I wish I had something insightful, profound, inspirational or enlightening to post tonight.
But I don't. Sometimes things just work out that way. Perhaps tomorrow will turn out differently.
blogging: September 2007 Archives
I'd like to be able to say I am, but that's not the case. I love a good t-shirt that allows me to express myself and the things that I do. For that reason I found this contest being thrown at Everybody Go To a pretty good deal. They're giving away free t-shirts and I'm certainly hoping I'll be one of the lucky one's who'll get one.
It's quite simple . . . write a post with a trackback to this url http://www.everybodygoto.com/category/shopping/ and they will throw your name in a hat and draw some lucky winners. I almost forgot - make sure you use the "funny t shirt" keyword. Here's a link directly to the post. Just in case my name gets drawn - I'm kind of partial to the index.tshirt - if you happen to have a large.
It's quite simple . . . write a post with a trackback to this url http://www.everybodygoto.com/category/shopping/ and they will throw your name in a hat and draw some lucky winners. I almost forgot - make sure you use the "funny t shirt" keyword. Here's a link directly to the post. Just in case my name gets drawn - I'm kind of partial to the index.tshirt - if you happen to have a large.
I had a professor in graduate school that was really proud of his ability to diplomatically insult someone. You know the type of comment. For example, everyone knows the guy who tends to get on your nerves, provide utterly useless input or is just a generally disliked person. But, you wouldn't want to trash talk someone at work either to their face or behind their back. You never really know if that trash talk will get back to them. And heaven forbid you trash talk your boss and it get back to him.
So what do you do? You say something like, "Oh yes, he's an interesting person," or perhaps, "He's very unique." Those are socially acceptable ways to neither degrade nor compliment someone and remain, for the most part, neutral. Of course you know that the context implied to interesting or unique is comparatively applied to the freak show at a traveling carnival. But that's okay! As long as you didn't say something like, "Oh yeah Bob, he's a real jerk-off!" you'll be alright.
Today I became the unwilling recipient of unwanted information so mundane and positively boring that it immediately crossed my mind to blurt out, "You should blog that!" Of course I didn't. But I should have. I think it's much more subtle than the, "Well I'll sleep better tonight knowing that," or, "That's more information than I needed," responses that are often accompanied by laughter. You want people guessing. Is he serious? Is he joking? Is he making fun of me? So from now on I think that's how I'll respond when someone tells me something I would otherwise ignore completely. I'll tell them, "You should blog that!"
Of course the secret is to use it sparingly. Use it like a master chef uses his secret spice to make each recipe a savory delight. Do you have a better or favorite one? Leave it in the comments . . .
So what do you do? You say something like, "Oh yes, he's an interesting person," or perhaps, "He's very unique." Those are socially acceptable ways to neither degrade nor compliment someone and remain, for the most part, neutral. Of course you know that the context implied to interesting or unique is comparatively applied to the freak show at a traveling carnival. But that's okay! As long as you didn't say something like, "Oh yeah Bob, he's a real jerk-off!" you'll be alright.
Today I became the unwilling recipient of unwanted information so mundane and positively boring that it immediately crossed my mind to blurt out, "You should blog that!" Of course I didn't. But I should have. I think it's much more subtle than the, "Well I'll sleep better tonight knowing that," or, "That's more information than I needed," responses that are often accompanied by laughter. You want people guessing. Is he serious? Is he joking? Is he making fun of me? So from now on I think that's how I'll respond when someone tells me something I would otherwise ignore completely. I'll tell them, "You should blog that!"
Of course the secret is to use it sparingly. Use it like a master chef uses his secret spice to make each recipe a savory delight. Do you have a better or favorite one? Leave it in the comments . . .
It's about 10:40 and here I sit.
The kids are in bed and the wife has gone to work. The TV's tuned to Spike and CSI is on. I'm not sure what the episode is about since I'm only glancing at the it every now and then. My attention is really focused at looking at sites that may have feeds that interest me. I've had to do everything on my laptop this weekend since my desktop decided that it wanted to get all fussy.
Something has gone wrong with the video card - at least I think that's the problem. I suppose it could be one of the RAM sticks, but I don't feel like tearing down the machine and investigating it. I'll take it in to have it looked at Tuesday. Thank goodness the weekend is actually going by nice and slow - I still have one more day off before I go back to work. The most I've done so far this weekend is wash the Jeep, clean the garage and do a couple loads of laundry today. All in all it's been pretty boring. I'm thinking about starting another novel. So far I have a couple good characters, a decent plot line ( with a nice sub-plot ) and a very basic outline. Some authors don't use outlines. For example, Stephen King doesn't use them. In his book, On Writing, he even makes a compelling argument against them. He likes to allow the story to develop as it moves along and allows the characters to reveal the story. I've tried that approach and it works ok, but after researching Stephenie Meyer a bit, I can see the benefit to outlining. She likes to develop a rough but organized outline so that she can write the scene of her choice without disrupting the rest of the story. That's pretty appealing to me since I frequently have trouble starting the story. While I may have lots of great thoughts about individual scenes, new characters and twists, sometimes getting the ball rolling can be difficult. later . . .
The kids are in bed and the wife has gone to work. The TV's tuned to Spike and CSI is on. I'm not sure what the episode is about since I'm only glancing at the it every now and then. My attention is really focused at looking at sites that may have feeds that interest me. I've had to do everything on my laptop this weekend since my desktop decided that it wanted to get all fussy.
Something has gone wrong with the video card - at least I think that's the problem. I suppose it could be one of the RAM sticks, but I don't feel like tearing down the machine and investigating it. I'll take it in to have it looked at Tuesday. Thank goodness the weekend is actually going by nice and slow - I still have one more day off before I go back to work. The most I've done so far this weekend is wash the Jeep, clean the garage and do a couple loads of laundry today. All in all it's been pretty boring. I'm thinking about starting another novel. So far I have a couple good characters, a decent plot line ( with a nice sub-plot ) and a very basic outline. Some authors don't use outlines. For example, Stephen King doesn't use them. In his book, On Writing, he even makes a compelling argument against them. He likes to allow the story to develop as it moves along and allows the characters to reveal the story. I've tried that approach and it works ok, but after researching Stephenie Meyer a bit, I can see the benefit to outlining. She likes to develop a rough but organized outline so that she can write the scene of her choice without disrupting the rest of the story. That's pretty appealing to me since I frequently have trouble starting the story. While I may have lots of great thoughts about individual scenes, new characters and twists, sometimes getting the ball rolling can be difficult. later . . .
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