Blogging backlog

Saturday, September 18th, 2004 10:51 am
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It's a sign of how messy my life is that I even have uncompleted to-do lists for blogging. Here are some things I would like to write about:
  1. George Lakoff's state-as-nurturing-parent image and why I still can't be a liberal (in the American sense);
  2. My ongoing conflicted relationship with evolutionary psychology;
  3. Related to this, some revisionist observations on feminism and domestic politics;
  4. The resurgence of collective guilt, and more reasons why I can't be an American-style liberal;
  5. Why American liberals are generally nice people (and certainly much nicer than conservatives) and I should stop being so mean to them;
  6. Why life without nicotine seems not to be worth living;
  7. Why items in lists should end with semi-colons, except for this one.

Date: 2004-09-18 02:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alsoname.livejournal.com
I would love to see any one of those entries appear on my friends page. Get the lead out!

Date: 2004-09-18 06:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aguirre.livejournal.com
#6 is interesting... have you been able to replace the void left by nicotine's effects?

I think the best way to have endorphines going and sustained is from aerobic exercies of all kinds. Get that runner's high going somehow and you might have a suitable replacement.

take this advice from a former cross country runner, repeated quitter, and current smoker. hehe

Date: 2004-09-18 07:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] regyt.livejournal.com
I want to read these. Write, blogslave, write!

Date: 2004-09-18 07:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] solri.livejournal.com
Exercise is good, particularly ch'i kung / qigong. And capoeira is starting again soon, which gives a great high.

Date: 2004-09-18 07:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aguirre.livejournal.com
yeah, there you go. I loved taking a class in qigong a few years ago. It was a great source of good energy.

Date: 2004-09-18 08:28 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] ironed_orchid
Yes, I also want these. I'm leaning more to the evolutionary psychology stuff and how you'll related it to feminsim atm, but the other stuff also sounds good.

Date: 2004-09-18 08:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] solri.livejournal.com
Stay tuned. One essay on the semi-colon coming up!

Date: 2004-09-18 08:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] solri.livejournal.com
Yes, mistress!

Date: 2004-09-18 09:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trochee.livejournal.com
I want to read all of them. Except maybe number 6; I can't relate to number 6.

Isn't "American liberal" a contradiction in terms these days? If you're anywhere to the left of (say) Lyndon B. Johnson, you're a radical by American standards these days. Sad but true.

Date: 2004-09-18 10:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hfx-ben.livejournal.com
When you talk about blogging, do you mean LJ or an actual blog?
I found actual blogging an effective counter-measure against this sort of backlog: when I found something worthy, I would /at least/ hit my "blog this!" link and register the site's URL, title, and then add a few words ... minimum.
So I had, in effect, at least a set of elite bookmarks.

May I kindly request

Date: 2004-09-18 11:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cibetky.livejournal.com
#1 please? Closely followed by #3.

Date: 2004-09-18 02:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trochee.livejournal.com
I do that bit with del.icio.us (at del.icio.us/trochee). I find it very helpful. I also use the nutr.itio.us bookmarklet, which is even better. When I change to Firefox, I'll use the sidebar tool.

Date: 2004-09-18 02:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] solri.livejournal.com
Isn't LJ an actual blog?

However fine it smells, a zuch ain't a squash.

Date: 2004-09-18 09:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hfx-ben.livejournal.com
"Isn't LJ an actual blog?"
Uhh ... I'd call it a journal, making the distinction by the way it operates (though extensions and such have maybe blurred those lines).
What I remember from blogger.com, even years ago, was that one click would insert all sorts of things into the pop-up, so that with nothing but a couple of mouse clicks at least a fully operational link would be published to the blog.

And LJ's comment system is by far superior to anything I've seen on other blogs. (Again, extensions and developments may have blurred this.)


Date: 2004-09-18 09:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hfx-ben.livejournal.com
Nice links, thanks!
Gotta run ATM ... more later.
From: [identity profile] solri.livejournal.com
Before LJ I was keeping a journal on my website - I heard about LJ because [livejournal.com profile] from_ashes and [livejournal.com profile] asteriskhere transferred their journals here. The comment system turned out to be an unexpected bonus.
From: [identity profile] hfx-ben.livejournal.com
Since starting my LJ I've blogged much less. I don't know of a comment system that's better, though some (like slashdot) are more sophisticated.