randomness

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
- Edward R. Murrow

When you employ the microscope, shake off all prejudice, nor harbour any favorite opinions; for, if you do, 'tis not unlikely fancy you will betray you into error, and make you see what you wish to see."
- Henry Baker, 1742

Those two together are pretty profound in a way. I was re-reading a JCB article and that last quote seemed to pair nicely with the one from the iGoogle page today. It seems applicable to most everything online, in life. We often see what we want to see, betrayed by our bias, then go blabbing around the world, or halfway, or technically the whole blogosphere. And yes. Getting on the whole word thing (wanted to make sure it was blog-O-sphere and not blog-sphere) i poked around at Wordspy.com. Killer freaking webpage.

Four in a row caught my eye:
Floordrobe
Locavore (they even have a web page: http://locavores.com/)
Carbage
and
Blogebrity

Anyway... where was i?

Waiting for the next thought... no, in reality waiting for microscope crisis #10 of the day... and i expect it to show up any minute. Some of these crisis things are fun, some just crank the BP knob, but so far, no user has been able to stump the chump. But usually it takes a lot of questions to get them to tell me what the hell they did to the damn scope so i can bring it back to life. My favorite is inevitably to the question: "Why are you using those settings?" Usually it is "I dunno." That answer is most commonly tied to settings that generate useless data, and more often than not the answer to "how long have you been doing it that way" is: "I dunno, a while." The good side is that people are teachable. They can learn. But then there are limits. Ya'd think by now i'd have learned how to shut the introspection off and just buckle down and race. But, yeah, it ain't native yet. One of these days. maybe.

Just finished cleaning off the desktop (the virtual one, the real one is next) man saw some cool stuff and was like "wow" that's been here a while. cleaning up is always good. maybe i'll find my keys next!

peace
G

current title bar image Photo credit goes to Zoo! Thanks man!

Adding even more randomness to the web log entry... taking a fresh look at the results. I was in 25th hot on the heals of Dave L and a junior starting lap six... i lost those 5 places there in the next lap... There is always next year and the next race...