A Small, Nay, Tiny Favor
If you read Acephalous regularly but don't link to it, I wonder if you wouldn't mind taking a minute to do so. You see, I'm giving a presentation next week, and since it's about academic blogging, there's a chance people will want to experience for themselves The Thrilling Adventure That Is Academic Blogging ... and when they do, they'll learn that "I'm a [terminal] Adorable Rodent in the TTLB Ecosystem." I'd rather keep my pride, thank you very much.
(For those of you who suggest that I should just delete that bit of code from my site, I would in an instant were it not for the fact that doing so would torpedo the evolution of everyone I link to. Yes, guilt is polymorphous, if not always perverse.)
As long as I'm indulging, I'll reiterate what I wrote last week: my kid sister thinks me a friendless schmuck because (as of two weeks ago) no one other than wolfson had "friended" me on Facebook. Obviously, this isn't the case. I'm beloved by my adoring fans ... if only because I scare-quote "friended." (Who doesn't love a stickler for grammar?) Not that I'm all that concerned about this, mind you. I just want bragging rights come Christmas dinner.
I'm confused; do we need to do more than put it in our blogrolls? I've linked to you in the past 180 days, etc., but I'm here to help.
Also, as a matter of factual record, I friended Scott Kaufman a very long time ago, and it took him forever to accept the request. As I recall, the Little Womedievalist beat him to it by something like three months.
Posted by: Joseph Kugelmass | Wednesday, 16 May 2007 at 07:47 PM
You're in the clear, Joe. I'm just trying to evolve into a grammatical statement before next Wednesday.
That said, I'm a horrible Facebook friend; moreover, as someone reminded me tonight, my exclusion of all those of the feminine persuasion who have friended me is insulting in the extreme. I should've specified that I only get dinner table-cred if my friends are 1) guys, 2) single and 3) cute. (According the standards set and upheld by undergraduate women like my kid sister, of course. I have no dog in this fight.)
Posted by: Scott Eric Kaufman | Wednesday, 16 May 2007 at 08:02 PM
You're out of luck from me, Scott. A request for hundreds of comments falls into my area of expertise, this doesn't.
Posted by: Rich Puchalsky | Wednesday, 16 May 2007 at 08:37 PM
[phil collins]
You're no son, you're no son of mine!
[/phil collins]
Posted by: Scott Eric Kaufman | Wednesday, 16 May 2007 at 08:45 PM
Granted, though evolution-by-request is a bit cheaty, don't you think?
Posted by: hermit greg | Wednesday, 16 May 2007 at 09:09 PM
Humbug, Hermit Greg, humbug. I was a "Large Mammal" until their servers crashed a few weeks back, and now I've been devolved ... plus, with over 1,500 people reading this site daily, I think I deserve something better than a grammatical error. Also, remember, THE GUILT, THE GUILT! If I kill my TTLB account, I take others down with me. In evolutionary terms, this is actually interesting ... but I won't bore you with that sort of nonsense.*
*By "nonsense" I mean "material vital to the completion of my dissertation, my ignorance of which compels me to cry myself to sleep every night."
Posted by: Scott Eric Kaufman | Wednesday, 16 May 2007 at 09:16 PM
If facebook allowed silhouettes I'd join and friend you.
Posted by: eb | Wednesday, 16 May 2007 at 10:35 PM
Facebook does allow silhouettes, yes? Post a picture of a silhouette.
They police some things, but fortunately not that.
Posted by: Gian dei Brughi | Wednesday, 16 May 2007 at 11:53 PM
Well, then, if it's reevolution, I guess it's okay...
Posted by: hermit greg | Thursday, 17 May 2007 at 06:47 AM
Hey, dude, any reciprocity in this deal? I, like, have you on three blogrolls. I'm fighting to avoid grammatical error myself (as in "a insignificant microbe") and now you remind me it's not the only one in the ecosystem, even.
Posted by: The Constructivist | Thursday, 17 May 2007 at 11:21 AM
What I've always wondered is why they can't just change the code so that it says "an" instead. It seems like it would be a relatively trivial change.
Posted by: Adam Kotsko | Thursday, 17 May 2007 at 01:09 PM
They're associated with Pajamas Media, after all.
Posted by: The Constructivist | Thursday, 17 May 2007 at 02:30 PM
Facebook? Facebook?
That's a no-fly zone for me so I can't give you massive brownie points with my well-endowed awesomeness.
Posted by: JAKE | Thursday, 17 May 2007 at 02:54 PM
Was for me too, Jake. But then, you know, the humiliation.
Constructivist, you inspired me to update my blogroll ... or, "your wish is my command," as it were.
eb, what's interesting is that I changed my Facebook photo to the one in the upper left portion of this page, and I fully expect to be reprimanded for it. Thing is, it's the photo I'm best known by, even if it is a headless Lenin.
Posted by: Scott Eric Kaufman | Thursday, 17 May 2007 at 06:51 PM
In on the ground floor, that's me.
Posted by: ben wolfson | Saturday, 19 May 2007 at 12:59 AM
I should've specified that I only get dinner table-cred if my friends are 1) guys, 2) single and 3) cute. (According the standards set and upheld by undergraduate women like my kid sister, of course. I have no dog in this fight.)
And somehow I was found wanting?!
Posted by: ben wolfson | Saturday, 19 May 2007 at 01:01 AM
Sorry, sir. I don't go near Facebook. I'll mention you to the group of literate adults with whom I associate on LiveJournal, if that'll do you any good.
Posted by: Kiwi Carlisle | Tuesday, 22 May 2007 at 05:03 PM