15th February 2008

Reader’s choice

posted in Blogging, Reader Input |

Whoa!  Here I am, with a whole slew of ideas for blog posts!

A plethora of riches.  So much so that I am tossing it out to My Loyal Readers (all 15 of them!).  Which of the following would you be interested in reading?

  1. I Can See Clearly Now - My journey from coke-bottle-bottom glasses to being able to see the time on the clock in the middle of the night without glasses, via LASIK.  With a tangent into the reasons why that song immediately makes me think of tuna salad.  This one is mostly for SpaceMom, as BadMutha has already gone & done it.
  2. Walking on Sunshine - Hey–Alaska has sunshine, too!  Who woulda thunk it?  How quickly things change.
  3. The Blind Leading the Nearsighted - Our nation’s economists say that the bottom one-fifth of the U.S., by income, "have access to various sources of spending money that doesn’t fall under taxable income. These sources include portions of sales of property like homes and cars and securities that are not subject to capital gains taxes, insurance policies redeemed, or the drawing down of bank accounts."  Yahhhh, right.  Notice they don’t mention such things as credit cards, or payday loans, or plain ol’ ordinary "debt".  I’ll give you the link to the article if you choose this one.
  4. Everyone Knows Homeschooling Moms Are Ticking Time-Bombs of Psychosis! - In which I read a "critique of homeschooling" and decide that the critiquer needs serious–serious–critiquing herself.
  5. Code Reviews?!  We Don’t Need No Steenkin’ Code Reviews! - More tech talk, mostly about the lonely life of a university tech person who is not in the ITS department, plus an apologia for NYI.
  6. Looking For Closure - 77% of the houses sold in Stockton, CA, in January were foreclosure sales.  In the Sacramento, CA, area there were 1,815 homes sold in January, but almost as many–1,782–foreclosures were recorded in that area in the same month.  Similar things are happening all across the country.  Realtors are offering "foreclosure tour" buses.  Life has changed greatly in the past two years.

Pick a topic.  Any topic.  Or suggest one.

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There are currently 8 responses to “Reader’s choice”

  1. 1 On February 15th, 2008, Mutha said:

    You could post the lyrics to zippedy doo dah and I’d read it. I’m a fan, so anything you write is fine with me.

    15 readers, my ass. You surely have to beat my 75-100 readers per day. I have the most pathetic blog stats in the blogosphere.

  2. 2 On February 15th, 2008, ELSNY said:

    I have commented before - when you were thinking of giving your dotter riding lessons, I think! It was a while ago, before I had a tiny blog of my own, so my name might have been different.

    I am a loyal reader - I must confess through bloglines though.

    First - I was sorry to hear of your grandmothers passing. I am terrible with finding appropriate words for those kinds of things, and unfortunately fall back on saying nothing. Now that I actually feel like I have something to say, I have to back-peddle and feel all funny about it. Apologies for that.

    I would love to hear your thoughts on the homeschooling article. I have a friend who is a teacher in the school system that my own daughter(s - someday we hope) will attend. She is seriously considering homeschooling, and that piques my interest.

  3. 3 On February 15th, 2008, Mrs Figby said:

    I vote for #3 or #6. Surely #5 will make my hair stand on end with rage. Because I homeschooled the boys for three years and they kicked ass when they went back to regular school. And I may be psychotic now, but I wasn’t then. (Har.) Although seeing your smackdown on that one might be good entertainment.

  4. 4 On February 15th, 2008, Karyn said:

    I’ll vote for number 3. Seriously, foreclosure bus tours….wow.

  5. 5 On February 15th, 2008, vanessa said:

    homeschool please

  6. 6 On February 16th, 2008, Trope said:

    #4–because I don’t know anything about homeschooling, but if our local school continues to be this dangerous and we don’t hit the lottery to get Bug into a better one, I’m going to be learning in a few years.

  7. 7 On February 16th, 2008, Miss Cellania said:

    That economist is seriously out of touch with reality. While the rules may be technically correct, because the bottom quintile can legally do those things, it doesn’t mean they have the resources to do so. Because we don’t.

  8. 8 On February 16th, 2008, noreen said:

    Please say more about Number 2–sunshine, since I bought my plane ticket to Alaska today to use right as the summer solstice nears. But really, I even read your technical blog the other day and enjoyed it, so write about anything.

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