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Do I Get to be Proud of 100,000 Pageviews?

Granted, it took 13 months. And there are blogs and sites getting 20,000 unique visitors a day that people online barely know about. But you know what? I’ve experienced firsthand from the net how many people are resistant to learning, resistant to reading carefully and well, resistant to anything that’s different, new, or – worst …

November 14, 2008 – 5:17 am | By ashok | Posted in blogging | Tagged , | Comments (3)

No kidding.

I don’t feel like reading Xenophon and writing a line-by-line commentary right now. What I want to do is write the most elegant flashy essay packed with a new reading of American history and its themes that will make us all perfectly rational voters eager to read Plato at the drop of a hat. I …

October 24, 2008 – 7:03 pm | By ashok | Posted in personal | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Thank you for your support – 50,000 unique visits looks like a healthy number…

…the more important numbers are the nearly 7,000 unique visits last month being surpassed already this month. Numbers tell nothing, of course – it could be the case that 500,000 people stopped by here, and it wouldn’t mean anything unless people were commenting, saying hi to me, asking questions of me and others, getting to …

September 20, 2008 – 7:25 pm | By ashok | Posted in personal | Tagged , | Comments (3)

It is possible to go over your own head…

…and I did that in the Heidegger/Dickinson post. Still reading to make sure that even if I misrepresent an issue or two, nothing is so crucially wrong it can’t be remedied. I really should have waited 20 years or so and made sure I read a lot more Aristotle before posting on this. Oh well. …

September 12, 2008 – 2:23 pm | By ashok | Posted in personal | Tagged | Comments (3)

Updating an Amazon Wishlist: Useful or a Waste of Time?

As I was buying a book or two for the dissertation, I realized I still tend to buy books I can’t possibly get full use of, and that there are books that could make me that much smarter which I have failed to get over the years. I really do regret the money and space …

June 28, 2008 – 1:30 pm | By ashok | Posted in personal | Tagged , | Comments (1)

Well, My Mom’s Famous…

Yes, that’s my Mother – and the story accompanying the photo is accurate.

June 15, 2008 – 3:47 am | By ashok | Posted in personal | Tagged | Comments (1)

If This Blog Becomes Popular, Will It Become a Cult?

Hmm: In sum, on this particular point, pre-conscious or dialectical processes of mentation may be contrasted with formal logic, etc., as a “domain” of process conceptions of whole processes in which the particularity, including the particular conception introduced to consciousness, is a determined feature of a determining holistic process. – Lyndon LaRouche, quoted in “Publish …

November 8, 2007 – 12:59 pm | By ashok | Posted in blogging, personal, politics | Tagged | Comments (1)