One thing about me is this: I always wanted to be popular, which is probably why I spent so much time sitting around with my friends on the back lawn talking trash about the popular kids. So I write this blog about Postfix and sometimes Moby Dick and I’ve always been kind of jealous of all the people out there getting tagged. I always wanted for someone to tag me.
Now I have to think of people to tag, but I’m pretty sure that almost zero of my actual friends (as opposed to people I don’t know whose blogs I read from time to time) actually have real blogs where they can do something unprofessional like play tag. Maggie is the kind of stand-out exception that proves the rule. Scott and Jack both I’d rather have a beer with than tag in a meme. I haven’t seen either of them in ages. You can decide whether or not I just tagged you.
There are a few people out there who I can’t really surprise with much. Since Dubin is one of them, I’m having a hard time coming up with six surprises. The rules (oh! another thing: I hate doing things in order. I think I picked that up from Gordon Lightfoot with whom I spent a lot of time playing surrealist games and arguing about conformity and the nature of desire.) don’t say they have to be surprises though:
1) Link to the person who tagged you.
2) Post the rules.
3) Share six non-important things / habits / quirks about yourself.
4) Tag at least three people.
5) Make sure the people you tagged KNOW you tagged them by commenting that you did.
I can spend hours looking at a total stranger’s snapshots just wondering about their lives.
I seriously hate it when people mix up their articles and conjunctions. It burns my eyes.
A variation on a secret I’ve told before. Lately I’ve been reading food blogs. The home decor blogs were starting to get me down. I love me an afternoon of rearranging furniture (we can tack that one to the mundane list: I really like to rearrange the furniture) but as soon as you start talking about furniture, America’s obsession with buying many things, especially from Ikea and DWR, starts to become frightening and I start to wonder why I wonder why our society is coming apart at the seams. Some of my best friends love Ikea (and would probably love DWR it were really within reach), which only makes it worse. I start to wonder if I’m just becoming shrill.
I start a lot of things that I never finish.
I don’t follow directions very well.
I’m usually right.
Did I pass? I forget.
You totally surprised me by accepting the tag. I thought your blog was supposed to be about computer shizz. :)
Well, originally it was going to be about health reporting and the way that all health and nutrition news sounds the same (“In breaking news, modest quantities of chocolate and red wine could actually be good for you.” ; “This just out: people who eat vegetables regularly are healthier.” ; “A new study has found that people with high fat diets often develop health problems.”)
I wanted to (I still want to, but I have other things to take care of.) keep track of announcements like that and work on developing a hypothesis about why we are so faddish in our diets and our health reporting. Why we can’t just accept the obvious: get some exercise, whole grains, produce, enjoy life in the process. We actually know that processed food, saturated fat, excesses in general aren’t so hot. We kind of know that plastic probably isn’t so good for us. But we’re suckers for advertising, for cheap shit, for gluttony, so we eat crap, drive everywhere and then look for studies to confirm that changing our lives in this way or that won’t actually have an impact.
It turns out, though, that I have a lot more to say about computers and my geekier friends are really able to help me work through puzzles here.
That and I get a lot from other people’s writing about technology and I want to give back (my traffic statistics suggest that people do find what they are looking for here pretty often) and also I am on a couple of tech lists that I have insisted keep archives private and so I feel particularly obligated to write about what I learn to make up for the fact that no one can find the threads where I’ve learned something.
I never meant for this to be only computers, but yeah, I also am not so inclined to put my own life on display.
Hmm, why is it important to keep the tech list archives private, just out of curiosity? And by the way, you know I was just yankin’ yer chain, right?
[...] Amanda tapped me awhile ago for a game of blog tag: 1) Link to the person who tagged you. 2) Post the rules. 3) Share six non-important things / habits / quirks about yourself. 4) Tag at least three people. 5) Make sure the people you tagged KNOW you tagged them by commenting that you did. [...]