The Cloacastan Irregular Gazette

An addition to the line-up

2008-12-05T05:45:00.001-08:00

Sticking strictly to the well defined program of my attention deficits, I am going to steal time from god-knows-where to start up blogging on my neglected project to add the environment and the infrastructure to a more or less standard inputs/outputs model of at least a local economy. The blog for that has been on the table of contents blog roll all along but I didn't [I DON'T] have time to pursue it.

Since when has that ever stopped me?

I would like to make some original contribution to optimizing how we live on this planet. The tools exist for modeling and optimizing but they have mostly been used by governments and corporations who have not treated the environment as part of the equation. I hope I can remedy that.

Meanwhile, all the other infrequent posts to all the other blogs will continue to show up here as headlines to provide you a one page destination for tracking whatever I do manage to blog.

Welcome

2008-05-20T07:32:00.000-07:00

Hi folks.

This is an experiment. I am going to see if it is more comfortable to write a blog if I actually have different blogs for different moods or writing humors into which I may fall from time to time.
Scattered in little pastel boxes you will find RSS feeds of the latest [seldom very current] posts in each of those modes. The census today is listed below...it will change

Daily Cause: progressive alerts to which you can respond without first giving up email privacy
Blue Seeing Red: politics read in tooth and claw
Let them eat Crake: where greensmile living is headed
The Thread Barer: informal polling by exhaustive reading of comments in "neutral" media.
Pithing Contest: Attempted wisdom.

I'd like to help you out. Which way did you come in?

2008-05-12T10:12:00.000-07:00

Like life itself, this is an unplanned experiment.

Greensmile's schizophrenia has finally gotten the upper hand. This post is just some of the housekeeping tips for the mad house he is keeping.

On the sidebar, find RSS links intended to route you to your preference among the various voices he has been hearing. They do not add up to a choir, far from it. Some navel gazing, some enraged progressive, some bombastic green, some amateur appreciation of the march of science. Multiple persona disorder is bad enough but when the gaggle of them forget protocol and tramp through consciousness simultaneously it is so hard to sort his self out. Some of these voices are embarrassing to the others. The menu, as it were, for this buffet of his blogs is not stable. You may skip the extra click-and-wait of this nutty nexus by book marking the particular blog you like. If that goes away, you might come back through here to see what happened.

You will tire of a goofy progression of blog titles for pithingcontest.blogspot.com...like what if he added "Cougar" to all his blog titles and then removed it a year later? Or gave a new blog title with each new post? He despised the traffic ET was attracting...google giveth and google taketh awry. Blogger is so abusable. He plans to change the name to match the URL as the last. A hosted library metaphor in which to wrap his sundry bloggy droppings had been considered but this costs less. Some of the impetus for this is that he doubts the average reader comes seeking the average post but rather book marks a blog because it has made some kind of brand recognition around a subject area of interest to the reader. The whimsical category list in ET had burgeoned to useless length and randomness.

Students of avian anatomy and those with some Latin will will make sense of the title.