Random Tidbits

Sometimes I wait a long time to come up with something interesting to blog about and then let it percolate until I've figured out my take on it and then lovingly craft it into something interesting for my dear readers (wow, how pretentious and full of myself does that sound?). And sometimes I get a backlog of things that I want to mention here that aren't really worthy of a post of their own. So here's a bit of hit and run blogging. There's amazing bird activity on the bay right outside of my office. There are a ton of white cranes, a pair of white pelicans, an assortment of ducks and one huge blue heron. We may have substandard ventilation here, but the view more than makes up for it. I've been on a Battle of the Blogs losing streak lately. I wonder if it's a fallout from my recent blog drama or just the fickle nature of the voters. In a couple of weeks, I will be hosting an edition of Carnival of the Liberals right here on this blog. If you are a liberal/ progressive/ leftist/ whatever you want to call yourself blogger, have a recent political post that you think might pass my incredibly high standards, and would like the 2 or 3 hits you might get from being included in something like that, please do use the handy dandy web submission form. I've found yet another social networking/blogging site. As if my recent addiction to facebook isn't enough of a time waster, now my favorite progressive news source has started another community for their readers. It's called Open Salon. Right now I'm just cross posting my posts from this blog to my blog over there in an attempt to gain some new readership, but at some point I might do some exclusive content over there. I think it could be a good place for progressive bloggers to network with each other. Sure, there are a multitude of places to do that, but since this one is new (only out of limited beta testing yesterday), it's a little less daunting than trying to get yourself noticed amongst the throngs of Daily Kos bloggers. So far my only complaint is the lack of spell checking in the posting boxes and the lack of RSS. Here's my Open Salon blog. And lastly, I'm really bummed about Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes deaths this weekend. I think I first saw Bernie in Friday and thought he was hysterical, and before I even knew about Shaft, I had seen Isaac in I'm Gonna Git You, Sucka. They were both incredibly talented men and the world is slightly less entertaining without them. And still Dick Cheney's robotic heart continues to beat. Life is not fair.