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Toe in the Water

by Beholden

Rated: 13+ · Book · Experience · #2223922

A tentative blog to test the temperature.

Ten years ago I was writing several blogs on various subjects - F1 motor racing, Music, Classic Cars, Great Romances and, most crushingly, a personal journal that included my thoughts on America, memories of England and Africa, opinion, humour, writing and anything else that occurred. It all became too much (I was attempting to update the journal every day) and I collapsed, exhausted and thoroughly disillusioned in the end.

So this blog is indeed a Toe in the Water, a place to document my thoughts in and on WdC but with a determination not to get sucked into the blog whirlpool ever again. Here's hoping.

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10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

Beholden

12 minutes ago
In response to "The End of the World"

All true, Dave. But the press wouldn't be printing their hysteria if we all stopped buying it. And that, I believe, is what is happening at the moment.

Dave Ryan

32 minutes ago
In response to "The End of the World"

In most cases it seems like it's the headline-hungry media who turn the hysteria dial up to 11. When you trace it back to the original quotes, they're generally fairly measured.

We have a "newspaper" in the UK called The Daily Mail which is notorious for this kind of nonsense. Scientist says there's, say, a 1% chance of a collision with such-and-such a comet/asteroid/whatever (estimates to be revised pending further measurements) and the DM fills their pages with cartoons of big rocks landing in London, with comparisons to nuclear strikes, blast radii and body counts. Then when it doesn't happen, the scientists get the undeserved ridicule.

But then, measured reporting doesn't get the page clicks.

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Ned

about an hour ago
In response to "The End of the World"

I thought I was the only one rooting for the asteroid.

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Beholden

about 2 hours ago
In response to "A Story in a Sentence"

It is indeed - except that this came first and the Bradbury later.

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Amethyst Angel 🍀

about 2 hours ago
In response to "A Story in a Sentence"

This is a whisper of a Bradbury story you wrote, isn't it?

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Polaran

about 14 hours ago
In response to "First Post?"

Congratulations on launching your blog! I really like the name of your blog. Right now, you may just be dipping your toes in and testing the waters, but I hope that one day you’ll be able to swim freely in the vast ocean. 🌊✨

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Kåre เลียม Enga

about 19 hours ago
In response to "First Post?"

I was the first person to mention this on the newsfeed... just saying.

I tend to blog every day and comment somewhere every day. Some of my blogs are based on comments I've made elsewhere. It can be easier to just comment.

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JASmith

a day ago
In response to "First Post?"

I'm somehow reminded of people fighting to make the First Post in Slashdot.

Perhaps after making the first post in a new era, you will have a chance to reflect on what you want the new era to mean for your blog.

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Amethyst Angel 🍀

a day ago
In response to "First Post?"

That’s fine with me… I don’t want to clog up my music blog with daily micro posts, and I don’t have the focus or energy or desire to write a music essay a day, but I don’t mind cluttering up other people’s micro blogs with micro comments

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Ned

a day ago
In response to "First Post?"

Likewise. The question is whether this comment business is going to keep me from blogging for myself? My high dudgeon moments always occur far from the keyboard.

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March 2, 2025 at 7:10am

#1084635

First Post?

First Post?

The previous post was suggested by the arrival of the 7-day merit badge, of course. So, in a way, this one is the first post in a new era. And yet another occasion for me to feel guilty about posting so brief and inconsequential a post as this merely to cross off the day.

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