OK, so no one in their right mind should be reading this yet, I am just trying to figure out how blogger works, and type in some content (after a fashion). This is, in fact, my attempt to force myself (is that the right term?) to actually write on a daily basis, since I have heard that no one follows blogs that don't have new content on a more or less continuous basis.
So, why this title? Because, of course, since I am starting with Blogger practically decades after blogging became a thing, and I had to think of a title that no one else had taken (meaning something rather long), yet a title that I might actually remember next time I'm at a party and someone replies, "Oh, you have a blog? What is it called?" I do have an intrinsic interest in particle physics (despite avoiding all sub-atomic classes at SJSU and instead messing around with an unpaid internship at the Stanford Tandem Van de Graff accelerator (to prove out the use of nearly microscopic pieces of carbon for carbon dating in an effort to not dissolve the majority of a valued artifact to just get an approximate date) which actually went no where because I was an idiot back then and just frittered away great opportunities (or at least potentially great opportunities).
So, that's why I chose that name, although, I may not actually mention much particle physics in this blog, having had no more than a hobbyist's understanding of it (in a hobby where, without a billion dollar instrument, one is mostly just chatting about what other people might be doing). I am also interested in Elephant Polo, cinema (both historical and modern), Mondrian, Origami, yoga, tank vs anti-tank technologies and most topics currently taught at university throughout the world, and any of these topics are equally likely to be examined in my new blog, since I really need something to write about and don't really have a specific area of expertise. I do know more about geology, skiing, rebuilding VW air cooled engines and bicycle mechanics than an average citizen, but I seldom talk about what I really know and am compelled to speculate (and research) stuff that I really am astonishingly ignorant about. I will do my best to NOT ONLY use the internet for my research, but when possible I will talk to actual people involved in something (assuming that they're not lying to me, or at least expressing my skepticism if I think they might be). I might even talk about sex (although not in too much detail, since I don't think I've set this up as an over 18 site, although perhaps I should considering my penchant for occasionally attempt to swear like a drunken sailor (despite the fact that I'm a lousy sailor - something I hope to remedy some day, and I don't drink - something I plan not to remedy). I won't demonstrate right this second, but as soon as I figure out how to flag this as NSFW, I'll let go with a nice riff of drunken sailor speak, and you can judge the veracity of my claim. I also need to figure out what kind of writing this is, certainly it's starting out as stream of consciousness, but I have the feeling that I want it to be rather more: perhaps not a discussion so much as a viewpoint, but at least something other than "and then I had a non-fat-mocha-latte-pink-froth bathwhistle for breakfast" kind of blog (no twitter blogging, so to speak). I will also do my best to use spell check (at least for the words I don't make up) and I will review my post at least once for grammar (although not being much of a grammarian, I can't make especially bold promises for the results of any such reviews). OK, I am going to attempt to post this, see what it looks like, and then move on with my life (meaning this is it for today, probably, unless I get inspired watching "Selfie", which seems unlikely because even though I am watching it because of the demure and exotic Karen Gillan, my personal opinion of the show is that if nothing changes, it may not make it to the Christmas cuts, if that's even something in TVLand. But Karen is delightful, if not always endowed with the wittiest of dialog on this particular show - maybe they should see if Steven Moffat could write her some lines - he's not renowned among fans for his feminist plots, but it seems that Amy Pond was significantly more eloquent than Eliza Dooley of "Selfie")
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