Not a Blog

[coalescent]

Today my big accomplishment was that I made ginger cake with chocolate and cinnamon sauce. Now, I'm not saying that's not a respectable thing to do (and it was certainly tasty), but clearly if that's what I'm writing about here then at some point I'm going to have to relinquish any claim on calling this thing a 'blog'.

Maybe putting in a random link will help: Oxford has a Future of Humanity Institute!

Maybe mentioning that I finished Her Smoke Rose Up Forever will count for something. I've even written some words about it, too, although I'm going to hold off posting them until immortalradical's had a chance to read it. We all know how much he loves arguing with me.

Maybe I can get away with mentioning that tomorrow's goal is to get at least a draft of the Living Next-Door to the God of Love review I'm doing for Foundation. Maybe I can get a spinoff post out of it.

Obligatory pimpage of Strange Horizons: Among other things, this week Geneva Melzack and Iain Emsley bring you two good reviews of Air by Geoff Ryman.

... no, it's no good. None of those things are actually substitutes for content, are they?

Comments

[veggiesu.livejournal.com]

clearly if that's what I'm writing about here then at some point I'm going to have to relinquish any claim on calling this thing a 'blog'.

Why?

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

I'm a pedant. Blogs should have content. Journals are about cake-making. ;-)

[tizzle-b.livejournal.com]

You don't have to have content everyday, Neil.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Oh, absolutely. But at the moment it feels like I'm down to about once a month ...

[chance88088.livejournal.com]

Yes. It's true.

Feed our blog habit or there will be consequences.

[tizzle-b.livejournal.com]

I like you took care in replying to my 2nd, non-deleted, comment without mentioning the first.

And more than once a month?! Ha!

[tizzle-b.livejournal.com]

But would you be happy with a Sidney journal instead? It's basically the same but more of him.

Finer points

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, but to be a journal you'd have to start writing about cats. As long as your writing remains cat-free, I believe that this may technically remain a blog.

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

I'm happy with a journal about cake-making. Mmm.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

...

[chance88088.livejournal.com]

Would there be pictures?

[veggiesu.livejournal.com]

Hmmm.

[tizzle-b.livejournal.com]

Hell; he'd probably webcam himself reading a book to make some new "blog content".

[tizzle-b.livejournal.com]

Yeah, he's wrong.

And mean! He keeps deleting the tags I put on his entry :D

[chance88088.livejournal.com]

So what tags did you add then?

[veggiesu.livejournal.com]

I've missed you :-)

[chance88088.livejournal.com]

So like watching a tree grow then?

I'm for it. Neill! Get a webcam!

[tizzle-b.livejournal.com]

Only if Nellie grows like these trees:

3rd time lucky....

[tizzle-b.livejournal.com]

Couple of token mocking ones taken from the OMG SO FRICKIN LONG list of his here

[tizzle-b.livejournal.com]

I've been ..... here.

Re: 3rd time lucky....

[veggiesu.livejournal.com]

Dear god, how many tags does he have???

I thought I spotted a "whiskey" tag as I scrolled through. It turned out to be my mind conflating "whileaway", "whuffie" and "wikis" :-p

[veggiesu.livejournal.com]

ITYM "lurking" :-p

good icon choice

[chance88088.livejournal.com]

What the hell is that?

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

Yes, the bearding one looks almost attractive in that icon. Good work, Tom!

Re: 3rd time lucky....

[tizzle-b.livejournal.com]

It seems he got bored and went on a tagging spree.


Sidney, yesterday.