Just don't call it a 'blog'.
I'm sorry. I can't use that word. I just think it sounds silly. That same feeling kept me from reading the marvellous "World According to Garp" for so long too, but I can't help it.
I'm indebted Mena & Benjamin Trott, who wrote the brilliant movable type software, which is what I use to run the site. But while I may be a reflection of the deep-seated need to communicate endemic in our post-structuralist blah blah blah, I'm not a 'blogger'.
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This site has two goals. One is to communicate with my friends, family and acquaintances all the interesting things I run across, and to make it easy for me to have a larger circle of friends while keeping my actual conversations with my friends above the level of the quotidian. The other is to provide a forum for me that allows me to practice and publish my writing, photography, and opinions. Also, it's one place I can put punctuation where it belongs, namely outside quotes and parens, without being harassed.
Secondarily, it will give me a means of persistently recording my impressions, especially as I travel. What it is not, however, is a journal.
You might find it interesting if a) you know me b) you like some of the same things I do c) you like my writing style. Beyond that, I'm not making any promises.
Credit where it's due: the title, "Bite the hand that bores you!", is not mine. It's scratched into a sidewalk on 18th street that I walk over almost every day.
me.
I grew up in northern Michigan and attended Kalamazoo College, a snobby liberal arts college in southern Michigan. I've worked in print media, education, software development, and I've written a couple of books. I like to hack in Objective C and Smalltalk and haven't much lately. That's all in the resume, though.
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Dolores Park
If I were a candidate on Jeopardy!, my ideal categories would be:
- Metaphorically speaking
- Object oriented binding strategies
- A book you might be interested in
- Useful and entertaining organic chemistry
- Twisty roads within one hundred miles
- Subculture idiom
Yes, like everyone in San Francisco, I've been to Burning Man. I also mock the bridge-and-tunnel set in a desperate attempt to justify my exorbitant rent, and all sorts of other doubtless typical San Franciscan things.
You can if you wish mail me at joshua [at] nowhereville.org.