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A Day in the Life
   Today Bob and I had a call on the Balboa Pier. We got to drive out 2/3rds of the way to the end of the pier. There we had bees in a trashcan. Without putting on the veil or anything I just tied off the trash-bag and voila, bag o bees. Poked the straw from a can of insecticide into the bag and gassed em and tossed them in the back of our truck.
   Immediately thereafter we were notified there were bees at a Junior Lifeguard building about a hundred yards away, and a lifeguard tower about a mile down the beach.
   At the Junior Lifeguards locatioin the bees were on some kids bike. We vacuumed them up. The staff gave us both junior lifeguards hats (hooray?).
   At the lifeguard tower we found the bees were actually on an umbrella. We informed the owner that since the bees had covered the umbrella with pheromones it would now be forevermore attractive to bees, and she told us we could just take it. So we just took the umbrella and tossed it in the back of our truck.
   Then we we didn't have any other calls lined up for the time being. We considered hanging out somewhere on the beach ... with our new umbrella. Instead we got burritos at this place called "Chronic Tacos" and ate them in a nearby park. Some guy there tried to solicit us to take care of his bees "off the record" but we just told the best way he could do it himself. ...

Colonizing the Blogosphere
   So I get the general impression that livejournal is looked down upon as a place to have a really respectable blog. Blogspot seems to be more or less the place to be -- but I don't get it. Who'll read your blog if you don't have a friends list and aren't an epically famous bloggist? How do you garner epic blog fame if no one has you on a friends list?

   Anyway, I was thinking about starting a blog on blogspot and crossposting some of my more serious entries -- like that last one about CCD -- in hopes that maybe there it'll somehow get found and linked to in other discussions of CCD out in the blogosphere (for example, the wikipedia entry on CCD in several prominantly bad places links to blogs as references, (which is why I recommend checking the references on all noteworthy facts in a wikipedia entry)).

   But I need a new blog name! Honestly, I'd have changed "emosnail" here to something else as well by now, but it has an unprecedented amount of name-recognition in Davis that I don't want to walk out on.
   I need something crafty yet catchy, respectable, but not boring.
   So far the best I've been able to come up with is "Ex Cathedra," though that has a bit too many syllables to be truly catchy. To make matters worse, ExCathedra & Ex-Cathedra are both taken by louts who only posted like three entries four years ago. )=
   I've provisionally gone with Ex-Cathedrian. That by the way is not someone who is formerly from a cathedral, rather Ex Cathedra refers to the Pope speaking in his official capacity. On the Court we used to joke that when I addressed the Senate I was speaking ex cathedra ... which is funny to us because theologically speaking it would mean what I was saying was infallable.. and we figured if I made a reference to speaking ex cathedra the Senators would assume it was a legal term and not object.

   But yeah so, I've got a name thats a mouthful but is an obscure way of saying what I say cannot be wrong. If anyone can think of something similarly crafty, yet more catchy, or such, please let me know!

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Who'll read your blog if you don't have a friends list and aren't an epically famous bloggist? How do you garner epic blog fame if no one has you on a friends list?

Exactly. There's lots of lameness on livejournal, but a sure way to lameness is to start an annoying blogger/blogspot/whatever blog in an attempt to be cooler.

If you're looking for readers, one sure-fire way is to expose your journal to Google. But you'll have to do something about your habit of mentioning people's misdeeds in conjunction with their full names--that's sure to bite you eventually.

Yeah basically I determined that due to the high level of mentioning people in here, this journal cannot be opened up to google -- but if I put entries that are worth finding on the internet on blogger where they CAN be found by google, it solves the problem. I have no problem finding readers, but those google hits..

As a Latin minor, I approve.

get set up on technorati. then start commenting on other blogs that interest you and that may take an interest in your meanderings. et voila, blogspot networking.

For some reason, despite my pinging attempts, technorati is lagging on picking up on my posts. I checked some established blogspot blogs and technorati seems to lag about five days on picking things up from blogspot. Really odd.

it's not so much about whether you've updated but more about its searching and ranking ability.

ps: there's also an option to let technorati know that you've updated.

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