Bar the Doors and Hide Your Daughters — Blogging Will Occur Tonight!
It’s a grey, windy, rainy day today — the sort of day that practically demands that you hole up under a small mountain of blankets with some sort of delicious comfort food and watch cheesy movies well into the evening hours.
That would be, in fact, the perfect way to spend the day and I’d love tot ell you that I’m typing this from my elderly iBook (you know, a MacBook Pro would be a nice gift from any interested Shack readers with a few bucks to spare, no?) from deep inside Chicken Soup Cave underneath Mount ComfyBlanket, but I can’t. I’m stuck here at work looking down the barrel of a monthly report that will take me most of the day to complete. So the blogging won’t happen until this evening, which is good, because I have ought to say about this movie and this review thereof. I won’t give the whole thing away, but I will say that most science writers should probably just stick to writing about science and leave movies and politics alone, because when they get outside of their area of expertise, their ability to write with authority drops considerably.
In other news, though I’m back to blogging fairly regularly, I’ve not quite hit the stride I want to hit yet. There are a few more changes coming to when I write and what I write about (and perhaps a who or two, though you shouldn’t hold me to that), along with a couple cosmetic changes to the blog. I’ve been spending most of my spare attention on the podcast (which, by the way, is making me very happy indeed) and you can expect to see more podcast/blog integration happening shortly. One medium will wash the other, as they would have said had there been podcasts and blogs around when they made up that saying about hand cleanliness procedures.
But more on that later. Until then, let the report-writing grind on!
UPDATE: Oh, and this is not quite the pinnacle of national security idiocy, but it wouldn’t take more than a short Sherpa-back ride to get there.
UPDATE 2: I might as well throw this story in the blog-hopper, too. If you listened to the latest episode of The Delivery, you know I consider health care (and the progressive attempt to trash what we have and put a more totalitarian system in its place) the most important political issue Congress will face this year.
Also, I promised some Sesame Street stuff, too. That’s coming.
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I like the archaic flavor of "I have ought to say", but–it hearkens back to an era when spelling was a matter of taste. Nowadays, the spelling "ought" generally means "should," and the homonym that means "something" is usually spelled "aught." It has the advantage that the reader who's unfamiliar with it can say, "I've never seen that word before, perhaps I can look it up," rather than "I know all these words, but they don't mean anything together."
(I started out being even more critical, because this is the first I've seen the spelling you used, but the Oxford American Dictionary says you're not wrong….)
To be honest with you, I was going to change it to "aught". Originally, I had written "I ought to say something", but thought that "I have aught to say" sounded better and wouldn't take much to change. I realized that I could change "ought" to "aught" but I like the older spelling in this phrase.
I have seen "ought" used this way before, but not very often. Maybe that's why is appealed to me.
Hmmm…not sure what I missed…"ought" is not a common word? It is where I'm from.
Well, "ought", in that context, isn't common. He's right about that.
Anyway your "retirement" would even embarrass The Who.
I think of myself as Brett Favre-ish.