Day: May 5, 2005

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Carnival of Comedy #00000101 00000101 00000101???

Whatever the heck spacemonkey is thinking of with the title, it’s uuuup!
 
 
And yes, “What a Deplorable Little… Meme” is there, but don’t tell my mother.  She’s old and frail.  OK?
 
🙂
 
Actually, some of the others who responded to that dirty lil meme were really funny, but don’t tell the folks at IMAO.  heh
 
(Be sure to get in on spreading the Blogmothers Dayâ„¢ meme! And if you don’t have a Blogmother, consider “adopting” one, eh?)
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“Geek Rating” quiz missed something…

[Special notice: Be sure to get in on spreading the Blogmothers Dayâ„¢meme! And if you don’t have a Blogmother, consider “adopting” one, eh?]

 
I am becoming, like, so totally blog-geeky… bogus, man.
 
Scary, folks. I mean, when blogger started screwing up with the template—and not just the template, posts, too, and not just in Opera, but in all the browsers I had on hand— I’d used for seven+ months, I actually stayed up til after 1:00 fixing things.
 
I had never before noticed just how screwy some of the html/xhtml code Blogger seems to like actually is… weird stuff. Validation all over the map on this stuff.  I’d thought, Well, as long as it works and I don’t have to work on it…
 
heh
 
I may actually bill some time against myself working on my blogsite… *sigh* This stuff was for fun, not work.
 
Regular programming resumes, next post…
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Unconscious Parenthood

No, it’s not what you think
 
I’ve run across a lot of blogs that talk about “blogfather” this or “blogmother” that; who mention their “blogdaughters” or “blogsons” or whatever. So, I stopped a sec (really, not much longer than that) and thought, “Who ‘spawned’ me?”  And you know, it’s just a wee tad of a funny thing that my “blogparent” has no idea that they are responsible for inflicting me on the blogosphere…
 
You see, as of course you do by now, although I was a blog reader for quite some time before starting to blog myself, comment sections on blogs were like an open mic to me: I just hadda talk. And then one day I ran across a blog, rather new at the time, referred to by Hugh Hewitt.  It was a pretty new Blogger account and had some interesting posts I just had to respond to.  But attempting to comment, Blogger told me I had to have a Blogger account cos anonymous comments weren’t allowed.
 
Sooo… I got a blogger account.  And set up a “placeholder” blog.  And named it for an “affectionate” (sometimes frustrated) reference to my place of residence, Third World County.
 
Well, a placeholder… a bloviator… the two just naturally were made for one another and—a blog was born.
 
But my Blogmommie never knew, and does not to this day know, that she gave birth (to a 185-lb “baby blogger” heh).  Shhhh! Don’t tell her.  She might expect a Mothers Day card!
 
Hey! That’s an idea for a meme!
 
Quick: Kris (Anywhere But Here), Bou (Boudicca’s Voice) and Sissy (And What Next)—the only three I know that have “Blogmoms” who immediately spring to mind—you’re tagged!  Everyone who has a “Blogmom” send a Blogmothers Dayâ„¢ eCard, preferrably one you write yourself.  I’ll start by sending my unintentional Blogmom an eCard… (Gee, now have to make one up–maybe I can scan an old drawing from one of my kids’ “refrigerator days”… heh)
 
Update: (with below) Oh, yeh, and tag three if you can.  This isn’t such a nasty or bothersome thing as most of the pestering festering sores passed around as blogmemes.  [Add: Let’s let this be a little Lemon Fresh Bleach in the Blogosphere Meme Poolâ„¢]
 
“Blogmothers Dayâ„¢”—I like it.
 
Ooooo… Kris likes the idea… Bou says she has two Blogfathers… Hmmm, I wonder how that’d work out?  Blogfathers for Blogmothers Dayâ„¢… La Cage Aux Folles (1979)? Or how about the more recent version, The Birdcage (1996)? Either would make fine Blogfather gifts for Blogmothers Dayâ„¢, don’t you think?
 
 
 
*VBG*
 
 
 
 
 
Update#2: Be sure to get in on spreading the Blogmothers Dayâ„¢ meme! And if you don’t have a Blogmother, consider “adopting” one, eh? See here for more.
 
ANOTHER UPDATE: My Blogmother has now acknowledged her progeny (of course, she had no idea what she had “birthed” until I mentioned to her my thanks for being directly instrumental in my “blog birth”… and her early encouragement with a simple and thoughtful email).  Thanks, Carol. And, as always, you can CLICK through to her site from my blogroll.  Sharp observation and analysis from a perspective of “…American political and religious liberty, free enterprise, limited government, military strength and traditional values…”

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I just made a wonderful discovery

Collecting My Thoughts is a very good read!
 
Norma, at Collecting my Thoughts, has a text-dense blog that is information rich and thoughtful.  Easily on a par with another information rich favorite of mine, Jerry Pournelle’s Chaos Manor.  Start anywhere, but this post is the one that prompted me to write.
 
I do wonder where Norma found a link to this post of mine.  You see, that’s how I found her blog: she commented on my lil post, so I decided to see what she had to say on her site.  Thanks, Norma!
 
I do wish I’d seen Collecting my Thoughts early on in my blogging.  Her system oganizing her posts is very… Dewey-ish.  (And since I’m married to a librarian and have provided “heavy-lifting” aid in her service from time to time, I now wish I’d had her input—or Norma’s :-)—before my blogs became such messes!)
 
Oh. Well.  🙂
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Some Good News via Confederate Yankee

Marines follow common sense and military law—duh
 
Confederate Yankee posts a link and commentary to the followup on that young Marine who was videotaped in Fallujah following the rules of engagement, common sense and normal military practice, shot a wounded enemy (“aif”—anti-iraq forces) and was lambasted in the media.
 
“This has been the way of warfare, or for that matter, nature, for millions of years. I thought liberals usually favored Darwinism over creationism.
 
“I guess that was until they got to see Darwinism at work.”—CY
The Fox News article cited adds this:
“In the Nov. 13 shooting videotaped by [Kevin] Sites, a Marine can be heard can be heard shouting obscenities in the background, yelling that one of the men was only pretending to be dead.”
As though this information were news.  Common knowledge that that was (is?) a tactic followed by “aifs”—feign death in order to launch a surprise, sometimes suicide bombing, attack.  Under any commonly-accepted rules of war, that alone is grounds for shooting first and sending flowers (preferrably poinsonous) later.
 
Is there any way that Mass Media Podpeople who villified this marine could be put into harm’s way and told to “just pretend to be dead; you’ll be safe”?
 
heh
 
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Dirty lil meme update #3

Boudicca’s Voice roars… reluctantly 🙂
 
Bou has done the deed. What a trouper. I’ll be slaving in outer darkness for a while working off having tagged her on this one…
 
heh
 
Further, Bou tagged Sissy and she’s already dittied her duty (heh).
 
 
It’s outa hand folks.  Soon there won’t be a punchbowl in this arm of the galaxy (warning: mp2 download) that’s safe to drink from…