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Today, 14 January 2003, is the first official Bloggin' Lovefest!

Robyn has come up with a wonderful idea... to share the bloggin' love. The concept is simple: choose a blog you love and tell the rest of the blogiverse about it in 1,500 words or less. We've had enough finger pointing, pouting, and trolling in our blogs as of late (or as Robyn puts it, "it seems like the whole world wide web is on the rag right now"). C'mon, feel the love! ourmeds.org

I would like to introduce you all to Eric.

Eric's blog, Balance in Motion, contains a lot of content much like my own... Macs, photography, the outdoors, geek culture, and of course, daily random thoughts. Only he does it in a much more articulate way than me. Must be that Stanford education. ;) I often feel smarter after reading a typical Eric post. Either that, or just plain confused, heh.

Take, for example, this recent entry:

so ... if you say "the metaphor has broken down," you have created an implied metaphor, no? namely, comparing a metaphor to a machine. so it's a metaphor involving a metaphor, or meta-metaphor.

it turns out, according to Webster, that the etymology of "metaphor" carries us to the Greek "metapherein," meaning to transfer. "pherein" itself means to bear. extrapolating forward, you might say that "phor" on its own should bear the same semantics if used in English.

hence, since the sentence "the metaphor has broken down" itself bears a meta-metaphor, the utterance could be called a meta-metaphor-phor.

hm. i need help.

See what I mean? I had to re-read that many times over to finally get it. Isn't it great?

Eric takes beautiful photographs. Check out his gallery, if you don't believe me. I tend to live vicariously through his pictures of the great outdoors.

A minor, but otherwise essential fact is that Eric also has great taste in music and film. Oh, and *terrific* taste in coffee. ;)

Whose blog do ya love, baby? Participate in the Bloggin' Lovefest, too!