Saturday, July 21, 2007
aufgabe zwei
July 16 2007
i woke wearing ski socks and a hat of live kitten.
that i hadn't kicked the socks off during the night is proof that it's really cold here.
really, unusually, record-setting, even-the-Canadians-are-complaining cold.
it's not just our imagination or that typical memory lapse that has us all saying we can never remember being 'this hot before' or 'this cold before' whenever the seasons change suddenly.
it's finger achingly cold to the point of something hinting at nausea as i cycle up the hill.
it's muscle freezing cold as the almost useless bricks in my legs push me somehow up that hill which i'm sure is longer today than last week.
it's so cold i have to put the heater on in my bedroom at night and will have to wear full-fingered gloves on tomorrow's ride.
i cycle for the good of the environment.
it's nice to know i've done my part to reduce global warming.
i woke wearing ski socks and a hat of live kitten.
that i hadn't kicked the socks off during the night is proof that it's really cold here.
really, unusually, record-setting, even-the-Canadians-are-complaining cold.
it's not just our imagination or that typical memory lapse that has us all saying we can never remember being 'this hot before' or 'this cold before' whenever the seasons change suddenly.
it's finger achingly cold to the point of something hinting at nausea as i cycle up the hill.
it's muscle freezing cold as the almost useless bricks in my legs push me somehow up that hill which i'm sure is longer today than last week.
it's so cold i have to put the heater on in my bedroom at night and will have to wear full-fingered gloves on tomorrow's ride.
i cycle for the good of the environment.
it's nice to know i've done my part to reduce global warming.
Sunday, July 15, 2007
exercise 1
2 car doors,
2 pedestrians-on-the-road and
1 car-from-side-street incidents on my ride home tonight.
If i thought anyone was reading this blog, i might feel inclined to make it a voice for an endangered species who seems (in my city at least) to suffer from a rare form of invisibility: the cyclist
but this isn't the place
.......
i've found a new isport: blog naming
(no catchy title for the sport as yet. naming it can be another new sport)
i found i could not give my blog a URL to even vaguely match my blog id because, as you'd expect in the webspace in 2007, others had already taken all the options;
unfashionably i thought it would make sense to give it a URL that corresponded to my online name: fred's blog, logically, would be found under fred.blogspot.com. for example.
but apparently this is un-cool.
that it's 2007 and i've started my first blog is testament enough to my lack of trend setting on the interweb
wondering who had "my URL" and why, led me on a little voyage from one blog to the next. the blogger of the URL i wanted had a name very similar to mine but not quite. so why take a such a close but not exact match? because someone else had already taken the URL that exactly matched his/her name. and so on. my journey continued, like connecting random dots, until soon the sport just became "type any-random-word.blogspot.com and see what you find".
two things i found
three things
1. ideally there is little or no correspondence between the URL, the blog's title or the name of the blogger. random is IN.
2. a LOT of people build a blog just for the hell of it, add very obvious test-only entries and never touch it again. from just my short sampling i can tell there must be so very many dead blogs out there with a half life of eternity given google's apparent user-friendly 'freedom-to-start-a-blog-and-only-you-can-delete-it' policy
3. those who progress beyond the test entry have an attention span of less than a year, before the posts cease. wonder how long i'll last.
2 pedestrians-on-the-road and
1 car-from-side-street incidents on my ride home tonight.
If i thought anyone was reading this blog, i might feel inclined to make it a voice for an endangered species who seems (in my city at least) to suffer from a rare form of invisibility: the cyclist
but this isn't the place
.......
i've found a new isport: blog naming
(no catchy title for the sport as yet. naming it can be another new sport)
i found i could not give my blog a URL to even vaguely match my blog id because, as you'd expect in the webspace in 2007, others had already taken all the options;
unfashionably i thought it would make sense to give it a URL that corresponded to my online name: fred's blog, logically, would be found under fred.blogspot.com. for example.
but apparently this is un-cool.
that it's 2007 and i've started my first blog is testament enough to my lack of trend setting on the interweb
wondering who had "my URL" and why, led me on a little voyage from one blog to the next. the blogger of the URL i wanted had a name very similar to mine but not quite. so why take a such a close but not exact match? because someone else had already taken the URL that exactly matched his/her name. and so on. my journey continued, like connecting random dots, until soon the sport just became "type any-random-word.blogspot.com and see what you find".
two things i found
three things
1. ideally there is little or no correspondence between the URL, the blog's title or the name of the blogger. random is IN.
2. a LOT of people build a blog just for the hell of it, add very obvious test-only entries and never touch it again. from just my short sampling i can tell there must be so very many dead blogs out there with a half life of eternity given google's apparent user-friendly 'freedom-to-start-a-blog-and-only-you-can-delete-it' policy
3. those who progress beyond the test entry have an attention span of less than a year, before the posts cease. wonder how long i'll last.
bastille day, 2007
for my very first blog entry i am not going to write random stuff just to see if it's working
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