I’m a colorless green idea, and I’m SLEEPING FURIOUSLY!!!!
My very awesome friend over at Mathematically Confused nominated me for a Versatile Blog Award. Check out her blog!
RULES!
Nominate 10 other blogs. Inform them about their nominations. Share 7 random things about yourself. Thank the blogger who nominated you. Put the Versatile Blogger Award picture in your post.
Fact time:
1. I’m very in-tune with who I am. I’ve never felt like I’ve had to “find myself.”
2. It really, really bothers me—irrationally so—when people screw up a quote from a book or TV show or movie or the like. Even if they just leave out one little word.
3. I had a professional aptitude testing done when I was in high school. Apparently my aptitudes are perfect for architecture. Too bad I have no interest in it, haha.
4. (Related to fact #2?) I am a definite auditory learner. The things that stick in my memory longest are things that I acquired via some sort of auditory medium, like a show or a song or a video lecture. Back in undergrad I always assigned a specific song to each class and recited the class material to the tune of the song in order to study for tests.
5. I see a type of beauty in urban sprawl. Last summer when I was flying into LA to see my grandma we passed over these insanely intricate looping highways and overpasses…I remember thinking how beautiful it was.
6. I berate myself 24/7. It motivates me.
7. I don’t know if this is unique to me or is just the way children perceive speech, but up until I was about 10 years old I really had a hard time understanding what people were saying in movies and on TV (and in songs). To my ears, they weren’t saying words, they were just creating music and rhythms with their voices. Like I remember watching Talespin a lot as a kid. Rewatching some of the episodes as an adult, I could still remember the exact inflections and cadences of the characters’ voices, but felt like the actual words were something I’d never heard before. If that makes any sense.
Believe it or not, in my nearly six years of blogging, I don’t actually formally follow any other blogs (bad Claudia, bad!). So I’ll use this post to pledge to actually follow some of the people I regularly stalk and nominate several of them sometime soon.
WOO!
NEW STEPS NEW STEPS NEW STEPS!
Haha, the blog’s gettin’ revamped all over the place. Today’s upgrade: my own domain!
I can now be found at www.eigenblogger.com (the old eigenblogger.wordpress.com will redirect). Yay!
I also added a “Best Of” tab at the top which contains my ten favorite blogs. Just in case people who are passing through would like a taste of some of the better posts of mine (because 95% of them suck).
Further upgrades will occur throughout the week. I also only have to work Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday because Arizona is apparently obsessed with rodeos enough to shut down the community college.
OOH and I got a new bike! Pics soon.
Click Clack Bric-a-Brac
BAM, new WordPress theme! Like it? I like how the sidebar (the content to the right) is separate from the main blog. I also like how each post gets its own little box.
Anyway, I’m still having the WordPress vs. Typepad argument in my head. If I stay on WordPress, I’m going to buy my own domain and be www.eigenblogger.com, because that looks awesome and I think (nearly) six years of blogging deserves its own domain.
Okay, that’s all. Sorry. Short blog time.
Check out my stats blog, you fools!
HEY PEOPLE I made a stats-only blog. Mainly because this blog would be overrun with stat test overviews and just general overall freaking out since I got that book.
That sexy, sexy book.
Anyway, StatsWeekly is located here [EDIT: not it’s not. I might start it up at a later date, though]. A different statistical test or concept will be defined and worked through with an example every week, starting with real simple stuff (z-tests, t-tests) and then going into multivariate data stuff with lots and lots of variables, both latent and observable (structural equation modeling FTW!).
I’m hoping people will find it and enjoy it, or at least find it and get what they were searching for from it. I think I might add it to my blog roll, too, ‘cause those links get a surprising number of clicks.
Shameless self-promotion, thy name is Claudia.
Random side note: I really, really miss my books. Almost all of them are chilling in my dad’s closet.
Blogometrics
Hello fine readers! I have a question pertaining to—what else?—my blog!
So since I started my blog back in 2006, it’s been known as “Le Seul Mot Juste” with the subheader “take THAT, Gustave Flaubert!”
However, I’ve grown quite attached to “Eigenblogger,” especially since if I go premium with my WordPress account I’ll be found at http://www.eigenblogger.com, which is more memorable and easier to type out than http://www.leseulmotjuste.com or even http://www.takethatgustave.com. Though that last one would be pretty great.
I’ve also kind of adopted the phrase “live fast, die young, love data” as a motto, so that’d be a good subheader, eh?
ANYWAY.
Here are three new header designs with the new blog title/subheader. This also gives me the opportunity to try out my first poll! WOOHOO! Designs first, poll at the end.
Header A
Header B
Header C
I want cheese.
I’ll Get You, My Pretty, and Your Little Blog, Too!
Hello ladies and gents. There is something special about today’s blog.
Today is my 2,000th blog!
YAY!
This means it’s been 2,000 days since May 1st, 2006. That simultaneously sounds so long and yet so short.
ANYWAY!
In modest celebration (“modest” meaning “not extravagant;” all my crap’s packed up and I’m sitting in a hotel waiting to go home tomorrow and thus haven’t really had time to make a huge celebration blog), I’m going to list my top 20 blog titles and top 20 blogs. Because that’s kind of what I do.
Titles first!
Top 20 Titles (yes, most of these are stupid puns. Deal.)
- Are the bulbs of mercury at the bottom of thermometers collectively known as H.G. Wells?
- I just realized I’m illiterate and now I cacng apbtrtht kd thactgs
- Do physical comedians suffer from post-dramatic jest disorder?
- Circular reasoning works because circular reasoning works because circular reasoning works…
- Do philosophy departments have Causal Fridays?
- My new position at the PepsiCo factory isn’t the greatest job in the world, but I’m making Dew
- Waiter! There’s a tachyon in my—oh wait, there it goes, never mind.
- Is a theorem about pickles called a dill lemma?
- I am 95% confident that the population parameter ‘love’ falls between you and me
- If you want to eat an apple pie, you must first consume the universe
- Yo blog title, I’mma let you finish, but this entry holds one of the best blogs of all time
- I used to teach a failing fly-tying class until I realized my efforts were all for knot.
- I used to work at a bridal shop specializing in headdresses. My work there was to know a veil.
- Hammer Time is the fifth dimension
- How much fit would an index fit if the index indexed fit?
- Is Superman’s costume considered his strong suit?
- Silly Rabbit…Trix are for Magicians
- This just in: geophagists across the globe are biting the dust!
- Some Days I Miss My Sanity. Other Days I’m Just a Toaster.
- Waiter! There’s an infinite loop in my Waiter! There’s an infinite loop in my Waiter!…
Top 20 Blogs
- The Second Continental Chatroom – This is probably the only halfway funny thing I’ve ever written. Fueled by Chips Ahoy, baby. Fueled by Chips Ahoy.
- Claudia the Angry Blogger Presents: Yet Another Rant against Pretty Much Everything – This blog started as like three paragraphs and ballooned to a full-on “I hate change, especially on the internet” rant. It makes me happy.
- U Can’t Prove This – I’m really not sure how I managed to rewrite U Can’t Touch This while under the incredible stress of a 25-credit finals week, but here it is.
- HOT DAMN, Tukey Sandwiches! – I think the “pun to normal content” ratio is at its most ridiculous in this blog.
- Multicollinearity: The Silent Killer – If you don’t talk to your kid about near linear dependence, who will?
- A STATELY CHALLENGE – Because my first draft of the US without reference to a map is hilarious.
- My new position at the PepsiCo factory isn’t the greatest job in the world, but I’m making Dew – Philosophy of science stuff.
- Damn this infernal 95 character limit! I have witty things to say in my titles! This is crap! – Bashing Microsoft ’07: a happy pastime of mine.
- Pi vs. e – Alternate title: “R has two subsequent heart attacks.”
- Blameworthiness and the Anonymous Judge: An Analysis of FML Categories – My hypothesis was supported! WOO! I’d also like to expand this study at some point.
- If a blog falls in the forest… – Because of the Pokemon card.
- Gordon Freeman: A Case Study – Because of Gordon Freeman.
- Apple stores are goddamn scary – In terms of frightening corporate power, Apple is still < Google, but both should be watched carefully.
- An analysis of statewise uniform population density (according to Craigslist) – More stats fun.
- I’ve been waiting years for this – I remember being SO HAPPY when I opened the M&Ms package.
- Piece of Pi – More song parody! More math!
- Are the bulbs of mercury at the bottom of thermometers collectively known as H.G. Wells? – I really don’t know why I like this blog, I just do. Hippos.
- In This Blog: My Data Look like a Napkin Swan – Because of the uncanny and hilarious resemblance.
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is like a bad drug trip – It is! Seriously!
- Waiter! There’s a hippo in my Taco Grande! – Ye olde rant against pants. One of my early blogs.
Yay for 2,000 blogs. Here’s to 2,000 more, eh?
30-Day Meme – Day 21: A recipe.
YAY, a recipe! Cooking = win. Here’s one from the internet and one of my own.
1. Internet recipe
This makes a phenomenal breakfast/anytime bread. Super easy to make and crumbly as hell, this bread has a really good texture to it that adds to the sweet (but not overly so) taste. The only problem is that it goes moldy quite quickly if you try to stretch its life for more than five or six days.
2. Claudia recipe
You know I have to plug my Tukey sandwiches again (even though I just did), made and named in honor of the brilliant John Tukey. Because nothing says “you’re an awesome statistician” like a punny sandwich.
Dear people who have found my blog by searching WordPress for “Leibniz porn”:
I don’t know who you are or where you come from, but I have a feeling we are kindred spirits.
Unless “Leibniz porn” is slang for something else entirely. In which case, someone please inform me of its meaning so as to allow me to avoid amy embarrassment if I were to go to any given public area and say, “gee, I could really go for some Leibniz porn.”
Which has been known to happen.
And on another Leibniz-related note, we are to read part of the Leibniz-Clarke correspondence for Philosophy of Physics this week. This correspondence consisted of a series of letters exchanged between our hero Gottfried and Samuel Clarke, an ardent supporter of Newton and basically a speaker on behalf of him. The two men’s correspondence began in 1715 and ended a year or so later with Leibniz’ death.
Anyway. The two talk mainly about the dispute between absolute vs. relational space (Newton’s/Clarke’s and Leibniz’ views, respectively) as well as things like whether our universe could have been created by god earlier or later than it was and whether or not space is mostly empty. It’s super interesting and fantastic if you get a good translation, ‘cause then you get the snarkiness that was exchanged along with the ideas. For example, at one point in Leibniz’ fourth letter to Clarke you get this little jab as the two debate the meaning of the word “sensorium’”: “The question is indeed about Newton’s sense for that word, not Goclenius’s, Clarke shouldn’t criticize me for quoting the Philosophical Dictionary, because the design of dictionaries is to show the use of words.” Clarke’s got a couple good ones in there, too.
Okay, that is all. I’m in Leibniz ecstasy land today. It’s a good, safe, happy place. Full of wigs.
Oh hey
Hey, guess what? Today marks my 1-year anniversary on WordPress after freeing my blogs from the tyranny of MySpace.
WOO!
Stats:
Number of views
2,599
Top posts
Scrabble Letter Values and the QWERTY Keyboard
TWSB: Well, it certainly would make the cartographer’s job easier…
Some pretty funny stuff
Claudia’s 365 Days of Music – A Review
An analysis of statewise uniform population density (according to Craigslist)
Top search engine terms
“eigenblogger”
“scrabble letter breakdown”
“scrabble letter values”
“science plushies”
“le seul mot juste”
Here’s to another year!
Profile revamp!
Ch-ch-ch-changes!
“About Me” page added, “100 Things” page altered slightly.
I’ve returned to being obsessed with OK Cupid’s tests, but I’m hesitant to actually fill out my profile for fear of stalkers. How I haven’t acquired any stalkers here on WordPress is beyond me* but I’m still worried about that kind of stuff.
OOH! And did I mention that we’re stopping at Mount Rushmore on our way to London? How freaking cool, huh? I’ve always wanted to see it.
*Actually it’s not; my blog’s not cool enough for people to catch on to it.
Blogging: The Last True Frontier
Another new header! I actually kind of like this one.
Plus a header I made for my upcoming stats/phil blog (the more “professional” blog, if that word can even be remotely applied to me):
It’s simple, but simple is good sometimes.
Sorry these are short; I don’t have internet and have instead a crazy family to deal with. I also won’t have internet for another week or so, ‘cause ALASKA!
New stuff
Yet another new header! I don’t like this one either (DIFFICULT TO SATISFY), but it’ll do for now.
Also, you know that new stats blog I mentioned I would start about half a month ago? Well, I kind of changed my mind and have decided to make it a combined statistics/philosophy blog, kind of a more professional version of this blog focusing on my two favorite things (apart from Leibniz).
It’ll be like my ramblings on the philosophy of statistics. It’ll be good for my upcoming graduate work. I’m thinking something along the lines of “Laplace and Leibniz” for the name of the blog. I could do “Pearson and Plato” because they’re two of the more “obvious” or recognized individuals in statistics and philosophy respectively, but I like both Laplace and Leibniz better. I also had “proc blog; run;” in mind, too. My mom likes that one.
We’ll see.
YAY!
“I find the most erotic part of a woman is the boobies”
I’m thinking of starting a separate blog solely for statistics-related stuff, particularly R and making pretty visualizations using R. Apart from actual analyses, one of my main interests in statistics is the actual presentation of data. I think the importance of how people are able to view data is entirely underrated. I’m still a major R novice, but the language allows for such detailed, gorgeous visualizations that I think I’d like to further explore stuff relating to that. Here is a fantastic website regarding this very thing.
I also want to redo my “Introduction to R” thingy I wrote last year and try to focus it for people in the social sciences who are weaning themselves off of the evil SPSS.
So huzzah for plans! The fact that I can think of things other than my thesis is a good, good feeling, my friends.
HEY
(EDIT: So I realized when I was doing my big stats analysis that I’d totally forgotten to post this old June blog. I’d written it, but I guess I’d just totally skipped over it during one of my posting sprees. So here it is. Online archive now complete!)
I’d blog today but I’m not going to.
OMG A PARADOX OMGWTFBBQROFLMAO
Haha, sorry. I had Red Bull.
Things that are Entirely Underrated
- Chicago Hope
- Half Life
- Pink Energy
- Pipsoh
- Capitol Steps
- Statistics done well
- Ring Pops
Also, the last year of my life as summarized by the first sentences of the first blogs of each month:
May 2010: Hello ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the fifth year of Claudia’s blogs
June 2010: I need to make a remix. Or a mashup. Something. I have the urge.
July 2010: GUESS WHOSE BIRTHDAY IT IS? (hint: it requires caps lock)
August 2010: Hahahaha, so my dad has gout in his foot.
September 2010: Well hi there ladies and gents, and welcome to my first blog on WordPress.
October 2010: So I impulse-bought an iPod Touch off of eBay this afternoon for no other reason than “hey look, this auction has 31 seconds left and I have money in my bank account!”
November 2010: What “F” word, you ask? Fat.
December 2010: So as I said yesterday, NaNoWriMo is over!
January 2011: Dear 2011, let’s be kind to each other, shall we?
February 2011: Fasting + blood draw = bruised up arm and desire to om-nom the ever living hell out of some noodles at 9 AM.
March 2011: Ha, cool, I’ve been on WordPress for 6 months now.
April 2011: What in the hell happened to March?
May 2011: Well, it’s that time of the year.
I miss my life. Hopefully I’ll be getting it back within a month or so.
Things I blab about
If there’s one thing I love to do, it’s categorize stuff.
I freaking love categorizing stuff.
From back in my days on MySpace (haha, it seems so long ago, but it was only last September when I switched to WordPress), I used the pre specified blog categories that were listed there. I’m not sure how many categories were listed, but I utilized 25 of them with such frequencies:
The main reason the “blogging” category has so many entries is because none of the other categories could reasonably be said to apply to my content.
And then we’ve got categories like “Sports” and “Automotive” that get a cursory mention as a viable category due to a few posts revolving around the Vandal football games or random bus rants.
Obviously, my categorization needs a makeover (and, just as obviously, I really need to get a life one of these days).
So because ABSOLUTELY NO ONE CARES, here are the changes I’m making/categories I’m keeping. Old ones no longer needed are crossed out.
Commence!
Art and Photography
Art
Automotive
Blogging
Ranting
Rambling
Humor
Random
Statistics
Health
Dreams and the Supernatural
Dreams
Fashion, Style, Shopping
Shopping
Food and Restaurants
Food
Friends
Family
Games
Goals, Plans, Hopes
Plans
Jobs, Work, Careers
Work
Life
Movies, TV, Celebrities
Entertainment
Music
MySpace
News and Politics
News
Parties and Nightlife
Social
Pets and Animals
Animals
Quiz/Survey
Quizzes
Surveys
Philosophy
Religion and Philosophy
School, College, Greek
School
Sports
Travel and Places
Travel
Web, HTML, Tech
Technology
Science
Internet
Writing and Poetry
Writing
Books
Am I missing anything big that I usually talk about?
Much Ado About Blogging
HEY LADIES AND GENTS!
So even though I’ve got (at most) two regular* readers, I’ve been thinking as of late of leaving WordPress and getting my own blog with my own domain name.
Why?
Because I think five years of continuous blogging deserves its own special place on the web, even though nobody else really cares about it. I’ve been looking into TypePad for the next move ‘cause I’ve been following a few blogs based off of TypePad, and they all look nice and run smoothly.
TypePad is also pretty customizable, so it seems, and affordable and secure.
However, I’m a lazy butt and just got done moving all my MySpace archives to WordPress, and I’m not sure how difficult moving the archives again would be. I suppose I could do a bit of research into that, but, you know…lazy butt.
Anyway. Just thought that would be my post for today, since everything’s been pretty uneventful apart from thesis writing for the past few days.
*“regular” as defined as those who keep up with my erratic posting habits. Sorry about that.
Madness?! This…is…BLOGGING!
Well, it’s that time of the year. The anniversary of my blog. But this isn’t any regular anniversary.
This is five years.
That’s right. I started blogging five years ago on May 1st, 2006.
At one blog per day, that’s 1,826 blogs. Doesn’t seem like that many when put like that, in my opinion, but there you go.
Anyway. Here are the last five years of my life as put down on paper (note: that’s a 7” thick binder):
Stats:
- The last five years of my life weigh a total of 10.4 pounds and stacks up a little bit shorter than a Red Bull
- Total word count: 479,955
- Total number of pages (1.25” margins, 10-point Times New Roman): 1,552
- Year with the longest daily entries: May 2007 – May 2008
- Number of people who actually care about these stats apart from myself: 0
Whatever. It’s my blog, I can post what I want!
And you know what I want. Stats!
Here’s a month-by-month line graph of word count:
Here’s one of the Gunning Fox Index rating of each month:
And one of the average number of words per sentence for each month:
A Wordle cloud for all the blogs:
A Wordle cloud for all the titles:
I was hoping to have transferred all the “friends only” blogs from MySpace by today (they didn’t automatically transfer when I moved to WordPress, so I’ve been doing it by hand), but that unfortunately wasn’t possible. They’ll all be here soon, though.
Yay!
Woah
DUDES, WHAT?
Somebody must have found my blog and stumbled through it using the “random post” button, ‘cause I got a total of 127 views today.
That’s insane.
Haha, sorry, not much else has been going on. I’ve been working for like 14 hours straight every day on this stupid thesis and I’m to the point of sleep deprivation that the walls have become sentient and enjoy gyrating in space.
Blaaaaaaaaaaaaah.
T-minus 15 days
DUDES, I will have been blogging for five years come May 1st. I’m not quite sure what magical stats I’ll have in store for you (assuming, you know, I’m still sane and/or alive in a half a month), but it will be snazzy regardless.
OH, and I’ve also printed the majority of the archives, so I’ll take pictures of the massive binder for all to enjoy.
Working on a redux of this blog’s feel as well. All will be revealed…soon.
Haha, celebrating 5 years of not having a life.
I’m awesome.
And yes, I AM ignoring my present situation to preserve my mental “stability.” Sometimes you have to do just that.
BEWARE THE IDES OF MA—oh it’s April.
What in the hell happened to March? Last year it dragged on for about the length of the Jurassic period.
Anyway, here’s a bit of awesome for you: Census Bureau blog. Perhaps the best site on the whole intarwebs. I’m sorry I’m such a stats geek, I know no one else cares, but it’s my blog and MY BLOG LIKES STATS.
Speaking of my blog, my 5 year anniversary is coming up in exactly a month. Expect—guess what?—stats.
Yayzorz.
What was I going to say today?
Oh yeah. This is pretty great:
I’ve been on WordPress for 6 months now
Ha, cool, I’ve been on WordPress for 6 months now. I must say, I’m much happier here than on MySpace, though the old, crappy social network will always hold a special place in my blogging heart (I know, I know, gag).
Views: 1,083
Posts: 1,423 (this doesn’t count the couple hundred that were private/friends only on my old blog and thus weren’t transferred; the total number of posts thus far not counting this one is 1,765).
Comments: 80
My top-viewed blogs:
Home page (658 views)
Scrabble Letter Values and the QWERTY Keyboard (36)
Who wrote all this drivel? (29)
Some pretty funny stuff (18)
Recur, recur, recur! (13)
There’s a tunnel! And there’s a light at the end of it! (13)
This Week’s Science Blog: The Robots are Getting Creepier (10)
Claudia’s 365 Days of Music – A Review (7)
A Blog for Jim LaFortune (7)
An analysis of statewise uniform population density (according to Craigslist)
The Scrabble one’s so popular because apparently people really like to search for Scrabble letter values on WordPress. Here are a few searches that brought people to that page:
scrabble letter breakdown
scrabble how many points is qwerty
all scrabble letters
scrabble letter ranking
letter ranking on scrabble
“frequency of use of letters” scrabble
And here are some more amusing searches that brought people here:
jokes about leibniz cookies (whoever searched for this is my soulmate)
le seul mot juste
geometric multicollinearity
mice smelling photons
Fun times! I’m bored.
In This Blog: Why I Blog
I may royally suck at actually posting these things, but I do write them on the days I specify. In the nearly 4 ½ years I’ve been blogging, I don’t think I’ve ever explained exactly why I do it.
When I started blogging back in 2006, I made it my goal to blog daily—a goal I didn’t think I’d ever follow through with. My first 6 or so months of blogs were 99% crap, and—admittedly—they’re still mostly crap, but maybe only 80% or 85% crap now. I guess I started with the intention to have someplace to just ramble, but my blogs have sort of morphed themselves into a little external depository for all the extra crap running around in my head. Some of which is interesting, some of which is not.
Therefore, there’s no quantity vs. quality debate here. I completely admit that my blogs sacrifice quality for quantity. Some people claim that as one of the cardinal sins of internet writing, but I submit that the internet wouldn’t be the internet if people didn’t post crap with no content. I also think that letting things “flow” rather than just restricting oneself to post only when one has a perfectly polished entry is a lot more constructive, relaxing, and hilarious in the long-run.
So where am I going with this? I guess I’m just saying that I blog to blog. I blog to remain (arguably) sane. I share components of my life with the internet world, but I don’t do it because I expect the internet world to care. I really don’t care if people read these. It’s nice to know that some people do, and I’d be totally thrilled if some day a complete stranger commented and said they’d been reading on and off for awhile, but that’s not why I blog.
I blog because doing so has become part of me. I do it so I can have a written history of life and my progress through it, however random and non-focused many of the entries are.
So yeah, I guess that’s it.
I blog because…I blog.
Yay.
Today’s song: Crazy (Violin Cover) by Jimmy Chaos
The Inaugural Blog
Well hi there ladies and gents, and welcome to my first blog on WordPress. All past blogs have been uploaded from my old MySpace blog (except for the private ones…they didn’t automatically transfer, so I’ll have to do them individually, which will take some time).
Some things are different, of course–this blog’s theme is not nearly as ostentatious as my old one, and the default font for my blogs is no longer Times New Roman at 10 point font, but what’re you gonna do, eh? I needed a format change, anyway. I also apologize for all the broken pics/links/YouTube videos/what-have-yous in the older blogs. They’re, well, old. Haha.
So yeah! Pretty snazzy. Oh and here, for anyone interested: MySpace profile
Those of you who are new to this particular blog…have fun!
Yay!
Today’s song: My Own Way to Rock by Burton Cummings
Hyperness is next to godliness. Why do you think He only needed seven days?
A few days ago I blogged about what a pain MySpace is with regards to letting me actually post my blogs more than once a fortnight (if I’m lucky) and was wondering about possible exporting tools.
Well, I found one.
Yes, you have to download it, and no, I haven’t actually tested to see if it actually works as an exporter, but when I ran the program I actually saw it go through all my old blogs (that’s 1,571 blogs) and when I opened the raw file in Word, all of them actually showed up. So I’m hopeful.
Now I have to decide between WordPress and Blogger. I like WordPress ‘cause it looks like you can comment without having a profile there; I like Blogger because it looks more customizable from what I can tell. However, I dislike WordPress because, as someone who probably needs quite a bit of storage space, I’ll probably have to pay for the premium account. I dislike Blogger because it’s owned by Google, and I don’t know how I feel about selling my soul just yet.
But yeah. Planned export scheduled for September 1st; if it works, my blogging shall be moved there for all subsequent years.
Hooray!
Today’s song: All About Us by t.A.T.u.
Eigenblogger 
Spambots! Why u no shut up about Viagra?
Point of interest: Word 2010 automatically capitalizes Viagra.
Point of interest II: The spambots of WordPress really seem to think I have a penis.
Point of interest III: I don’t quite know what I did to provoke them; all of a sudden I’m getting like 30 spam comments per day. Odd.
That’s all. Sorry my life isn’t exciting at all.