I’ve been remiss in attending to this, the Blog of Evil. A lot of spare time has been spent at two ends of the technology spectrum lately. On the low end, the weather has been nice and conducive to getting out in the yard to dig around in the dirt in preparation for this season’s gardening. Nothing like having grass stains on your hands and dirt under your fingernails at the end of each day. On the high end, I’ve been doing a lot of reading on hardware and software in preparation for buying a new computer. Part of me would like to buy a bunch of parts and put together a computer from scratch, but I’ve never done it before. I’ve worked on computers a bit but I’m afraid of messing things up if I try to build one from the ground up. (Plus there is so much cat hair floating around the house I worry about creating a computer with a built-in hairball.) Once the new computer is up and running then I’ll re-do the old machine; that’ll be my guinea pig.
It’s hard to know where to start when trying to catch up after being away from this blog for a few days. A lot has been going on: bitterness, DP’s discussion of Tibet and the Olympics, Mets fans boo the Mets. Not to mention your comments, most of which send me off on wild tangents of thought. If I was a more disciplined writer I’d do a better job of responding to your comments.
For now I’m just going to leave a nugget of information I stumbled upon when browsing the Web, 72 Tips for Safer Computing.
Remember what Sgt. Esterhaus said:
“Let’s be careful out there.”
my personal definition of “bitter” runs along the lines of “angry, frustrated, resignation” instead of an elite sounding, overused and dismissive “self-pitying grumpiness.” Obama’s use of the term didn’t bother me at all – I think he gets it. to someone in the habit of throwing out the term to avoid engaging in heartfelt empathy for another’s striving against soul-crushing defeats, “bitter” might remind them of their own eagerness to escape to safer ground. I didn’t hear that in Obama’s speech – I don’t hear it in anything he says. the only elitism I hear is in what sounds like false piety of those trying to use “bitter” against him.
Comment by rrgirl — 17 April 2008, Thursday @ 19:31:40 |
An un-artful comment by Obama to be sure, but it’s being played to the hilt by the media and Clinton. It’s something to fill the 24-hour news cycle until the next gaffe.
Comment by CP — 18 April 2008, Friday @ 13:42:12 |