naming

...and an exegesis of my new links system, on the left. what's with all these vocab links u say? well, didn't i tell you that reading my weblogs and talking on IM might as well be SAT Verbal prep sessions, hmm? ;-)

while it was truly interesting to see Quad's faithful flips of Kass' Reflections weblog (and yes, they WERE interesting Quad, and not skin-deep it all, and i hereby retract that aspersion of 'lame' that i hurled at you at one point), it was better to finally read what Kass had to say herself, upon her return yesterday (scroll partway down to 'update 2'). curiously, she began her weblog while she was still at camp -- no mean feat, considering she was nowhere near a computer, much less a web browser. apparently, some of us can repeal the laws of physics at a whim. ::chuckles:: so, in an appropriate act of weblog writing, Kass caught up on the 'Asian parents' issue and shared her own perspective, which is typically frank, level-headed, and articulate.

anyway, on to today's exercise, which i took great pleasure in doing. does it show? ;-) there, on the left, you'll see a new set of links to your weblogs. but, eschewing the usual style of naming names and saying who's who (or what), i choose a more enigmatic thing. i've selected a word i think represents the weblogger at this point in his or her life. meaning, on one level, that the word won't stay static: the lives of teens are nothing if not fluid, and dynamic. more work for me, yes, but hey, i have a lot of time on my hands now, particularly after i return to Maui, in a little while. but enough rambling. on to the exegesis...

these are, obviously, a collection of my 'daily read' texts. all the other weblogs from AIC, TIC and other places are still here, except all piled up inside the weblogs link on the main toolbar above the Members/Signup box. when an occasional weblog gets more frequent (i.e., daily or almost daily), it'll find itself 'graduating' to this list up front. when a weblog gets truly interesting and engaging, it'll percolate to the top of the list. for sure, no one stays on top of the list permanently: it all depends on this particular judge's whims and caprices, from day to day. mwahaha. it'll promote competition, sure, but a little bit of friendly textual webloggin' oneup(wo)manship ain't bad at all. we might all even learn from the process. now, having said that, here's the thing: the bottom may not necessarily be a bad place to be at! ;-) for me, the bottom signifies a foundation: solidity, sensibility, stability. so, in a word: strive for the bottom as well... it isn't all about reaching the top.

lastly, a note about the naming. it's nothing more than my very subjective choice of finding a word that best fits the weblog writer... at the time. again, the names will change, now and then, to reflect changes in the writer's style, mood, life circumstances, or even personality. all, of course, based on MY reading of that person. some of the names are obvious, some quite subtle, a few are in-jokes among a couple or a handful of people. regardless, all are interesting to me in one way or another, and there are several layers of meaning to the list of names -- how they are arranged, who's next to whom, what they mean in relation to another name. hope you find it as intriguing as i did.

Jul Sep

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