I’ve been having some serious brain fog. No really. Brain fog (to those just joining the program) prevents me from posting as well as commenting. I’d explain it all but, shit fire, I’m sick of going through all of that nonsense. One of the veterans will have to fill you in. Or you could keep in mind that the Archives are your friend. Just sayin’.
Anyway, if I had a BFF in the blogosphere it would be Awaiting. And she’s been gone for some time now (very sad for me, dontcha know). But she’s back!! Yay! So, the pointing and laughing can commence once again.
Enough with the niceties.
I’ve been reading some rumbling in ye ol’ ‘Sphere that folks are dropping their blogrolls. *ahemPaulaahem* They say that it’s easier to read from one of those reader things. They say the don’t like the upkeep involved and that it’s easier to get rid of the ‘roll than to read whiny emails asking why someone wasn’t added or why someone was dropped. Keep everything nice and neat and off the page! Well, I say poppycock! I won’t be joining that trend, no sir. And you can’t make me.
Back in the day when I was doing serious blogging and before I started cursing in public (can you believe that shit?) I read all over town how linkage was like currency. And how the higher your TLB rankings the more important you are. SEO literature will tell you that it’s important to boost site rankings to gain visitors, because Google and Technorati like to list more popular blogs first in searches. Of course, commenting at spots other than your own and creating a lot of controversy can help that too, but we’re not talking about that. Ok? Settle down back there! And so, I had a pretty big fucking blogroll. I split it up into like 4 sections, too. It was awesome. Back then when you linked to someone they linked back, so all this effort was mutually beneficial. The world has changed in a few short years. *sigh* My habit was born then.
Now, I only link to blogs I actually read. And I use the front page of my spot as my homepage (politics are handled separately, of course) and bounce around from here. For those that like visitors (and pay close attention to that sort of thing) they can look in their site stats and see a referral from here with a Verizon extension and know it’s me. I don’t comment a lot and so this keeps me on some folks’ radars. And if it’s someone I just started reading then they can look in their stats (or in Technorati, or they’re WP dashboard) and see that they have a referral from here- then pop on over to see what’s going on. Sometimes I even get readers that way. It’s just too much damned work for me to go all over the ‘sphere to leave little meaningless comments so that people follow me back. I might have to work on that though. I mean, once I get the itch to get some traffic. I kind of like only having so many readers- less pressure to update regularly that way. And I don’t have to be all witty and insightful and shit all the time. But back to what I was whining talking about.
I won’t delink anyone either, once they get on my ‘roll. Unless they close down their blog. Shoot, that requires maintenance, and if the blog isn’t a 404 page I ain’t doin’ the work. Ya know? I might delink if someone is a complete turd and has dropped off the edge of sanity. Fuck that noise. I did do something to illustrate that keeping the sidebar clean and maintaining a ‘roll here in my home isn’t all that difficult. Look to your left and you will see 5 links in the sidebar. What you’re not there? Check again. Still not? Look up. See that link that says “Full Links List”? Look in there. One thing I just LOVE about WP is that I can not only make my links appear in random order(so that it’s always someone different at the top- to soothe those insecurities and shit) but I can make my blogroll mighty small and put the rest away for safe keeping. So every time you load the page the sidebar changes- taking links from the link page and putting them here. It’s a beautiful thing, isn’t it?
Can I just say that I’m sick and tired of people and their goddamned soft feelings? Honestly, just because I say something doesn’t automatically mean I’m taking a silent jab at anyone. Fuck, if I do that I pretend it’s subtle but it really isn’t subtle at all. The other day I was sitting on the porch talking to the Mother and I said:
“I got my first crop of radishes. You know, those things are really good straight from the garden- all soft and tender. Not like when you buy them in the store.”
She says: “I’m not stupid. I know what they taste like. I lived on a farm, remember? Why does everyone think that I don’t know what a vegetable tastes like out of the garden? I’m not stupid, ok?”
Go back and reread that.
I say: “I am really sick of walking on eggshells around you fucking people. Look, I made a general observation about radishes, because I had never had them straight from the garden before, and it had nothing to do with you. I was talking about me eating radishes. When did you hear me call you stupid?”
By this time I was pretty loud. And Lil’ Miss was laughing pretty hard. And the Mother and her damned soft feelings had broken my back with that last straw. I went on a longer tirade about her, TheMan, and Millie thinking everything was a damned insult directed at them and how it was annoying and I wasn’t going to take it anymore, but I don’t want to rehash. This was just to illustrate why I’m sick and tired of worrying if my saying “The blogosphere is round…I think” might insult someone because they see me secretly sending signals to someone that… Oh, fuck it! I just had to rant and if that’s a problem well too flippin’ bad. Ok? Good. I’m glad to get it off my chest.
You know what’s really bad about brain fog? When I get interrupted I lose my train of thought and don’t know where I was going and all of this starts to look pretty damned stupid. That sucks donkey balls, for real, yo. And I have to get to a doctor’s appointment, so I don’t have the time to figure out what I was going to say next. I’ll come back to this later, I guess. Now, I could just hit “Save” and not publish this, because, it’s not finished. But, holy shitballs, I haven’t updated in like a lot of days, so here goes nothin’.
Updated:
Blatant displays of racism will get someone kicked the fuck off my precious blogroll. Also porn sites won’t get added (duh, racist ones won’t get added either). Racism is one of my biggest pet peeves and I don’t stand for it. Ok? So, if you see that you are no longer part of my court think hard and you might figure out why. Also, I won’t respond to an email asking why, because I’m bitchy and selfish like that.
Now, I’m off to find more shit to add, just cause I’m in a mood and I can do that.
Fog Schmog + some Meta
I’ve been having some serious brain fog. No really. Brain fog (to those just joining the program) prevents me from posting as well as commenting. I’d explain it all but, shit fire, I’m sick of going through all of that nonsense. One of the veterans will have to fill you in. Or you could keep in mind that the Archives are your friend. Just sayin’.
Anyway, if I had a BFF in the blogosphere it would be Awaiting. And she’s been gone for some time now (very sad for me, dontcha know). But she’s back!! Yay! So, the pointing and laughing can commence once again.
Enough with the niceties.
I’ve been reading some rumbling in ye ol’ ‘Sphere that folks are dropping their blogrolls. *ahemPaulaahem* They say that it’s easier to read from one of those reader things. They say the don’t like the upkeep involved and that it’s easier to get rid of the ‘roll than to read whiny emails asking why someone wasn’t added or why someone was dropped. Keep everything nice and neat and off the page! Well, I say poppycock! I won’t be joining that trend, no sir. And you can’t make me.
Back in the day when I was doing serious blogging and before I started cursing in public (can you believe that shit?) I read all over town how linkage was like currency. And how the higher your TLB rankings the more important you are. SEO literature will tell you that it’s important to boost site rankings to gain visitors, because Google and Technorati like to list more popular blogs first in searches. Of course, commenting at spots other than your own and creating a lot of controversy can help that too, but we’re not talking about that. Ok? Settle down back there! And so, I had a pretty big fucking blogroll. I split it up into like 4 sections, too. It was awesome. Back then when you linked to someone they linked back, so all this effort was mutually beneficial. The world has changed in a few short years. *sigh* My habit was born then.
Now, I only link to blogs I actually read. And I use the front page of my spot as my homepage (politics are handled separately, of course) and bounce around from here. For those that like visitors (and pay close attention to that sort of thing) they can look in their site stats and see a referral from here with a Verizon extension and know it’s me. I don’t comment a lot and so this keeps me on some folks’ radars. And if it’s someone I just started reading then they can look in their stats (or in Technorati, or they’re WP dashboard) and see that they have a referral from here- then pop on over to see what’s going on. Sometimes I even get readers that way. It’s just too much damned work for me to go all over the ‘sphere to leave little meaningless comments so that people follow me back. I might have to work on that though. I mean, once I get the itch to get some traffic. I kind of like only having so many readers- less pressure to update regularly that way. And I don’t have to be all witty and insightful and shit all the time. But back to what I was
whiningtalking about.I won’t delink anyone either, once they get on my ‘roll. Unless they close down their blog. Shoot, that requires maintenance, and if the blog isn’t a 404 page I ain’t doin’ the work. Ya know? I might delink if someone is a complete turd and has dropped off the edge of sanity. Fuck that noise. I did do something to illustrate that keeping the sidebar clean and maintaining a ‘roll here in my home isn’t all that difficult. Look to your left and you will see 5 links in the sidebar. What you’re not there? Check again. Still not? Look up. See that link that says “Full Links List”? Look in there. One thing I just LOVE about WP is that I can not only make my links appear in random order(so that it’s always someone different at the top- to soothe those insecurities and shit) but I can make my blogroll mighty small and put the rest away for safe keeping. So every time you load the page the sidebar changes- taking links from the link page and putting them here. It’s a beautiful thing, isn’t it?
Can I just say that I’m sick and tired of people and their goddamned soft feelings? Honestly, just because I say something doesn’t automatically mean I’m taking a silent jab at anyone. Fuck, if I do that I pretend it’s subtle but it really isn’t subtle at all. The other day I was sitting on the porch talking to the Mother and I said:
“I got my first crop of radishes. You know, those things are really good straight from the garden- all soft and tender. Not like when you buy them in the store.”
She says: “I’m not stupid. I know what they taste like. I lived on a farm, remember? Why does everyone think that I don’t know what a vegetable tastes like out of the garden? I’m not stupid, ok?”
Go back and reread that.
I say: “I am really sick of walking on eggshells around you fucking people. Look, I made a general observation about radishes, because I had never had them straight from the garden before, and it had nothing to do with you. I was talking about me eating radishes. When did you hear me call you stupid?”
By this time I was pretty loud. And Lil’ Miss was laughing pretty hard. And the Mother and her damned soft feelings had broken my back with that last straw. I went on a longer tirade about her, TheMan, and Millie thinking everything was a damned insult directed at them and how it was annoying and I wasn’t going to take it anymore, but I don’t want to rehash. This was just to illustrate why I’m sick and tired of worrying if my saying “The blogosphere is round…I think” might insult someone because they see me secretly sending signals to someone that… Oh, fuck it! I just had to rant and if that’s a problem well too flippin’ bad. Ok? Good. I’m glad to get it off my chest.
You know what’s really bad about brain fog? When I get interrupted I lose my train of thought and don’t know where I was going and all of this starts to look pretty damned stupid. That sucks donkey balls, for real, yo. And I have to get to a doctor’s appointment, so I don’t have the time to figure out what I was going to say next. I’ll come back to this later, I guess. Now, I could just hit “Save” and not publish this, because, it’s not finished. But, holy shitballs, I haven’t updated in like a lot of days, so here goes nothin’.
Updated:
Blatant displays of racism will get someone kicked the fuck off my precious blogroll. Also porn sites won’t get added (duh, racist ones won’t get added either). Racism is one of my biggest pet peeves and I don’t stand for it. Ok? So, if you see that you are no longer part of my court think hard and you might figure out why. Also, I won’t respond to an email asking why, because I’m bitchy and selfish like that.
Now, I’m off to find more shit to add, just cause I’m in a mood and I can do that.
Peace, love and lollipops.
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