Rainy day entry #68 and 414
Thu May 05, 2005 18:08 (UTC -5)Perhaps the final word of commentary on the aftermath of last week’s school variety show, in which I played the guitar with a friend. As I’ve said, people criticized me for allegedly standing unmoving and emotionless throughout the whole song (I won’t deny I stood still, but I smiled the whole time.) For some reason these accusations continued until yesterday.
My classmates were insisting that I wasn’t smiling at all, and I told them about how my family can’t even tell when I’m smiling. Then my teacher handed back a test I had gotten a good grade on. On it, she wrote “Great Performance @ Variety Show =) It is nice to see you smile =)”. I said, “See, somebody knew I was smiling.” I told her about it and she seemed to have no idea what I was talking about. It must have been sarcasm, and very strange sarcasm at that, because I know she wouldn’t pull my leg like that. What am I, anyway?
Don’t Ask Sherwin-Williams, Ask Jordon!
Jo Anne: I need a gift for a funeral director
How about a lovely miniature coffin paperweight? Uh, you let me know if you find one. Oh wait, here’s one. Kinda weird.
Kate: What is your favorite cheese?
Tough question. I’ve been known to consume American, but I think it’s pretty nasty. I hear it’s made of cheese by-product. I’m also a big Swiss eater, but there’s something about the taste of it that’s kind of funny. Monterey Jack is good on crackers. Well, I like all of those on crackers. I hate brie, New York Sharp is too sharp, and I used to like Velveeta (is that actually cheese?) but now I think it’s icky. I guess I don’t really have a favorite.
Apparently using a service called BlogBinders, you can publish your blog as a book. It takes posts from your blog, and you get control over the cover designs, fonts, etc. Best of all, each book can be made to order, I think. Sounds interesting. This blog, having 414 entries (this being the 414th, if I’ve counted correctly), would probably fill a hefty volume, as my posts have generally gotten longer over the months and years.
It seems that the service only works with certain blogging applications; that way it knows which information to suck off your site. If that’s the case, then only the latest 68 posts (all since the beginning of the year) would be applicable for publication, as those are the only ones I have on WordPress. If I were to have absolute control, I’d include earlier posts, and I’d strip them of external links and remarks about the site itself so they would be purely autobiographical. Since the narrative of this blog really began when I was panicking about starting high school, I’d probably have a longtime friend write a foreword explaining how quaint our old school was.
It’s an interesting idea, but I don’t know if there would be any demand for such a book. Looking back at old posts, I don’t even think I’d buy it.
Filed under Ask Jordon, Blogging, Music, Musings and Observations, School, Stuff
