...has become a guilty pleasure for many of you, since I seem to have as many visitors as ever, if Sitemeter is to be trusted, but damned few commenters.
I've been thinking about your comment about drive by viewers and no commenters.....
In my case, when I get home, all I want to do is read or connect with somebody that thinks like me. Don't really have the energy to get the brain cells percolating.
I work as a cancer treatment nurse. My days are spent caring for and treating dying people. There is very little time to think cultural thoughts. Or to really get upset with the "intelligencia" (sp?)
So my guilty pleasure is to wander in here, sit down, pop a cold one and observe. Your ability to entertain, edify, and educate is the balm for my soul.
Keep up the good work and SNARK AWAY!!!!!
Steve Word verification=cybosess is that the ability to be verbose on the cybernet?
A newsroom comprised entirely of leftists/liberals is no more capable of ideological objectivity than an all-white newsroom would be of racial objectivity, or an all-male newsroom of gender objectivity.
Captain Louis Renault
"Round Up the Usual Suspects."
The Drawn Cutlass Philosophy
Be as decent as you can. Don't believe without evidence. Treat things divine with marked respect, and don't have anything to do with them. Do not trust humanity without collateral security, it will play you some scurvy trick. Remember that it hurts no one to be treated as an enemy entitled to respect until he prove himself a friend worthy of affection. Cultivate a taste for distasteful truths. And, finally, most important of all, endeavor to see things as they are, not as they ought to be.
Ambrose Bierce
The Foe
When I am free to walk the streets of Mecca or Medina as the agnostic I am and receive nothing but curious glances, I will believe Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance.
Sign On. You Know You Want To.
A Few Words From Some Founding Fathers
All Men Are Created Equal. (Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father)
But Differ Greatly In the Sequel. (Fisher Ames, Founding Father)
Jeff Cooper's Rules of Gun Safety
All guns are always loaded. Even if they are not, treat them as if they are.
Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy. (For those who insist that this particular gun is unloaded, see Rule 1.)
Keep your finger off the trigger till your sights are on the target. This is the Golden Rule. Its violation is directly responsible for about 60 percent of inadvertent discharges.
Identify your target, and what is behind it. Never shoot at anything that you have not positively identified.
Bob's Addendum To Cooper's Rules
A Gun is not a Toy. Don't Play With It.
Bob's Theory of Hush Puppies
Bob's Theory of Hush Puppies: The best hush puppies are oblong shaped, rather like dog turds. The worst ones are spherical, like balls. The spherical ones are usually made from the recipe on a pre-packaged box of hush puppy mix.
Restaurant Ratings
My restaurant ratings, mostly intended for BBQ restaurants, will be on a 1-5 scale, with 1 being the worst and 5 being the best. Unlike most reviewers, I don't intend to play games with the rating scale by introducing fractions such as "2 and 1/2" or "4 and 3/4," I've always considered that stupid and a signal that the reviewer is trying to avoid making an honest 1-5 judgment.
Here is the breakdown of the ratings:
1 out of 5: waste of time, crap, unable to finish eating; apathy by staff/ownership
2 out of 5: edible, but no effort to impress; staff/management going through motions; desultory.
3 out of 5: average; reasonably good food, moderate effort by staff/management
4 out of 5: good; tasty, well-prepared food, staff alert, restaurant clean.
5 out of 5: great; excellent food, cooked fresh. Staff attentive and proactive, management responsive to complaints. Restaurant spotless.
On Self-Reliance
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
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Guilty as charged. I have the same issue at my place, too.
Same here - I mostly catch you via RSS, but enjoy it nonetheless. Guess that's the way blogging goes these days.. :)
Comment, comment, comment. Are you happy now? ;)
I'll comment more if you'll comment over at my blog.
That just sounds do dirty, doesn't it? I feel unclean, sort of like a Congressman from Queens.
Actually, it's because the blogger commenting system sucks. Can't get to it from work and it jacks up the phone browser.
I've been thinking about your comment about drive by viewers and no commenters.....
In my case, when I get home, all I want to do is read or connect with somebody that thinks like me. Don't really have the energy to get the brain cells percolating.
I work as a cancer treatment nurse. My days are spent caring for and treating dying people. There is very little time to think cultural thoughts. Or to really get upset with the "intelligencia" (sp?)
So my guilty pleasure is to wander in here, sit down, pop a cold one and observe. Your ability to entertain, edify, and educate is the balm for my soul.
Keep up the good work and SNARK AWAY!!!!!
Steve
Word verification=cybosess
is that the ability to be verbose on the cybernet?
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