7 May 2008
I suppose BLOGS are good. Who knows, BLOGS may even stop global warming. I know computer marketers support the BLOGGING industry because I read it in their BLOG once. Microsoft and the good MacIntosh folks at Apple.com have provided access to BLOGS about making BLOGS and using BLOGS, so they must care about saving the world. Considering their altruistic heritage, I'm sure it has not crossed their mind that links to sample BLOGS may entice future BLOGGERS to purchase expensive BLOGGING computers that can leap tall buildings and compound sentences in a single bound.
I read a lot when I was a child and had a somewhat extensive vocabulary, but the word BLOG never came up. It didn't come up because it wasn't a word back when Barney Rubble and I grew up. However, through the creation of the computer and the innovative wonder of language, we have BLOGS. This fairly contemporary concept of the electronic media, whereby a person or group can keep and share an online journal, i.e. "web log," allows us to keep a running tally of thoughts and ideas as they percolate over time. I guess it's just a diary on electronic steroids.
Technology doesn't scare me though, I can handle change. I'm sorry blacksmith's were put out of business, but I prefer driving my truck around as opposed to getting my butt chaffed from a pony's back. Wow, using that analogy, I'm sure technology makes a lot of ponies happy too, but, that's another BLOG. Putting my thoughts into a format for others to peruse, and perhaps critique at their leisure over a cup of morning java, whoa boy, now that gives me the heebie-jeebies.
So, with fear and some trepidation, I have anchored my bungee cord to the guard rail of the bridge to the 21st century and leapt into the cyberspace of BLOGDOM.
Hmmmm...
Ok. This ain't so bad. Even so, it "kinda" reminds me of the girl who chased her future husband until she caught him. She had him, but didn't know what to do with him. Now, I have a BLOG. But, like the bride to be, I'm not sure what to do with it.
So, while I'm thinking about what to write, I'll post some of my favorite pictures. Maybe someday soon something will happen in our little town and I'll write about it. Till then, I'll be watching the wheat grow.
-Randy Parks
4 comments:
You are cracking me up. It is supposed to be your life in writing, not a bio-videography. I'm sorry they didn't have cameras prior to your wedding or it would have been a complete brief summation of your life.
Glad to have you in the blogosphere, looking forward to keeping up via the computer... we can still stay in touch in person as well....
Can you believe it!!! I disagree with Steve! Life in writing?! Steve you are so in the early 2000's man. The word Blog originated from the phrase as web log. So anything you can log on the web. . . you can blog I say. Although I have to say, Dad can whip us both in "entertaining composition" on the web. I will strive to get better. Dad . . . I don't care what Mom says about ya I like ya!
Dave's OUT!
Dave and Steve in disagreement...what a concept..."brilliant!"
I must say...I am not quite speechless...
Steve, if you had read the BLOG, I said I was putting some of my favorite pictures in there for entertainment while I tried to think of something to say...after thinking about it, I may have to address the arrogant nature of some Mac users in my next BLOG when I review my childhood through first grade...though we had no cameras, I may still have some pictures friends drew of me...
;-)
Hey Dave...although I hate to say it...you still better listen to your mom...more so now than when you were younger...
Love you guys.
-Dad
Randy, your BLOG now is officially bookmarked. I loved reading it and look forward to more. Our family (Shackelford side especially)is big on blogging. With so many of them spread all over the US and the World it has been, and is a great way to stay connected. You write wonderfully! For the record, I think Steven and Dave are BOTH right. Sometimes you write biography, sometimes it will be a little like a Diary and other times it is a written reflection on whatever is on your mind. Your Blog is whatever you want it to be(and I LOVE the pictures)!!! PS Which one of you has a MAC??
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