Author Archives: Solonor

Join the club, kid

Posted on January 7, 2005 by Solonor

MRS: Did you sleep well last night? WHINY: No. MRS: Does anything good ever happen to you? WHINY: No, my life is a series of mediocre events. Continue reading →

Posted in Life, the Universe and Everything | 11 Comments

Ads that make NO sense

Posted on January 7, 2005 by Solonor

I wrote this big post about how profoundly disappointed I am in Google’s lack of response to the AdSense initiative (and how repulsed I am by some of the advertisers who are complaining about bloggers encouraging people to click on … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in Rants 'n' Whines | 2 Comments

Is it September yet?

Posted on January 6, 2005 by Solonor

Bah. I’ll bet they don’t sell more than four or five MILLION of these. Continue reading →

Posted in Wouldya Lookit That! | 1 Comment

De-lurk for charity

Posted on January 5, 2005 by Solonor

According to those that follow such trends, today is De-Lurking Day in the blogosphereaverse. That means that anyone who normally reads a blog but doesn’t usually make any comments is supposed to come out of the shadows (“de-lurk”) and make … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in Yo! Listen Up! | 5 Comments

Farewell, my worthy adversary

Posted on January 4, 2005 by Solonor

Yes, I know it sucks that he’s going away. Still, I come not to bury Buzz, but to praise him. There are a lot of different types of blogs in the big pile of electronic fecal matter that litters the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in Wouldya Lookit That! | 4 Comments

Many miles away, something crawls from the slime of a dark Scottish lake…

Posted on January 4, 2005 by Solonor

Oh. My. God. While I’m being reviewed by the guy that came up with the term “synchronicity,” on the day that I warp an Elizabeth Barrett Browning poem into an ode to spammers, comes this piece of comment spam (with … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in Strangeness | 5 Comments

In which I test the limits of the blog space-time continuum…

Posted on January 4, 2005 by Solonor

If you refer to someone who refers to you and then they refer to you referring to yourself, how many times can that nonsense take place before we make Albert Einstein go, “Whoa. Dude. You’re wrinkling the fabric of space”? … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in Wouldya Lookit That! | 4 Comments

We are the blogs…

Posted on January 4, 2005 by Solonor

Somehow, in the middle of pledging my pitiful AdSense revenues to the Red Cross, I missed the fact that there was a site set up to gather such pledges together: BlogAid [ via dooce ] Continue reading →

Posted in Yo! Listen Up! | 2 Comments

That’s it! I’m in love (or lust anyway)

Posted on January 4, 2005 by Solonor

Since I just spent half the night de-spamming a friend’s blog, I have come to know the true soul of the spammer. Their loveliness knows no bounds. In fact, I cannot help but shout out to the heavens of their … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in Rants 'n' Whines | 4 Comments

Lemon Flavored Toilet Paper

Posted on January 3, 2005 by Solonor

I am nothing if not a slave to my readers. You say, “Jump!” I say, “Bite me!” (and jump off the nearest cliff). Thus, the following entry is made at the request of my good (if slightly insane) friend, Karan. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in Strangeness | 10 Comments