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Mar. 1st, 2012 02:51 pmHard work, lots of training, not winning or losing much at cards, the occasional tossy anonymous comment on LJ, piano practice, watching movies. In other words, nothing much of interest.
I always feel when I get through to March 1st that I have "broken the back" of the year. Eight and a half straight weeks of work (Fellini's film 8 and a half was of course based on the number of weeks from the start of the year through to March 1 ... or, maybe it wasn't) get you to the point where there begins to be light at the end of the tunnel, with the first personal holidays of the year in sight, followed by the UK's strangely concatenated sequence of public holidays, followed by another holiday, followed, hopefully, by Bermuda in June for work. Then its grind-grind again through to October, with only the single August Bank Holiday for respite.
February was a losing months at cards, although the second half of the month saw nearly all of the deficit wiped out, and in "real" terms (i.e., when bonuses not yet cashed in are included) I'm up a little bit. I'm still not putting in too much effort. It's relaxation and, with luck, a bit of profit.
One of the annoying bits of blogging is the person who sends one-line replies. I know that I have no right to ask for more, but one can't help but feel that, hey, if I can make the effort to put 1,000 words together, perhaps you might have the decency to put together more than a single sentence that has just come into your head. But it seems standard, and it's far less worse here than it is, for example, on the 2+2 forums, where the percentage of tossy comments and the percentage of tossy one-liners is far far higher.
I have nothing against one-liners per se. A well-thought out single sentence is a wonder indeed. Efficient, to the point, apposite. Normally, though, a one-liner is ill-thought-out, poorly-expressed, and is an example of "I always say what's going through my head, and if I don't need to explain my mental shorthand to myself, why on earth should I explain it to you?"
Well, because it's polite so to do, that's why.
The other frequent flaw is that the one-liner respondent hasn't even bothered to read what you wrote in the first place -- or, rather, hasn't read it properly. So he actually knocks down a straw man of his own construction. These guys must be manna from heaven for magicians because they simply see what they want to see, rather than what is actually aritten down.
Blogging is fading anyway. Facebook can take longer "status posts" which are, in the old sense, precisely what blogs were for. The really brief comments gravitate to Twitter. That leaves, well, what does it leave, for blogs. Long carefully thought-out essays, that's what. But few bloggers have the ability or the time to put together long well-thought-out essays. Those who do, and who are still writing, therefopre deserve to be treasured (and these guys certainly do NOT merit ill-thought out one-life responses!). I really do need to clean up my favourites list, adding those people keeping at it, and striking out the far larger number of "old-style" blogs that, in the main, haven't been updated for 18 months anyway.
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I always feel when I get through to March 1st that I have "broken the back" of the year. Eight and a half straight weeks of work (Fellini's film 8 and a half was of course based on the number of weeks from the start of the year through to March 1 ... or, maybe it wasn't) get you to the point where there begins to be light at the end of the tunnel, with the first personal holidays of the year in sight, followed by the UK's strangely concatenated sequence of public holidays, followed by another holiday, followed, hopefully, by Bermuda in June for work. Then its grind-grind again through to October, with only the single August Bank Holiday for respite.
February was a losing months at cards, although the second half of the month saw nearly all of the deficit wiped out, and in "real" terms (i.e., when bonuses not yet cashed in are included) I'm up a little bit. I'm still not putting in too much effort. It's relaxation and, with luck, a bit of profit.
One of the annoying bits of blogging is the person who sends one-line replies. I know that I have no right to ask for more, but one can't help but feel that, hey, if I can make the effort to put 1,000 words together, perhaps you might have the decency to put together more than a single sentence that has just come into your head. But it seems standard, and it's far less worse here than it is, for example, on the 2+2 forums, where the percentage of tossy comments and the percentage of tossy one-liners is far far higher.
I have nothing against one-liners per se. A well-thought out single sentence is a wonder indeed. Efficient, to the point, apposite. Normally, though, a one-liner is ill-thought-out, poorly-expressed, and is an example of "I always say what's going through my head, and if I don't need to explain my mental shorthand to myself, why on earth should I explain it to you?"
Well, because it's polite so to do, that's why.
The other frequent flaw is that the one-liner respondent hasn't even bothered to read what you wrote in the first place -- or, rather, hasn't read it properly. So he actually knocks down a straw man of his own construction. These guys must be manna from heaven for magicians because they simply see what they want to see, rather than what is actually aritten down.
Blogging is fading anyway. Facebook can take longer "status posts" which are, in the old sense, precisely what blogs were for. The really brief comments gravitate to Twitter. That leaves, well, what does it leave, for blogs. Long carefully thought-out essays, that's what. But few bloggers have the ability or the time to put together long well-thought-out essays. Those who do, and who are still writing, therefopre deserve to be treasured (and these guys certainly do NOT merit ill-thought out one-life responses!). I really do need to clean up my favourites list, adding those people keeping at it, and striking out the far larger number of "old-style" blogs that, in the main, haven't been updated for 18 months anyway.
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