Sorry about the delay...I've been busy. So far I've managed to find several new comments to post (see below) and work on a couple of important papers.

Speaking about papers, I actually like this last one. It's supposed to be about Jacob, a biography and all that, as well as how the character has affected you personally...theoretically I could write it about writing the paper; Jacob hadn't 'touched' me until I found, read, and damn near memorized a half-dozen books about him. I hate that. You go to do research, and all of your knowledge comes from the books so you technically need to cite every word. Pisses me off that I can't trust myself not to use someone elses' words.

Anyway, I like the paper. I'll post the rough draft here as soon as I figure out how- I want to link to it, but 'it' needs to be on a page separate from the rest of the blog. If any reader (note the singular; I've had exactly one hit other than me. thanks, Mike.) knows what I mean or knows how, email me or comment or something.

I'll bet an enterprising someone with a determination greater than mine could blog about abandoned or under-maintained or -visited blogs. That'd be pretty sweet- think about it. There're some 14 million blogs out there, and I know from personal experience that wihle starting a blog is easy, keeping it up isn't. Just look at my posts from last week. (Exactly) It'd be pretty cool, being able to check up every few days and "damn! the blogger dude found another one! don't know why 'katie's underwear's journal' (or some other artistically bent title) couldn't draw an audience."

I think there's a guy doing this for ski resorts...except he can't then take a lift and run it there. Be pretty frickin sweet if he could, I'd love to ski some abandoned, overgrown run. It'd be like Mad River Glen, except you'd have no map or idea where you actually are.

Just realized this- if anyone takes my above idea about blogging unused blogs, I want a link to it. Heck, I'll take a link to anywhere; took me almost an hour to get the stupid Firefox logo on the left to show up.

Anyway, here are my comments from the last few days. Don't be alarmed if they make no sense, they're out of context. Not that they really made sense in the first place, but I know what they mean.
Oh, and Fox actually put out the headline "France on Fire." Wow.

Someone needs to name that moment when you look up from the work that you've spent hours doing at the window that's been your only source of innocent relief, expecting to see the rich world outside, and instead are confronted with a mirror of the same world you're trying to avoid by doing so.

On some level, the riots in France are probably uniquely French; they're the ones who pulled off the whole 'revolution of the people' thing back in the late 1700s. If people weren't getting killed, it's be cool. It'd be even cooler if there was a reason...like taxes or something. Civil disobedience (yes, I'm aware it's not really 'civil') can only last so long, and then the 800+ rioters under arrest will have to come up with a better defense than mob mentality.
At the very least, the unrest in France and Argentina has gotten Fox (read: CNN*) to stop airing the same boring war/anti-Bush/political manuvering drivel that we've all been fed for months.

*Really, they're the same.