This appears to be a week where I sit around and talk about meta-internet shit that no one else gives a crap about. One that note, Erin’s new blog about blogs that die after a single post, 1post1der.blogspot.com, is making me lose my shit. It’s like an elephant graveyard for infant blogs. She’s like the bone collector of blog fetuses. This blog is a beautiful refuse dump that provides some really excellent meta-commentary on blog culture and our age of new media. Basically I dig it hard. This one’s my favorite:

SPARKS.BLOGSPOT.COM

Wednesday, December 13, 2000
Finally getting a new personal page up feels great… I’ve been spending far too much time working on clan / squad webpages for all these damn games.. And I finally broke my crack addiction!
Crack: To be a game very addictive in nature. See: EverQuest, EQ, Verant Interactive.
Yeah, so I’m a hardcore gamer… F me. At least I’m not a geek, right?… ok maybe I’m proud to be a geek, but at least I can own people in quake3! …Maybe I should get back into playing Red Alert online… win more tourneys…

For those of you reading this who don’t know me well, I’m not just a gamer, I’m a DJ, spin occasionally at raves.. hardcore fan, an American Head Charge groupie (they’re a band in MN who recently were signed…), Ex-addict, gamer, … the list goes on, and hell, I’m even the father of a gorgeous 16 month old daughter who I just recently got visitation rights with!

Oh well, back to paying attention in class (hahaha visual basic is WAY too simple when you know C++ well)

The original entry is here. Now a point breakdown of why this wins in my mind.

• Use of a delicious malt beverage energy drink in the name: +3 points
• Implies he is an ex crack addict (see second paragraph): +1 point
• Plays EverQuest: +5 points
• Is DJ: -2 points
• Use of the word tourneys: +1 point
• Groupie for an obscure hardcore band no one gives a shit about: -3 points
• “father of a gorgeous 16 month old daughter who I just recently got visitation rights with”: +7 points
• Thinks Visual Basic is way too easy after learning C++: +3 point

Oh man, is he right; Visual Basic IS way too easy after learning C++.

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