Sealion II

Why does everybody blog about politics?

I suppose it's hard to avoid, because one of the major attractions of blogging is to share one's opinions with as many total strangers as possible; also, on some level many things are political. All the same, sometimes it makes me tired. Especially when the volume goes to 11 (in the famous locution of Spinal Tap).

It also seems like the blog system has evolved into one in which partisanship rules, and I am a lousy partisan. I don't like the Republican Party; I don't like the Democratic Party; and, as a libertarian, I am obligated on principle not to join the Libertarian Party. (Green is Right Out.)

It's as if everyone had a party, and I wasn't invited.

Look, now I'm blogging about politics, too. >:P

Your faithful correspondent has learned an astonishing thing--people sometimes come here! People who don't know me, and who are washed up on the Sealion shore by the tides of Google and other search engines. To all such shipwrecked wayfarers I give a hearty welcome. Come back some time, if your Web-surfing ship goes down in the near vicinity.

(Pause to allow overworked metaphor to recover itself)

I have learned this through the good agencies of powerblogs, which keeps a record of all these doings. I have no idea what brought all these people (and, to my way of thinking, they were surprisingly numerous--perhaps as many as twenty)--maybe they were searching on Gene Wolfe?

He is about to go get his new computer. (Hurrah!)
His hands still hurt from moving into a new apartment on Saturday. Said new apartment is about 1 minute from where he works, which means his commute has disappeared. (Hurrah!)
His article draft is done. (Hurrah!)
It is Halloween, which means Diversions! And Much Creepiness! (Hurrah!)

It's a four-hurrah day, in short. Go out there and enjoy it!

I must be more bored than ever before!

Actually, I'm not; I am considering what to write next for my little encyclopedia article. Yes, I am writing for an encyclopedia! No, it is not Wikipedia. It is not wiki-anything. It will be a real book, with hard covers--the Encyclopedia of Molecular Pharmacology, 2nd edition (I think--I'd have to check the paperwork again to be sure).

It's quite exciting, if you happen to like molecular pharmacology.

One of my sisters just set up her blog recently, and it inspired me to come here and write:

That she has a blog.

In other exciting news, the Sealion has a new home from which to bark at the world, still rather aqueous but no longer on his home island. Nearer Pier 39, though, so I suppose I haven't wandered too far afield.

Happy Halloween!