Today I was applauded (two people at three claps each counts as applause, actually) for my ability to [hold a stuffed bird aloft for lengthy periods of time].
Yesterday someone finally knew the name of the song I make people "sing" for me when I [balance a chair on my palm].
A song with no words (or none that you know) is one of those few remaining things that's nigh impossible to look up. Typing "da da da da da da da waaaa waaaa" into Google doesn't exactly help, and even though it kindly asks "Did you mean to search for: da dada dadadada whaaaa whaaaa," that search produces about 126,997 fewer results.
In fact, I'm still searching for a song I heard once, but I only know one lyric: "California." No, it's probably not the one you're thinking of.
June 17, 2007
June 16, 2007
June 15, 2007
Naming the new
Online name picking, be it an email address, profile name, or in this case, url, is never easy.
I tried many combinations of letters that meant something to me, but most were taken by someone who posted between one and three times and then abandoned their virtual real estate. I suppose that taken-but-unused is far preferable to taken-and-vastly-better-executed-than-I-ever-dared-dream.
[pause for some drunk guy shouting outside]
Among some of my efforts:
• My first choice was taken by someone who sounds, in three ancient posts of fewer than 100 cumulative words, like a person I desperately do not want to be.
• A German word produced a blog with a single entry in Japanese.
• My Italian last name produced a Brazilian blog with an English title - but at least it seems to be frequently updated. And anyway, as a repeat victim of Googling, I'm doing my best to stay off that particular radar this time.
This all helps explain why there is little that impresses me more than an original and clever handle.
I tried many combinations of letters that meant something to me, but most were taken by someone who posted between one and three times and then abandoned their virtual real estate. I suppose that taken-but-unused is far preferable to taken-and-vastly-better-executed-than-I-ever-dared-dream.
[pause for some drunk guy shouting outside]
Among some of my efforts:
• My first choice was taken by someone who sounds, in three ancient posts of fewer than 100 cumulative words, like a person I desperately do not want to be.
• A German word produced a blog with a single entry in Japanese.
• My Italian last name produced a Brazilian blog with an English title - but at least it seems to be frequently updated. And anyway, as a repeat victim of Googling, I'm doing my best to stay off that particular radar this time.
This all helps explain why there is little that impresses me more than an original and clever handle.
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