Not much to post about today, kind of on blog-light right now, though I have spent the last 2 hours getting caught up with other blogs and e-mails.
I got a neat comment a few nights ago to "FatBlogger IS the Yoga Pig", apparently Open Source Radio selected a portion of that post to have actors read on a show they do on Thursday's called "Blogsday", a PBS Internet and radio show. I think this show is produced at WGBH studios, the Boston PBS studio, which would be a terrific coincidence seeing as how I worked right across from them for 5 years while I was in Boston. I always wanted to get on there somehow, now, if but for the briefest of moments, I have!
"Blogsday was written to last perhaps but a moment, but it has its own humble integrity, representing the jottings, confessions, sermons and jokes of now millions of writers for the Internet in this country and around the world. No certifiable geniuses that we’ve discovered today, but their range is astonishing: journals of addiction and recovery, soliders blogging home from Iraq, a very fat man in Texas celebrating yoga, people riding the F train under Brooklyn, ruminating on the teaching of poetry and the learning of karate; falling in love, getting dumped, second-guessing the New York Times, savoring barbecue, changing jobs. "
Cool. Check out the whole thing here at Open Source.
This brings me to a question I pose to you, my blogging posse. do you think I should mention it to anyone in my family? Do people close to you, family, friends, even spouses, know that you have a blog, or what the name is? How to find it? I have kept mine a secret so I could blog here indiscriminate of their feelings, is that a good idea? This "reading" is no big deal, but it does bring up the point, should I kiss and tell those around me?
By the way, what the hell is a meme?
I am going to be changing things a bit here next week, new colors I think... maybe blue. Good idea? I will be updating my "About Me" page. I will be adding categories that I think might be helpful. I will be trying to get a countdown or something going for the marathon, and trying to figure out how to get pictures on the damn sidebar as a "TypeList". So if I am not around, it is not that I have forgotten you, only that that I have all the Internet/computer acumen of a baboon and I am completely lost! Wish me luck!
Have a great (or at least good) weekend/Fathers-day! My son has already given me the best gift, he canceled his sleepover with his buddies because the next day was Father's day and I didn't even have to ask him to do it, that is the best thing he could have done for me!
One- don't tell your family. Next thing you know, you are having to sensor yourself and you aren't as happy with you space as you once were. True story - my other site.
Two - meme. Someone found the actual definition. here is the link to the def. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
basically it is chain mail that bloggers pass on to each other. You can tag people with it or some people just find an old one and renew it on the web. They are great when you're short on content...
Three - yay for the pub! You're famous! :-)
Posted by: Missionista | June 21, 2005 at 07:01
Thanks for all the advice, I get it, TELL NO ONE! Works for me.
Faith, if I was you, I would just go ahead with the post, Brian will have to get over it or move on, either way, it gives you the freedom you need to express yourself fully right?
Posted by: FB | June 20, 2005 at 20:27
My friend Brian knows about my blog and reads it every day. Under normal circumstances, not a problem, because he knows every dirty little secret I have already.
Problem now though, because I'd really like to be open about my relationshiop with IT Guy and write what REALLY happened this weekend, but Brian would get all pissy about it.
I'm thinking of writing a post and backdating it, but then I don't know how I'd let the people I REALLY want to read it know where it is. Any suggestions?
Posted by: Faith | June 20, 2005 at 16:53
And I have no idea what a meme is...I've been trying to figure that out, too.
Posted by: Dana | June 20, 2005 at 10:23
I've told my family about it...they aren't interested. As for my friends and those around me, DO NOT TELL THEM. Trust me...I have learned the hard way several times (each time I thought I was smarter, but I wasn't). It's not worth telling them...it ends up biting you in the ass...
Posted by: Dana | June 19, 2005 at 16:25
I would advise against telling people you have a blog. I didn't follow my own advice when I started and wish I had. That sounds like "fun" times on the computer; I am pretty lame with anything complicated. I can do the basics. Happy Fathers' Day to you, Chuck--you deserve a great one!
Posted by: Margaret | June 18, 2005 at 22:33
That is so cool! You are famous! I didn't see anything about people in need of serious psych help, so I suppose they didn't run across mine.
As for your question, my hubby knows that I have a blog, but he has no interest in reading it. This pleases me. My son also knows, but he doesn't have the address. Other than that, only one very good trusted friend knows--that's it.
Happy Father's Day! You're a great dad. Your son is so lucky.
Posted by: Michelle | June 18, 2005 at 22:07
It is an idea that is passed from person to person sort of "in the air" without actual transmission or contact. I didn't know until a few months ago and I had to look it up because I kept seeing it.
I changed my layout because I like how clean yours looks although I like "whoring" mine up--like wearing red lipstick--with lots of graphics.
As for how I am so insightful? Years of bottled up frustration and over education just spewing forth...
Posted by: Jaye | June 18, 2005 at 21:19