So about that whole blogging thing...

So turns out I made that last blog post and then encountered college life and next thing you know I'm a sophomore. I realized only recently that this isn't working out. Blogger requires a fair amount of effort and upkeep, and rightly so. But I don't have time for it. Worse, I don't even have much worth writing about.

So I made another change.

I jumped on another bandwagon.

Don't shoot me.

Seriously though, Tumblr is something I've resisted for a long time, mainly because I thought of it much like I thought of Blogger. I had to be witty, insightful and long-winded in every post. I had to have something to say. Sadly, I do not.

That's where Tumblr comes in.

Every day, I browse an unbelievably large assortment of links, photos, videos and other strata of the great procrastination machine known as the Internet. For a while now I've been simply sharing the better ones on Facebook, but then it hit me: why not use Tumblr? Many of the things I was sharing were even from Tumblr, so it'd be that much simpler to share them.

Makes me kinda sad to officially close this project down. It's been dormant for a while, with short intense bursts of activity every once in a while, but it'll always be my first extended foray into the blogosphere. I'll leave it up for the same reason I started it: in the hope of positively influencing someone, some day, somehow. If anyone ever takes away anything meaningful or thoughtful or just plain humorous from what I've written, I'll be content.

In the meantime, here's my Tumblr (yes I posted the same link three times). You'll find that it's much more active and, hopefully, worth a look.

ManEatingBadger, signing off on Blogger. Happy browsing.

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P.S. Sorry Lee!!! I didn't see your comment "Awaiting Moderation" 'til now, many apologies. I like your sites, hope you keep posting. Keep the faith.

It's been a while...

Hey all, I know it's been months since my last post and years since any real activity here. My life has been and will, I fear, continue to be hectically hectic. My apologies. Anyway, the death of Moammur Gaddhaffi (someone please standardize that spelling!) brought to mind my written response to the killing of Osama din Laden over the summer, my aforementioned "last post." So I typed in that dusty URL--and was amazed. 

Blogger's gone through quite a change, a revolution. Everything's been revamped. I like it. And I just had to start toying with it. You may notice that my blogs have all received minor tweaks, and there's the very real possibility that I could pick these back up right where I left off. I think soon I'll have much more of a story to tell. When I first started this project, the old Of Regurgitations and Nutshells, I had no idea what I was doing. I thought I could write, and write well. I thought I could be entertaining. I thought I could be relevant. 

The reality is that I was a sheltered American teenager from northern California, a graduate of private schools from prekindergarten through high school and borderline socially inept. I fancied myself an expert on all things military and history, and to those who knew me I was perhaps the closest thing to a walking encyclopedia of those subjects. But my expertise was armchair, recycled and regurgitated from numerous online and print sources. Not uncommon, but hardly relevant. 

Class of 2015, Baby! 

In a sense, that hasn't really changed. I'm still an awkward American teenager, about as lucky in love as I am thus far in employment. But I'm no longer in high school. Or California. I'm currently attending the Elliot School of International Affairs at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. I can step outside my dorm and be anywhere on the national mall in minutes. I'm taking Beginning Arabic and am hoping to become fluent. I'm attending seminars and debates, watching people who matter in action. And I'm loving it. 

So in short, no promises. I hope to post here when I can, especially when something interesting happens, and, it being the nation's capital, something's always happening. Still, it feels like senior year never ended, like the workload carried over to college except now my hordes of extracurriculars have been replaced by basic housekeeping and chores. But know this: 

ManEatingBadger lives.

[Man-Eating-Badger] Begins

It's come to my attention that many readers (it's true, you exist!) find my chosen username interesting and somewhat comical, which is perfectly fine and dandy. But I guess it's time you all learned the story behind the name "Man-Eating Badger".

Unfortunately, my name's story was never nominated for any Emmys, or even made into a Hollywood blockbuster, but all the same...

It all started when... actually, I can't remember exactly where I was or what I was doing, but somehow I ended up clicking on what I thought was one of those faux-news links; y'know, the tabloids screaming about Bush's involvement in a 9/11 cover-up or something equally inane. Here's the URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6295138.stm

'We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area.' - Major Mike Shearer

I promptly fell out of my chair laughing before I could finish the article, which I could see was kosher BBC. One of my favorite lines: "UK military spokesman Major Mike Shearer said: 'We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area.'"

And that, kids, is how I came by the handle of "Man-Eating Badger."

Into the Blogosphere

Okay, so I already had the Youtube, Picasa, and even a Yahoo! 360 (since closed) account with which to keep myself amused, but the blogging tools on 360 always seemed so primitive and glitchy. Then I caught sight of some other REALLY COOL blogs here, and decided BAM - I'm moving.

To make a very short story even shorter, this blog will function as an edited version of my Yahoo! 360 blog, which is still alive (and glitchy) over on Yahoo! Profiles. Obviously, I intend to make this one much snazzier, in case anyone happens to notice. Several online acquaitances of mine have blogs here, so I'll no doubt be pinging them with incessant invitations to wax rhapsodic on the brilliance of my thought processes...

Wow, I haven't written that much BS since... well, since a coupla months ago in school :) Bottom line: I write here in the hope that some aimless passerby will somehow have his or her day enriched by gleaning something thoughtful from what I say. And if no one does, well, it's an excuse to write, something I'm hoping to do more of as a hobby.

In the meantime, stay tuned for reviews of books and video games! And the occasional FSX screenie...

- ManEatingBadger -