Georgius the Peasant

Recommendation!

Tuesday, August 29, 2006 9:19:49 PM

this-blog, megalomania, blogs, doomed optimism, pessimism

For those of you who read Norwegian, I can recommend this blog. The guy, apparently, is the teacher of an online friend of mine, and he writes cleverly, with both comedic and intelligent insights.

I have to say, if I'd had the energy, that is a weblog much like I'd like this to be - other than that I, of course, also like to do the stuff I already do. But ideally, I want to write small essays and amusing tidbits like that every now and then here, too, and somehow, I do that less and less.

So, just keep reminding me, people - I'm supposed to be funny(ish) at times! I'm supposed to be somewhat intelligent. Like this guy obviously is, only probably less so. (Yes, I'm aware that can be interpreted in two ways, but my self-depraving instincts have rarely been so totally in harmony with my megalomania as in that sentence, so we'll just leave it be. The ambiguous pun-sucker in me would veto any attempt at changing it now anyway)

Prison Break, 2x2HADES - a series of attempts at finding a look for the character

Comments

Unregistered user # Wednesday, August 30, 2006 5:21:20 PM

tyblazitar writes: Haha, yay. Thanks for the link to my LJ. :D Oh, and he's every bit as awesome IRL too, although strict. He wrote a "hovedfag" (?) about how some people only consider books to be the "real" literature, arguing that computer games, movies and even MSN-convos should be equal.

Unregistered user # Wednesday, August 30, 2006 7:27:03 PM

Shepherder writes: Yup, that guy seems to be pretty awesome.

Georgius the PeasantLoki Aesir # Wednesday, August 30, 2006 7:55:31 PM

Strict is good. You need the discipline.

Unregistered user # Tuesday, September 5, 2006 5:37:45 PM

Terje writes: Wow. This has got to be the most awesome blog/thing I've seen. Ever. Practically every post is a stroke of almost pure genious, and I thank the Gods that my own blog is so horrible that I don't even begin to suffer of an inferiority complex. I always knew that mediocricy paid off in the end. :D

Georgius the PeasantLoki Aesir # Tuesday, September 5, 2006 6:55:25 PM

If mediocricy pays off, that means you earn on it compared to, say, superiority.

If you earn on it compared to superiority, that means superiority DOESN'T pay off.

Which makes mediocricy superior to superiority.

Which means mediocricy is superior.

Which means mediocricy is superiority.

Which means your blog cannot possibly be mediocre, as that would entail its being superior, which you have stated it is not.

The only remaining conclusion I can see logically possible after this deduction would be your blog being inferior.

Thus, I'll have to disagree with you. I do not think your blog to be of inferiority, thus, your statement about mediocricy paying off in the end has to be wrong.

Unregistered user # Tuesday, September 5, 2006 11:12:41 PM

Terje writes: "If mediocricy pays off, that means you earn on it compared to, say, superiority." That'd be true only if I'd refered to mediocricy as paying off in a general way, or in an absolute way. Which I never did; I only said that in this instance, I benefited from having a merely mediocre blog, relative to what'd happen if my blog'd been good enough to be compared to the above mentioned blog, which it isn't. (The my benefit: Not having to suffer from a inferiority complex.) Of course, if my blog'd been superior to the above mentioned blog, I'd have benefited even more, but as that isn't the case, mediocricy only paid of in relative terms, not in absolute ones. Or maybe you're right; it's a little late at the moment. :P

Georgius the PeasantLoki Aesir # Wednesday, September 6, 2006 5:18:39 PM

You said you "always knew mediocricy would pay off in the end". That implies general application rather strongly, and even if it hadn't, it would still be absolute, as it is something you KNEW - not believed - ALWAYS - not "for some time".

Your other arguments appear sound at first glance, though, and I'm tired, so I won't give them a second for fear of finding counter-arguments and then having to write them down. ;-)