Where I Blog
I realize that this is an old meme1 and incredibly cheap blogging, but:
- I promised my brother I’d get him a picture of the office setup with the new speakers.
- Much of my writing time will be taken up for the rest of the week by an Apologetics paper due on Tuesday, so I may not post again until then (the paper will be posted here when finished).
- I’m an incredibly cheap blogger.
Thanks go to friends Jason and Jane for the speakers and to friend Cary for the receiver. Outlook’s email notification sound has never sounded quite like this.
Here’s a large version for anyone who wants to try to find Waldo, establish my exact age, or determine what I had for dinner last night through your nearly superhuman powers of induction.
Note that this is also where I work, which I am about to go do right now.
1This is the first time I’ve used the word “meme” in my blog. I hate the word, but I may have to bow to the pressure of language change. I no longer object to people saying “person” where “man” used to suffice, so I suppose such accommodationalism is inevitable. From now on, we will meme it up here.
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- Posted by Tim on Wednesday, September 15, 2004 at 1:31:29 pm PDT
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14 Responses to “Where I Blog”
Tim, don’t you have to worry about those speakers being unshielded? It would seem that your electronic data on your desk is no longer safe.
Comment Permalink | Posted on September 15th, 2004 at 2:05 pm |Todd:
Fallacy of the complex question! That is, I have no electronic data on my desk, or at least nothing stored on magnetic media. The CDs should be fine.
You’ll note the spacing bewteen the monitor and the speakers, though; that’s the minimum safe distance there. My system tray icons were all green the way I had things arranged at first.
Comment Permalink | Posted on September 15th, 2004 at 2:27 pm |You oughta see what my electric pencil sharpener does to the monitor when it’s running! Sadly, there is nowhere else in my underwired house to put it.
So, um, what exactly does “meme” mean? I think I have a pretty good contextual handle on it, but I couldn’t explain it.
Comment Permalink | Posted on September 16th, 2004 at 8:00 am |Merriam-Webster actually does a fine job with it. Blog memes are short-lived (usually a day or two), but that’s really all they are: popular ideas that spread around and become What Everyone Is Talking About. There is much to loathe about the concept, particularly with the time base that the blogosphere ascribes to them, but then knowing the instantaneous zeitgeist (Pentadad should appreciate that adjective, given his education and vocation) isn’t all bad in itself.
Comment Permalink | Posted on September 16th, 2004 at 8:35 am |a) on the dark side of the moon
b) a tuna fish sandwich
c) eternally young
Am I rght? Do I get a prize?
Comment Permalink | Posted on September 16th, 2004 at 12:33 pm |Valerie:
Wrong! I am not “tuna fish sandwich” years old, and I did not eat “eternally young” for dinner the night before. Why, that doesn’t even make sense! What are you thinking?
At least you got Waldo right. That’s a score of 33%.
Tim
P.S. Do I get a GMail invite, or what?
Comment Permalink | Posted on September 16th, 2004 at 1:32 pm |Valerie’s just trying to start a meme (ain’t you proud of me) of answering blogger quizzes out of order. I have the distinct impression that it is quite deliberate.
My favorite coinage that I hope progresses to a meme and then graduates to a genuine neologism:
Jim Geraghty’s coinage of “pajamhadeen” to refer to the collective of bloggers working to promote righteous causes.
Comment Permalink | Posted on September 17th, 2004 at 11:21 am |Oooh, that’s almost as good as AllahPundit’s coinage last winter of “Mujaha-Dean” to describe the erstwhile Democratic primary candidate. Ah, those were the days.
Comment Permalink | Posted on September 17th, 2004 at 11:38 am |Oh, and I had a typo. It’s “pajamahadeen,” so it sounds better than the way I had it above.
Comment Permalink | Posted on September 17th, 2004 at 1:36 pm |Actually, I was going by memory, since your site is one of those where the text disappears sometimes when I open the comment window and then click back on the main window. I was evidently too lazy to double-check by highlighting the text or refreshing the page.
d) Evidently. (I finally went to the library last night to check my e-mail. My home computer’s been down for over a week, and I can’t check hotmail or gmail from work.)
Comment Permalink | Posted on September 17th, 2004 at 3:47 pm |Ooooh! This is turning into a fun game! Ok.
a. Waldo is obviously in the Wall. Dark side of the Moon…that is soooo over-the-top Floyd.
b. Your exact age? How about “generational moniker”? X-3r, baby.
c. For dinner you had homemade portobello-stuffed ravioli’s drizzled with a truffle-infused alfredo and topped with fresh sprigs of basil and rosemary. That’s obvious from the position of the chair.
Anything else we can deduce from your feeling the necessity to put two (2!) large towers on each side of your computer, that portal to etheral places? Something about the sacred feminine, maybe?
Comment Permalink | Posted on September 17th, 2004 at 5:03 pm |Yes, yes, yes, Adeodatus. I was waiting for someone to point out the geometry of the speakers. I was kind of counting on my older sister, but she hasn’t chimed in.
And what? “The Wall” is Floyd with an appropriate level of decorum?
Oh, and Valerie: muchas gracias. I am now slightly less uncool.
Comment Permalink | Posted on September 17th, 2004 at 5:11 pm |LOL…I assure you, son of Aurelius, that my comment had nothing to do with Pink Floyd. I am far less cool than Tim and very rarely make or even get pop music allusions.
Tim, you are one of the coolest geeks I know. And if that’s not a compliment, I don’t know what is!
Comment Permalink | Posted on September 17th, 2004 at 5:16 pm |Oh, this is too schweeeet. I had a gmail account before The Tim! Shout it from the ROOFTOPS!
Comment Permalink | Posted on September 18th, 2004 at 3:54 pm |