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June 18, 2005

Blogbatland Update

News and announcements from Blogbatman!

 

 

Last month was quite a bit busier than I had anticipated, ergo no real progress on the other portions of this site – and not much in way of fresh posts either. What’s worse is this will probably more often be the rule for the rest of the summer. That said, you might wish to check back about once a week because I might eventually post something really interesting, i.e. insightful articles, breaking news and newsworthy items captured on the Blogbatcam. I recently acquired some video of illegal aliens partying the night away outside a South Dallas apartment complex around 1 a.m. on a Sunday night, giving alcohol to minors and littering. The video was captured supposedly before the kids’ school summer break. The video is further disturbing because it shows just how “busy” many illegal aliens are as they sleep in during the week and collect welfare checks paid for by American taxpayers, all the while lowering the overall quality of life and harming the good reputations of legal Mexican immigrants.

 

So what is your humble blogger up to these days which takes up so much of his time? Well, let me give you a brief run down of some of the biggest pies I have my fingers in that be of interest to you.

 

 

Academia: the sequel. As of earlier this month I have made my long-awaited return to the hallowed halls of academe, to pursue a career outside of information technology, with which I have grown immensely bored – in favor of a lifelong passion. Along with the standard student vow of poverty, which means I spend approximately 16 hours a day studying and attending classes (I’m a geek though so I actually like it), I’ll get to encounter a rich culture (and by culture, I mean it in its moldiest sense) of leftover, backward-thinking, obsolete, inflexible and intolerant leftist academicians who resent they never made it in the real world and because they are mad at the world for that, still think Marxist dialectics still holds water. But there is a fun angle to this. The aforementioned "killer-nerds" tend to be ignored and pushed away by those around them because of the social body odor they are known to emit - of broad generalizations, ignorance of widely known and accepted historical realities and that form of squelching of opposing thought which only comes from those who know their own arguments to be weak. Poor dysfunctionates.

 

 

Horsefeathers. Of course summertime means more daylight for horseplay. I mean specifically my dressage training, shows and generally just hanging out at the barn and harassing and being harassed by other riders and horses. The horse with whom I’m currently training is a genius 16.2 hand Friesian (above). If you haven’t ridden a Friesian, you should. They are, aside from being incredibly striking in their appearance, wonderful movers with keen intelligence - and they emotionally mature more quickly than some other draft breeds, including a Percheron I once owned. While I recommend anybody looking for a family pet look into a Quarter Horse or Morgan, I will say the Friesian is also an inquisitive and sociable sort – trust me – there’s never a dull moment.

 

The two of these together leave only scraps of time here or there in a given month, from most of which those counted among my friends and others I know, together with various events make the greatest demand. Taking classes in the summer is a little like boot camp, but you also get them out of the way faster. Still, Blogbat won’t leave you completely in the lurch and as I mentioned earlier, you probably won’t be disappointed if you check back every week or so, at least until late August, when my schedule should free up a little.

 

Of course, Texas Bloggers won’t want to miss the little shindig going on in New Braunfels, Texas, put on by Beth, Zippo and the rest of the Texas Blogfest folks at the end of June. I will be at the Blogfest steering committee meeting the Saturday of the event and look forward to taking part.

 

That’s about all for this month’s Blogbatland Update. Stay tuned for further acts of incitement, excitement and engagement from your one and only stop for ideas and news on the precipice of widespread importance, from the guy that called the Libyan deception of acting as a conduit of nuclear secrets just three days before IAEA executive director Mohammed Al-Baradi came forward with the news.

 

 

Contributing always my humble part to the intellectual prowess of the masses,

 

 

Posted by Martin at June 18, 2005 10:45 PM

Comments

Posted by: Miss O'Hara at June 23, 2005 11:48 AM

Posted by: Martin at June 23, 2005 05:39 PM