This is one of those bland notes about my site that is eminently ignorable, except to the tech heads who for some reason visit this site (maybe because they’re my friends?). I just modified my site’s RSS feed to display how many comments there are for each post, if any.
If you think this is a good idea, a bad idea, or especially if this is annoying or a problem for your feed reader, please let me know.
And if you do comment, well, that’ll test the new feed feature. Everybody wins!
Oh, by the way, I don’t know if I mentioned, but I took the most annoying ad out of my blog page. It’s a little less jarring now.
And I made the photos on every page except the front page be random—the front page is still the latest photos. What I’d REALLY like is if the photos were ones from the same date as the post, but that’s not possible right now. Sigh.
“Almost every American I know does trade large portions of his life for entertainment, hour by weeknight hour, binge by Saturday binge, Facebook check by Facebook check. I’m one of them. In the course of writing this I’ve watched all 13 episodes of House of Cards and who knows how many more West Wing episodes, and I’ve spent any number of blurred hours falling down internet rabbit holes. All instead of reading, or writing, or working, or spending real time with people I love.”
“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”
You can scroll right easily by holding down the SHIFT key and using your scroll wheel. (Firefox users trying this will end up jumping to old Web pages until a) Firefox releases a fix, b) they change their settings like so.)