Archive for January 2003
do-over
I realized something about myself today while daydreaming about a novella I want to finish.
I get going on a project, whether that’s a coding thing or a writing thing, and somewhere two-thirds of the way in, I get some inspiration and realize that I want to do it entirely differently, or at least to re-flow […]
how’s that for digital identity?
two nights ago I was in the middle of this rather odd dream, most of which I won’t repeat here.
but notably, I was with some people I didn’t know very well, and was thinking about prevaricating on some element of my (checkered) past. then I saw a computer monitor out of the corner of […]
cabin fever
today I was feeling crazy enough about getting out of the house that we went to the new WalMart in Hawk’s Prairie. big mistake. yeah, I should’ve known that WalMart on a Saturday afternoon would’ve been insane, but Walmart itself gave me the creeps. (though I will say that they seem to have good deals […]
and back to the source text…
Joe Clark deconstructs the deconstruction of Deconstructing You’ve Got Blog (ow. that made my head hurt.)
the short version: times have changed. no kidding…I think that’s what bugged me about the essay when I read it the first time, some months back, maybe as long ago as last spring. it seemed to me to reflect a […]
crankiness, revisited
Mark expands on yesterday’s post: yesterday, it was just the three quotes, now there’s more.
“Do not misunderstand me. I dont think the personal web has become boring. I think I have become boring.”
which I guess is part of why I stopped posting recently as well. sometimes navel-gazing is fun - we are human animals, and […]
other nostalgic things
the melodrama got too heavy (see below)…so a bit of channel-surfing brought me to M*A*S*H…hey, it’s a Col. Flagg episode! hmmm, I think it’s the original Flagg episode. “if I know him, he ordered the helicopter to crash and smacked himself with a hammer.”
I watched MASH almost every single day for years, both at home […]
