Tuesday, June 24, 2003


This-or-That, June 24: Everybody’s Gone Surfin’!


via this-or-that

  1. Surf sites at random, or have a set list of regular reads?
    I have a core set of bookmarks and RSS feeds that lead me madly off in all directions.
  2. Do you visit mostly blogs, or news or other sites?
    It’s probably about 50-50 now. I primarily read blogs in my aggregator(s), so most of the time I’m looking at something in a web browser it’s a non-blog.
  3. Do you go online every day, or just a couple of days a week?
    Do people ask drug addicts if they take days off? Let’s be serious here.:)
  4. Do you allow comments on your blog, or not?
    Yes. I think it’s pretty much an essential part of a real weblog, though some disagree.
  5. Do you shop online at all, or at regular stores?
    Both.
  6. Have you ever done online bill-paying/banking, or not?
    I check my account activity online, to make sure no one’s robbing me blind.
  7. Which news site do you prefer… MSNBC.com or CNN.com? Or do you prefer some other one?
    I’m not terribly enamoured of either, but I guess CNN sucks slightly less. RSS feeds from places like the NYT and the BBC are preferable.
  8. Live chat rooms, or message boards?
    Gawd, I hate chat rooms. I don’t really like message boards much, either. You get involved in a thread and forget to check back on the progress, and the email notifications are a nasty hack. Call me old school, but I’m still a fan of a good mailing list.
  9. Instant messaging or e-mail?
    Two different things. I like the asynchronous nature of email. IM replicates the interruption-based telephone culture, which I was never a big fan of, but at least you can turn off your IM client.
  10. Yes or no: have you ever met, or at least talked on the phone with, another blogger? If not, would you want to? Why or why not?
    Well, many of the blogs I read are written by people who I knew in “real life” before weblogs ever happened. That said, there are folks I correspond with regularly, who I met via blogging, who I would probably enjoy sharing a beer or a plate of cheesy poofs with.

:: Dave Walker 10:05 (EST/EDT) [+] ::

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What I do, first thing [in the morning], is I hop into the shower stall. Then I hop right back out, because when I hopped in I landed barefoot right on top of See Threepio, a little plastic robot character from "Star Wars" whom my son, Robert, likes to pull the legs off of while he showers. Then I hop right back into the stall because our dog, Earnest, who has been alone in the basement all night building up powerful dog emotions, has come bounding and quivering into the bathroom and wants to greet me with 60 or 70 thousand playful nips, any one of which -- bear in mind that I am naked and, without my contact lenses, essentially blind -- could result in the kind of injury where you have to learn a whole new part if you want to sing the "Messiah", if you get my drift. Then I hop right back out, because Robert, with that uncanny sixth sense some children have -- you cannot teach it; they either have it or they don't -- has chosen exactly that moment to flush one of the toilets. Perhaps several of them. -- Dave Barry, "Saving Face"