I appreciate your continuing efforts to support female bloggers through your blogroll.
I will try to post more comments here and run a more interesting blog so that perhaps The Weblog can be considered for the next round of Unfogged Blogroll Expansion.
Maybe you're right. Then I wouldn't need to worry my pretty little head over all this difficult career stuff. I need a man to take care of me. I'll be showing up on your doorstep any day now.
You're so sweet, and reasonable, not like those other women. And you know we Iranians are known for our hospitality; come over any time; I'll introduce you to my mother.
You live with your mother? That, plus the eyeshades & earplugs thing, somehow seems very Anthony Perkins-ish. Clearly you need a woman to take care of you. Besides mom, I mean.
I don't, much to my mother's chagrin, live with, or even near her. But if you show up on my doorstep, of course I'll have to fly you over to see her. But it's going to take one hell of a woman to get me to give up the sensory deprivation apparatus.
I've been worrying about that, Adam. I'd like to keep doing the political stuff, and my life just isn't going to sustain much interesting blogging. You're all warned, it's just a matter of time before I get earnest and hysterical again.
I hope (and expect) so. Remember that Unf is an attorney at a hotsy-totsy firm, so he has no free time. Bob and Fontana are both academics, and this is end of term.
Sometimes I worry that I post so much that it discourages them from posting. But then I post because they're not posting, and, yes, it's vicious.
If you're serious about this grad school thing, you really need to get used to being abused by people who have no business abusing you. And you might have been flattered if I'd written something like, "Ben, given your more recent involvement with philosophy, I'd love to hear your take on the difference between "grouping" and "dividing." Think you could spare us a few words?" But what's the fun in that?
Oh, I just said "why are you giving me assignments" because I thought I should reply to your question in kind, and that was the most recent thing I could think of plausibly to complain about. And I think I'd have been rather confused had you said what you propose above; since it's happened before that you've told me to do or define something it didn't really catch me off guard (though I admit I'm never sure in what spirit to take just about anything you say).
Also, you usually only ask for the difference between things that seem similar, and "to group" and "to divide", to my mind, aren't.
Working retail is more fun. But the repartee is less clever.
And it's the end of term for me, too, and I'm posting. And it's not even my blog. I'm not buying that "end of term" "I'm a lawyer, I have a demanding job" bullshit. Crappy excuse, man.
You're all warned, it's just a matter of time before I get earnest and hysterical again.
I'll keep reading, even when you're earnest. I suffer from an unfortunate excess of that, myself. This has been a damn amusing interlude, though. Hopefully, there'll still be the apostropher & b-phd to mock you.
PS - I think the earnest works best when Unfogged is firing on all bloggers. I wonder if this spiral is partly because your comrades have momentarily deserted you.
I think the earnest works best when Unfogged is firing on all bloggers.
I think that's exactly right, cw. No one wants to read a blog that's all about torture and how the country's going to hell. But when eg Labs posts about drapes, then they'll put up with some torture stuff. Free my outrage, co-bloggers!
I appreciate your continuing efforts to support female bloggers through your blogroll.
I will try to post more comments here and run a more interesting blog so that perhaps The Weblog can be considered for the next round of Unfogged Blogroll Expansion.
Posted by Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 12-13-04 5:37 PM
I have no idea which parts of that comment are in earnest.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 12-13-04 5:42 PM
I'm a little confused myself, actually.
Posted by Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 12-13-04 6:09 PM
Ogged, IA is gone. It's time to admit that to yourself.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 12-13-04 6:25 PM
You've only *just now* added me to your blogroll?!? After all I've done for you? Hmmph.
(Someday we should compare hit counts and see which of us is supporting the other with our blogroll link ;)
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 12-13-04 8:21 PM
You're on probation b, don't get mouthy.
Ben, I'm still working through those issues; thanks.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 12-13-04 10:54 PM
What, you're trying to keep me down? Some affirmative action program this is.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 12-13-04 11:15 PM
Not down, just in your place, where you'll be happier. Trust me.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 12-13-04 11:17 PM
Maybe you're right. Then I wouldn't need to worry my pretty little head over all this difficult career stuff. I need a man to take care of me. I'll be showing up on your doorstep any day now.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 12-13-04 11:37 PM
You're so sweet, and reasonable, not like those other women. And you know we Iranians are known for our hospitality; come over any time; I'll introduce you to my mother.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 12-13-04 11:43 PM
You live with your mother? That, plus the eyeshades & earplugs thing, somehow seems very Anthony Perkins-ish. Clearly you need a woman to take care of you. Besides mom, I mean.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 12-13-04 11:55 PM
I don't, much to my mother's chagrin, live with, or even near her. But if you show up on my doorstep, of course I'll have to fly you over to see her. But it's going to take one hell of a woman to get me to give up the sensory deprivation apparatus.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 12-13-04 11:59 PM
Oh, there's lots of fun to be had with sensory deprivation. Or so I hear.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 12-14-04 12:04 AM
Try not to corrupt me with that feminine wiles stuff, ok?
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 12-14-04 12:07 AM
Oh, I wouldn't dream of it.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 12-14-04 12:16 AM
Hey!
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 12-14-04 12:17 AM
Now now, no protesting. This won't hurt a bit. Just relax.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 12-14-04 12:21 AM
Wait, back up. I was in a comment thread with coy sex talk, but now I'm at the dentist. Where did I go wrong?
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 12-14-04 12:25 AM
Yeah, I didn't get the tone of that quite right. Sue me, I had a migraine earlier today and I'm a bit off.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 12-14-04 12:26 AM
Ha! Ok, goodnight b.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 12-14-04 12:28 AM
You guys are freaks. I love this blog.
Posted by cw | Link to this comment | 12-14-04 5:01 AM
I've enjoyed this blog much more ever since it switched from a political/tech links format to an "Ogged gossips about himself" format.
Posted by Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 12-14-04 10:23 AM
I've been worrying about that, Adam. I'd like to keep doing the political stuff, and my life just isn't going to sustain much interesting blogging. You're all warned, it's just a matter of time before I get earnest and hysterical again.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 12-14-04 10:33 AM
Are your co-bloggers ever going to post again?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 12-14-04 10:41 AM
I hope (and expect) so. Remember that Unf is an attorney at a hotsy-totsy firm, so he has no free time. Bob and Fontana are both academics, and this is end of term.
Sometimes I worry that I post so much that it discourages them from posting. But then I post because they're not posting, and, yes, it's vicious.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 12-14-04 10:47 AM
You see, there you go making assumptions about other people's motivations again.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 12-14-04 10:56 AM
Why are you trying to drive me crazy?
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 12-14-04 10:57 AM
Why are you giving me assignments?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 12-14-04 11:02 AM
If you're serious about this grad school thing, you really need to get used to being abused by people who have no business abusing you. And you might have been flattered if I'd written something like, "Ben, given your more recent involvement with philosophy, I'd love to hear your take on the difference between "grouping" and "dividing." Think you could spare us a few words?" But what's the fun in that?
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 12-14-04 11:06 AM
Oh, I just said "why are you giving me assignments" because I thought I should reply to your question in kind, and that was the most recent thing I could think of plausibly to complain about. And I think I'd have been rather confused had you said what you propose above; since it's happened before that you've told me to do or define something it didn't really catch me off guard (though I admit I'm never sure in what spirit to take just about anything you say).
Also, you usually only ask for the difference between things that seem similar, and "to group" and "to divide", to my mind, aren't.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 12-14-04 11:23 AM
get used to being abused by people who have no business abusing you
So grad school's no different from working retail? That sucks.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 12-14-04 11:35 AM
Working retail pays better.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 12-14-04 11:36 AM
Working retail is more fun. But the repartee is less clever.
And it's the end of term for me, too, and I'm posting. And it's not even my blog. I'm not buying that "end of term" "I'm a lawyer, I have a demanding job" bullshit. Crappy excuse, man.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 12-14-04 11:57 AM
I must say, this exchange between ogged and bphd is, er, interesting.
Posted by mcm | Link to this comment | 12-14-04 1:14 PM
You're all warned, it's just a matter of time before I get earnest and hysterical again.
I'll keep reading, even when you're earnest. I suffer from an unfortunate excess of that, myself. This has been a damn amusing interlude, though. Hopefully, there'll still be the apostropher & b-phd to mock you.
Posted by cw | Link to this comment | 12-14-04 1:36 PM
PS - I think the earnest works best when Unfogged is firing on all bloggers. I wonder if this spiral is partly because your comrades have momentarily deserted you.
Posted by cw | Link to this comment | 12-14-04 1:39 PM
I think the earnest works best when Unfogged is firing on all bloggers.
I think that's exactly right, cw. No one wants to read a blog that's all about torture and how the country's going to hell. But when eg Labs posts about drapes, then they'll put up with some torture stuff. Free my outrage, co-bloggers!
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 12-14-04 3:08 PM