bloonie is a site I have periodically maintained featuring things which probably don't fit in any particular category. maintaining various web presences, one tends to accumulate random images and websites, and this chronicles some of that. I hadn't done much with it up until I had a drastic cause:
death chair
this story may make you sad, but I tried to make it funny too. regardless, both breaking and losing clothing are particularly sad. unlike with other material goods, clothing is a part of you in both a clichéd and literal sense. you wear it instead of your naked body, so you adopt their -ness in a way. I will miss my green pants, though I am trying out some replacements, but I am sure we are familiar with how that works
I have been blah-ing to many about my desire for alternative transportation for a while, so when Eli found a better scooter, I took up his old one. it is sort of nerdy, but the idea of a scooter gang is pretty appetizing. in the same way that I feel compelled to do something snow-related when it snows here, I always make myself scoot around the parks when now that we are thawing
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girl 1: Yeah I swear I always have one single thing hurting, like how my shoulder hurts all the time
girl 2:yeah for me its definitely my right knee
girl 3:I think mine is everything
does she even realize she is not following the rules?????
A lot of people have a lot of different ideas for combatrhino. It makes me happy that people are interested somehow in its future; I'm all about promoting a discussion. I hope that out of this "puberty" as I would suggest, will arise something great.
It should be noted that a small sidebox on the top left of the main page shows how to access combatrhino from school. Though I harbor no beef against Westside, I see no reason why our site should be banned. I can cite many educational pages on the website if need be, and if the problem is some sort of bandwidth pull, low bandwidth pages are not difficult to cook up from this end.
Whilst talking with Jayme F yesterday, the subject of just what makes a blog not good came up. In the spirit of honesty, I present these to you. I realize that some would criticize those who over-criticize (irony?), however this list is a relatively objective presentation of those things which bug me, Jeff Sisson, as a reader.
-Infrequency of blogging. This is easy to recognize, but blogging right now will not fool anyone
-On the other hand, frequent blogs with no purpose. How do you know if your writing is purposeful? If you were not you, a hard concept to grasp even for the non self-centered, did you come to learn something in reading it? If not, chances are I am already un-reading your blog
-Spelling errors (unless creative, which is basically limited to ironic usage of AIM language)
-Unironic usage of AIM language
-Apologies for not blogging
-Being overly didactic about how good blogs should be (irony?). Here is a good guide for whether you are writing your blogs the correct way: are they terrible for others to read? If yes, I would try something else
-Photos which are too large
-Care of Joel: Bad/Inexistent Grammar
this is short and doesn't get into any of my personal tastes, just so things are out on the table. not suggesting anyone is in jeopardy of anything....or AM I????
Hopefully everyone can read this quickly because I am saving my non combatrhino material for another blog.
The line anyone who hasn't seen Napoleon Dynamite likes to repeat is the one about skills (which does not permit you to comment on this movie). And unfortunately, this is precisely my goal in life as well. Having been bred from an early age to be intellectual (I was weaned on PBS), sometimes I feel deprived of certain analog skills. This is not to say I am lacking of the people to teach me them, or that I don't know how to do many things, just that I am intensely drawn to the idea of knowing how to do many things.
You could say it is an addiction to "how to's". It is not even necessary to be adept at the google to know how easy it is to find a dearth of this sort of information on the internet. I could start you off with ehow.com, howstuffworks.com, though I would expect at least some of you to recognize these. Wikipedia.org sometimes too
The problem, as I see it, is that this help is too generalized. What satisfies my digs is usually much more specialized, often how to build things that are purchasable and seemingly not-build-able, doing something vaguely illegal (picking locks!) or maybe something even more odd. It is for this reason that my unofficial life goal is to write a sort of encyclopedia/how to guide, for life, based on how I lived it (obviously with the assumption that how I live my life is how everyone else should because I am always right.)
Expect to read it in a year maybe. I have done everything there is to do anyways
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two new raps have been recorded. actually billions are being recorded every day, check out elemental magazine. but expect two new raps somehow affected by me to be digitized and uploaded
p.s. what happened? where is all the writing I like to read here? some disease attacked the land that made you stop blogging or be boring
The internet has somehow stopped its gratification. I find myself visiting websites (manually; I don't care for bookmarks or RSS) just to be doing so, separate of whether there is reason or change. people like to be cliché and talk about how the figurative "world" moves so fast that we can't catch up, at least in part due to the global consciousness provided by the internet; unfortunately, I have caught up and done extra credit projects, now feeling vacant and bored. for me, doing the internet is comprised of long expanses of the routine, interspersed with little morsels of transcendence. Usually those moments of greatness have much more to do with outside events or inspiration than the internet itself anyways.
Here is what I am getting at, as what would a non-whiny blog be without some call to action, is that I feel the need to just sort of tone it down a bit. Avid readers would remind me that for lent I gave up giving up things, but I am not giving up the internet. No matter how good Erica thinks giving it up entirely is, that is not even a possibility for me realistically (if only for academic purposes, although that would just be lying on my part :) ).
but I think I just can't keep at this pace with nothing in return. and its not even the "oh I don't have a REAL life." I do. I feel like so long as I retain my inability to play video games, I will always be guaranteed of not being a loser. its just that I am too dependent on technology as an activity rather than a means for something else (I feel it should be more like books than dance dance revolution).
to further disprove that this is giving something up, I am not even going to make rules for myself as I usually do (on that note, whenever lent DOES end, I will have a spectacular treatise on rules and a new and delightful concept for you all to eat a loaf of). I will just try and read a book instead, or take pictures, make something beuatiful, or whatever. Just something else less luminous, if only for a while (in a screen brightness way, not a Pat C. Hoy luminous/numinous way).