Comments on: Old is the New Hope http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2007/05/old-is-the-new-hope/ Rob MacDougall Dot Org Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:00:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Gleeful Gecko » Blog Archive » Darth Vader is AWESOME! http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2007/05/old-is-the-new-hope/#comment-530 Gleeful Gecko » Blog Archive » Darth Vader is AWESOME! Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:34:22 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2007/05/old-is-the-new-hope/#comment-530 [...] Via Old is the New New [...] [...] Via Old is the New New [...]

]]> By: The Constructivist http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2007/05/old-is-the-new-hope/#comment-529 The Constructivist Tue, 29 May 2007 17:18:58 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2007/05/old-is-the-new-hope/#comment-529 Oh, and no one else needs an editor at the place. I just have a tendency to include jokes whose elaborately allusive nature is only exceeded by their badness and the time it takes to set them up. Case in point: it wasn't enough to do a Comic Book Guy send-up in my title, in the original my opening paragraphs moved from a variation on that conceit to plugging my LPGA blogging, which is itself ana allusion to what Party Chairman-for-Life officially pronounced to be LPGA concern trolling at Pandagon (after putting up with it for months at his blog). In other words, you have to be a regular reader of comments at three blogs to get my bad joke. Deserved to be cut, but I give myself points for trying it, especially because I had one running joke embedded on the labels on my links that only two other people in the world could possibly get. Oh, and no one else needs an editor at the place. I just have a tendency to include jokes whose elaborately allusive nature is only exceeded by their badness and the time it takes to set them up. Case in point: it wasn’t enough to do a Comic Book Guy send-up in my title, in the original my opening paragraphs moved from a variation on that conceit to plugging my LPGA blogging, which is itself ana allusion to what Party Chairman-for-Life officially pronounced to be LPGA concern trolling at Pandagon (after putting up with it for months at his blog). In other words, you have to be a regular reader of comments at three blogs to get my bad joke. Deserved to be cut, but I give myself points for trying it, especially because I had one running joke embedded on the labels on my links that only two other people in the world could possibly get.

]]> By: The Constructivist http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2007/05/old-is-the-new-hope/#comment-528 The Constructivist Tue, 29 May 2007 00:44:27 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2007/05/old-is-the-new-hope/#comment-528 Well, the whole waagnfnp thing started back on Le Blogue Berube and when he stopped blogging at his place the regular commenters there decided to hang out together at a new place. I give a little history of it in my Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum post there, for those with no inclination to read the last three months of Berube's blog, comments included, to catch up on the full story. But the point of the site now is to broaden the community, so we're keeping in-jokes to a minimum and just trying to make it a fun place to hang out for anyone. Many of our most active contributors and commenters are free of LBB experience, so I think it's working.... Well, the whole waagnfnp thing started back on Le Blogue Berube and when he stopped blogging at his place the regular commenters there decided to hang out together at a new place. I give a little history of it in my Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum post there, for those with no inclination to read the last three months of Berube’s blog, comments included, to catch up on the full story. But the point of the site now is to broaden the community, so we’re keeping in-jokes to a minimum and just trying to make it a fun place to hang out for anyone. Many of our most active contributors and commenters are free of LBB experience, so I think it’s working….

]]> By: Rob http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2007/05/old-is-the-new-hope/#comment-527 Rob Tue, 29 May 2007 00:06:16 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2007/05/old-is-the-new-hope/#comment-527 TC: The Star Wars post at Mostly Harmless is great and <a href="http://www.waagnfnp.com/2007/05/28/best-star-wars-30th-anniversary-post-ever/" rel="nofollow">the one at WAAGNWTFLOLBBQ</a> is even better. But I still don't understand what We Are All Giant Fireball is, let alone why it has an editor (blogs have editors?!?) or a Minister of Justice. OG: Thanks. Chewbacca's cheeks are in fact mine - that's a picture of me and my grad school housemates. I had more hair then. TC: The Star Wars post at Mostly Harmless is great and the one at WAAGNWTFLOLBBQ is even better. But I still don’t understand what We Are All Giant Fireball is, let alone why it has an editor (blogs have editors?!?) or a Minister of Justice.

OG: Thanks. Chewbacca’s cheeks are in fact mine – that’s a picture of me and my grad school housemates. I had more hair then.

]]> By: The Constructivist http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2007/05/old-is-the-new-hope/#comment-526 The Constructivist Mon, 28 May 2007 04:05:55 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2007/05/old-is-the-new-hope/#comment-526 BTW, don't believe the MOJ's hype. She acts all tough, but she's a fantastic editor. I actually like the new essay I wrote for the Party coming out Monday, even if her critiques of the rerun-o-rama one I did (sniff!) [wipes tear] bruised my sensitive writer's heart.... I may even have invented a new genre (or at least a fancy name for an old one): otaku autoethnography. BTW, don’t believe the MOJ’s hype. She acts all tough, but she’s a fantastic editor. I actually like the new essay I wrote for the Party coming out Monday, even if her critiques of the rerun-o-rama one I did (sniff!) [wipes tear] bruised my sensitive writer’s heart…. I may even have invented a new genre (or at least a fancy name for an old one): otaku autoethnography.

]]> By: The Constructivist http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2007/05/old-is-the-new-hope/#comment-525 The Constructivist Sat, 26 May 2007 18:42:44 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2007/05/old-is-the-new-hope/#comment-525 Hee hee, my nefarious plan worked! Now there's two group blogs trying to take Rob away from his work and his family. Bwaaah hah haaaa! Hee hee, my nefarious plan worked! Now there’s two group blogs trying to take Rob away from his work and his family. Bwaaah hah haaaa!

]]> By: Oaktown Girl http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2007/05/old-is-the-new-hope/#comment-524 Oaktown Girl Sat, 26 May 2007 07:27:21 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2007/05/old-is-the-new-hope/#comment-524 <i>Oaktown Girl, if you’re reading this, curses!</i> TC, there is nowhere you can hide from the long arm of the <b>Ministry of Justice</b>. And now because you've irked the me, (never a good idea), you've been given a new writing assignment. Get to crackin'! And Greetings to you, Rob! I thank TC for allowing me the pleasure of your acquaintance. Please do come visit us at the WAAGNFNP. Nothing confusing or frightening about us...usually. I think you will especially enjoy our two most recent post - simply paradise for <a href="http://www.waagnfnp.com/2007/05/24/readers-anonymous/" rel="nofollow">booklovers</a> and <a href="http://www.waagnfnp.com/2007/05/25/ready-open-thread-10/" rel="nofollow">Sci fi</a> fans, all weekend long! So fear not, it's a safe place to get your "geek" on. Adorable photo, by the way. (I mean that sincerely). I just want to reach out and pinch Chewbacca's cheeks! (No preview to check my very shakey html skills - scary stuff. Apologies in advance if it all comes out FUBAR). Oaktown Girl Minister of Justice WAAGNFNP Oaktown Girl, if you’re reading this, curses!

TC, there is nowhere you can hide from the long arm of the Ministry of Justice. And now because you’ve irked the me, (never a good idea), you’ve been given a new writing assignment. Get to crackin’!

And Greetings to you, Rob! I thank TC for allowing me the pleasure of your acquaintance. Please do come visit us at the WAAGNFNP. Nothing confusing or frightening about us…usually. I think you will especially enjoy our two most recent post – simply paradise for booklovers and Sci fi fans, all weekend long! So fear not, it’s a safe place to get your “geek” on.

Adorable photo, by the way. (I mean that sincerely). I just want to reach out and pinch Chewbacca’s cheeks!

(No preview to check my very shakey html skills – scary stuff. Apologies in advance if it all comes out FUBAR).

Oaktown Girl
Minister of Justice
WAAGNFNP

]]> By: The Constructivist http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2007/05/old-is-the-new-hope/#comment-523 The Constructivist Fri, 25 May 2007 23:36:05 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2007/05/old-is-the-new-hope/#comment-523 Do not fear, young Jedi. <a href="http://mlyhlss.blogspot.com/2007/05/phew-its-still-may-25th-in-north.html" rel="nofollow">All is forgiven</a>. Oh yeah, and I <a href="http://mlyhlss.blogspot.com/2007/05/brief-history-of-star-wars-blogging-at.html" rel="nofollow">finished mine with more than four hours to spare</a>. Do not fear, young Jedi. All is forgiven. Oh yeah, and I finished mine with more than four hours to spare.

]]> By: Rob http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2007/05/old-is-the-new-hope/#comment-522 Rob Fri, 25 May 2007 19:54:54 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2007/05/old-is-the-new-hope/#comment-522 Chris: I do indeed smell what you are cooking. TC: I knew I'd forget one! I could say it's because the WAAGNFNP confuses and frightens me, but actually I just used your blogspot profile for quick reference and WAAGNFNP didn't show up there. How clever of me to leave the "a" in "half a dozen blogs" un-linked for just such an eventuality. Link added, though it's very small, so here's a bigger one: The <a href="http://www.waagnfnp.com/" rel="nofollow">We Are All Giant Nuclear Fireball Now Party</a>, whatever that means. Kyle: Bonk! I are stupid. Corrected. Chris: I do indeed smell what you are cooking.

TC: I knew I’d forget one! I could say it’s because the WAAGNFNP confuses and frightens me, but actually I just used your blogspot profile for quick reference and WAAGNFNP didn’t show up there. How clever of me to leave the “a” in “half a dozen blogs” un-linked for just such an eventuality. Link added, though it’s very small, so here’s a bigger one: The We Are All Giant Nuclear Fireball Now Party, whatever that means.

Kyle: Bonk! I are stupid. Corrected.

]]> By: The Constructivist http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2007/05/old-is-the-new-hope/#comment-521 The Constructivist Fri, 25 May 2007 18:58:06 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2007/05/old-is-the-new-hope/#comment-521 Um, I contribute to <a href="http://www.waagnfnp.com/" rel="nofollow">WAAGNFNP</a>, too, which normally I wouldn't mention, but given I'm weeks behind in my latest and the MOJ has agreed to cross-post my non-existent <I>Star Wars</I> piece in lieu of it, I thought I'd better plug them here. Oaktown Girl, if you're reading this, curses! (Almost done!) Um, I contribute to WAAGNFNP, too, which normally I wouldn’t mention, but given I’m weeks behind in my latest and the MOJ has agreed to cross-post my non-existent Star Wars piece in lieu of it, I thought I’d better plug them here. Oaktown Girl, if you’re reading this, curses! (Almost done!)

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