Administration

Up until this point, I had a journal of sorts. I kept up with it, occasionally read it to bring back memories, generally loved the thing. Then my hard drive decided it would not take my overbearing, smothering tyranny anymore. So I lost everything. To ensure this never happens again, I started this. Now my private thoughts belong to the world (realistically, to about half a dozen people I know); if my computer erupts in another orgy of flames and violence I will no longer be left on my futon, clutching my hair and weeping as if a back-alley abortion had been performed on me against my will. I exaggerate. Worse things have happened to better people.

That'll be quite enough of using "me" words. I wanted to take this to a more abstract level, because somehow spewing my experience onto a computer screen (maybe, if I'm lucky, up to three computer screens around the world simultaneously) is an impoverished way of looking at my, or anyone else's, life. Even the finest writer is more than that collection of words on a screen, more than the millions of transistor chips that have brought them to you on a network meandering its way across the world, More, at last, than just a statically smiling pretty face in a personal. But I digress.

I want to have ongoing features in this blog. I want to try to make sense and keep the reader's attention. As will become clear if I maintain this "blog", I like philosophy and politics, I like relating what I consider interesting in everyday life, I also love stealing other people's lofty thoughts and well-written pieces, I also have an annoying habit of constructing huge, crashing sentences that go on without justification but their own exuberance. These are the kind of sentences that topple levees and spread their bulk along main street, flooding folks' basements.

Thought for the day: "You can fool some people sometimes, but you can't fool all the people all of the time. But you'll be fine so long as that group makes up more than fifty percent of the population."

It is time for a walk.