Wow I really need to blog more. The problem these days, aside from
time, is a general realization that I can't convey much without running
into some kind of liability. Oh, I mean, I could talk about
what everyone else does like the weather or what I thought of my latest
Netflix rental. And, sure, this blog's very theme suggests that I'll
be blabbing about web technology and so forth, which occasionally I
do. It's just that being that generic seems to take all the fun out of it.
But what is there then? The real stuff happening
to me, from the outrageous to the victorious to the sublime, happens at
work each day. However, they got all kinds of corporate policies and
legal trip-wires against disclosure that would probably not be hard to
avoid but I would not want to test. It's not like I'm without rant
about outrageous going-ons there, believe you me. I'm just a wussy
blogger who enjoys employment. And really, any drama aside, most of
that time is spent, well, just working. Working on hours upon hours in
the most mundane of sense. If it isn't too thorny to type about, it's
too dull. Ergo, because the largest block of my time aside from time
spent sleeping is basically working, that doesn't leave much else.
They
warned me New York City would be like this.
I could write about
personal relationships but I've decided it's best not to connect the
dots between the people I know with my public opinions about them. A
path between the ladies of my life (yes I have a history with a few) to
compare notes would be insufferable. I mean, what if they start
comparing things that I...that we....when I....oh, gads! I have to put
up with critique and shame enough in person when dealing with intimates. I can
only imagine the inadvertent setting up of an online community that
reveled in disgust, revulsion, and anger towards me, were I to blab
about dating. I dabbled in that once online and it didn't go so well.
Frankly, I don't know how the kids of today put up with it.
Politics,
science? Well -- believe it or not, I'm really not that bright. I
rant enough politically at a very superficial level. But I don't have
the noggin' for keeping myself engaging about anything in depth or
multi-dimensional. The days of anyone believing their opinions are
novel because they can blog about them ended around 2001 or so. I
think people are now seeking true online value and the sea of online
writers is beginning to part, finally, between the average and the
engaging.
I long to do something crazy again like start a
political party online or find a new abstract cause that while
completely valid, is just unique enough to make me feel like I'm making
a fresh point and thus interesting. And not that I rule this out, of
course, but the reality is, I'd rather do something a little more
tangible.
So I dunno what to write about here, but, I guess for the moment, this contemplation left me enough to write about in this piece. Yay!
