Loose Ends and Live Wires

The non sequitur of the month. This is how I found out I had been spam commented.

I saw the above search engine query in my stats, as a search string that led to my page.

I thought it very strange. I don’t ever recall writing any of those words in my blog.

Then I looked and saw 40,000 spam comments in my blog posts.

So apparently what happened: somebody posted those words into a comment in order to mark my blog as spammable so that other posters could come along and spam it.

If this post results in lots of new attempts to comment my hypothesis will be confirmed.

In case any real person is reading this, I regret I was forced to close down commenting for the foreseeable fut

Deleting all the garbage will take a while too.

Here I am reading, at the Stone Soup Poets where I often do, thanks to Chad Parenteau for putting the video online, and for hosting the venue.

The central address of it is captaincormorant.com and from there you can find links to my poetry, my resume, and back to this weblog.

is there a reader?

Welcome to this blog’s new home at captiancormorant.com!

Still remodeling; the old theme is not available so I got a new one.

Dear reader, if I have a reader yet, feel free to post comments.

My Rooster has his moves down! He can kick, peck, jump and show off his tail feathers.

I have 15 years digital prepress experience; I know Quark Xpress and Miles 33 and lots of other good stuff, and I can do good work for you like I did for those other guys for 15 years. Experience with newspaper pages and classified ads.

Inquiries welcome at
e n e l s o n i n p r i n t [at] g m a i l [dot] c o m

A ronin is a samurai without a master, looking for someone to serve.

So, in a way, am I, having been laid off from work. ( I am not a swordsman, but the pen is mightier than the sword, and I am good at writing, layout and computer stuff )

So people need to realize that I ARE AWESOMENESS, (as one other person put it) and use my services because I am good at a lot of stuff.

I can do a lot of stuff and I can do it for you.

The passive voice is sometimes a clue that someone is dodging responsibility. For instance someone may say “mistakes were made” and that’s a symptom that he hopes we don’t notice who made the mistakes. However it is not possible to retranslate “I made a fool of myself” in such a way. I am the captain of my destiny, and I have only myself to blame if I don’t deal with things.