It’s a beautiful, sunshiney afternoon here in the SLC, with blue skies and temperatures in the high 60s, probably for the last time this year before winter’s cold, clammy hand closes its skeletal fingers around the valley (how’s that for an image of impending gloom?). I should be outside, making myself some vitamin D and raking up my leaves before tomorrow’s rain turns them into heavy, sodden mush. So what am I doing? I’m surfing the web, naturally… life in the 21st century. Sigh.
\nCan’t help it, though… I keep finding interesting stuff that leads me deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole. So, just in case you, too, are not playing outside like the good kids ought to be, here’s a special Saturday edition of Drive-By Blogging linkage:<\/p>\n
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\nWhy, precisely, was she singing \u201cdo-wah-diddy diddy dum, diddy do\u201d as she was there, just walking down the street? And it have something to with clapping her hands and shuffling her feet, or were those completely unrelated activities?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
A good question indeed… although it’s probably best not to search for too much meaning in pop music. I mean, what the hell is a “Safety Dance” anyway?<\/p>\n
- And finally, Wil Wheaton’s “Geek in Review” column this week<\/a> is a long one, but it’s a goodie, and it’s particularly applicable to this afternoon, and how I’m sitting here at the keyboard instead of working outside like ought to be:
\n\nMy limited time is the most valuable commodity I have. I can always earn more money; I can always eat more food; I can stay up late if I didn\u2019t finish that load of laundry in the afternoon. (Curse you, Guitar Hero III: Thief of Daylight!) But I can\u2019t get back time that\u2019s already spent \u2013 in some cases, wasted (the time, not me) \u2013 on hollow pursuits, so I think very carefully about how I invest my limited free time, and my even more limited \u201cme\u201d time. Here’s a look at a typical afternoon spent in a twisty maze of options, all enticing . . .<\/p>\n
LOOK
\n>A twisty maze of passages, all alike, is behind you. You face a wall with four doors.
\nEXAMINE DOORS
\n>There are four old doors: Movies, Television, Books, and Games.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/ul>\nAs the line goes, you must choose… but choose wisely. And on that note, I’m off to rake my leaves and enjoy the last mellow flicker of autumn. Have a better one, everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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![new poster<\/a> collage of characters from all six chapters of the Star Wars<\/i> saga. I have no idea if it’s meant to be a 30th anniversary commemorative piece or what, but I’m thinking I need to get one for the Bennion Archives. There’s an idea if anyone out there is trying to think of what to get me for Christmas…\nVia Scalzi<\/a>, I learned this morning that the novelist Norman Mailer has died<\/a>. Mailer is one of those writers I’ve always meant to check out, especially his Pulitzer Prize-winning doorstop The Executioner’s Song<\/i><\/a> — which is of special interest to me because of its local connection; Gary Gilmore’s name is still infamous in these parts, even though I was only six when he was put to death — but as with so many others, I’ve never gotten around to reading him.\nAnother item<\/a> from Scalzi, a matter of burning importance:\n\nWhy, precisely, was she singing \u201cdo-wah-diddy diddy dum, diddy do\u201d as she was there, just walking down the street? And it have something to with clapping her hands and shuffling her feet, or were those completely unrelated activities?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\nA good question indeed… although it’s probably best not to search for too much meaning in pop music. I mean, what the hell is a “Safety Dance” anyway?<\/p>\nAnd finally, Wil Wheaton’s “Geek in Review” column this week<\/a> is a long one, but it’s a goodie, and it’s particularly applicable to this afternoon, and how I’m sitting here at the keyboard instead of working outside like ought to be:\n\nMy limited time is the most valuable commodity I have. I can always earn more money; I can always eat more food; I can stay up late if I didn\u2019t finish that load of laundry in the afternoon. (Curse you, Guitar Hero III: Thief of Daylight!) But I can\u2019t get back time that\u2019s already spent \u2013 in some cases, wasted (the time, not me) \u2013 on hollow pursuits, so I think very carefully about how I invest my limited free time, and my even more limited \u201cme\u201d time. Here’s a look at a typical afternoon spent in a twisty maze of options, all enticing . . .<\/p>\nLOOK\n>A twisty maze of passages, all alike, is behind you. You face a wall with four doors.\nEXAMINE DOORS\n>There are four old doors: Movies, Television, Books, and Games.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/ul>\nAs the line goes, you must choose… but choose wisely. And on that note, I’m off to rake my leaves and enjoy the last mellow flicker of autumn. Have a better one, everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s a beautiful, sunshiney afternoon here in the SLC, with blue skies and temperatures in the high 60s, probably for the last time this year before winter’s cold, clammy hand closes its skeletal fingers around the valley (how’s that for an image of impending gloom?). I should be outside, making myself some vitamin D and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/www.cinematical.com\/media\/2007\/11\/star-wars-series-(3).jpg\"){kind=link}