A Different Street

by Satchel Pooch

Archive for the 'Meta' Category

The letter and spirit of the law

Friday, September 12th, 2008

Marcus Goodyear, mine host here at HighCallingBlogs.com, recently issued the Ten Commandments of Talking (and Blogging) Politics to the resident denizens. I am going to try very hard to abide by the letter and the spirit of Marcus’ ideas (though I worry that there may be a few breakthrough infections between now and Nov. [...]

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Off for a couple of days.  Happy Labor Day!
PS.  If time weighs heavy on your hands, you can always visit Beedogs.com, the “premier online repository for pictures of dogs in bee costumes.”  OK then!  (Via Suzie at Echidne of the Snakes)

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Off for a few days

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Traveling with my two kids plus two more, in celebration of a birthday. Think a good thought!
And while you’re thinking good thoughts, spare one for Satchmo, tbogg’s basset hound who’s ailing.
And just for fun, see if this little gadget can accurately determine your sex from your Google cache.
À bientôt!

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WordPress weirdness

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

Looks like we’ve upgraded to a new version of WordPress hereabouts, and it’s causing me a little bit of heartburn. The new version seems to have particularly strong personal views on categories. If things look a bit weird for awhile, forgive me until I figure it out!

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More meta: On blogging

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Matt Davis writes:
Blogging isn’t for everyone. You need tenacity, and to a certain extent, the ability to shrug off rejection and haters, in order to succeed. Just putting up a blog in the first place is pretty tough, knowing it’s likely to be vilified. So you don’t always take risks, you play it safe, and [...]

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Thanks, excentricbahhumbug!

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

What a treat to come back and read all those posts — feel free to check in and share further musings when the spirit moves you!
Two weeks away from almost all media (not to mention a fairly aggressive driving schedule through some rather hot areas of the country) has done a number on my brain.   [...]

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Is the essence of humans, the ability to deal with containers,… boxes, bottles, wallets,bags, cargo containers, … categories, meta data….?  Which came first, the physical invention of controlled spaces to hold things or the mental bins?
I recently was visiting friends with a small child,  still in the stage of clear, learning fascination, with putting [...]

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Welcome excentricbahhumbug!

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Family duties call me away for a couple of weeks, but a dear friend has kindly agreed to guest-blog in my absence.  The nearest thing I know to a true Renaissance man, excentricbahhumbug is an artist in many media, electronic musician, software QA guru, poet, gardener, and tirelessly curious observer.  When we worked together at [...]

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