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In other news, I attended last Saturday's Blogstravaganza!. I didn't record the attendee's blognames because Canadian Cynic was collecting those and was supposed to make a post, but no post has been forthcoming. I wrote to him to ask about it, but Yahoo's computer (which provides both my email address and his) said, "I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long." Why is 27 hours "too long"?
Anyway, it was a bit of a pain trying to find the Blogstravaganza! table on the restaurant patio. Idealistic Pragmatist's expectation that she would be the only female turned out to be incorrect. In fact, the group ended up with (I think) four girls and six boys. Of course, being a non-furry meet, there were no tails worn, plushy table decorations, tables full of nondescript college boys *not* being rowdy, or any other obvious indicators of where I should go, so IP ended up calling out "Bloggers? Bloggers?" to anyone who walked around the patio with a confused look on their face.
Considering that these were supposed to be the "progressive bloggers", there was rather a lack of political discussion. It was mostly chitchat about the bloggers' personal lives—the stuff that was too inane to post on their blogs. I tried mentioning C-61 but it seemed nobody had much to say because they'd already discussed it on their blogs. Also, the name "Stephen Harper" seemed to be a bit of a sore point. So we mostly just drank pitchers of dark English ale.
At one point, for no obvious reason, a fellow mentioned those fucking furries who put on their suits and, er, "wiggle". IP silently pointed in my direction. I explained that very few furries actually have sex in-suit because it's messy and the suits are expensive and hard to clean. I didn't go into the anonymous gay sex aspect, nor did I whip out my wallet photos of Wifey and the kidlets.
I probably tried too hard to talk linguistics with IP. When I mentioned Grice's Rule of Implicature, her laugh suggested inappropriateness and lack of context. She's a sociolinguist, but I don't really know what that means. Perhaps she is![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ozarque's kind of linguist. I don't like sociologists because they tend to be normative, writing just-so stories to explain why our culture *should be* whatever it currently *is*. I prefer anthropological linguistics, which may be why I married an anthropologist.
As for "how do I drum up more readers for my blog?", it seemed the only answer discussed was "join a progressive-blog aggregator". But my blog is too recherche (which means "research" in French and "affectedly pretentious" in English) and I don't know of any aggregate where I would fit.
In other news, I attended last Saturday's Blogstravaganza!. I didn't record the attendee's blognames because Canadian Cynic was collecting those and was supposed to make a post, but no post has been forthcoming. I wrote to him to ask about it, but Yahoo's computer (which provides both my email address and his) said, "I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long." Why is 27 hours "too long"?
Anyway, it was a bit of a pain trying to find the Blogstravaganza! table on the restaurant patio. Idealistic Pragmatist's expectation that she would be the only female turned out to be incorrect. In fact, the group ended up with (I think) four girls and six boys. Of course, being a non-furry meet, there were no tails worn, plushy table decorations, tables full of nondescript college boys *not* being rowdy, or any other obvious indicators of where I should go, so IP ended up calling out "Bloggers? Bloggers?" to anyone who walked around the patio with a confused look on their face.
Considering that these were supposed to be the "progressive bloggers", there was rather a lack of political discussion. It was mostly chitchat about the bloggers' personal lives—the stuff that was too inane to post on their blogs. I tried mentioning C-61 but it seemed nobody had much to say because they'd already discussed it on their blogs. Also, the name "Stephen Harper" seemed to be a bit of a sore point. So we mostly just drank pitchers of dark English ale.
At one point, for no obvious reason, a fellow mentioned those fucking furries who put on their suits and, er, "wiggle". IP silently pointed in my direction. I explained that very few furries actually have sex in-suit because it's messy and the suits are expensive and hard to clean. I didn't go into the anonymous gay sex aspect, nor did I whip out my wallet photos of Wifey and the kidlets.
I probably tried too hard to talk linguistics with IP. When I mentioned Grice's Rule of Implicature, her laugh suggested inappropriateness and lack of context. She's a sociolinguist, but I don't really know what that means. Perhaps she is
ozarque's kind of linguist. I don't like sociologists because they tend to be normative, writing just-so stories to explain why our culture *should be* whatever it currently *is*. I prefer anthropological linguistics, which may be why I married an anthropologist.As for "how do I drum up more readers for my blog?", it seemed the only answer discussed was "join a progressive-blog aggregator". But my blog is too recherche (which means "research" in French and "affectedly pretentious" in English) and I don't know of any aggregate where I would fit.