Bill's Notes

[Industrialblog, October 17, 2005]
What I did this weekend
1. Great dinner with friends on Friday night.
2. Got out the leaf blower and cleaned off the driveway, deck and graveled area around the house. By the time I was done, the driveway was covered in leaves again. Oh well. At least there are fewer.
3. Went to Sam's Club. As my friend with me said, my purchases screamed bachelor: hamburger patties suitable for grilling, big boxes of Mini-Wheats and Minute Rice, a case of motor oil, a three-pack of spaghetti sauce, a three-pack of canned hams, and big bags of paper plates and plastic cups. I think I can make it to spring.
3. Cleared out the brush on the front of the investment property. Steered clear of the poison oak. Cut down four trees or so. Put the chain back on my chain saw.
4. Watched the White Sox win the AL pennant; something that has never happened in my lifetime.
5. Had a great pot roast dinner with friends.
6. Went to both Catholic and Evangelical services on Sunday. That was a lot of church. At the second church, God said to me, "Didn't I just see you at Mass? You're not fooling me, you know."
7. Blogged.
8. Received naughty limericks via email from friends after they read the Vogon Poetry entries. FTR, both entries were submitted by computer [experts] and they both wrote far better limericks than I can.
9. Saw Sahara, a silly but entertaining movie, purportedly about Mali. It was entertaining, but had a small verisimilitude problem: overweight, [relatively] light-skinned, English-speaking Malians. The cast mostly looked like Nigerians who've lived a long time in the West to me.
10. Laughed at the following joke: Two cannibals are eating a clown. One says to the other, "Does this taste funny to you?"


UPDATE: The above post was edited to increase sensitivity to our technically proficient readers.
jim (mail):
Since your computer [expert] friends write better limericks than you, why do you not post them?
10.18.2005 9:01am
Bill (mail) (www):
I would post the limericks, but they violate the IndustrialBlog editorial policy. There's nothing I can do. If you'd like to appeal, you may fill out the official Vogon poetry appeal application and submit it along with your check for $2,500 to the front office. They should get back to you in four to six weeks.
10.18.2005 10:07am
jim (mail):
Where can I find said INDUSTRIALBLOG editorial policy. Money is no object.
10.18.2005 10:55am
Bill (mail) (www):
The IndustrialBlog Editorial Policy Manual will be sent to you via snail mail after you send a check to the editorial director's house, which you can get by asking via email. The fee is based on a sliding scale. For those declaring "money is no object," the fee is $550 plus shipping and handling. Very reasonable.
10.18.2005 11:07am
jim (mail):
You went through the trouble of having it published? An electronic copy will do. By the way I did not declaring [sic] anything. I do not know what declaring [sic] means. It must be one of your esoteric lexemes.
10.18.2005 11:36am
Bill (mail) (www):
Or a typo ...
10.18.2005 11:46am
jim (mail):
Are you going to fix that typographic error like you fixed your post, and my comment? Come on, you are an editor aren't you?
10.18.2005 11:50am
Bill (mail) (www):
I'm busy. Please submit the check and I'll mail you the policy.

Mebbe I 'll get to correcting the typos. But do you have any idea how many typos there are on this blog? Gazillions.
10.18.2005 12:09pm
jim (mail):
Never mind. My research shows the following as your editorial policy:


Here at Industrial Blog, we have a flexible policy regarding blog entries. All entries are considered "unfinished" unless there is an actual debate going in the comments. If there are no comments or just a couple of general comments, I reserve the right to edit entries and even remove entries as I consider appropriate.

The Two Things About Writing

1. You set the rules of your writing, but you need be consistent with the rules you set.

2. You don't finish a work, you abandon it. (Stolen from Samuel Beckett, I believe.)

Do not randomly reference and subreference. You can get into big, big trouble without even realizing what you said.
10.18.2005 12:29pm
Bill (mail) (www):
Damn! I was really hoping to get that check.
10.18.2005 12:30pm
Bill (mail) (www):
Fixed. Content?
10.18.2005 12:33pm
jim (mail):
Thanks for fixing it. Now in your blog you changed your sentence to computer [experts] but you did not change mine that way. Your inconsist[e]ncy is telling.
10.18.2005 3:20pm
Bill (mail) (www):
okay, it's changed. Plus the typo in your last comment. Are you done jerking my chain now, BB?
10.18.2005 3:30pm
jim (mail):
who is BB?
10.18.2005 4:44pm
Bill (mail) (www):
ur other personality, apparently.
10.18.2005 5:05pm