Smile for the Internet

Smile for the internet, originally uploaded by Len Taing.

today i finally decided to have my blog go live. having a blog is one of the things that has been on my todo list for years. i too have been enticed by the power of the internet: where else can you pontificate, psuedo-intellectualize, and bitch and moan to some imagined audience that will always love you, always agree with you, and yes, think you’re SO cool!

And so, it was with great earnest that i signed up for my wordpress account…last year. and it was with equal earnest that i just had this account sit idle as i waited for that moment to have it “go live”. the problem, of course, was that i could never decide on what i wanted to write about. sure there were plenty of great ideas–though in hindsight, the one about living in an elevator for 41 hrs and blogging about it after was probably bad, and already done. And of course, there were many life events that could have inspired volumes of books!–err…ok brochures–composed mainly of stock photos.

for example, i could have written about how my world was shattered when i was diagnosed with leukemia this year [more on that in later posts--for sure!]. Or i could have done a public service and written about what my cancer treatment entails so that other newly diagnosed patients could gain a sense of what it is like to have my type of cancer–what to expect, how to cope, etc. And yeah, those would have been fine starting points. But those topics never clinched it–they never got me to commit to having a blog.

Do you know what clinched it after all this time? today, after browsing around the help section on flickr, i learned that i can have my cellphone pictures posted on a blog instantaneously. i nearly had a tech-geek-asm when i read it: imagine–i’m walking down the street and some very obese* person walks by–snap click bam! its on my blog. That, my friends, is why i decided to start my blog: to inundate you with the banalities of my life INSTANTLY**.

So dear reader, as most of you are people i know–either a family member or a friend, i have dropped all pretense to writing something good/valuable, or even acceptable/grammatical/coherent. so you shouldn’t expect this to be any different from the other crap that you’ll read out there…the difference, of course, is that this is MY crap! [see how the pontificating bit ties in ]

* – replaceable with: strong odored, slinky, or orange
** – i took the picture of my brother, above, using my cellphone, and moments later it was posted on this blog!

~ by lentaing on June 16, 2008.