lalalalalalalalalala - I can't hear you...

I have had it with Facebook. I seriously have. First of all, poking is weird. Flat out weird. It is an incredibly invasive adjective to use in order to get someones attention. It is kind of like on IM when someone uses the 'buzz' function. It is just creepy. A friend of mine, MP, says that poking is perfectly acceptable - but she likes Facebook and cultivates 'friends' - I have all of 9 friends and Robert Scoble is one of them, so really only 8 -- that is definitely all the effort I can extend to Facebook. The thing that kills me about Facebook is all the media coverage. Everyday there is another article out about how it is the 'adult' Myspace, or how companies can use Facebook to increase ROI or, my favorite (and what spurred this post) the Marketing Profs email newsletter promoting 'How to Reach Facebook's Millions of Members in 9 Easy Steps.' Is this coverage coming from some stellar PR team behind Facebook encouraging these stories, or is it just that the media has latched on to this the way they do so many other stories and they are planing to beat it into the ground? Regardless of where the stories are coming from, they are starting to make my ears bleed. So can we all agree that Facebook is cool, no one is really sure how to use it yet, and yes, 'friends' is a subjective term, and social networking surely is an incredible tool, blah, blah, blah and cover something else? DAMN IT - I just covered Facebook. It is like the freaking plague.

Is it one of the eight wonders? I think so...

I am flying out to San Francisco (San Jose, really) for a Blogger party the Bluetooth SIG is hosting with Engadget tonight and some analyst meetings tomorrow. Being a bit of blogger stalker, this should be a pretty fun evening for me. I might finally get to meet Peter Rojas (I always miss him somehow). I will post pictures if I see anything cool (I think I might have actually remembered my camera…I never remember my camera).

Anyway, from my vantage point of 30k feet up, I just saw the Grand Canyon. It is pretty spectacular. It is exceptionally clear (the pilot just informed us if we looked hard we could see Vegas – I don’t believe him, but whatever) and you can really see just how massive the canyon is, the edges look as if they are carved with a jigsaw, and then, in the very center of each chasm is a tiny line (I am assuming the river, stream, whatever that actually carved the canyons)…absolutely incredible. For my friends who are reading this, get ready – I will be planning a rafting/camping expedition as soon as I have Wi-Fi again.

Back to spider solitaire…

UPDATE: Okay, the event was definitely bigger than we expected, lines around the building, with over 1000 people showing up. Until I add pictures, you can see Engadget's write-up (and see reader images here).