While looking for something else I saw my whole month of posts for January 2011.
It was the month that Jared Loughner shot Gabby Giffords, and includes media bias discussions. (Hint: He wasn't one of those antigovernment right wingers, nor did he see Sarah Palin's website, nor did her website have Giffords in the crosshairs - that would be Obama about Wayne LaPierre - but you would think so from the reporting.) I described the puzzle hunts I used to design. We had discussions about whether it was ever proper for Christians to run up the score, and lots of other topics I had forgotten. Chesterton humorously on Buddhism vs Christianity. Ignore the posts about my songs, unless you really like Arthurian legends. Also, I linked to earlier years, as was common for me then, as I would do "best of" posts four years later in those days. Skim at most. Though you could go down the rabbit hole to all sorts of stuff.
Sad that I find myself so fascinating, yes. But I am amazed at how much sense I made in the old days whenever I visit them. More than now, really. Except not always, when I think "that wasn't my best now, was it?"
It is disconcerting to see how many links broke after just a few years.
ReplyDeleteYes, especially the pictures, which are usually a time suck for me to put in to begin with.
ReplyDeleteI was chasing an old post of mine, and discouraged to discover that in several places the picture or video that was central to the story was gone.
ReplyDeleteBefore I wanted to be a physicist, I wanted to be an archaeologist. I guess that's still possible--there are always strange ruins to explore.
It was a time suck - I'm thinking that that era was before I'd stumbled across this place, so it was all new to me -- and I found myself hitting the "Older Posts" buttons many times before deciding that it was well past time for bed.
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Thank you. I am gratified.
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