Its been several months since I and a good number of friends have started blogging somewhat regularly, and it seems to have stuck with an overwhelming number of people.
I do have this one friend, Erick, who thinks its ridiculous to read a close friend’s blogs. “If I want to see how he’s doing, I’ll call him on the phone.”
I have to disagree with him, for many reasons. The stuff that I get out of (most) friend’s blogs are more like updates and commentary on things which my friends find important or interesting. I’ve got a lot of friends and I don’t get to see them often enough over beers to hear what they thought about random news event X or strange online meme Y. Besides, I’m strong-willed enough that too often I’ll drown out their opinions too early in a conversation. Yeah, it’s gonna be one of my New Years Resolutions.
So it’s nice to learn little things about your friends by subscribing to their feeds. For example:
- shac is addicted to RockStar
- payam just had a baby (yeah, major event, but we’re only two-degree friends, and it’s still nice to know)
- chucky draws a lot (and just re-did his CSS)
- aaron is a liberal wedge of spite (and as good for news articles as Tom Tomorrow)
- lila…lila can’t be summarized very quickly…
- brain is obsessed with really inane trivia
- wes needs to learn to appreciate his lessons more
- aspo has a kitten
- dpassage is quiet
- sameer is obsessed with fish ponds
- and finally, cristine watches Newlyweds on MTV š
I should post some personal stories over the next week. We’ll see if I have time to do it.
Rand Wacker 
watchin’ newlyweds…and that’s only what i’m willing to reveal in public! just think of all the tantalizing secrets i hold…!
Hey cool. More links to my friend’s blogs. Didn’t realize they all had blogs. Much obliged for the list.
WHAT is so inane about how the monetary system in Alien works? Or where the Pitcairn Islands are? Or Microtonal Music?
Hm you may be on to something here… Can you tell my blog is just a giant HTML jot-pad?