Comments on: My Back Pages http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2007/08/my-back-pages/ Rob MacDougall Dot Org Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:00:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Auld is the Lang Syne http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2007/08/my-back-pages/#comment-7178 Auld is the Lang Syne Fri, 31 Dec 2010 13:22:07 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2007/08/my-back-pages/#comment-7178 [...] Parappa the Rapper, a welcome to my newborn niece, and the default Blogger theme. I wasn’t a very good blogger, but in 2001, who was? I’d make all these little placeholder posts, with the idea of going [...] [...] Parappa the Rapper, a welcome to my newborn niece, and the default Blogger theme. I wasn’t a very good blogger, but in 2001, who was? I’d make all these little placeholder posts, with the idea of going [...]

]]> By: Centers and Squares http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2007/08/my-back-pages/#comment-627 Centers and Squares Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:20:38 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2007/08/my-back-pages/#comment-627 I loved out loud more than once as I read this post. I've bookmarked it to come back to dive into the links. The link to Google is priceless - and timely for me - just last night in a book I came across a reference to Google's founding in 1998. That gave me the willies - such a short time to achieve world domination. Liz I loved out loud more than once as I read this post. I’ve bookmarked it to come back to dive into the links. The link to Google is priceless – and timely for me – just last night in a book I came across a reference to Google’s founding in 1998. That gave me the willies – such a short time to achieve world domination.

Liz

]]> By: Rob http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2007/08/my-back-pages/#comment-626 Rob Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:24:08 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2007/08/my-back-pages/#comment-626 Test. Test.

]]> By: Old is the New New :: Kugelmass and the Pit http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2007/08/my-back-pages/#comment-625 Old is the New New :: Kugelmass and the Pit Sat, 15 Sep 2007 23:51:36 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2007/08/my-back-pages/#comment-625 [...] Kugelmass and the Pit: The cranky, brilliant, inscrutable Kugelmass on 21st century pickup artists, the game of go, Dale Carnegie, self-help books, reality shows, the Protestant work ethic and the death of leisure, Mad Men, Superbad, The Catcher in the Rye, sex, Slavoj Zizek (whom I know nothing about outside of long rambly Valve-esque posts like this one), “Rule Girls,” why twee and emo are the future of romantic honesty, the history of the film trailer, Peter Guralnick’s Elvis, and whether society has learned anything from Hitch. Let’s see anybody do that in two paragraphs. [...] [...] Kugelmass and the Pit: The cranky, brilliant, inscrutable Kugelmass on 21st century pickup artists, the game of go, Dale Carnegie, self-help books, reality shows, the Protestant work ethic and the death of leisure, Mad Men, Superbad, The Catcher in the Rye, sex, Slavoj Zizek (whom I know nothing about outside of long rambly Valve-esque posts like this one), “Rule Girls,” why twee and emo are the future of romantic honesty, the history of the film trailer, Peter Guralnick’s Elvis, and whether society has learned anything from Hitch. Let’s see anybody do that in two paragraphs. [...]

]]> By: Rob http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2007/08/my-back-pages/#comment-624 Rob Thu, 13 Sep 2007 23:55:51 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2007/08/my-back-pages/#comment-624 Thanks for being a good sport, Tom, and for your "generic enough to be some kind of automated comment-reply macro but I'm going to naively assume that it's not" words. I hope it doesn't sound like I'm dumping on your advice, which I've bookmarked (unlike the post that set my off on this rant) and plan to follow as far as I can while still staying true to myself and my own idiosyncracies. Thanks for being a good sport, Tom, and for your “generic enough to be some kind of automated comment-reply macro but I’m going to naively assume that it’s not” words. I hope it doesn’t sound like I’m dumping on your advice, which I’ve bookmarked (unlike the post that set my off on this rant) and plan to follow as far as I can while still staying true to myself and my own idiosyncracies.

]]> By: Tom Johnson http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2007/08/my-back-pages/#comment-623 Tom Johnson Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:37:31 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2007/08/my-back-pages/#comment-623 I enjoyed the wit and humor of your post. I enjoyed the wit and humor of your post.

]]> By: Early Modern Notes » Pixellated dust http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2007/08/my-back-pages/#comment-622 Early Modern Notes » Pixellated dust Sat, 01 Sep 2007 18:16:23 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2007/08/my-back-pages/#comment-622 [...] are people who feel compelled to try to impose their own petty tight-arsed order on the glorious chaos and anarchy that is commonly known as the blogosphere (and who, moreover, always seem to value quantity of [...] [...] are people who feel compelled to try to impose their own petty tight-arsed order on the glorious chaos and anarchy that is commonly known as the blogosphere (and who, moreover, always seem to value quantity of [...]

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