it still not working, the class is going well. We seem to just have a huge fail whale that keeps flopping on top of us. Picture that. Bwahaha.

Sarah

Marvelites, Unite!

After following Marvel since this class started, I wasn't aware so much was going on in the comic community. To start off, Marvel completely took the idea of Twitter and ran with it. They post several times a day just to update on new episodes of 90's comic cartoons that are newly streaming on their website, Marvel character movies that are coming out i.e. Iron Man 2, and just fun posts like Top 10 Lists of best heroes of 2009, best pairs ever in comics, best villians, etc. etc. It's all good.

One of the biggest things they twitter about is either their Marvel Character of the day, or the comics that are being released that week. They also link to articles in almost every single post except when they get back to fans.

On an anecdote...I went comic book shopping with my friend Reva this past week and after spending almost an hour in the store, we go up to pay for them. All the comics I bought were backorders. The reasoning of buying them was because I want to decoupage a night stand I have with comic hero strips. I know...I know...blasphemy for all the Comic book lovers...but it's a project that I want to get going on, and I'm not cutting up the really good books. So anyhow...Reva buys a library of comic books, pays and then it's my turn...so of course the first one that was checked out, the guy looks it up in his pricing book and goes, "Whoa..." and I said, "What?" and he goes, "Yeah, you picked a good one..." Now...mind you I went through the boxes and literally just grabbed whatever wasn't in a plastic sleeve already. So he says, "yeah...you picked out a better one then I even thought...This one is worth about $120..." Needless to say, I didn't want to tell him all I wanted to do was cut them up after reading them. It was a 1983 The Amazing Spiderman: Now Strikes the Hobgoblin. He gave it too me seriously cheap...like...I only paid I think $18 for it. ha! Alright...anecdote, fin.

Alright, that'll be all.