A new Blog
So, it appears that this is the sixth blog-posting on the RI blog-site. I'm not certain if this entails automatic induction into the shrine of RI Alpha or Founding-father class, nor am I sure, for that matter, of the blogging process. What are the long term ramifications of blogging? Why blog? Why the name: blog? Why not "golb". Or "elog"? These are pertinent questions which should be tackled by and incorporated into the fossilized field of philosophy, preoccupied as it has been with questions of the origins of supernatural beings at the expense of social inquiries of the technological evolution of human enterprise.
Therefore, let us open our dusty tomes to the chapter entitled, etymology. And let us not confuse this with the entomology chapter which I, a voracious tabby predator, trapped under my paw and ate this morning.
Blog, it can be inferred, stems from "log", meaning a journal or record of events. But the "b" ... perhaps someone said to the first blogger: "what are you doing on-line?" And the hesitant reply was, "I'm logging".
"What?"
"Writing a log? As in "Captain's log, star date ..."
"I'm still confused. Please elaborate," came the Vulcanian response, annoyingly devoid of emotion.
So at last, with indignant ardor, the fateful reply was elicited, "I'm Blasted Logging!" Yet, choked with rage and resulting from the amplitudal distortion of the higher audible frequencies arising from the emotional tenor of the outburst, and because this verbal exchange was being obfuscuriously broadcast over a webcam that had been hacked by a 14-year-old, subsequently spoofed by pseudo-goth-grunge Linux phreaks employing a masked I.P. subnet, and cloned by a virulent Trojan-class BOT exploiting a flaw in Internet Explorer, it sounded more like: "I'm BlLogging!" Which, henceforth became the normative term used to describe a "web log". Oh wait, that's where it comes from. weB log. I see....
Next time: rambling of a more coherent and politico-social (not geopolitical) import. Topic: equivocation and its use in the willful subjugation of American intelligentsia.
Therefore, let us open our dusty tomes to the chapter entitled, etymology. And let us not confuse this with the entomology chapter which I, a voracious tabby predator, trapped under my paw and ate this morning.
Blog, it can be inferred, stems from "log", meaning a journal or record of events. But the "b" ... perhaps someone said to the first blogger: "what are you doing on-line?" And the hesitant reply was, "I'm logging".
"What?"
"Writing a log? As in "Captain's log, star date ..."
"I'm still confused. Please elaborate," came the Vulcanian response, annoyingly devoid of emotion.
So at last, with indignant ardor, the fateful reply was elicited, "I'm Blasted Logging!" Yet, choked with rage and resulting from the amplitudal distortion of the higher audible frequencies arising from the emotional tenor of the outburst, and because this verbal exchange was being obfuscuriously broadcast over a webcam that had been hacked by a 14-year-old, subsequently spoofed by pseudo-goth-grunge Linux phreaks employing a masked I.P. subnet, and cloned by a virulent Trojan-class BOT exploiting a flaw in Internet Explorer, it sounded more like: "I'm BlLogging!" Which, henceforth became the normative term used to describe a "web log". Oh wait, that's where it comes from. weB log. I see....
Next time: rambling of a more coherent and politico-social (not geopolitical) import. Topic: equivocation and its use in the willful subjugation of American intelligentsia.
posted by Mooze at 12:37 PM
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