Blog Catch Up

Now that I've figured out the Blogger/Facebook connection, I haven't come up with a good reason to keep up with my Myspace page (I still use it to connect with a couple people I haven't convinced to move to Facebook yet).

For my own nerdy completeness need, I'm pasting some of the Myspace blogs here so I can have them around for posterity. Not that they're works or art of anything, but they are me.

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Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Parenthetical Writing
I’ve noticed lately how often I write (on blogs, e-mails, or even formal business correspondence) using parentheses. I think it’s a way for me to share all the (typically unnecessary) details that I want to reader to read, or I’m attempting (often unsuccessfully) to add wit to my writing -- parenthetically. I can’t decide whether it’s such a bad thing, but I am making a point to attempt writing without them -- at least for a couple days. My fear is that I’ll probably just replace the parentheses with hyphens and/or dashes to get the same effect. Hmmmm...

I truly enjoy grammar rules, particularly punctuation, but I don’t recall ever learning anything formally about parentheses. Are their official rules? Does anyone abide by them, or have they gone the way of "don’t end your sentences with a preposition?" That tends to be the first one people give up on (err...on which people give up). And speaking of punctuation, what’s with putting periods and question marks inside quotes when they have nothing to do with the quote (don’t get me started)? Crap. Couldn’t do it. My parentheses are here to stay (at least for now).

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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
The Urinal Experience
I'm not a big urinal fan. Maybe it's the "open-ness" or the "side-by-side-ness" of peeing next to some other guy, or maybe I just like to go in a regular toilet to feel more like I'm at home. Anyway, Blake (4) had his first urinal experience this weekend at Sam's Club. As I've seen him grow up, it's been fun/cool/weird to see my son experience things for the first time, and I see myself being emotionally impacted by some of the strangest things -- like his first whiz in a urinal. It is sort of a passage into the next stage of life. I mean, he's been peeing standing up for awhile now (another emotional moment, let me assure you), but to see my boy, my heir, performing such a masculine task ... it was a special moment. Am I crazy? Anyone else get choked up over random life events?

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Kangaroos
So I'm on the Washington, D.C. subway this week and I see a dude in Kangaroos shoes. You know, the ones with the best invention ever -- Shoe Pockets!
I totally remember putting something in my sweet blue Kangas...maybe quarters for the arcade...or a dollar bill (folded six times) for school lunch...or something else 1/4" by 1/4" that dug into the side of my foot. But that's before I upgraded to the Super Kangaroos with the pocket in the tongue. Perfection.

I need a "Welcome to 2008" techy friend

I'm trying to figure out how to link all of my websites together (an old blog site, Facebook, Myspace, ILoveDavyJones.com), and I'm beginning to feel old. I programmed in Apple Basic as a 2nd grader and used to be able to build a computer, but things are much different now.

I'm buried in RSS and IPs and lots of numbers with multiple decimals (192.168.1.1 is my current favorite) as we've linked seemingly everything in our house to the wireless network.

I'm searching for a kind soul who can teach me how to use these new-fangled World Wide Web applications I've been hearing about -- and lead me through the pain if I ever upgrade my cell phone. Send your application to my Facebook e-mail. If I don't respond, try pinging me or something... or just send a note to CoolDude@juno.com. I think that address is still active from my 1996 entry into e-mail.

10 PRINT "THANKS!"
20 GOTO 10