Why is it that, no matter how many times I read my posts before I publish them, I almost always have at least one typo, omitted word, grammatical error or punctuation error that I only notice after I publish?
Thank God for the ability to edit posts, or I’d never make any sense.
I have this problem with responding to comments on this blog. I always feel like I need to say something to thank the commenter for taking the time to leave a comment. I want to positively reinforce that behavior, after all, because it means people are reading the blog.
The question is: How do you say it to someone without seeming odd? I mean, to just say: “Thanks for your comment” and nothing else, seems a bit dry and almost auto-response like. If I gush too much, it’ll come off as creepy.
Ideally, of course, a response to a comment should in some way add to what the commenter said, and I find I often have nothing to say beyond a rather dull “that’s interesting” or “I agree”.
I could just not respond, but I don’t want people to think I don’t care, because I really like it when people comment. Maybe in the future I’ll just post a link to this post to let people know what the problem is before I respond, and to let them know that their comment is appreciated.
(And yes, feel free to comment on this post as much as you like.)
Okay, that’s probably too fancy a term for what I did to this blog just now. Anyway, I’ve been meaning to add a list of my favorite blogs on here for a while now, and since P M Prescott and thingy both link to me, I realized I ought to return the favor.
But once I did that, it made for too much stuff on the right side of blog, so I moved the archive down to the bottom of the page.
It seems like a minor change to me, but if for some reason you hate it, feel free to say so in the comments on this post.
I am not sure what this is or what to make of it, but I came across it awhile back, and now I can’t get the tune out of my head.
I don’t think it’s quite historically accurate.
Summer is just about officially over.
I have to confess, I don’t really like the Summer; which I think puts me in the minority. Oh, sure; there are great things about it–the long days, the fact that you’ll almost never be prevented from driving somewhere by bad weather–but it’s my least favorite of all the seasons.
Part of it is simply that I don’t much like the heat. But another part of it is the way it’s always so damned bright and cheerful. Long days are good, but there’s something so clear and carefree about them that it frankly annoys me.
I have kind of a melancholy sensibility, and so I like days that have a tinge of that about them. Thus, I love the Fall because there are hints in the changing of the leaves and the cold winds that suggest the coming winter.
Yes, I know I’m a strange person. Thanks for asking.
I’m busy with some stuff. I’ll post when I can. In the meantime, some items of interest:
–The story of why one man quit blogging.
–A strange article from Dinesh D’Souza that everyone is whipped up about. I’ll be posting a lot about it when I get a free moment, but for now see this post for an idea of what I think.
I’m not really very happy with the damn thing, but I thought I’d post it anyway. I felt like I didn’t argue my case well enough. For starters, I needed to do a better job establishing that Democrats were, in fact, more relativistic in nature; and that it is not all the result of Conservative propaganda.
As an unimportant aside, I toyed with titling it: “Relephantism”, to suggest relativism and the elephant, the symbol of the Republican party.
I didn’t though. We can all be glad of that, I think.
I feel too ill to blog coherently tonight. I have some ideas for what could be a pretty good post kicking around in my mind, but I’m not up to doing all the reading and fact checking involved with actually writing it.
