Blog?

[tubatooter1940]

Maybe they have no one to spill their guts to, - no one who cares about how they feel or what they've done.
Maybe they've never been hugged - let alone laid.
Maybe their mother had to tie a pork chop around their neck so the dog would play with them (credit to Schlepporello).
Maybe their parents fed them with a sling shot.

[windshieldbug]

So you have an outlet to vent that ill-will toward the Music Director
(or so I have surmised... )

[SplatterTone]

If you are fortunate enough to have a local blogger who is diligent at keeping the public informed about the crap going on in city government, then take time to read the blog, comment, and contribute money to support it. We have one such person here who goes to various city government meetings and stays active in the local Republican party. He provides much information you will not find in the daily paper (which is in cahoots with the good old boy network).

[THE TUBA]

I blog because I feel that every person has a right to know, nay, needs to know my rantings about the subjects of my (dis)pleasure.


Wait a minute, I don't blog.

[Wyvern]

A need of expression? Much the same as writing a diary, or a book about oneself.

Lets out their emotions and clarifies their thoughts. Why do people read - Curiosity in other people's life I guess?
There is a general human need to share thoughts and emotions and this is just one way to go about it. I don't know if it is a 1000 miles away from the reason we write on TubeNet?

Jonathan "who has never blogged"

[jacojdm]

Narcissism.

[Dean]

BLOG has a wide definition, in my opinion.

For the average person, I agree, it is pointless. But, some people want a public diary. Think of it for THEM, not for YOU. If you don't want to read it, don't read it. They write for their own reasons. It's not too different than writing here.


A BLOG has its uses when merged with experts, in my opinion. Many tech journalists will post a few blogs a week. I have learned quite a few useful PC/iPhone/home theater tricks by reading such blogs. Things do get hairy when "journalists" start spewing "information" with absolutely no sources though. Many writers have no idea they have so many facts wrong... I have noticed this lately when reading about electric cars and serial hybrids.

Blogging has its place, but like everything else on the web, most of it is crap--the rest is useful.

[OldsRecording]

Narcissism.

Didn't Andy Warhol say that in the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes? Somewhere, Mr. Warhol is watching and laughing hysterically.

[MaryAnn]

I have a blog which you won't find easily, because my name is not associated with it.

What it's for is a couple things:

I have some interests that are, let's say, off the usual path, and having a blog is one way to make contact with other people who share those interests. (google finds my blog, as it does everybody else's. someone googling my particular unusual interests will find my blog.)

Also, I have medical issues that standard allopathic medicine is helpless to deal with. I have found some unusual or alternative solutions after much personal research and experimentation. I am far from the only one with these problems, and the blog exists partly to provide goolgers with a perspective that may help them.

So it's partly narcissistic (finding others who are "on my path") and partly atruistic (attempting to help others via the solutions I've found.)

MA

[windshieldbug]

So it's partly narcissistic (finding others who are "on my path") and partly atruistic (attempting to help others via the solutions I've found.)

In a nutshell, that's what the web is all about.

Like a language, some people use it to conduct business, some to transfer information, some to wax poetic, and some to howl at the moon.

[rocksanddirt]

you should blog more bloke....

on a more serious note, I have nothing useful to contribute on the subject of blogs.

[mclaugh]

Someone explain this to me...

>>>Why do people do this "Blog" thing?

Why do they write seemingly VERY private information for complete strangers to read...?

To out pompous asshats.

[Dean]

Someone explain this to me...

>>>Why do people do this "Blog" thing?

Why do they write seemingly VERY private information for complete strangers to read...?

To out pompous asshats.

You know, funny thing is, I clicked this link and read a lot of that blog and some of the links in it.

I've been to that coffee shop a few times. I'd not heard of this "incident" till now. Amazing what the internet can do to a scene like this--that would have only been witnessed by maybe a dozen people before the internet days.

[MaryAnn]

I have some interests that are, let's say, off the usual path, and having a blog is one way to make contact with other people who share those interests.

Ooooh, the mind just races!!!!

Had to respond to that....settle down now, it has to do with spiritual growth. Feel better now?

MA

[OldsRecording]

Someone explain this to me...

>>>Why do people do this "Blog" thing?

Why do they write seemingly VERY private information for complete strangers to read...?

To out pompous asshats.

What about the modest asshats?

[Rick Denney]

To out pompous asshats.

From www.residentgeniusmyass.com:

Most people do work for people who know less about that work than do they. If it wasn't so, there would be no need to hire them.

I keep reading about our "service" society, and about how people are underemployed in the "service sector".

That means: 1.) we have lots of service being offered, and 2.) it's being offered by people who are smarter than they need to be to perform it.

You would think that would enhance the service. You would be wrong.

True story, but based on an old joke that I first heard from a fellow TubaMeister:

Me and a few buddies stopped at a Shoneys for a late night meal in Austin many years ago. I had a mind to eat one of my favorite meals (sadly, no longer allowed even if I could find a good one here in benighted Virginia): Chicken-fried steak.

Me: "I'll have the chicken-fried steak."

Waitress: "I'm sorry, we're all out of the chicken-fried steak."

I peruse the menu some more. "Okay, I'll have the sirloin steak."

Waitress: "How would like that cooked?"

Me: "Chicken-fried."

The Murky story is hilarious. The problem is that people are just getting fed up with those who offer service treating them without respect, but since they are products of the same foolishness, don't know how to fight back without giving up their hard-earned high ground. Mud-wrestling is entertaining, too, but I usually prefer the combatants to be a little easier to look at.

Rick "who can hang with most with blog-style writing" Denney

[windshieldbug]

Now that you mention it, the food-service industry is probably a VERY GOOD preparation for how you will be treated by most orchestral conductors...

[Todd S. Malicoate]

Want to deal with difficult customers? Try the auto parts sales business. Or, better yet, try being a service writer for a car dealership or large repair facility (like a Firestone, Midas, etc).

At least people go to restaurants because they like the food there. Nobody wants to buy an alternator for their car or pay for a service to their SUV.

[MaryAnn]

Not having met your daughter but having worked in the food industry many years ago (graveyards, while in music school,) I'd guess that she has never learned to kiss a$$. The customers at the offending tables appear to be ones who tip on a$$ kissing instead of service.
I've been with men in restaurants who seem to think that the waitress's "job" is to respond to their obnoxious flirting and sexual innuendo with appropriate (in their view) flirtatious behavior. Those that do, I can see their eyes smoldering while their lips smile. Not a fun job to have.
MA

[Todd S. Malicoate]

I think MA completely missed Bloke's point...perhaps she lives in a part of the country where such behavior (as Bloke described) doesn't occur?

Todd S. "who thinks the phrase "certain identifiable groups" clarifies what Bloke meant very well" Malicoate