House of Eratosthenes

I’ll not be blogging it because I made a vow I’m not going to give people attention here just because they want it, and see bashing Sarah Palin as a way of getting the attention. That’s what has been going on for a long time now, and regrettably the shooting has turned into another example of it. Ooh ooh ooh, if I can echo the Jane Fonda Twitter line that Palin caused the shooting, people will pay attention to ME ME ME!

Not playing that game. But I did link to a sensible Howard Kurtz column over at the Hello Kitty of Blogging, and a lengthy and interesting discussion has ensued…

Update: This is worthy of a link if nothing else is. William A. Jacobson, Two sicknesses on display in America: “The manner in which the left-wing is seeking to exploit this crime reflects an attempt to replicate the political success Bill Clinton had after the Oklahoma City bombing.”

G. Zuz. H. Yeah, that guy. Seriously? Someone said that?

Apparently all “divisiveness” in politics comes from the right. If we would just learn to get along, and by that they mean shut up and do as they say, why everything would be all “hunky-dunky”.
- philmon | 01/09/2011 @ 17:38
philmon,

Next time you get a chance, introduce this into the discussion:

http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=621

I use it on comment streams regularly – and never as often as I have today.
- rob | 01/09/2011 @ 20:07
Rob,

So do I. 🙂

“They” (the ubiquitous “They”) will say that no Democrat political figures engaged in anything like this. At this point I wouldn’t be able to argue the point, but I would be surprised to find that none had.

And, of course, there’s always this, written back when the original “flap” over the “target” and “re-load” metaphors was going on.

This kind of accusation will keep happening. That they hit that story hard back then was merely the setup for accusations every time some whackjob does something like this.

The sad part is is that it works with people who aren’t really paying attention. They read the headlines, the headlines fit the narrative, ergo the narrative “must” be true!
- philmon | 01/09/2011 @ 20:35
I read your Facebook postings, Morgan. Interesting.

Your page does bother me somewhat, though. Your profile pic is what I mean. It looks like the guy from the “Neighborhood Watch” signs you used to see. The evil-looking stranger with the line drawn through him. You remember what I’m talking about?

Maybe you could just photograph an inanimate object or something if you don’t want to post a face pic.
- cylarz | 01/10/2011 @ 00:41
That actually is a real face pic. My girlfriend and I were camping together at Union Valley Reservoir in summer of ’05, she snapped a picture of me in front of the tent we’d put up. I thought it would be interesting art project to make a monochrome out of it, with the lenses of my sunglasses removed, and impose it as a transparency on some twilight-moonset thing I found somewhere else. It has since become the official Morgan Freeberg avatar for my Google account and some of the other accounts I have out there. As for filling it in, I just haven’t seen the point to it. I’ve noticed our modern society seems to take its cues about what an attractive looking man is supposed to look like, from the airhead little girls who are still single & looking (for a reason, or several reasons)…put it all together and it’s pretty well defined what a masculine face should be. Johnny Depp’s got it, I don’t. Which suits me fine; “the majority” and I don’t agree on what masculine is supposed to mean.

Any particular reason you don’t have your own blog, Cy? My real features are not an actual secret, like Batman’s might be, whereas nobody has the slightest clue what you look like and I’m sure there’s no way you could be as sneaky-looking as my self. And not to get snarky about it or anything, but you also seem to possess an abundance of ideas about things I’m supposed to be putting in mine…
- mkfreeberg | 01/10/2011 @ 07:14
I, for one, have always liked Morgan’s profile pic. It has an air of “Lone Ranger” about it in my mind. It’s unique and memorable — stands out. Good branding if you ask me.

On the facebook side — well, I don’t think Morgan uses facebook like a lot of us do — mainly to keep up with people in our lives. It’s kind of an extension of his blog into the “Hello Kitty” world. It’s how House of Eratosthenes appears in the two-dimensional world. 😀
- philmon | 01/10/2011 @ 07:37
It’s how House of Eratosthenes appears in the two-dimensional world.

Hah! Perfect. Yes, with a 4-bit color palette. With the same clump of trees going by in the background every three seconds.
- mkfreeberg | 01/10/2011 @ 08:00
“Facebook House of Eratosthenes: A Hanna-Barbera Production.”
- Profmondo | 01/10/2011 @ 11:03
Why don’t I have my own blog, when I seem to have plenty to say and lots of ideas, you ask?

Probably for the same reason Severian doesn’t have one. Too much hassle to create and maintain. Even if I had several hours a day to spend blogging, I haven’t got enough to say to make several daily postings like you do, Morgan. It’s easier to just hang around other people’s blogs and comment on what they and their readers say.

On that subject, I do often wonder where you find time to get anything else done. It sounds like you’ve got a pretty demanding job in the IT sector, you talk about bike riding, obviously you have family obligations….how do you find time for blogging amidst all that?

When I mention wanting you to blog about a particular post or item, it means I’m interested in your opinion on it. You should know that your place is pretty much the only politically-oriented website that I visit every single day. Even RWN doesn’t hold frequent appeal for me anymore – I enjoy the articles, but I’m sick to death of arrogant liberal posters like D-Vega as well as the countless trolls that infest the site.

The avatar just looked to me like the profile of the creepy, malevolent stranger. If you like it, keep it where it is.
- cylarz | 01/10/2011 @ 13:08
And I honestly had no idea that anyone around here cared what I looked like.
- cylarz | 01/10/2011 @ 13:10
The avatar loses a lot of detail on the zoom-out. Here it is full-size:

I see there are two moons there, so I guess this was not a moon-rise or moon-set after all, just some sci-fi fantasy wallpaper stuff I acquired somewhere…

And here is the “bad hat” pic on which it was based:

As far as when to blog, it’s usually beer o’clock for the casual, “need to bookmark this” item while my girlfriend is watching some “hot-blooded wisecracking thirty-somethings carving up room temperature dead bodies to solve a murder” thing on the DVR. For the longer deeper things that require some actual thought, usually I’m up around four digging in to that stuff…I have this two-step coordinated process involving booting up the netbook and brewing coffee. If something really pisses me off in the morning headlines and gets my ears red & steaming, which occasionally happens <grin>, the article pretty much writes itself.
- mkfreeberg | 01/10/2011 @ 14:23
Michelle Malkin has an excellent article on vitriol.
- Kini | 01/10/2011 @ 18:13
I saw that, Kini. Most awesome in the way it goes on & on, of course some credit has to go to the lefties for giving them the material.
- mkfreeberg | 01/10/2011 @ 18:15
while my girlfriend is watching some “hot-blooded wisecracking thirty-somethings carving up room temperature dead bodies to solve a murder” thing on the DVR.

Seems like there’s about a dozen of those on TV right now, doesn’t it? My co-workers are into the same tired stuff – and that’s exactly what we watch at work. Should I make the mistake of touching the remote, they go nuts.

I think I’ve seen enough episodes of “Bones” to last me the rest of my life.
- cylarz | 01/11/2011 @ 00:52
I know, bro. But she’s my gal so I’ll sit through it, mostly with my mouth zipped tight.

Every now and then I’ll scowl at her and murmur, “okay, THAT was lame, this episode had no story at all. Everyone is clever, so-and-so can’t get a date, such-and-such is not grossed out by maggots.”

X-Files seems to have started a staple where the two good-looking central characters are not having sex and everyone’s wondering when is the season where they’ll finally get it on. Cassy recently offered me a rebuke when I was about to add Grey’s Anatomy to my list, asserting that they fuck like crazed minks on that show. I checked with the gf and Cassy’s right about this…like I care…
- mkfreeberg | 01/11/2011 @ 09:22
Morgan, I’m going to steal that “two good looking central characters” line.
- cylarz | 01/11/2011 @ 10:26

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