Webrings
As you may have noticed, I joined a few webrings. Thought that it would be a nice thing to do, since obviously people are looking for a way to get out of my site, might as well send them somewhere useful :).
I’m going to get off the blogrolling one, not specific enough. The Homeschool webring is cool though. Will be joining a few more, just for fun!
I started a webring for “Third Culture Kids”. The only contition to getting on the webring is that you have to be (or have been) a “Third Culture Kid” which is someone who has spent most of their formative years in countries outside their country of “origin”. I don’t have a lot of time to cultivate it, so if you have a site that you want listed then tell me. I need to fire up a couple of pages that can be used as home pages for the ring.
October 27th, 2003 at 10:41 pm
So what countries you lived in outside your country of origin then? “What’s the Story” of Aaron?
October 27th, 2003 at 11:21 pm
Ahhh, good question! Like with many TCK’s even the term “country of origin” can cause a fair amount of confusion. My Mother is from Finland, my Father is American. I was born in Finland, but have only spent a total of a little over 2 years there, with the longest strech being from when I was 14 till I was 16, when I moved away from my parents.
Before that I’d lived in Switzerland, Jordan, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Portugal and Denmark. After that I lived in Sweden, Ukraine, Slovenia, Hungary, Uganda and Germany and England. Visiting just about every other European country during this time (I still need to go to Holland, Norway and Bulgaria).
The Story is pretty long… hopefully after a while of blogging I’ll be able to have a bit of the story down for others to read
October 28th, 2003 at 12:22 pm
So, what do you call someone who spent 0-18 in country of origin in a largely non-country-of-origin environment? (No “c” derivatives allowed.
October 28th, 2003 at 12:44 pm
Stranger in a strange land? Fish out of water? Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, spent most of his life in the small Swedish-speaking community of Finland, which they called the “Duck Pond”. Even famous people have lived in this kind of environment!
October 28th, 2003 at 12:44 pm
Oh, and Aaron - what’s “TCK” mean anyway?
October 28th, 2003 at 6:37 pm
Yeh, the fishie one would be about right.
Is Linus Finnish? I discovered the other day that he was in Finland when he came up with Linux. You must be joking about him being “famous”, though. No offense to all you Linux-aficionados out there, but really…
October 28th, 2003 at 11:10 pm
That “small” swedish community in Finland consists of %6 of the population, and all children who were in school before 1997 (or somewhere thereabouts) were required to learn Swedish as well as Finnish. Finland is officially a bi-lingual country and all signs are in Swedish and Finnish.
I think it’s like being a French Canadian, made fun of by both the Canadians and the French…
Anyway, Linus Torvalds IS famous!
October 29th, 2003 at 2:11 am
My God Ange!!! You are one brave woman, I would never ever dare to come on to NEMO’s blog and suggest that Linus isn’t famous, talk about flame bait.
Excuse me a second while I cool down his flame… Torvalds is one cool dude, oh and he is famous to most and infamous to some (Primarily M$ and SCO) !!! — And I mean that with every bit of sincerity.
And now, at the risk of turning up the flame a touch…. I would appreciate it if he and the companies that distribute Linux could spend more time making it work!!! — They are the underdog software guys so IMO they should be bending over backwards to make drivers for the hardware out there.
The goal of an OS is to be a platform for getting things done, not a permanent TESTBED!!! If I could use all my stuff with Linux then I’d use it fully, but that still seems to be a long ways off.
October 29th, 2003 at 1:07 pm
Nah, simply a non-partisan perspective.
_Your_ post is more likely to generate flames. 
They’ve been running Linux ads on CNN International recently.
— — —
Quoth the man:
“Microsoft isn’t evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.”
“My name is Linus, and I am your God.”
“See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.”
“Software is like sex: it’s better when it’s free.”
“Some people have told me they don’t think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph. They’d be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.”
“The Linux philosophy is ‘Laugh in the face of danger’. Oops. Wrong One. ‘Do it yourself’. Yes, that’s it.”
“When you say ‘I wrote a program that crashed Windows,’ people just stare at you blankly and say ‘Hey, I got those with the system, for free.’”
October 29th, 2003 at 1:41 pm
Nah, my post can’t really be considered flame as the good captain himself knows my stance on these issues and we argue them from time to time. I just seize upon the opportunity to take a quick jab at it every time I feel lucky.
I am more of a fence sitter then anything else; I sit on the fence and criticize just about anything.
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October 29th, 2003 at 3:59 pm
Geez, and I thought it was only me who would carry on with way off-topic discussions
October 29th, 2003 at 5:36 pm
Yeh, sit back and watch evolution take its course.
October 29th, 2003 at 6:46 pm
You guys callin’ me a monkey?! Okay, I’ll be quiet before we start deliberating Sol’s evolution. Besides, I was _partly_ responsible for the deviances.
I still need a good practical joke, though…
Hey, Aa, is there a way I can be notified of new comments so I don’t have to do so much scrolling (am I lazy or what?), or is that all part of the bona fide blog experience?
October 29th, 2003 at 7:24 pm
I’m sure there is a plugin for comment notification, but I don’t have anything installed. I can send you an email notification when I update the blog itself.
You want?
October 29th, 2003 at 7:45 pm
Groovy, me want! Sank-oo.
October 30th, 2003 at 1:19 am
I thought of doing an email notification on mine as well. Actually I was designing a blog-content-to-email thingy, but in thinking about it I didn’t really want to run the risk of pissing people off.
October 30th, 2003 at 1:47 pm
Couldn’t it just be an option, that way if someone opts for it, they shouldn’t pee their pants when they receive it?
October 30th, 2003 at 4:24 pm
Yeh but it’s somewhat similar to signing up for PORN in your INBOX, you like it at first but then it starts to get tedious, then eventually it turns into P#$&^N enlargement SPAM.
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