Wed - November 10, 2004

Google search randomness


And for today's wacky ways to find this blog ...

1. short haired smoker (apparently a NYC-based googler)
2. knitter blog clinton
3. Do india trip

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Mon - October 18, 2004

In support of 'traditional' homes


"The data in this book show that a family with a stay-at-home parent has an important source of economic security, a backup earner and caregiver who can step in if anything goes wrong."

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Tue - October 12, 2004

Most-random Google hits for the weekend


Saturday, while in DC, I checked in on my blogs to see how they were doing. People came my way in search of wildly varying things, it turned out. In addition to the usual cold-cure and bra-size searches, these were Google draws:

1. london train station trash container
2. Place To Have A Graduation Party
3. bible lesson on why are we so distracted from God
4. masturbating on the train
5. what can you fry on a sidewalk in arizona

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Wed - September 29, 2004

one for the Mac users


As some of you may know, that Blogger guy Biz Stone has (gasp) his own blog as well. And one of Sunday's thought burps* was too funny not to mention here.

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sentence #2


The rain outside is like a pot on the simmer.

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Mon - September 27, 2004

A little New York culture


So, folks, Jessica was right. Lileks has a very clever, funny piece on the New York Times over at The Bleat. Worth reading if you've lived in the city — and especially if you haven't. And I must say, great writing. Reminds me of John Updike shorts and stories in The New Yorker.

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Mon - September 20, 2004

Monday-morning time-wasters


Over on A Table for Two, chigirl happened to mention this site. Apparently it's a newfangled version of "20 Questions." Without a morning latte in me, all I could think of was "blog." 19 questions later, the site responded:

I am guessing that it is a search engine(web site search)?

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Fri - August 13, 2004

things to do at 2 a.m.


What a riot. "Discovered" this about myself, last night ...


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Wed - July 21, 2004

'When Blogger goes down, no one can hear you scream'


—Ken Wheaton on a midday Blogger outtage that sent me into a tailspin.

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Sun - July 18, 2004

"Bloggers are the sherpas of the Internet"


Starting notes from the Navel has been an interesting experience. One friend claims blogs are "only read by other bloggers." A reader — who clearly reads more widely than I — says most bloggers should "be flogged." And today I discovered that academic Camille Paglia is among those who shake their heads at us (though curiously she claims her columns for Salon amount to blogging).

And yet, both political conventions this summer will allow a fixed number of bloggers to receive the same credentials as other journalists. If that seems like an extraordinary move, it reflects something about the influential nature of this burgeoning medium, which Andrew Sullivan has described firsthand. Despite all the naysayers, his essay gives me hope that writing this actually is what it feels like — a curious return to my journalistic roots.

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Sat - July 17, 2004

Compelling writing on the faith experience


A writer with the introspection of a blogger, who uses a vocab that I envy.

The familiar tone of his voice probably serves to make the honesty that much more disarming.

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Thu - July 15, 2004

Too much talk


The central issue, then ... is not to determine whether one says yes or no to sex ... but to account for the fact that it is spoken about, to discover who does the speaking, the positions and viewpoints from which they speak, the institutions which prompt people to speak about it and which store and distribute the things that are said. What is at issue, briefly, is ... the way in which sex is "put into discourse."

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Tue - July 13, 2004

A Time to Kill Bill?


For some reason that title occurred to me today while reading about a Matthew McConaughey fan.

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Sat - June 26, 2004

the "heavy metal umlaut"


A heavy metal umlaut is an umlaut ... over some of the letters in the names of a heavy metal band — although the names might then sound odd to people who use languages in which umlauts are common, such as German, Turkish or Swedish.

Umlauts are often used in concert with a Blackletter or pseudo-Blackletter typeface in the band logo to give it a more gothic feel. Many bands have taken to using umlauts and other diacritics, often gratuitously, in their names.

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"Artistic talent is a very rare phenomenon."


But the proportion of trash in the total artistic output is greater now than at any other period. That it must be so is a matter of simple arithmetic. The population of Western Europe has a little more than doubled during the last century. But the amount of reading- and seeing-matter has increased, I should imagine, at least twenty and possibly fifty or even a hundred times. ... [T]he consumption of reading- and seeing-matter has far outstripped the natural production of gifted writers and draughtsmen. It is the same with hearing-matter. Prosperity, the gramophone and the radio have created an audience of hearers who consume an amount of hearing-matter that has increased out of all proportion to the increase of population and the consequent natural increase of talented musicians. It follows from this that in all the arts the output of trash is both absolutely and relatively greater than it was in the past; and that it must remain greater for just so long as the world continues to consume the present inordinate quantities of reading-matter, seeing-matter, and hearing-matter.

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"Now we know rock is truly back."

sentence #1

that NPR view of life

We're such fragile, vulnerable, wonderful saps though, aren't we?

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