Bloglines Subscription

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If you look above, you’ll see a link called “Subscribe via BlogLines.” BlogLines is a neat little aggregator that presents the blogs your read together, making it easy to see when someone posts something new. If you want to subscribe to the FiveAndTwenty manually, you can do so by registering at BlogLines if you haven’t already and subscribing to “atom.xml” for each of the locations. (For example, http://www.fiveandtwenty.com/barb/atom.xml.)

UPDATE: Okay, this post doesn’t make much sense. I have my excuse: I’ve had a cold the last 24+ hours. What I was trying to say is that if you sign up for BlogLines, you can add any FiveAndTwenty blog easily. Just use “atom.xml” after the blog address.

Now I’ve written what I wanted to say… twice, in fact.

Also, if you’re a fan of the blur and desaturation effects in Adobe PhotoShop, you’ll love Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. That is all for now. Spike over and out.

Revisionism

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I just spent some time removing my real name from old posts and comments imported from the old site. I also removed references to identifiable locations. You never know when someone, say a parent of a friend, will discover a website you thought was failry anonymous. Let’s hope Google‘s cache is quick.

UPDATE. I just checked, and Google cached my site minutes after the updates were made. Weird.

Today’s Activities

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Today I trekked up to Chester, New Jersey (actually, Darren did the driving) to visit a cider mill. Darren and Ali brought their daughter, Cindi, along, and we met up with Jen and Elke. After enjoying cider hotdogs and cider doughnuts, we made our way down the street for a stroll in the state park.

It wouldn’t be an outdoor excursion without photographs. The rest of the crew headed for dinner, I believe, but I went home to prepare for my follow-up interview/demo lesson at a school tomorrow. At this point, I’m thinking I’m not going to take the job if it is offered to me. We shall see how it goes.

The Logical Blog Entry

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When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful, a miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical. And all the birds in the trees, well they’d be singing so happily, joyfully, playfully watching me. But then they send me away to teach me how to be sensible, logical, responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, clinical, intellectual, cynical.

There are times when all the world’s asleep, the questions run too deep for such a simple man. Won’t you please, please tell me what we’ve learned, I know it sounds absurd, but please tell me who I am.

Now watch what you say or they’ll be calling you a radical,
liberal, fanatical, criminal. Won’t you sign up your name, we’d like to feel you’re acceptable, respecable, presentable, a vegetable!

(Repeat chorus.)

Shanah Tovah

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I celebrated the new year tonight with my father, his girlfriend, her son, and several of their friends. It’s wonderful to have a really nice meal once in a while. Challah, gefilte fish, chicken liver, horseradish, matzah ball soup, turkey, brisket, kugel, broccoli, dessert. If every day were a holiday, I’d be set.