“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” –G. K. Chesterton

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Rest and be grateful today.

 

Boredom problem partially solved!

As you know, I struggle with being bored in class. Today a solution hit me: more blog posts.

This is a change from my usual policy of not posting unless I’ve put some degree of polish to my thoughts. I try to pick credible links, anticipate objections, and generally post carefully. This is hard and I only do it when I feel like it, so I don’t post much. This will change.

What does this mean for you? Well, for one thing, it means my time stamps will be less accurate because I’ll shifting them a few hours to prevent profs from noticing that I’m sharing Wikipedia’s list of conspiracy theories (1) with all four of my faithful readers during their lecture on [post redacted]. I like to keep my deniable plausible, after all. So if any profs are reading this, you can at least believe that I’m bored and goofing off in someone else’s class. (2) 

To everyone else, I can promise less quality but I can promise more quantity. And I can promise one other thing: my goal will be to learn at least one interesting thing every class period, and I’ll share it with you. Who knows, it might even be something I’ve learned as part of the class! 

Well, okay. Maybe I’ll work up to that. Small steps.

(1) “This article needs additional citations for verification.” Heh.

(2) Well, except for you–I’m totally bored and goofing off in your class.

The nice thing about moving blogs is that you only have to unpack text boxes

I hadn’t planned on leaving Blogspot, but their anti-spam algorithm locked down my blog and they’re taking forever to review and unlock it. I thought this would only be a minor irritation, but like the Joni Mitchell song says, you don’t know what you got ’till it’s gone. I’ve been somewhat indifferent about updating my previous blog, but now that I can’t do anything with it I’m frustrated by the lock. Fortunately for me, and unfortunately for Blogspot, I remembered that I had a spare WordPress account laying around from a work project last year. After weighing the plus and minuses, I realized the only disadvantage was the inconvenience to my readers. Oh well. I’ll try to make up for by writing more interesting posts.