Practicalmadness

It is said that the unexamined life is not worth living. You have to admit that as a quote, it seems much more reasonable than the following:

Pride is closely related to hubris, which is closely related to arrogance, which is closely related to downfall.

As to who said it, I don't recall with any reliability, but it is safe to assume that they maintain a journal of some kind, and if they were alive today it would be a blog.

This is the part of the movie where I segue wildly into a list of really annoying memes which have infected Practicalmadness.com over the past week, then vanished as if nothing happened:

• References to Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events, e.g., "repetitive, a word which here means 'really, really annoying.'"
• The practice of referring to myself, Your Author and Better, as "the Management," and writing weblog posts, homepage text and about pages in the first person plural. We are over it.
• Footnotes.¹
• The use of really, really bizarre metaphors to make my points, to obfuscate the fact that I don't really have any. Imagine a room full of flesh-eating piranha, with a Swedish Chef finger puppet dangling from a gossamer-thin strand of spaghetti suspended from the ceiling. Were the floor made of water, you may have trouble reaching the puppet, but either way, my case for "Parsing David's Increasingly Psychotic Prose" as an Olympic event gets better all the time.
• Bulleted lists.
  • Next week, I may yet switch back to angle quotes.
    • Ooh, or numbers!
• Remaining blind to the fact that having the Wee Spaghetti Lad on every single page makes it difficult for those of us with really lazy eyes and short attention spans to tell one page from another. Our engineers are working on the problem, and we are prepared to offer the Spaghetti Boy no less than five(5) cans of Chef Boyardee if he will consider moving over to the right-hand column, or at least shrinking slightly, on most pages deeper than da hizzome.
• Referring to the home page as 'da hizzome'. This has been used exactly twice, and we will not speak of this again.

Next week: posts in Latin. "Salve, Porcellus!"