hm...
sometime shortly after dayton, i stopped reading cgp. i never really read much of it anyway -- usually just posts from people i know (that would be all of you) and maybe something that had a subject line that caught my eye. i had individual messages go to my hotmail (which is essentially a place where i have everything that is not a personal email go these days), but hotmail forced me into their updated format, which no longer allowed me to see just my friend's messages on one page (nor did it allow me to remove all cgp messages from my inbox at once)...just about what i should have expected from a MSN update. anyway, i switched to digest, had them all go directly into my cgp folder and never looked back. i had a couple friends forwarding me any messages that i might consider interesting. i think there were two.
this morning, sitting in the office waiting for a very important fax, i found myself just bored enough to log into yahoo and view the cgp posts in their natural habitat. i've heard bits and pieces of this sowpods debate...it spilled over to LJ on occasion, and i had a couple discussions with friends on the subject over the past few weeks. now, having read what had to be about a gazillion posts (and almost just as many differing opinions) on the topic, i am slightly saddened by the fact that there have to be at least forty different kinds of vodka less than twenty feet from this desk, yet all under the surveillance of the eagle eye digital video recorder. do i usually do shots of hard liquor at nine am? not at this latitude. but for the love of the deity or non-deity of your choice! in the amount of time people took to come up with all these reasons (on both sides), we could have created a new dictionary! sheesh!
for the record, i don't care. i'll continue to play at a mediocre level regardless of the dictionary being used to challenge my phony crap off the board. but, if i were forced to pick one or the other, i'd say let's go 'pods. the rest of the world is doing it. how bad can it be? besides, even if it were somehow approved today, it probably would not go into effect before i hit menopause, so i don't really think it is that worth getting upset over...much unlike sitting here for over an hour waiting for a fax.
besides...
this morning, sitting in the office waiting for a very important fax, i found myself just bored enough to log into yahoo and view the cgp posts in their natural habitat. i've heard bits and pieces of this sowpods debate...it spilled over to LJ on occasion, and i had a couple discussions with friends on the subject over the past few weeks. now, having read what had to be about a gazillion posts (and almost just as many differing opinions) on the topic, i am slightly saddened by the fact that there have to be at least forty different kinds of vodka less than twenty feet from this desk, yet all under the surveillance of the eagle eye digital video recorder. do i usually do shots of hard liquor at nine am? not at this latitude. but for the love of the deity or non-deity of your choice! in the amount of time people took to come up with all these reasons (on both sides), we could have created a new dictionary! sheesh!
for the record, i don't care. i'll continue to play at a mediocre level regardless of the dictionary being used to challenge my phony crap off the board. but, if i were forced to pick one or the other, i'd say let's go 'pods. the rest of the world is doing it. how bad can it be? besides, even if it were somehow approved today, it probably would not go into effect before i hit menopause, so i don't really think it is that worth getting upset over...much unlike sitting here for over an hour waiting for a fax.
besides...