what’s UP !!!

HURRAY

i made it, finally!

I’ve been working on some other projects besides MetaNotes this past month.

http://github.com/beppu/squatting/tree/master

This is a little web framework (similar to the one that MetaNotes is written in), but this one is implemented in Perl.

http://github.com/beppu/bavl/tree/master

Bavl will eventually be a site for learning languages. There’s not much code there, yet.

ive bought stickers from yous before :)

i have “does not exist” on my car, and a metanotes sticker…

i also was sent a sweet astronaut tattoo that i redrew in photoshop :)

beppu and i are rocking coffee !!!

so the party moved to my apartment, so no dd for me!

we are officially putting these stickers everywhere! i use the notepads for everything too. you rock

come join us.

how many people do you think would be following you?

we should have a tattoo circle where ppl can show off and talk about their tats !

isn’t this FUN ?!

try doing this on myspace !!!

Or else the Anarchist Bear might get me.

i actually redesigned it to be a tattoo for me, but i think ive changed my mind.

thats it.

you never really edit anyone else

you just don’t have time, and nobody asks anyway.

METANOTES makes it FUN !

woohoo!

i might get a tattoo with my tax refund. but i dont have one yet :(

i sort of withdrew from the world for a while.

i know i make the world more fun !

but only now does there seem to be an increasing demand for fun.

so i’m BACK :)

i especially love that if i make a mistake, someone else can come and fix it.

by all working together, we can be fantastic.

that is so great to see you get that

i think we will get investment and hire all y’all on the side.

this is how about.com did it.

we have the coolest friends ever

if they start using METANOTES and promoting it with us

it’s all over

we will be massive

awesome !!

metanotes makes everything fun.

fun is necessary.

this is exciting and all, but its getting hard to type. mai tais kick my ass.

later :)

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thanks for hanging out – i’m ebbing in and out

there’s really nothing like a good note-chat

tons of nooks and crannies and jumping off points

it’s like a GAME

and indeed we are going to be including gaming elements at some point

and gave away most of the little pack I got in the SXSW bag

anyone’s guess.

i just figure it’ll go viral too

they’ll all follow me…. sigh

i have about 30,000 on my easiest to access list, and they’ll tell the rest.

you know what, if METANOTES works, we will be swimming in money. literally. it is the engine of the revolution of unamerican that has been humming along beneath the surface all these years.

i notice i write so much better on METANOTES.

especially when i know there’s someone there on the space with me.

we need to make these moments happen all the time.

here it is

much better than the original to tell you the truth !!!!

fine job !

I so wish I was here for this amazing conversation.

I read over all of your notes, though, and must say that a tattoo space would be pretty awesome.

the notes in this color are the “new me” and i am interested in explaining what is going on here to you, future viewer of these words.

scroll under this “social map” notebook graphic and let’s talk about what’s going on here in this space.

thank you

i appreciate the time you’re taking to check this platform out.

not sure how familiar you are with my other projects ...

...but those notepads are the “free sticker giveaway” of METANOTES.

we want to get money so we can give away tons of them to students this fall.

i wish more people were following me on twitter and using the time log

i need help to do this, but i think i can get mad followed on twitter and that this will be a big boost for METANOTES.

nothing out there has hit the spot

Nice job, mate

i don’t know anyone right now who has all of these three attributes:

1. the ability and slack to learn something new
2. something of expertise that i want to access their brain about
3. a reason to want to talk to me.

but i always have the unamerican audience as well as current metanotes users. i should contact scrottie.

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an absorbent platform

i wish i were able to get someone else to brainstorm online with me but i just don’t seem to have that kind of people luck right now.