18 Feb 2002


Short comment about this whole "blog" thing.  I could get cranky, and
say "Dagnummit, I've been around since 96, why aren't any stupid
reporters from CNN interviewing me?"  (Yes, I saw the interview on CNN
with the guy who came up with the idea for googlewhacking, one of the
sillier spots I've seen on CNN.)  I could decry the fact that things
like blogger and livejournal allow any adolescent idiot think they are
bestowing great insight and wisdom upon the barbarian net hordes (well,
also allow them to share their secret, private thoughts with millions of
their closest friends).  I could say that I am not really keeping a
blog, because I'm not logging anything on the web, I don't link to any
other sites in my entries.

But, especially, I don't allow anybody to add their own comments to my
entries.

I do wonder why people are fussing about all this, and I don't think it
has anything to do with linking, with comments, or the mutual admiration
societies that things like comments areas invariably produce.  I think
it has to do with eye candy.

Lord forbid one make a weblog that is prettier on lynx than MSIE.  One
needs to have a template with cool colors, neat fonts for titles, a
tagline, and a catchy title.  It matters not if one were Socrates
reincarnated or one of the womb-weenies (yes, I know that so many of the
young female web weenies are wrapped up in a narcissistic worship of
their vaginas (which seem some kind of symbol for their self), but just
you watch -- the next female organ to be fetishized by these chicks will
be the uterus. Then perhaps the ovaries, as they notice the waning of
their hormonal prime.  But that is in the decades to come.  I hope they
get bored with the whole blog idea by then), as long as one has the
latest look.

Of course, since the latest look involves using cascading style sheets,
many blogs look like crap on my Netscape.  Mwa ha ha!  Denied!

In any case, I've been teaching myself more Perl and starting up with
Java, so soon I should have some cute math applets here at marypat.org,
and I might even allow comments added to these entries, if I feel like
practicing my cgi-bin stuff.  But probably not.

Random thing I said to Brenda right now: "Preferring the vagina over the
uterus is like taking a shower and not admiring the shower head but
glorifying the drain."

Getting back to my blog philosophy, no matter what I do in this space, I
promise it shall always be best viewed in lynx.  Even if I add other
features.  Ah, fixed-width type.  How I love thee.