Why did everyone (including me) assume that this was a *bad* writing contest. I've read your post five times now, looking for the hint, but there's nothing.
those who don't want to sully the purity of their blogs with this kind of drivel, can email me their entries
Unless drivel has some other meaning than the one I think it has, this seems to be a pretty clear hint that the entries were not supposed to be high quality.
You are technically too late, but since I said there would be voting today (yesterday, now) and that didn't happen, what the hell.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 04-18-05 10:49 PM
Thanks, I would have hated to get the lawyers involved in the "no time zone specified" argument.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-18-05 10:51 PM
Why did everyone (including me) assume that this was a *bad* writing contest. I've read your post five times now, looking for the hint, but there's nothing.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-18-05 11:01 PM
My girlfriend asked me the same thing. My response to her was, and now to you is, what else would it be?
Like yours a lot, btw, from the unbalanced quotation marks to the "normal talk".
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 04-18-05 11:13 PM
what else would it be?
That would have been for the lawyers to make up.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-18-05 11:17 PM
those who don't want to sully the purity of their blogs with this kind of drivel, can email me their entries
Unless drivel has some other meaning than the one I think it has, this seems to be a pretty clear hint that the entries were not supposed to be high quality.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 04-18-05 11:18 PM
I didn't intend it that way, but I guess. I meant that for hypothetical entrants with topical or serious-minded blogs, I guess.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 04-18-05 11:20 PM
for hypothetical entrants with topical or serious-minded blogs, I guess.
That's how I understood it.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-18-05 11:21 PM
eb, aren't you not-commenting, like I'm not-blogging?
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-18-05 11:21 PM
Also, I just got a copy of Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction and the blurb on the inside cover reads
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 04-18-05 11:21 PM
!!
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 04-18-05 11:22 PM
eb, aren't you not-commenting, like I'm not-blogging?
Yes, I'm not.
I'm also not grading and not sleeping. And as much as I'd like to do both at once, I'm going to have to choose the sleeping.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 04-18-05 11:24 PM
I'm sort of not-commenting as well. Hiatus is all the rage these days.
Posted by Mitch Mills | Link to this comment | 04-19-05 4:29 AM
Awww, dang, I might have liked to pen an entry. Oh well, maybe I'll try one on my own.
Posted by Tripp | Link to this comment | 04-19-05 7:59 AM