Funk Babblings

I'm on a lot of email lists. Some of them (mostly technical or pagan) I specifically chose to subscribe to, and others (mostly political) I ended up on through one affiliation or another and never bothered to unsubscribe. I also include status emails from my computers in the list category (at least that's the way my filtering/sorting system works). The way work's been going lately, I've had trouble keeping up with my list mail, so by this evening I had over 800 unread messages in that mailbox, going back to early October. So I spent much of the evening attempting to catch up.

Meanwhile, earlier this evening on a whim I read a bit out of a book on internet routing protocols. This may not seem immediately relevant.....

Anyway, going through this email from October (I haven't gotten up to November yet) was a bit surreal. Lots of messages about how well various Democratic senate candidates were doing (most of them lost, of course), lots of messages about Kerry and Edwards doing so much better than Bush and Cheney in the debates, and so on. Not good for post-election depression, though a sense of humor helps.

One message mentioned Bush's debate gaffe referring to the "internets", which every net-savvy person laughed at. But that routing protocol book reminded me that the truly net-savvy people are aware of other internets besides The Internet, whether small private inter-networks or large projects like Internet2. So maybe Bush was more right than he knew, though I still think it was a true mistake.


BTW, I'm heading to Columbus this weekend to help my grandmother recover from a stroke....