When I ran across this Sunday from 2010, I had to choose it for today’s classic A&J, because a couple of dear friends of mine are leaving this morning for a vacation in France. I wish them a hearty bon voyage, and of course I envy them. Though, when it comes to the average passenger manifest, Janis Goose probably is closer to the truth than Arlo Goose. You’re going to roll your eyes at this next bit. I’ve talked about it on several occasions in the past, but you have to admit: some of the things I dwell on here to no apparent end do sometimes produce results, eventually. I am again/still giving my online presence a lot of thought, and I now, finally, realize this will mean a lot more than a cosmetically revamped traditional Web site. When it does happen, a lot of you aren’t going to like it at first. There are a lot of things I won’t like so much either, but social media are were creativity is headed. It’s largely there already. I do believe, however, that ultimately nothing we enjoy now will be lost, and a lot will be gained. I hope it happens sooner than later, if only because I can stop worrying about it.
193 responses to “Silly Goose”
Whatever your online presence changes into, Jimmy, I will be there!
Hopefully, this isn’t a hint that you’ll dispense with the website and retreat to something like Facebook… I can see your posts on the website, and get RSS feeds suggesting it’s time to look. On Facebook, I get what they decide to show me so I have to rummage to find stuff from people. That would not be a good change…
There were parts of the previous edition that I enjoyed as well, but obviously the ability to “talk among ourselves” is an added benefit. At first everything was moderated, which had to have put a strain on Jimmy, but for the most part, the people here at A&J.com have been surprisingly civil in an uncivilized world. I say surprising only because other places where discussion has been welcomed, the discussion has gotten nasty. Just look at the dark side.
Many newspapers use Facebook in order to post comments and based on what I have read here, I doubt that is the direction here. I sort of like the anonymity that we can have here, although at times I would love to say something privately to others without everyone that posts here reading it.
My Facebook account has an “On this Day” feature that shows my posts from previous years. 2 years ago my wife and I were in Italy, having a great adventure. Of course the end of the trip did not end well for me as one of my bouts of food poisoning happened at the end of it.
Mark: Congratulations for being well enough to go back to work. I timed my surgery (I know you did not get that luxury) so that it was near Christmas, usually a slower time of the year. However I did have trouble sleeping so I would wake up at 3:00 AM and skim through emails. Working for a Japanese company was helpful as some of my colleagues were up at that time. Everyone asked “What are YOU doing answering emails?” Simple answer: I was bored…but I also did not want to sort through 1400 emails when I returned to work!
Steve from Royal Oak, MI. I know what you mean about the emails. I have logged into my work email a couple of times just to get rid of the stuff that didn’t apply to me or what i did. My inbox had gotten so full I would not have been able to send emails (if I had been trying to).
Jimmy last year here at the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Show my dear friend and editor zjosh Colvin of Small Craft Advisor magazine and I briefly discussed that very issue. Pun, I know.
Josh while running a magazine that actually succeeds in a small niche knows that social media drives today’s market, not traditional media. He just bought the online boating magazine I am also associated with, the legendary Duckworks magazine and it’s supply company to move from Texas to here. It too continues to grow daily and thrive.
I will not forget Josh’s succinct words. “The ground is shifting beneath our feet as we stand here. If we don’t keep moving, we will simply fall in the cracks.”
Thought you might enjoy comment right about now. Keep moving my friend. We can too or fall into the cracks.
Hopefully, Hopefully is not correct…because my immediate thought as well was that the blog might be replaced by something like Book of Faces. And hopefully, that was just because of my admittedly (but, I promise, temporary) slightly dark outlook on things.
But as we used to say in the Air Force, when you mention something bad, it happens; when you mention something good, it goes away.
Ditto to Den in MN! We’ll follow you anywhere – haha!
We are not Facebookers, so…….
And yet pigs fly when they are not aerodynamically designed. I swore I would not book such involvement, didn’t care how many cute photos of my grandchildren were there or how many cute pins my daughter shared.
Here I sit sharing my life.
I have porcine aviators out in garden bearing male names. Do I need to add a sand?
Somehow, Jimmy’s above post doesn’t seem to get less ominous to me with additional readings. But again, that’s probably just me, right now, and perhaps it’s not actually a harbinger of doom. 🙂
A non-insignificant percentage of the people I know either have had the crud recently; currently have the crud; or are beginning to exhibit crud-like (Oxymoron? As in, it’s either the crud or it isn’t?) symptoms.
My stone Mason just reported in with Lyme disease. We are tick infested in Oklahoma right now. I had best be tested when I get home.
Ghost I hope you recover totally and return to your highly capable self. Hal says capacious?
Don’t worry. It will be OK and the Village will not disappear like Brigadoon. Don’t you vanish too like ephemeral beings often do. If bring my Glock will you give me shooting lessons? I need some.
Jackie, that’s the difference. You are sharing YOUR life, not someone else’s. Your adventures are happening now, with more to come. And what you share, and the others here share, encourages the rest of us to get up and get on with it.
Thank you Mark. A seagull seems to have dropped a large shell on my roof directly over my room in an effort to open it. Sounded like a brick and crashed onto rocks below. It sounded like a death wish gull clad in a coat of armor diving onto roof to his end.
Perhaps it was a tactical seagull attempting to make a dynamic entry.
My 20-year-old Glock has been retired from its everyday carry duties and is currently a “project” gun. I will try to speed up the modifications so it can be available as a teaching aid.
Stevie Ray Vaughn just came on as I began typing this with Pride and Joy, one of my favorites of his. So, I lost my beginning here. I was mentioning that my resident deputy got certified as a Glock armorer for his department. He is so proud.
Hal said Glockenspiel.
Hmm … do we have any Glockenspiel experts in the Village?
I’d like to see the holster for the Glockenspiel. Never thought of those as weapons. Perhaps the Germans used them as the Scots used bagpipes?
I thought the bagpipes frightened dogs and babies. Is the sound supposed to scare enemy? Well, it is other worldly.
Hooray! Charlotte home and Mark heading back to work!
Library Gal, I enjoy “Murdoch Mysteries,” too.
Jimmy, we’ll follow you wherever you go.
Definition of a “gentleman”: Someone who can play the bagpipes but doesn’t.
If I had a resident Glock armorer, my project gun would be finished by now. Tell Deputy Glenn I said good on him.
Sweet Charlotte, although I believe I failed to mention it, I too am very happy that you are at home and able to ambulate, even if a bit of assistance is required. Ref your walker, TruckerRon would probably tell you to keep the shiny side up and the dirty side down.
Crud has thoroughly kicked my behind, and work is kicking me now that I am down. And an older friend of mine just had a massive stroke and passed this week. I hadn’t been to see her in a while, and vowed to do so once I was healthy enough to visit her nursing home safely. I guess I will, but not how I planned. This week sucks.
Ghost darling I just had lunch with another certified armorer up here so don’t think I don’t have friends who bear weapons. I told him you were modifying yours and it took more than 10 minutes of cleaning. He said to tell you to teach me gun safety and not shoot myself or anyone else.
You could come visit me and you and Glen would have a guns, weapons, knives and defense fest and he could help you on yours. He’d like that. He also was a professional butcher in a past life so he’s great at grilling.
Miss Charlotte you know I am happy you are home with better food. Mark you know I am happy you are alive and recovered so speedily. Ghost I am glad you are recovering too. Mindy I am sorry you are ill too. Debbe I am glad you haven’t caught it nor your chick’s. Jimmy I hope you are better. Jerry I hope you haven’t caught it.
Are there any other members of the congregation we need to mention in need of prayer?