works of wanderlust

Tag: meta monday

  • meta (not) monday and other stuff

    meta (not) monday and other stuff

    Starting with an aside, I’ll just note that it drove me nuts when the company that makes and runs that dystopian social network—you know the one—decided to call itself meta. Many wager that they stole the term from Neal Stephenson’s classic novel Snow Crash which itself was a fiction-shaped social commentary on the explosive expansion

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  • three-sixty-five.

    three-sixty-five.

    I don’t want to say I’ve been saving up for this post, but after two years and two months of keeping a so-called “daily” blog, this — what you’re reading right now — is post three-sixty-five. One post per day for one full year. This should have been the post I wrote on December 31,

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  • Meta Monday & the Attack of the Creative Heart

    Meta Monday & the Attack of the Creative Heart

    I have a luxury that, I would guess, many people who post stuff online don’t have. I don’t need to generate an income from this. I’m lucky. I can blog without ads. I can post without sponsored content. Dabble in new media without penalty for failure. I can pay my hosting bills with my real

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  • Meta Monday & Spring Galleries

    I spent nearly twenty hours just lingering in the gorgeous outdoors of my own backyard this past weekend doing all manner of activity, from doing serious chores like tending to the garden, patching my lawn, completing the installation of my irrigation system, to partaking in more leisurely activity like cooking barbecue, playing with the dog

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  • Meta Monday & Moving Forward

    The inevitable question that every blogger faces is balancing all the pieces of time, effort, content, ideas, and purpose. You may have noticed (if you are a regular reader) that as of late my posting rate has dropped off to somewhere much lower than daily. This has been a factor of a number of things:

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