The title of this post is a reference to the number of times I’ve ridden this planet around the Sun, as of today. (I wonder how many pseudo-clever ways you can say it’s your birthday without outright saying it.) (And then I’m thinking “38revolutions.com” sounds like a good domain name for… something.) Anyway. I’m being… Continue reading 38 revolutions
Category: Blogging
WordPress!
This site is running WordPress now; if you’ve visited in the last few days you may have noticed. The transition process was overall pretty painless, having done this already for my other two blogs; the real work is in going through old entries (many of the first, I don’t know, couple of years worth?) and… Continue reading WordPress!
Random bits on a Friday night
→ My porting of The Brew Site to WordPress worked out remarkably well (minus more fine tuning I still need to do), so sooner or later I’ll get around to porting this site over as well. → Not sure what to do with the ebooks page anymore. It’s not going anywhere (I don’t like linkrot),… Continue reading Random bits on a Friday night
Top hated internet words
Not surprisingly, I had to comment on this. Topping the list of words most likely to make web users “wince, shudder or want to bang your head on the keyboard” was folksonomy, a term for a web classification system. “Blogosphere”, the collective name for blogs or online journals, was second; “blog” itself was third; “netiquette”,… Continue reading Top hated internet words
Items of interest
A few link-worthy items that caught my eye but that I can’t squeeze a full post out of (yet)… The Real Oregon: a new(ish) blog subtitled “Oregon for the eccentric traveler.” Looks promising, with travel tidbits about Oregon that seem pretty interesting to me. How a $2 bottle transformed the wine industry: Charles Shaw wine… Continue reading Items of interest
Rajneesh
The news on KTVZ tonight about the former Rajneesh land being sold caught my ear and got me reflecting a bit on that particular period of weirdness in Central Oregon history. I wouldn’t go so far as to call it a “dark day” in Oregon history like the interviewee on the news did, but it… Continue reading Rajneesh
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire
Last night, as I reported on my Hack Bend blog, the house across the street caught fire. It wasn’t terribly serious, as these things go: some hot embers from the chimney landed on the wood shake roof and sparked into flames. But the fire department came out in full force; there were four engines, the… Continue reading Where there’s smoke, there’s fire
Psycho!
The other day Dave posted a story riddle with a creepy punchline: the people who answer it “correctly”—i.e. a certain way—think like psychopaths. (Sorry to spoil the surprise.) It’s meant to illustrate a particular way of thinking that psychopaths exhibit: that of other people—even family—as impersonal tools to be used for their own benefit. (Fortunately,… Continue reading Psycho!
Links
Just a collection of links to things I like and/or found amusing recently. dive into mark: Spaceships “Parenting is like an ongoing episode of CSI. You’re always following the evidence back to the crime.” The Bend Bigfoot stuff: Jake’s original link The KTVZ story My Hack Bend post My photographic evidence of Bigfoot on Pilot… Continue reading Links
2007 Chuggnutt Zeitgeist
Yes, it’s that introspective time again. Since I’ve done these for the last two years already, I thought it would be interesting to put it all together in a table format to compare years. 2006 2005 2004 Number of blog entries: 155 244 306 Total words written (approximate): 29,894 39,810 45,537 Average words per… Continue reading 2007 Chuggnutt Zeitgeist