magicbeans. nothing if not awkward.

In case you missed the Facebook status update, or the subtext of this photo on Flickr, or the FriendFeed pull of said Flickr photo (which also appears on Facebook), or the Tumblr post auto-created by the aforementioned photo (which was also listed in said FriendFeed stream on Facebook), or me telling you in person or hearing from someone I told in person, in case you missed all of that and who knows how many other venues there are for finding out about what's going on in my life (more on this in another paragraph down below), the big news is that we are officially moving back to Brooklyn.

We signed a lease on Tuesday afternoon and will be making the actually move sometime in March after Jenny's handed in her MFA thesis. We'll probably have some sort of housewarming party in April or May. And of course I'm sure the whole moving and setting up process will be photodocumented.

Which brings me back to the point I was getting at above. The internet has provided a pretty good window into my life for a quite some time. This site has been rolling for a decade now, and during those periods where I get quiet for a while, Flickr has taken up a lot of the slack. I'm constantly looking into ways that I can incorporate other technologies, feed amalgamators, micro-blogging platforms, &c, to more efficiently record, catalogue, and broadcast.

Looking the other way, a small number of my friends and family do post photos with some regularity. I wish that there were more. A smaller subset keep blogs. One posts videos. Just about everyone has an account on at least one social networking site (although honestly, I really only log into Facebook these days). I know that I could write email or (gasp!) real mail or pick up the phone more often, but I've never been particularly good at those things, and if technology can offer an easier way to stay in touch with what the people you care about are up to, why not let it?

And it won't take the place of actually getting together for a meal or a few drinks, a game of poker or Scrabble (with a real, non copyright-infringing board), a concert or exhibition, or just face to face conversation. And hopefully, the move back to Brooklyn will make it a little more convenient to do all these things.

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Oh, and thanks to Dave for the title of this entry.