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Up at OSCON in Portland, in the conf hall, writing this from my iPhone. Could this be cooler? Could it be lamer?

At least I got a green Google moleskine out of the trip!

If I ever go so nuts I’m fully Tom Cruise Crazy, I hope someone puts me out of my misery and sends me back to Xenu.  Fortunately, Jonathan Coulton (of Portal theme fame) has boldly gone where I hope never to go… and wrote a song about being Tom Cruise Crazy.  It’s a year + old, but still sadly relevant.

I wish I had some semblance of musical skill so I could even attempt stuff like this.  This guy really has a knack for the absurdly fantastic.

Found via WWdN.

…and I am one of those. Way back before the interweb was open to the great unwashed masses I ran a computer bulletin board system (BBS) in Arizona called first SHO-TRON, then The Rock Garden. It was on this BBS where I first learned the dangers of yammering about things upon which I had any sort of a quasi-formed opinion. I came, I wrote, and it kicked my ass.

I learned to keep my big mouth shut for the most part. Then a year or so ago a coworker talked me into starting a blog on my company’s internal blog site and yea, verily, did history up and repeat itself. I nearly got myself fired, created quite a mess, and became fascinated with the whole blogosphere. It’s the great-great-grandsomething of parts of the BBSes I used to use, and I still have no idea what I should talk about.

Fortunately that doesn’t usually slow me down. Now I’m setting up a wordpress blog on my long neglected web site, and we’ll see what happens. Should be amusing if nothing else.