At least three
different people have outed themselves as readers of my blog in
recent weeks. I am flattered and astounded that they have the time
to read what I write, even if only occasionally.
Perhaps this is a
time to remind everyone some not-so-obvious 'guidelines for reader'
for Global Wahrman.
1. The first goal of
this blog is to be entertaining. I may not always succeed, for
example this post you are reading now may not be entertaining, but
entertainment is the primary goal here. There are also some
secondary goals such as creating writing samples, pointing out
something I think is interesting, test chapters for a book I might
write, relating an anecdote or even expressing an opinion, but that
is not always the case. I am certainly writing about the history of
computer animation in Los Angeles in the 1980s. On the other hand,
I do not really believe that Nazi War Criminals founded my prep
school in Virginia or that accepting the Metric system is a step to
the end of our civilization although I may have my doubts.
2. Posts marked
“draft”, “in progress” or “being rewritten” indicate the
post is not done, in ascending order of possible revision. In other
words, it might change direction 180 degrees, for all I know. I have
noticed that after about a week it seems to settle down. Most posts
settle down in a few days. A few days after that I normally remove
the “draft”, etc, label.
3. Some posts may
just be taking an outre debating position or I may think I am
being funny.
4. I will attempt to
occasionally tag my posts with such modifiers as “humor” or
“sarcasm”, but this is not guaranteed.
5. I could be
accused of having an odd sense of humor from time to time.
6. Even when I am
being deadly serious, or deadly sarcastic, I do not expect everyone
to agree with me. I have extreme positions on many topics because of
my life experiences. I think that most people who do not relate do
so because they have had an easier time of it, frankly.
7. I do like
comments. Sometimes people comment to me by email, and that is ok,
but by adding to the blog your ideas and thoughts you improve the
quality of this effort and I appreciate it. In pretty much all cases
but the not-so-occasional spam, the comments are certainly value
added.
7. So what is the
point? What makes you think that there is a point? Maybe it is
just meaningless, like our lives.
Thank you for
reading, I hope I continue to be interesting. As far as the content
that I started this blog explicitly to write, I am about 10% through
my topic list, if that. My current impression is that an average of
1 in 5 posts are actually pretty good, and worth reading, another 1
in 5 are OK and the rest are what they are.
But we will see.
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