Wow.  Fascinating.

What's the point to all this jibber-jabber?  Blogs are stupid.  But not as stupid as the people who write them.  That's a timeless debate, really.  What's stupider?  The blogs themselves or the blog authors?

I know that blogs can have a useful purpose for scientists and such, but like most things on the internet, they have been taken by dorks and twisted into something else.  Something ugly, lame, and boring.  Nobody gives a shit what you ate for lunch on Tuesday, motherfucker.

If you don't know what a "blog" is, it's short for "web log".  It's basically an online diary.  That is to say, an online diary that makes me want to unplug the internet when I see them.

When I was growing up, the standard was the girl who locks her diary and hides it under her mattress.  If you intruded into her diary, all hell would break loose!  You've invaded her privacy!  Now the standard is to publish every mundane and boring aspect of your life for the world to see.  If that's not a complete flip-flop of cultural morés, I don't know what is.  For my money, the old way is better.  The new way is clogging up internet bandwidth with useless and witless blog entries.

I once worked with a guy who kept a weblog on his site and wrote about the people and goings on at work: the things he was doing, or the work he wasn't doing.  Good idea, brainiac.  He would write about the amount of money he was making and posted a copy of his paycheck on his blog.  He wrote about farting at work, and fifty other things that nobody but him cared about.  So, the rest of us would laugh at the piddly size of his paycheck behind his back.  He didn't keep his job very long (Not because of his blog, but because he sucked as an employee.  Perfect example of the kind of freak that keeps a blog.).

Before you get all hot under the collar and try to accuse this site of being a blog, let me head you off at the pass.  This site is in no way similar to a blog.  For starters, I don't write about my personal life.  Second, I do not continually write about the same topic on a daily basis (e.g. what clothes I'm wearing, or what music I'm listening to while writing my blog entry).  Third, I don't update this site near often enough.  And finally, the shit I write is entertaining, educational, and informative -- unlike 99% of all blogs.

Keep on truckin'.