One of these days I will declare war on the ADVERB. Just came across “rather pleased”. Forget rather: Either you are pleased or you are not.
I am NOT pleased. Deep down I knew that I am not of this internet world. I just went onto my ‘dashboard’, courtesy of wordpress. Rarely do I go there. Who needs dashboards and their graphs?
However I am gutted, like one of my sardines, to find lots of comments I need to “approve” before published. Why? People can say what they like on my blog. So am lumbered with a graveyard of favourable comments of many months. Which is a pity. How to revive the dead?
Magpie, no, make that Daphne, drew my attention to “vanity” (not mine, just generally). Naturally, all the most stylish of my loyal readership will claim that NONE of you are ”vain” – vain NOT being nice. Don’t believe yourselves. Of course you are vain. How many mirrors do you have in your home? How many times do you glance sideways at yourself when passing a gleaming shop window? How many times (please do not count) do you preen yourself when in company? And no, I am not addressing my own gender: I am addressing both of you. And remember nasal hair.
Vanity only evaporates when you are in grip of poverty, depression or both and can’t be bothered to wash your hair; or you are Miss Haversham straight out of Dickens with lots of spider webs to keep you and your miserable memories company; or you neglected to pay your electricity bill. Don’t be hasty: I am NOT depressed, I do wash my hair, neither does my den feature spider webs (mainly because there aren’t any spiders) and I have paid my electricity bill. Claim on electricity bill having made my nose grow by 0.000001 mm.
Dashboard: According to one of those long ignored I am ”good value”. Good value: I’d rather be a banker. And if I had a twin you’d get two for thrice the price.
I am on a mission now: Dashboards. Best ignored. How do you think I get speeding tickets? Some bloggers appear obsessive: You will find people recording on the side columns of their blog (in public) the time their visitors have made their entrance: Southampton, United Kingdom 1 minute ago. Port-of-Spain 5 minutes ago. Yes………….? Come again. So what?
Being of a generous dispostion, I take my hat off to bloggers freely admitting to obsessively checking their statistics every few minutes. Are they ok? How do they do it? I keep being told that we live in ‘stressed-out’ and ‘time-poor’ times. I don’t. Neither do I keep an eye on the inconsequential.
Maybe those people who qualify on the Richter Scale of their blogs statistics need to be constantly reaffirmed that they exist. I know I exist: I only need to look at my kitchen this minute, my to-do list, the mirror, comments I leave. And generally kick myself.
Keeping it brief as not to stretch attention span of your average blog dung beetle. Word count 529.. You can tell I am in a good mood, can’t you?
Happy Sunday.
U
Vanitas vanitatum (Futility)
Tags: approval, attention span, comments, dasboard, despair, Dickens. bamlers. stream of consciousness, dung beetle, electricity, futility, graph, internet, memories, mirror, Miss Haversham, mood value, spider web, statistics, vanity, wordpress
One of these days I will declare war on the ADVERB. Just came across “rather pleased”. Forget rather: Either you are pleased or you are not.
I am NOT pleased. Deep down I knew that I am not of this internet world. I just went onto my ‘dashboard’, courtesy of wordpress. Rarely do I go there. Who needs dashboards and their graphs?
However I am gutted, like one of my sardines, to find lots of comments I need to “approve” before published. Why? People can say what they like on my blog. So am lumbered with a graveyard of favourable comments of many months. Which is a pity. How to revive the dead?
Magpie, no, make that Daphne, drew my attention to “vanity” (not mine, just generally). Naturally, all the most stylish of my loyal readership will claim that NONE of you are ”vain” – vain NOT being nice. Don’t believe yourselves. Of course you are vain. How many mirrors do you have in your home? How many times do you glance sideways at yourself when passing a gleaming shop window? How many times (please do not count) do you preen yourself when in company? And no, I am not addressing my own gender: I am addressing both of you. And remember nasal hair.
Vanity only evaporates when you are in grip of poverty, depression or both and can’t be bothered to wash your hair; or you are Miss Haversham straight out of Dickens with lots of spider webs to keep you and your miserable memories company; or you neglected to pay your electricity bill. Don’t be hasty: I am NOT depressed, I do wash my hair, neither does my den feature spider webs (mainly because there aren’t any spiders) and I have paid my electricity bill. Claim on electricity bill having made my nose grow by 0.000001 mm.
Dashboard: According to one of those long ignored I am ”good value”. Good value: I’d rather be a banker. And if I had a twin you’d get two for thrice the price.
I am on a mission now: Dashboards. Best ignored. How do you think I get speeding tickets? Some bloggers appear obsessive: You will find people recording on the side columns of their blog (in public) the time their visitors have made their entrance: Southampton, United Kingdom 1 minute ago. Port-of-Spain 5 minutes ago. Yes………….? Come again. So what?
Being of a generous dispostion, I take my hat off to bloggers freely admitting to obsessively checking their statistics every few minutes. Are they ok? How do they do it? I keep being told that we live in ‘stressed-out’ and ‘time-poor’ times. I don’t. Neither do I keep an eye on the inconsequential.
Maybe those people who qualify on the Richter Scale of their blogs statistics need to be constantly reaffirmed that they exist. I know I exist: I only need to look at my kitchen this minute, my to-do list, the mirror, comments I leave. And generally kick myself.
Keeping it brief as not to stretch attention span of your average blog dung beetle. Word count 529.. You can tell I am in a good mood, can’t you?
Happy Sunday.
U