Back in May, Eddie the Renaissance Geek wrote about trying to get ahead in the blogging game, especially when the WiFi goes out:
“Thankfully, I had several “silly season” posts already scheduled. I’ve started writing those as I think of them and scheduling several of them throughout each week, about a month ahead of time. That way, if something happens on this end, like an outage, you still get your dose of Eddie that makes you wonder why you keep coming back to this here blog.”
I replied: “You absolutely SHOULD post ahead. I went about 5 days not writing anything, but you wouldn’t know it.
I finished FOUR posts TODAY, but I may have no Internet access from Saturday-Wednesday. It’s particularly useful for occasions – anniversaries, holidays.”
Eddie responded: “My problem has always been that once I get the cushion built up, I slack off, instead of building on it. I am, however, working bit-by-bit on December posts, since that is the time of year when I tend to disappear from online life.”
The regular blog IS an art form. And because of this, the spontaneity of the blog sometimes gets lost. Which is where YOU come in. YOU get to Ask Roger Anything.
As always, you may ask me ANYTHING, ask for advice or opinions or philosophical musings. Not only I will answer, reasonably soon, generally within thirty days, but I will also probably have to BUMP something I’ve already written for a date in favor of YOUR question. Mixing it up: now THAT is exciting, in that 1) I have to figure out what to postpone and 2) it means I usually have NO idea what I posted that particular day until it goes live, and THEN see the typo I had missed when it was in draft form.
Your queries I will answer, to the best of my ability/memory/flashback honestly, though the mind is a sometimes thing. A little obfuscation on my part IS allowed!
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What is your Favorite Beatles song? what is your Favorite Aretha Franklin Song? What is your Favorite Joni Mitchell song? What is your favorite Blotto song( For you Albany people)? And who is Lydia’s favorite singer?
Sometimes you’re in a group of people debating a pretty simple fact (e.g. are nectarines just fuzzless peaches or are they totally different?) and no one whips out the $500 hunk of technology in their pocket and Googles it. Why not? It’s a basic fact thing.
How do you explain to your daughter how to vet sources?
In your opinion, is Wikipedia a reliable source?
What’s one area of scientific research that you think we should be funding more (other than medicine and climate change)?
What’s been the most suprising world change in your lifetime?
Who is your favorite president and why?
What was something nostalgic for you until you revisited it and the nostalgia wore off?
What are your favorite and least favorite kinds of donuts? And if you don’t like donuts, what is your favorite pastry? And if you don’t like pastry… you’re no fun.
My wife inherited a house. What’s something she should know about home ownership?
Are you a coffee drinker?
What’s your ideal breakfast? What’s your usual breakfast?
What’s your favorite newspaper comic strip ever?
It’s not really a traditional style “Ask Roger Anything” question, but can you do a post on George Takei?
OK, bu it may take a bit.