Man…
I usually carry a clipboard around, as I have mentioned before, to take notes and remind myself of things. Half of what I write down ends up becoming a blog post at some point, usually.
So I was going through my notes to see what I could blog about, and mostly what I wrote down is stuff that I can’t really write a whole lot about.
One of the things, which is also something Ros feels strongly about, was a thing about how people who use two spaces after a period should be shot, but so many people have already written about that.
So I was going to turn it into a general history type post about spaces and word separation markers in general, but it turns out that’s pretty boring as well.
Another thing I was going to write about was the relative invisibility of atheists.
The fact that you can’t tell an atheist from a theist on sight, as you can with black and white people (with some exceptions among the more colorful believers), means that most individual atheists tend to be quite shielded from discrimination if they want to be. On the other hand, it also makes it easier for certain theists to demonise atheists, since many people still tend to be quite convinced that nobody they know could possibly be an atheist (after all, only .01% of the US population is, right), so this perhaps slows down the whole acceptance process the entire society has to move through.
But that’s pretty much all you can say about that, so that’s not quite worth an entire post.
A third thing on my list was the so-called “bandwidth crisis”, which, as far as I can tell, is entirely artificial.
There’s been a lot of scare-mongering about that, with one guy suggesting that the impending bird flu pandemic could choke the internet as tons of people hit news websites to keep up to date about the situation and as people stayed home and worked via the internet to avoid contagion. Google, on the other hand, has been saying the existing infrastructure isn’t meant for high-quality video, and that internet TV would bring it to its knees, which is somewhat more credible, but not a whole lot.
I don’t often point to the free market as a solution to problems, but if the supply of bandwidth can no longer meet the demand, the infrastructure will be expanded, and scaling most of this doesn’t require that much time (or even resources) that the internet as a whole will ever be overwhelmed. Mostly, this seems to be a ploy to keep the price of internet access artificially high.
At this point I was going to include fancy graphs and statistics, but that’s a pain to research, especially since there are a lot of contradictory estimates. As such, not worth an entire blog post.
(I did find a fair amount of statistics on spam, though, which I may or may not post about in the future.)
I was also going to talk about oxpeckers in an upcoming Weird Creatures post, but it turns out Tetrapod Zoology beat me to it.
There are some legitimate posts still waiting to be posted about (including that abiogenesis post I’ve been promising for months), but I just wanted to get those things out of the way so I could cross them out of my notes. Not mentioning them seemed a waste.
So. What do you want to talk about?
Terras said,
February 19th, 2007 at 7:38 pm
D&D and paganism. ^.~
Quhan said,
February 19th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
I keep a small notebook in my pocket. It’s kewl. Makes me able to take notes wherever I want, without having to find a napkip.
Coren said,
February 19th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
I agree with Terras. ^.~
That would sure bring back memories…
Coren said,
February 19th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
Also, what’s a napkip?
Sleeping chicken? >.>
Skatje said,
February 19th, 2007 at 8:13 pm
Naked women.
Cairnarvon said,
February 19th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
There isn’t a whole lot to say about D&D, paganism, or naked women, though.
Interesting D&D discussions need a lot of technicaly background, and only really work as discussions, not as essay things, mostly. Paganism is boring. Naked women mostly require pictures, and they’re all over the internets~
Skatje said,
February 19th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
You make an open thread and then just reject everything said. O\__/O
Cairnarvon said,
February 19th, 2007 at 9:35 pm
I can’t help it your ideas suck. ;.;
rednwhite said,
February 20th, 2007 at 3:29 am
Post about why TVs and computer monitors get all flashy and blinky when you see them after they’ve been filmed by a camera~
Cairnarvon said,
February 20th, 2007 at 7:07 am
That’s elementary school Physics. >.>
Quhan said,
February 20th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
It was not my choice to stop D&D back in the old days.
Well, don’t think it was anyone’s. We just stopped playing one day… Meh.
rednwhite said,
February 20th, 2007 at 7:31 pm
We didn’t have Physics in elementary school ;____;
Cairnarvon said,
February 20th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
Not even Physics. What is it, a combination of Electronics and Biology?
Either way, anyone old enough to read should already know it.
rednwhite said,
February 20th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
Well pardon me for not knowing why O\_______/O
Cairnarvon said,
February 20th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
Scan lines and limited number of frames desu~
Same reason wheels are sometimes seen to be turning in the wrong direction on film. Though wheels don’t have scan lines.
Skatje said,
February 21st, 2007 at 2:03 am
Wheels sometimes look like they’re turning the wrong direction in real life.
Skatje said,
February 21st, 2007 at 2:04 am
Or is my head broken?
(ur site haet shifty ;.;.;.;.)