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The Blogosphere- world- pedia- endium- ... thing

As I look around the mighty, mighty blogdom that is the world wide bog community, I see things.  I see helpful blogs, blogs about eating, jogging, sex (rowr), and health.  I see fun  blogs about puzzles, history games, and trivia.  I see blogs about people's life, their history, their car accidents, and marriages.  I see blogs about weather, and politics.  Then there is another set of blogs I see that I can not seem to explain.  Nor can I really understand what really keeps them going.  It is the territory of the "Strange Blog".  People who post material about things that only they could possibly adore.  That no one in the entire world could ever read and say, "Ya!  Right on Brother!  Tell it like it is!"  For instance, a blog, which does exist, about third nipples.  Real third nipples and the tragic loss that he mourns for each that is removed, especially from girls he finds attractive.

So my question to you this time is this.  If you were to create a blog that only YOU could adore, a topic that only YOU would possibly post about, and a topic that would make YOU look like you are the lunatic fringe what would it be?

Mine?  I am thinking it would be the fine art of analyzing American Idol contestants vocal issues in a medical and voice pedogogical fashion in hopes to anger the entire nation.

:D

posted by: psmartin at 04:55 | link | comments (5) |
blogosphere

Who loves ya baby?

Recently I read an article by Lamont Wood that opened up with the following paragraph...

"It’s the relationship you spend more time on than any other. It has deepened even during the past few years. When things go wrong, you become enraged and tearful and attack inanimate objects — but you’re willing to spend hours making things right."

What relationship are they talking about?  Your girlfriend, your spouse, your cat that likes to lacerate you as it's national feline past time?  No.  Well, how about this fact to clue you in.  Supportsoft, Inc. commissioned an interesting survey of Americans, and they were all asked the following question.  Which do you spend more time with your computer OR your spouse?  The results found that a whole WHOPPING 64% of Americans spent MORE time with their COMPUTER than their SPOUSE!

The other questions asked also produced interesting numbers when asked what they wanted to do when the computer had a problem...

32 percent said that they basically shrugged
19 percent admitted to wanting to hurl their compy out the nearest window
11 percent used language normally reserved for "special occasions"
(7 percent did so loudly, 3 percent did so tearfully)
9 percent felt stranded and alone
3 percent additionally vented their wrath on inanimate objects.

I thought about it for a little while.  Thought about what I did when my computer breaks.  My process looks like this...

1. Curse out loud to the almighty roman god of infernal machines.
2. Think to myself "BAH!  This mortal man can yet fix this piece of future junkyard circuitry."
3. Scour the www.whatever-fix-I-can-get-my-hands-on.com pages.
4. Curse the gods again for not finding something, dodge the lightning bolts and apologize.
5. Call PC Support, grumble and moan at the person on the other end until the become annoyed and fix it as fast as they can so they don't have to hear me anymore.

What do you do when your computer does something worthy of Olympic Computer Tossing?

posted by: psmartin at 04:33 | link | comments (5) |
technical, blogosphere