tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-92011490732016796292011-04-21T11:39:45.923-07:00"If everybody else jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?" No. But change jumping off a bridge to starting a blog and the answer is yes.Roryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16081647033256777456noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9201149073201679629.post-55452942981614362382008-09-22T19:13:00.001-07:002008-09-22T19:26:59.814-07:00I just read this article from the New York Times. In it, Aaron Sorkin (the creator of the amazing show <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0200276/">The West Wing</a>) writes a scene where Barack Obama meets Jed Bartlett. It really makes me wish that Jed Bartlett wasn't fictional. Well, even more than I did already. <br /><br />I loved reading it for the political commentary which Aaron Sorkin is just so good at, but I also loved it because I just miss The West Wing so much. It was like getting to read part of a new episode. <br /><br />Anyway, here it is: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/opinion/21dowd-sorkin.html?_r=2&amp;em=&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;oref=login&amp;adxnnlx=1222081319-o3u7Nkr565LsKQ4MFYKSeQ&amp;oref=slogin">Obama meets Bartlett</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9201149073201679629-5545294298161436238?l=jumpingofftheblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Roryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16081647033256777456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9201149073201679629.post-35671620185456012662008-09-20T21:04:00.000-07:002008-09-20T21:20:39.137-07:00I have resisted for so long, but I have finally started a blog. My relationship with the internet has been rocky, but at the moment, I think we're on good terms. In high school I was resistant to things like livejournal and myspace, but eventually caved and joined up. Those didn't last. More recently I was convinced to join facebook to play online scrabble. They got rid of the scrabble, but still, I hang around to keep in touch.<br /><br />Forums are another thing I have had issue with. I tried a few times to start posting on them, but every time I either got bored or was driven out by cliquey users. <br /><br />Then I found <a href="http://www.postpunkkitchen.com/forum/index.php">the PPK.</a><br /><br />The PPK is a vegan forum where people discuss food, cooking, vegan stuff, diy, entertainment, and basically any random thing that comes into their heads. I love it. It has become my home on the internet and has actually changed my life (god that sounds pathetic). By that I mean that it helped me transition into veganism. I also made some good friends through it and even found love. <br /><br />Since signing up for the PPK about a year and a half ago, my relationship with the internet has become much more friendly. I sign up for online communities, and I sometimes even keep up with them. I read blogs. I spend hours sitting in front of my computer in the middle of the night refreshing the PPK forums to see if anyone has posted anything new... but not in a weird, sad way.. really.<br /><br />So now I feel like I can start a blog. But I didn't have anything specific I wanted to blog about, so I started this crappy thing. Enjoy.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9201149073201679629-3567162018545601266?l=jumpingofftheblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Roryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16081647033256777456noreply@blogger.com3