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April 11, 2007
Always Darkest Before Dawn
Yes, I am still alive with only about a week of hell to go (followed by a night of utter debauchery to celebrate my birthday).
Just to give you a sense of how far I've fallen behind with respect to recent events in the Ether, here is a screenshot of my RSS reader:
Ah, I miss Lounsbury.
Posted by eerie at April 11, 2007 02:59 PM
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why do you miss L? did you move the L-Bot server out of your apartment to an undisclosed location?
Posted by: drdougfir ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://eerie.aqoul.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at April 12, 2007 03:02 PM
No, it amuses me more if The Lounsbury (v 1.0) and Eerie (v. 2.0) are DARPA-funded artificial intelligence projects that were released to the internet as an experiment.
(certainly I could see the USG pouring billions of dollars into AI projects that just end up fucking around with blogs and/or insulting humans online instead of disabling nuclear reactors and the like)
So in reality, both the Eerie and Lounsbury infrastructures are at max load right now, with communication limited to keepalive signals.
Posted by: eerie at April 12, 2007 03:30 PM
should i even ask what nefarious activities the Eerie and Lounsbury mainframes are using their computing cycles for? let me guess... HoganBot (v 3.0)
Posted by: drdougfir at April 12, 2007 08:59 PM
Well, the recent events have lightened me load a bit.
Posted by: The Lounsbury at April 13, 2007 10:00 AM
I'm impressed by your even attempting to maintain the pretense that you actually keep up with roughly 240 blogs. Frankly, I read about a dozen daily and check another 20 or so regularly but less often.
Posted by: zenpundit at April 15, 2007 02:58 AM
Well, the nice thing about RSS readers is that I don't have to visit any sites "personally", as it were. The agent fetches all the entries/articles, sorts them into a bunch of pre-defined categories and then I skim them and flag the important-looking ones for later reading.
Aqoul is really the only site I check directly. Everything else is via RSS.
One can consume an insane amount of information by having RSS agents do most of the gruntwork.
Posted by: eerie at April 15, 2007 12:54 PM
Interesting, Miss eerie.
I set up a blogbridge uber-aggregator prior to the beta version coming out - not sure what iteration exists now - and never really got into using the thing. Perhaps I should try it again.
Posted by: zenpundit at April 16, 2007 12:25 AM
Try Google Reader. Still beta, but very versatile.
Posted by: eerie at April 16, 2007 01:11 PM
He bloody well needs a new site that is marginally less atrocious than the current one.
Posted by: The Lounsbury at April 16, 2007 05:16 PM
"He bloody well needs a new site that is marginally less atrocious than the current one."
Indeed, I fear that to be the case. However, the above was not a typo. Blogbridge is something else than the aesthetically unlovely Blogger.
Posted by: zenpundit at April 17, 2007 03:31 PM
It does look promising.
Posted by: The Lounsbury at April 18, 2007 08:48 AM
