It’s the 21st Century, Stupid!

I just caught from the corner of my eye an ad saying that RoadRunner had upped the speed on our service from 5 kbps to 7 kbps for the same price. So I went and ran a test and… 

Nice. I appreciate it.

Sigh. I certainly hope that eventually there are people reading this. Of course there are some things that I’m not doing to “promote” it until after I make the planned move to another web hosting service. But I do view creating this blog as a way to shape the conversation, not to simply pontificate. I want comments. I want to see the kind of reaction that some of the ideas I post will produce. I do want a conversation and plan on reading comments as much as I can, which at this rate pretty much guarantees I can read them all.

Andrew Sullivan has a reader who points out a quote from Mark Bowden’s Guests of the Ayatollah. I believe it emphasizes something I miss about the post-Bush United States. We used to able to believe that our government never sanctioned torture. I can’t believe that any longer and it makes me angry that this has been stolen from us by a man for so little valid reason.

Now I’m going “back” to an older book, David Drake’s Bridgehead from 1986. I think next up will be John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War.

When I decided to dive in with a site hosted on WordPress I didn’t realize their system was so limiting that I couldn’t even use an Amazon associate account on it. Since one thing I want to do is experiment with that and other revenue generating methods that I hope to use on the Kansas City Science Fiction & Fantasy Society site that I manage. I’m planning on some major revamping of the site in the near future and just have to include some features like that.

 So…I’m going to do some reading and install WordPress on a web site outside of theirs in the not too distant future.

Yes, it’s another blog added to a horrendously overpopulated blogosphere. Why? Because like most people I just wanted to sometimes guide the conversation. As much as I might enjoy reading other people’s blogs and commenting on them there are times when I just think “What about this…” and can’t turn someone else’s blog in that direction.

 As far as the title is concerned it’s somewhat obvious where it came from but not so obvious how long it took me to come up with it. I thought of variations on polymath since I consider myself one to a degree, having majored in chemistry, education with speech and drama emphasis (with an English minor) and computer science as well as having taken courses that just interested me whenever I could. Most of the good ones were taken. Then there came the ones where I wanted to reflect my belief that the implications of the simple fact that things change and they’re changing faster than ever are all too often under-appreciated by many people even if they do think they understand that things are changing fast in our modern world. And then…then I read a comment on another blog that made me think of how this person’s response didn’t seem to recognize that it just wasn’t the 1950’s anymore. Then that blended with a certain comment by James Carville and a title was born. And it only took a few months more to decide to go ahead and start it out on a WordPress hosted site.