Ruse You Can Bruise for August 07, 2003

Thu Aug 07 2003 14:31 Obsessive Output As Input:

My contribution to metaness on Leonard's guest weblog: "disturbing search request"

Thu Aug 07 2003 18:39 It's Hard to Manufacture Good Yet Harmless Gossip:

For the purposes of this post, I pretend that Leonard can't see it, or me, and that I am whispering into your ear.

Leonard really likes to bake, and yet he is also trying to lose weight. These conflicting desires mean that you can get lots of cookies if you time yourself right.
His categories provide a treasure trove of bonus Leonard in the funny descriptions (e.g. Unix Philosophy).
I had been reading Crummy for over a year before I ever met Leonard. When he and I meet new people, I have to be the one to tell people how we met, because he hates telling it. Ditto for "what's open source?"

Thu Aug 07 2003 20:52:

I was thinking of writing a fake guest weblog to run while I was on my little Utah vacation, but why bother when I can get people to do an actual guest weblog that will be even more unbelievable? So, for the next week, everything above this line on the front page will be the guest weblog and below the line will be my own, (hopefully) less frequent postings. Enjoy! Serves twelve.

Thu Aug 07 2003 22:56 Microsoft Leonard 98:

Has anybody else noticed that the front page of Crummy is gradually becoming implemented entirely with NewsBruiser notebooks? First News You Can Bruise, then the Quick Update entry up there on the right, now the guest blog. Soon, it'll be Tonight's Episode (it's already got an RSS feed), then the link bar, then the <H1> tag, et cetera.

See where I'm going? Eventually the entire page will be encapsulated in one great big entry, containing SSIs to hit all the other entries. It'll be the metanotebook!

[What is this, Crummy Lite? Do you even read the blog? What makes you think metathings are the only gag on this site? --Ed. {Because they are! Look at me, I'm the metaeditor! --mEd.} AUGH! DIE! --Ed.]

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