Happy End of Friday The 13th! There’s a new England journal entry now posted under the September archives. All that and we’ve barely gotten out of the Cotwolds and on our way to Oxford before going on to York. That’ll be a longish entry, but the one after that was a week’s backlog of the whole Scottish leg of the trip. One great big long entry with lots of photos…oy. Scottish leg. Stop thinking about kilts, dammit. Time for bed.
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So I wondered if anyone had done a “life cycles of blogging” or “stages of a blog”, and there’s at least the beginnings of one: Joi Ito quoted Ernie the Attorney who quoteed then-new blogger Steve Covell… about the stages of a blog: 1) There must be something to blogs because so many people are into it, but I don’t have a clue. 2) OK, it does seem kind of cool and there is much, much more to it than I expected. I just don’t see any really practical applications. 3) Oh my God, the things I can do with…
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Some interesting stuff may come of this blog – it covers the upcoming science convention in Seattle (and it’s in my old stomping grounds, so in it goes: The Seattle Times: Scientists in Seattle
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All kidding aside, this story from October, 2003 makes my blood boil: RESOURCE DAMAGE AT YELLOWSTONE’S LONE STAR GEYSER 2 geniuses in a pickup truck went off-roading in Yellowstone and did a fair amount of damage near a geyser, then obligingly told the rangers everything they needed in order to bust them. The Salt Lake Trib had more information after the incident on these two geniuses and their adventure in the wilderness – with excellent snark provided by the reporter, who implied the pair were in need of an IQ test, rather than a sobriety test. I love the part…
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The other night, the Blogrolling.com site was down for a second, and I lost the entire sidewall of the blog for a few minutes – it was just hacked away, then mysteriously reappeared later when they came backup. It was unnerving. However, it’s working mo’ betta now. A site to check out later in more depth: Topic Exchange (yes, I probably go to Technorati too often, too)
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Just in case my mom is ever plunked down in front of a computer and shown my “blog” and all the wacky detritus of my life that washes up in it, here’s a category just for her and the few family members that might stop by. And here’s my dad – fresh out of high school, with an unlikely thatch of hair that at the time was bright, bright red: I retouched this a bit because my aunt had all the old photos in their beautiful old hand-cut and embossed mattes, and she wrote the names of all the people…
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Via a link to a link to a link (beginning at In the Shadow of Mt Hollywood and contuing via this article in The Atlantic on “The Organization Kid,” I eventually got to this essay from 1991: The Other Crisis in American Education – 91.11 They were interesting articles, and I was pondering my own educational experiences (which could best be described as “unmotivated boredom”) while reading them. I had been looking for a descriptive term for the kinds of over-scheduled kids that have become legion in middle-class American life; as a childfree adult I had looked on aghast at…
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Ugh, I hate Tuesdays. On Tuesdays, I wear my International Hat in addition to my Help Desk Hat and my Group Hotels Hat and all the other little hats stacked on top of my noggin. So I take calls from travelers who will be flying outside of the US, and they’re a fussy, demanding lot. The regular international agent is always off on Tuesdays – she works a 4 x 10 week (4 hours a week, 10 hours a day). Some of the work is interesting – fares, routes, and so on. Much of the work is tedious – there’s…
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Yes, it’s that time again, pioneers – yes, today we mine the search phrase log for some more Blogon Poetry. And this month, in honor of Valentine’s Day, it’s all about the luuuuuuuuuuuurve. can you spell viagra? sexy toenails and pictures 2004. piercings albert padlock, master slave restaurant plug wet… peekaboo bug holly hack, samuel pepys naughty bits. fried chocolate new york alton brown orlando bloom. real redheads with green eyes, redheads with braids; avoiding negative people — aol bad stuff. Okay, that probably caused only a few people to bleed from their eyes and ears, now let’s have some…
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I ran across this news item in the Chicago Trib today: Pilot urges passengers to discuss faith(subscription) The Advocate had an interview they called “exclusive” with him, notable for the fact that after his “God told me to witness” announcement, some passengers were so creeped out by it that they tried to call relatives on cell phones. Thanks to Accordion Guy for links to more discussions at The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century :: And now, what do I think? I think this pilot is a nut. I think anybody that feels the need to “share” that…