Blahgorrhea

In setting up this blog, I have been spending a lot of time trying to come up with a unique site design and then implement it well. This takes much more time than I would like, though I’m sure I will be happy with the outcome when I am finished. But my real problem is that if I offer a site feed, then people who are interested in reading what I have to say (I can’t imagine there would be more than 2) would be able to read what I have to say without the benefit of looking at my beautifully designed pages. So why shouldn’t I just post a feed and let the feed reader worry about user interface and design?

I’ve been biking to work recently as a way to cut down on my frustration derived from driving. I try to be a good cyclist, because I know how much drivers hate cyclists in the city. And they have every right to hate cyclists who do things as stupid as bike the wrong way on a one-way street. What is the point of that, when there is most definitely a one-way street in the opposite direction one block away? Worse yet, I came across a guy biking on the wrong side of a two-way street, coming right at me in the bike lane. I yelled to him that he was biking on the wrong side, but he didn’t seem to care. You are ruining it for all of us.

I was reading in a local coffee shop yesterday when a woman barged in and announced, “I’ve found money. I need the largest house coffee you have. And I need a lot of room for milk and suger.” I wanted to slap her right there. She clearly hadn’t been taught manners as a child. She didn’t storm out in a hurry, so it’s not as if she needed to be curt to get in and out fast. And then, when she left, she took about 50 paper napkins. It’s too bad the barista was polite to her.

You know the old adage, “You learn something new everyday.” Well, as it turns out, most days you really don’t learn anything. But yesterday, I learned a new word: [logorrhea][define]. It is such a wonderful word that [Dictionary.com][d] has used it twice as their [word][wod1] of the [day][wod2]. [Continue reading…]

CitiBank has a great ad campaign going right now. They have billboards posted all over San Francisco with pithy sayings about how money isn’t the most important thing in life. While I enjoy reading the billboards, and while they do make me reflect (for oh so brief of a moment as I fight my way through stupid drivers and even more stupid pedestrians) on how life really shouldn’t be about money, I can’t help but wonder whether the company at the top of Forbes magazine’s Global 2000 list, a company with $1.4 trillion in assets, can really believe that money isn’t everything. Money is their entire business.

Yup, everyone else on this gosh-darn Interweb (including Al Gore) has a blog. Well, what I’ve got here is a blahg.