So yeah, I haven’t really tended to be one of those fancy-schmancy bloggers who manage to blog about things on the same actual day they happen. My schedule tends to keep me careening along in panic for several days at a go, and then I manage to steal a few hours to spit out a […]
Entries Tagged as 'Meta'
Standard Bearers from the Past
October 12th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Books, Culture, History, Human Rights, Lit, Meta, News, Politics, Science Fiction, Torture
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Breakthrough
October 7th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Journal, Meta
I just found my alarm clock! Who knows what I’ll discover next? My toothbrush? Checkbook? Antique riding crop? Maybe even some time to blog …
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Update on the Movery
October 2nd, 2007 · 7 Comments · Cats, Chicago, Culture, Internet, Journal, Kiwi, Meta, Mr. Blue, Pets
OcPot is still on hiatus for at least a couple-few more days. But yesterday, down in the comments to the hiatus post, Miss Rubbery Nun asked how I was doing and I thought I’d repost my answer here for anyone else wondering how the move went: Survived. Just barely. No thanks to AT&T, who, in […]
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High Ate Us: OcPot on Temporary Leave of Absence Till Early October-ish
September 24th, 2007 · 10 Comments · Food, Journal, Meta
As you can probably deduce from Kiwi’s guest post a few days ago, the packing operations have escalated from Major to Serious. It’s now less than a week till the movers come, and all holy heck is being unleashed. Mountains of books, CDs, and various other items are indeed being dismantled and certain dodgy pieces […]
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Progress
September 18th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Journal, Meta
I just threw out four years worth of Harper’s and Macworld. Major packing operations have begun …
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The Nod: Wednesday, September 19 (with a Moving Addendum)
September 12th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Blogs, Chicago, Comedy, Culture, Fringe, Journal, Kiwi, Meta, Mr. Blue, Neo-Futurists, News, Performance, Theater
Next Wednesday, September 19, I’m going to be participating in a way-fun event called The Nod, in which some of Chicago’s best bloggers will be reading posts from their blogs live at the Uptown Writer’s Space. And for some reason they’ve asked me to be on the bill, as well. Possibly to make the rest […]
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Roundup: Skydiving Baby Giraffe Edition
August 15th, 2007 · Comments Off on Roundup: Skydiving Baby Giraffe Edition · Activism, Apple, Books, Chicago, Comics, Culture, Death Penalty, Fantasy, Fiction, Film, Food, Health, Human Rights, Internet, iTunes, Journalism, Lit, Media, Meta, Nature, News, Politics, Roundup, TV, Ursula K. Le Guin
Out, damned spot! Fox News caught red-handed, laundering entries on Wikipedia. Keep on scrubbing, Lady MacFox, but those stains belong to you always. The GOP’s California strategy: winning the 2008 election by undoing California’s winner-take-all electoral system. Once the state goes piecemeal, the Repubs gain at least 20 electoral votes from safe GOP districts. Arianna […]
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Weekend in Peoria, and a Sign of the Times
June 27th, 2007 · 10 Comments · Books, Culture, Food, Illinois, Journal, Labor, LGBT, Meta, New Wave, Peoria, Photos, Restaurants, The Economy, Stupid, Vegetarian & Vegan
You may have noticed things have been a little slow around the OcPot this week, because I spent the past weekend visiting my parents in scenic Peoria, Illinois. I’m now paying the usual price for taking a couple of days off, with everything I have to do piled up to twice its normal height. It’ll […]
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The Bravest Little Hobbit of Them All
June 8th, 2007 · Comments Off on The Bravest Little Hobbit of Them All · Books, Comedy, Culture, Fantasy, Lit, Meta, Music, Video
Posting has been kind of sparse on OcPot this week, because the end-of-the-month deadline drama from last week lapped over into the beginning of the month. It has a way of doing that, sometimes. The drama. So while I have a ton of stuff I’d like to post, it may be be a couple of […]
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iTunes Random Ten: My Very First Time
May 27th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Blogs, Culture, iTunes, Journal, Meta, Music, New Wave
The Rubber Nun is a big fan of this Random Ten meme-thingie and I’m a big fan of the Rubber Nun, so in honor of the elastic sister I thought I’d give it a spin myself. Of course I think you’re supposed to do it on Fridays … but isn’t it still Friday in Singapore, […]
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Rescued! (by DKos and Akismet)
May 19th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Activism, Blogs, Internet, Journal, Meta, Pets, Politics
Hey! As I just noted in an update to my NY Ferrets Against Giuliani entry from Thursday, I cross-posted it as a diary over at Daily Kos, and it made the Friday Night Diary Rescue list! Not too shabby for only my second diary over there. Also, regular commenters may have noticed that the comment […]
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Comment Moderation Engaged
May 14th, 2007 · Comments Off on Comment Moderation Engaged · Blogs, Internet, Meta, Software
Ah, it’s come to this. I’ve had to turn on comment moderation because the evil hordes of the Cømm3nt-Sp@m Børg have found their way to Ocelopotomus. So, if you comment, you may experience some lag time before your brilliance actually appears on the site, depending on whether I happen to be asleep/cleaning up Mr. Blue’s […]
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A Brief Pause …
May 3rd, 2007 · 2 Comments · Chicago, Culture, Fringe, Journal, Meta, Performance, The Partly Dave Show, Theater
I’m still recovering from last night’s Partly Dave Show, which was a blast, and catching up on various things today. I hope to be back up and blogging by sometime tomorrow. In the meantime, thanks to everyone who came to the show and/or helped promote and support it.
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Ocelopotamus and The Book of Imaginary Beings
April 24th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Blogs, Books, Culture, Fantasy, History, Journal, Lit, Meta, Mythology
Since I’m doing meta today: In case any of you are wondering exactly how I came up with such a cockamamie name for this blog, you can put at least part of the blame on The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges and Margarita Guerrero, which I’ve been carrying in my backpack for […]
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