The honey pot theory pays off; and random comment from Bill leads me back to Notational Slurry, and browsing reveals a beaut of an entry on why I do the weird stuff.
[Update] Oh, I'm so busted. While I am happy to have discovered Notational Slurry, after careful review the replay officials have disallowed the score. The honey pot is still virgin.
Didn't a Vatican official deny that his Holiness had given this endorsement? I'm sure somebody blogged it, but can't remember where or when or who or how.
Update: ah, officially it hadn't been confirmed or denied. But it seems that Archbishop Dziwisz seems to be staking out an official Vatican position that contradicts earlier reports attributed to Steve Eveety.
Frankly, I am surprised I haven't see Paypal buttons on comments yet.
Sigh - MT doesn't parse whitespace in a <pre> element the way I expect it to.
[more ]OK, I have to join the lemmings this time. Kuff seems to be getting the cred, but let's not forget that we are playing by Pete's rules.
Now, there had been no doubt in my mind which movie belonged at the top of the list. Mission Impossible - I saw this twice. The second time because I wasn't certain it was thoroughly awful. I had a nagging suspicion that there was, in fact, one clever subtle bit. So when it came to the dollar movie four blocks from my apartment, I gave it another try. Nope - that suspicion was completely unwarranted.
But I had forgotten that I did, in fact, sit through all 85 minutes of Leonard Part 6. Wow, 1755 votes on IMDB. Looking at that list - I'm sorry, I simply cannot fathom that Gigli is that bad - that vote is clearly being colored by JLo-Aflack blow back.
After that, it gets hard. I'd love to put Phantom Menace on the list, but it doesn't qualify by the rules - it's total value is awful on a galactic scale, but the effects themselves were a positive (this measure does not include the choice of how the effects were used, of course). Godfather III is in much the same category.
The Musketeer, Cutthroat Island, Lost in Space - the fail on the hate problem. Uniformly without merit, but not worth the emotional investment of hate. Let's face it - if you have to dig through IMDB to find it (Ooh! Staying Alive) you just don't hate it enough.
The Shadow. Oh, I wish I had not reminded myself of that one.
David Moser's classic self referential story.
I had to pull it out after reading Calpundit's five paragraph essay.
Mark Pilgrim presents: a compelling argument for learning how to "select all" in your favorite browser.
Update: he thought better of it. Link above updated to point to the permanent? home of the original.
But two is my limit for viewing the comments of a blog entry. The usual pattern is that the obvious choice (comments) calls for javascript to be running. Then a quick scan to find a link to an archive. When that link boomerangs me right back where I started, I move on to better things....
C'mon guys, if it's worthy of comment, it's worthy of reference.
Atrios calls attention to a new idea burried in a comment on Teresa's blog, but can't be bothered to link to the topic.
I was going to vent more, but along the way discovered that drilling into a topic exposes the comments, which is probably a more sensible presentation than the popup. Time to change the templates.
I wonder if I can give each comment its own anchor.
Just something to keep in mind before you hit Submit....
When you contribute to the internet, be it within your own blog, or in that of another, notice that the context you are carrying around with you does not become of your message. Not automagically.
Readers, as likely as not, will have taken a path quite different from yours. The first few ants will perhaps be following your scent trail, but someone will eventually hyperlink to the middle of the dialogue, and the ants that follow that trail will have missed the introductory chapters.
So when you play the ass - that's the first impression you leave behind. Sure, your tone may have be justified; after all, there comes a point when one is faced with the unpleasant truth that rational discourse is completely ineffective.
But a share of your readers won't have experienced that long, painful trail. They wander in, just as you are at your least effective, and now the best you can hope for is to win the coin toss.
Maybe 258 million lemmings are all right.
My goal, quite simply, is to find the resources I need for my projects, without having to work too hard at it. Having watched a number of blogs for a while, there's a dynamic becoming apparent that I want to link into.
The problem is quite simple: how to find other sources (active sources at that) who are solving similar problems to yours?
So my proposed solution is to blog. I'll toss out problems that I'm solving, and those as find my answers useful will reveal themselves, allowing me to follow them back to the problems they are solving.
'zats the theory, anyway. If it falls over in practice, then I'll try something else.