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Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:19:41 -0700

It looks like I'm starting to see a pattern in these stumbles and I'm getting tired of coming repeatedly across various kinds of popular content. It may be time for a leave. StumbleUpon is getting old. I have to find a new personal way to expose myself to semi-random novelties. I will be loging off for a while.

http://philigran.stumbleupon.com/review/31337691/

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:28:18 -0700

Just unsubscribed to humour, animation and comic book groups. I'm tired of stumbling on inept humour and redundant super-heroes pages. It now seems that the good bits are getting too rare.

http://philigran.stumbleupon.com/review/1825757/

Sun, 14 Aug 2005 09:26:42 -0700

Things have started to come down and I'm finally back online! I might stumble again, but I do not plan on making it a priority. I'll be still hang around close to my thumbing buttons, though. These links are there to be shared, after all.

http://philigran.stumbleupon.com/review/1566214/

Sat, 09 Jul 2005 05:57:37 -0700

I probably won't be stumbling much for the upcoming month. Real life is calling from too many fronts. Enjoy the archives.

http://philigran.stumbleupon.com/review/493708/

Fri, 19 Nov 2004 21:20:46 -0800

I must look into what friendship means here. So far, I've simply been returning all friendships and initiating none. Mostly due to passivity, compliance and fear of rejection. Not that I want to make too much of a deal of loosing a friend today, but I'll soon take the road to self-affirmation by declaring and declining my friendships based on the kind of Stumbles they provide me. I know, that means I'll be using my friends for what they can do for me. That's terrible, but it's also logical.

http://philigran.stumbleupon.com/review/435077/

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 09:57:17 -0700

Random Life Moment #2:
Websurfer Jack was anxious about what sort of person he might be in real life.

http://philigran.stumbleupon.com/review/434368/

Sat, 23 Oct 2004 22:04:36 -0700

Random Life Moment #1:
When Peter stumbled on Robert's blog, it didn't look like it had jokes in it.

http://philigran.stumbleupon.com/review/431544/

Sat, 23 Oct 2004 20:49:27 -0700

On second tought, I won't take a break. I'll just try not to stumble and stop writing my time away.

http://philigran.stumbleupon.com/review/427231/

Wed, 20 Oct 2004 19:11:57 -0700

You train your eye and your vision lusts after color.
You train your ear, and you long for delightful sound.
You delight in doing good, and your natural kindness is blown out of shape.
You delight in righteousness, and you become righteous beyond all reason.
You overdo liturgy, and you turn into a ham actor.
Overdo your love of music, and you play corn.
Love of wisdom leads to wise contriving.
Love of knowledge leads to faultfinding.
If men would stay as they really are, taking or leaving these eight delights would make no difference.
But if they will not rest in their right state, the eight delights develop like malignant tumors.
The world falls into confusion.
Since men honour these delights, and lust after them, the world has gone stone-blind.
When the delight is over, they still will not let go of it...

Chuang Tzu, Understanding the nature of desire, written ... a long long time ago

http://philigran.stumbleupon.com/review/420751/

Mon, 18 Oct 2004 00:00:50 -0700

Gasp! Is StumbleUpon turning into a dating site? My edit page is now asking me about my social status, sexual orientation and astrological sign! I'm concerned. I didn't register here in order to be checked out and (failed to be) talked to based on my (lack of) mating potential. Not that I'm against the prospect, but if I ever get matched up here, I would rather have it be incidental.

I'm annoyed by the ecology of dating sites. It's either too mushy or too obvious and too much about getting at something. I don't want SU be overrun by the same species that took over the chat rooms and who constantly type abbreviations instead of writing something interesting. I also want to maintain the right not to be sexy.