Okay, So I'm Wordy and Boring

Well, I did the 23:5 meme (last seen at Phantom's), and the results are frankly pathetic.

Rules:
1. Go into your archive.
2. Find your 23rd post (or closest to).
3. Find the fifth sentence (or closest to).
4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.

If we include my posts from Blogger in this:

"Dauten then went on to tell a story about how he decided to self-publish his newest book rather than waiting for the publisher, which I found less interesting, but the dog-porch metaphor stuck with me."

If we don't:

"Then I took an online quiz and got the following result:"

Comments

[Pilgrim/Heretic]

The dog-porch metaphor?!

[Rana]

It sounds a lot cooler than it is. Apparently at one point Dave Barry wrote about his dogs being very dumb (which he does not infrequently) with regard to the screen porch. They'd scratch at the door when they wanted out -- but kept doing so even after Hurricane Andrew had blown out all the screens and they were free to just walk out where the walls had been.

Basically the dude I was grumping about turned this into a version of "if the door's not open, go through a window" -- with the twist being that you first need to recognize that you can indeed pick a route other than the door. Profound, eh?

[Pilgrim/Heretic]

Oooh, yeah, I like it. Sometimes we really do fall into mental grooves and forget that there are other possibilities.

[Scrivener]

"A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that is unlocked and opens inwards if it does not occur to him to pull rather than push it." --Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value.

I used to tape that on my office door every semester and use it as my signature file and generally just repeat it to myself as often as I could.

[Rana]

That's a good one, Scriv. :)

[Kevin T. Keith]

“[Leon Kass, outgoing Chair of the President’s Council on Bioethics] is, in his private capacity, openly coordinating an effort to push a conservative Congress to ban the technologies that the Council, in its official capacity, was supposedly advising and reporting on.”

Well, we all have our obsessions . . .

[Rana]

*laughs*

Thank you for sharing that, Kevin. :)

[David (Austin Tx)]

Sorry about the excessive Trackbacks. Haloscan freaked out on me.

Cheers,

David

[Rana]

Will fix.

(Damn Haloscan!)