Sealion II

From the depths of the Internet, we bring you:

Guildenstern: He's -- melancholy.
Player: Melancholy?
Rosencrantz: Mad.
Alice: But I don't want to go among mad people.
Cheshire Cat: Oh, you can't help that, we're all mad here.

(From "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern in Wonderland")

This morning my new iPod (Merry Christmas!) worked, and therefore I was happy.

This afternoon my iPod is seriously ill; my computer has been trying to re-format it for about two hours now without success. Therefore I am sad.

It's the simple things, really.

UPDATE: Hurrah! The iPod is well again. I am happy.

So, yesterday Hernan Cortez became the subject of dinner conversation, and I got to thinking, why is everybody so down on him?

Okay, yeah, I know why. It's just weird that people have a much lower opinion of (say) Genghis Khan and Cortez than they do of (say) Alexander the Great and Napoleon, when they were all cut from the same cloth.

And maybe it's a Stupid Guy Thing (Stupid here modifies Thing, not Guy), but there's something cool about these guys who conquer whole civilizations...you could hardly ask for better "tough guy" credentials than that.

I have been discovering that many individuals with whom I am acquainted have blogs! Blogging is truly the phenomenon of the ...er...decade?

Most of them, unfortunately, are not much better tended than this blog. But they make up for it by having all sorts of wonderful pictures, while this blog remains resolutely Text Only.

There's no reason for that, except that I don't own a camera, and probably wouldn't use it if I did. I'm a Text Only sort of guy, really.

Anyway. If you have, somehow, wandered into this corner of the Internet ("I have just returned from Baltimore. It is the only thing one can do when he finds himself there.") you may promptly wander away again to look at pictures.

The New Awesome

Attack of the Harpers

EDIT: Well, for some reason the URLs aren't working, but you can just go down to the blogroll and click there; those links are fine.

You may also note that some lucky blogs have been given a name which does not correspond to what their writers call the blog. This is because I am whimsical.

The sealion population of San Francisco is Very Angry. I have not been informed of the reasons, as nobody ever tells me anything.

Hat tip to the Wise Snail.