November 23, 2005 — Dooced

dooced – v. 1. To lose one’s job because of one’s website.
2. Getting fired because of something that you wrote in your weblog.
3. To have all social hell break loose when people you know and/or family members finally find and read your blog.

“Blogger Heather B. Armstrong coined the phrase in 2002, after she was fired from her Web design job for writing about work and colleagues on her blog, Dooce.com”

Courtesy of UrbanDictionary.com

News to Make You Blue Blue Blue

Blah blah blah, I’m a typical black guy, here are some poorly laid out points about why I dislike George Bush. This doesn’t come up very short of being Kanye West’s ‘George Bush doesn’t care about black people’ statement. He just managed to write it out, sort of.

You know what I think the answer is to a raising AIDS population? More abstinence programs, and cutting funding into providing condoms to third world countries.

Will Sharon’s new party help or hurt prospects of peace with Palestine? Short answer: No (?), Long Answer: It wasn’t going to happen anyway.

Catholicism: Rainbow free. Sorry homosexuals, I know you were very desparate to join the ranks of a failing, crumbling religion, but guess what? Too bad. Just try to become a punter on the Arizona Cardinals or something instead.

You could argue. You could campaign. You could vote. But any well informed economist will tell you that you’re wasting your time. And here is one that does.

Oh, and remember the idea of missle shield system? Well, a year of work from Meelosh and Yafgany made it worthless. Great.

And in one point of boring dribble, the worlds most ugly dog died. Only in America could something grosser than Julia Roberts become famous for no good reason.

One point of happiness: the Ukrainian’s celebrating the one year anniversary of the Orange Revolution. I’m happy to see Ukraine move away from Russia, the big drowsy bear that seems to like to fall on its neighbors.

Post #101 and Some Updates

We have reached post #101. It took 3 months and a lot of development. But we’re here and this site is finally getting to where it needs to be.

Things to look for:

You can now email posts to your friends. The site has also been widened, design has been generally cleaned up, posts per author on the front page are limited to 1, Google Ads have been added.

Next big steps: all authors will be ‘categorized’, or at least sorted. There will be a rating system, and more ‘personality’ blogs will be added, as well as ‘dailies’.

Thank you to everyone involved in this project and people spreading the word about this site. I truly appreciate everyone’s efforts.
If you need to contact the management here, you can email PBH at [email protected].

November 22, 2005

panoply: n. 1. A splendid or impressive array.
2. Defensive armor in general; a full suit of defensive armor.

Panoply is from Greek panoplia, a full suit of armor, from pan, all + hoplia, arms, armor, plural of hoplon, implement, weapon.

Drifts to my displeasure

Fall has fallen
And Summer has set
Winter has come
Much to my regret.

Now in this season
I sit at my station
With cold, clammy hands comes
Uncomfortable masturbation.