I feel I must comment on the word blog. I hate the word, it sounds like throwing up. What is it really though, just verbal masturbation? Sure, most of the time. Do you know the origin of the word blog? It's derived from weB LOG. Doesn't that sound really nerdy? Of course it does. So that means anyone who blogs is a nerd. Except for me of course because I don't blog. I'm not logging anything, I btalk or bdictate but not blog.
But relax, nerdiness is back in style in a big way. Take texting for example. It's just another nerdy use of a cutesy new technology primarily invented for antiseptic sexual foreplay at a distance. But the sexual foreplay isn't real, it's an electronic reproduction of typed letters passed through encoders, decoders, network cables, switches, modems, satellites...whatever, completely removed from the original source. How nerdy can you get? Everyone is going to look back on this stuff with deep shame and disbelief.
Do you accept telephone communication as the "real thing?". It's essentially no different from texting. It may be a relatively old technology, originally pure analog electronics, but it's just a reproduction of sound passed through converters, cables, amplifiers, repeaters, satellites...whatever. There's nothing real about it at all. The original sound is broken down into electrical impulses and those are mangled and transmitted somewhere then used to drive a speaker or transducer that approximately tries to reproduce the original sound. So if you think you are hearing someone's voice on a telephone, you're not, it's an illusion.
So what's point of all this? I have an image in my mind of a single panel cartoon drawing. There's someone doing something really nerdy or rude like sitting in a car in the middle of a pack of cars idling at a stop light and playing really crappy music on the car stereo at extremely high volume so that everyone else within a mile can hear it. And the nerd in the middle has a think cloud reading "They all think I'm so cool". And all of the people in the other cars have thought clouds too and all of them read in unison "Asshole". Now that's the truth.
