Big or small?

I posted this the other day, describing Simone's as a 'lovely and personal little blog'. Why did I stick the 'little' in there? What makes me think of her blog in that way? More generally, what makes a blog, big? I can imagine describing some blogs as 'monsters', even though the first page is only as long as any other.

Is it the weighty theological issues that are/aren't posted? Is it the average post-length? The busy-ness of the web page? What blogs do you read that you would describe adjectivally because of its vibe?

How would you describe this blog? Ambivalent? Turbulent? Flatulent? Opulent? Fraudulent? Covalent? (the nerds will love that one) Virulent?

The possibilities are endless!

Is it a crime?

I play an online football management simulation game called hattrick. It's a very cool game. It currently has 913,447 active users from all over the world. Over 4,000 of these are in my 'country', Oceania. (It's the only 'nation' in Hattrick (HT) that isn't a true nation)

I've managed to make it into the top league of Oceania. Currently, I'm sitting in 2nd place because of a completely undeserved loss last Sunday.

The question is, should I be happy about this achievement, or does this cast me into nerd-dom and and loser-dom and other-doms forever?

Commentors, how does your inner nerd express itself?

Shirts #6

While I'm doing these little 'spurt posts', I might as well give you a shirt to go along with it. For all you Germaine Greer fangirls out there who are simultaneously computer geeks reading xkcd:

I hate

My phenomenal lack of memory. I feel like I am robbed of profound thoughts, beautiful memories and encouraging reminders every single minute.

I am constantly mourning what I continue to lose every day.

Good advice

Simone R. (who writes this lovely and personal little blog) gave me this good bit of advice the other day that I'm benefitting from. This is my recollection anyways, so don't (a) blame Simone for poor sentence construction or (b) get confused by the quotation marks.

"When I was going through my questioning time at college I decided that I had to have an anchor. I made my anchor the Bible. Everything and anything else could be wrong. Everyone else in the world could be wrong. The whole of history of the church could have got this thing wrong. But I decided that the Bible must be right. And it was very freeing."

I think that was about it. A good tip.

A series of deep thoughts: post #1

Everything is spin. Everything.

Apology and shirt #5

Sorry about my lack of posting lately. I'm trying to make up for it with a mini-marathon this morning.

Here's another shirt for y'all.

This is definitely the best edition I've seen of this classic piece of theological writing.