November 17, 2003

I appreciate the mention you gave me in your blog. I tried to take what people said and make something useful out of it. I didn't intend to do a complete overhaul, but once I got started, I got carried away. It may still be a bit too girly for some folks. But what the heck, you can't please everybody. I try to balance what I write about. I love a good political debate. I don't talk too much about my family because it tends to get me into trouble. Everything else is open season.
I come here, because it's never boring. Besides that guy in the picture is cute and I like cute guys.

You're okay, Wanda. Your look is your option. At least you know HOW to fix it.

I'm aesthetically challenged, so I'm hoping the content makes up for it.

Thanks for the link, Acidhead! I scrambled to update once I realized that I was linked by someone who's had over 500,000 hits!!

CONGRATS! That's pretty decent ego-food!

I kinda like looking at pictures of people's babies, actually, and hearing about their kids, and their day, and whatnot. As long as it's not all they have in their blog. I like the newsy, this is my life kinda crap, just as much as I like people who write about current affairs, news, and that kinda stuff. But I'm pretty easy to please. I write about my day, what I'm thinkin' and what I want to write about, if people come back or they link me, great, if not.. I don't give a rat's ass.

(damn, here I am again)

>>This blog has cost me a great deal more just than the price I pay for bandwidth and a domain name.

None of my business, but I had a hunch you'd been holding something back. Hope it all turns out OK for you.

I had just a little taste myself of what blogging can cost you. Lotsa assholes in this world. Better to be an anonymous coward myself, what with all the other anonymous cowards out there.

Wow man, that didn't feel like holding much back... well, for the record, he's had about 110,000 pages read in his first three months, 30% of readership is return readers. I've known all kinds of crotchity dudes who never understood what is so damn special about a cute kid. That's cool, it's nothing against you, it's a guy thing as I chalk it up.

I'm going to continue linking to you as I have for the past 5 months because I can still like you and your blog while holding seperately that you were a total dick about my work and my son. With the photos, the writing, the photoshop, sheeyot man I put a lot of work into it. I'm okay with that, it's not for everybody. Neither is your site, but you revel in those who don't like you. I'm not quite that way.

I'm with HackJammer, here. I know there's something goin' on Rob isn't talking about. I can just feel it every time I come here.

(Just glad to know that whatever it IS, isn't messin' ya up too badly.)

AMEN!

The "Hi, please link to my blog I just started it yesterday" thing gets on my nerves too. I read someone's blog for a while and if I keep coming back, THEN I will blogroll it.

P.S. I like Key, she is sassy!

Just started yesterday, huh? Okay, for the benefit of those commenting who haven't looked at it, there are 110 articles and about 220 photos. I'm not talking about cheeseball MS Paint jobs, full on PhotoShop processing. The site isn't a crackerbox job, it was a custom build from the ground up, complete with forums, syndicated headline feeders and an automated subscription. To imply it's a new site or some hack job isn't insulting, it's mistaken. I have much love in my heart, so I forgive.

For the record, here's the full text of the email I sent;
"Hi, I've been linking to your fine snapshot of contemporary functional borderline insanity since July, and was wondering if you'd be interested in linking back to www.perplexingtimes.com... of course, either way I'd kind of like your feedback on it."

If that counts as begging for a link, then asking your boss for a raise is panhandling. I love my son very much and regularly get positive feedback from new readers. I admire the degree of repeat readership your site enjoys and while I imagine it's much higher than mine (about 30%, as I said,) it, like the junior journalist in question, is still growing.

Perplexing Times was Cool Site of the Day and Yahoo pick of the day. Those are feats. Getting slammed in here? Well, I think anybody could pull that off.

Thanks, Sugar!

I appreciate that coming from you. I also appreciate the fact that I haven't been SLAUGHTERED for my html-illiteracy.
(I trust the new kids get a bit of a grace period...)

So Cool Site of the Day and Yahoo Pick of the Day wasn't enough?

How should I put this... bluntly?

Huh? Homey say what? It's like I'm talking to goldfish here.

I'm sorry that you don't have custody of your son, but I'm not sorry that I do. I have it because I fought my ass off. Baby-mama made up lies and stories about me and disappeared with him. I in turn dug up facts with proof. When I stood before the commissioner he ordered full custody to me and demanded immediate return of my son.

You see, some things are worth fighting for that are not online. Venom on the web is akin to physical threats from a dude in a wheelchair. If you love your son, don't tell us, go show him. I spend every day with my boy. I never get tired of it and we are best friends. No one has ever questioned my commitment to my boy. My money IS where my mouth is. Do you even have money?

As for this idea that I'm begging favor from you, get over it. Alexa.com shows my traffic eclipses yours, even though your twice as old. I guess if you write from your heart you'll have good traffic, no? You have nothing that interests me. I wanted your opinion of my site, and I got it. I didn't expect your voice to be that of a disenchanted non-custodial father. With that in mind I should have known you'd hate the site, it's really more geared for people who have kids, not people like you.

Sorry for flaming on your site, it wasn't my intention. It's a matter of setting the record straight.

It is never a mistake to say good-bye.

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

A little foolishness, enough to enjoy life and a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do

You do a good work, keep it going

It's never right to say always, and always wrong to say never.

I criticize by creation -- not by finding fault.