Comments on: What’s the point?

By: walt

walt — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:26:56 +0000

Alane,

More power to you. My other friends who drive Mercedes also love them. Your evidence is real testimony that, with appropriate care, a Mercedes can last “forever,” or close enough. Which, as you point out, is a very good thing.

I was never arguing against Mercedes–not even the CL65. I was arguing against absurd statements.

By: Alane

Alane — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:21:40 +0000

I confess I drive a Mercedes although it’s a more modest model that was 1/4 of the cost of the CL65 five and a half years ago. I learned to drive a stick in a Mercedes, my dad rallied in a Mercedes and he drove that same 1980 diesel from Ontario, Canada to Panama when he retired there a few years ago. It has over a million kilometres on it. So, a Mercedes may cost more (or a lot more) than many cars but a loved one will last well beyond the lifespan of most ordinary cars. And that keeps them out of landfills.

By: walt

walt — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 03:32:47 +0000

Books! I should talk about books! (I read–a lot–but lately it’s more likely to be magazines and printouts. Sigh. I’d like to get back to the book-a-week habit. Maybe soon. Maybe not.)

Thanks for the kind words. As anyone who’s met me can verify, what you see here is what you’d get: I’ve never been good at assuming personae.

Oh, Christina, I just looked at Urchin. 1,682 search terms in the first 16 days of July (!), of which the first makes little sense (“subnotebooks”), but the next 8 are all reasonable. After that it just gets strange…

By: Brad K.

Brad K. — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 02:05:15 +0000

Walt, I think the answer to why non-librarians enjoy your blog, is your personality. You seem to be a sincere, polite host. You make the visits fun and informative.

And for those of us that read, there are times you shed a bit of light about books.

For myself, thanks.

Brad K.

By: walt

walt — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:01:25 +0000

I’m pretty sure I can (but I only look at the Urchin figures from home), but I really haven’t spent much time on them. I continue to be bemused by the pure number of visitors–but then, a look at links suggests that some “visitors” are just spam link sites. Why they’d bother with this little site is beyond me.

By: Christina Pikas

Christina Pikas — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:46:12 +0000

Can you tell from your server logs or statistics what google searches are getting to your blog? I get many for famous singers It’s sometimes pretty interesting to see how people are getting to your blog.

By: walt

walt — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:23:55 +0000

Yeah, if I could only learn Spanish, we might be thinking about houses in Baja–around Loreto, most likely. (I’ve tried, several times, but for some reason I’m resolutely monolingual except for computer languages. Really stupid for a Californian, I know. And sure didn’t help my GPA in college!)

Heck, around here, $186K would buy…well, it would make a nice 18% to 20% down payment on a modest house in our neighborhood. Maybe 25%, for a fixer-upper.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:20:25 +0000

If I had $186K for a car I would spend $150K on something worthwhile such as http://www.missionaryventures.org, a group with whom I go on medical trips.

Then I would buy a nice Honda or something like than and put the remainder in the bank to pay for gas as it seems the price would go up.

Who could possibly need a $186K car? I’m sure it is nice, but even I can’t be a conspicuous consumer.

Who am I kidding I’d buy a house in the Yucatan and retire if I had a spare $186K floating around. ( http://www.mexintl.com/)