Egocentric Interpretations of Academic Rigor
When you write code late at night near a television, you may find yourself watching things you never want to see. So I discover I am watching a C-SPAN channel at about four o’clock in the morning—stupidly depriving myself of holy sleep. And I hear this reporter talking about Blog writers. And his tone and innuendo inspires the title of this post.
The Internet historically was also a tool for scientists to communicate—in addition to what you might be using the Internet for now. Even though I do not posses a doctorate in physics, I consider myself a scientist and I know that I have scientific lifestyle habits—which will be self-evident as days on this Blog increase, explaining a lot to my friends and associates. Writing notes to a Blog is easily one of those habits.
Egocentric interpretations of my behavior are unavoidable. I explain this at kintespace.com in my December 2004 article “Basic Black: the Funky Sutra.” I am not going to let myself get flabby and out of shape just to avoid feeling strange while watching some talking heads on CSPAN try to map out a world for a flat Earth.