Exclusive Preview of Decided Points by George W. Bush

The fictional non-fiction department of Bold Lentil is excited to provide an exclusive preview of Decided Points by former president George W. Bush. Finally a book about the historic George W. Bush presidency as can only be told by the former president. Learn about the man, the president and his many decisions. But also learn about him in his own words. Not someone else's.

How to Make a Label Post in Blogger

If you're using blogger and know some UNIX it's pretty simple to make a label post for your blog. Yes you could do this with a widget, but then you might miss a chance to use sed.

First go to the Dashboard.

Click on 'Edit Posts' and then the manage posts page should have all of your labels on the left side.

Go to your browser and view the source. Save the source to a local file - in this case it's posts.g.html.

Next go to your UNIX terminal and select only the labels for your blog using:

grep "apply_" post* | sed -e 's/<\/option>/\
/g' | sed -e :a -e 's/<[^>]*>//g;/ temp.1

Go ahead and remove any spaces at the start of a line:

sed -e 's/^ //g' temp.1 > temp.2

Format the labels as a URL anchor with the /search/label blogger path. You should of course replace www.boldlentil.com with your blog name:

sed -e 's/ /%20/g' temp.2 | awk '{printf ("<a href=http://www.boldlentil.com/search/label/%s&g;t\n", $1)}' > temp.url

Finally create the anchor text and paste the pieces together:

awk -F : '{printf ("%s</a>, \n", $1)}' < temp.2 > temp.sa
paste temp.url temp.sa | awk -F ~ '{printf ("%s ", $1)}' > temp.ml

Paste the resulting HTML in the Edit HTML view for writing a new post:


37, al Qaeda, al Zawahiri, Alcatraz, amigos, ammonites, andre the giant, Andy Goldsworthy, angel, angle, annoyance, app-engine, arcade room, artichoke, Aspasia, Atlanta airport, attention, azkaban, backwards post, bad McLuhan pun, baidu, Bansky, barcelona, basketball, Beaver Falls, binder clip, Bloc Party, blogging, blogoflat, blög, Bottom of the Hill, boulders, bouncing ball, brazil, bromeliads, bucket, Buddha's hand citron, buddies, BugRank, bulgaria, bus stop, Bush, calculadora, calculator, CAPTCHA, carnegie international, carry-by, cartoons, carved lids, cat, cellophile, cellular automata, chew lips, Chomsky, cloud calculator, coast starlight, comments, computers, constult, corpus linguistics, cross-blogging, crowdsourcing, curve, dachshund, dan black, David Lesar, david shrigley, dead moose, delucidate, devils tower, diachronic post, divide by zero, dots, dried fallen oak branches, dried flower, drip, Dubai, duck-milker, durian, ear-witness, economy, Elvis, estarcido, explicandum, fake, fengyun bang, files, filing, filing cabinet post, flag lapel pin, foof, freeland, fruit, fuzzy math, geo-stencil, get well soon, glasses, goals, Granada, Grand Ole Party, Halliburton, halloween, hapax legomenon, Helsinki, horus, house slave, iframe, imágenes, in-situ measurement not recommended, inflatable animals, intelligent design, ira, James Joyce, james yuill, Joe Biden, Karl Rove, keywords, Kuwait, labels, laccolith, large eyes, large print, lean blogging, leaves, Legos, lemma, leopard, lesbian Wiccan Texan cellists, links, lists, lobster, Louise Bourgeois, low vision, lucuma, lynkbaiters, macaroni and cheese, maverick, mavericks, mayonnaise, mccain, memory, Merch, metronomy, Michael Palin, mixpost, mnemonic, mnemosyne, monkeys, monolith, moose, mosaics, muda, mullet, narratives, ni, night runner, ninja. ninja kick, non-dairy whipped topping lid, Not On My Island, notes, obama, objects, oboe, obtuse, oil, old years resolution, olympics, p.o.n.d., palin, pals, panga, partial success vs none, personal space, phat thu, pi, piles, Pittsburgh, playpost, plugs, pneumatic, Portland, president bh, proper respects, pumpkin, python comments with non-ascii, pöst, quarry, quotes, reference sheet, reremembered words, reverse long tail, robot, rock, roman, roof, saccades of beauty, Salvador Dali, Sarah Palin, school of seven bells, sculpture, seen, sertão, seven, shelf, shoe, signs and symbols, skull, snowflakes, software divergence, spanish, sphinx, spider, spiritual design, spleen, steady hitter, steganblography, stencil, sticker, sticks, strange activity, super-cross-linky, sweaters, symbol hunter, tabula rasa, tabula rasa engineering reference sheet, tag cloud, tags, tamarillos, tesserae, the big pink, the shortwave set, thirsty, tips, title is the tip, toast, tonterías, tools, train, transformer, translucency, triple-r, twitter, Ulysses, unique Englishes, videos, Voronoi Diagrams, w, walking, walks into a bar joke, water-cooler test, whinging, wiener dog, wink, wrestling moves, wyoming, youtube vs itunes, π, Ἀσπασία, 搜索风云榜,

Mixpost Wants Sequentially Triggered Embedded Videos

School of Seven Bells with the keep on driving of "Half Asleep"


then Transformer with the keep on playing of "Cinema Car"


then The Big Pink with the keep on untying of "Velvet"


and on to Mr Beasley with the keep the fuzziness of "Right as Rain"


then Freeland with the keep on agitating of "Under Control"


then Delphic with the keep on wondering of "Counterpoint"


then Plugs with the keep on begrudging of "All Them Witches"


and finally Rex the Dog with the keep on mixing of "I can See You, Can You See Me?"



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Airport Tweets

Continuing the previous post's aural fixation, I hear a loud cell phone user going on and on about needing to set up a 20 minute call to discuss the next steps on something.

Suddenly the hard to ignore conversation switches to the "land grab" that is twitter.

The cellophile brags, 'look I tell you I got all the major airport codes, like LAX and I got newyork and brooklyn' and so on. Seems impressive enough.

But then I'm thinking - well yeah what would an airport tweet?

'wear socks without holes'
'we inspect all fluids'
'your airline is to blame'
'trains suck'
'OMG more snow - check web site for details'

For that matter what would a city tweet?

'how many times do we have to tell you - sort your recycling?'
'how about that new stadium?'
'the governor is to blame'
'suburbia is overrated'
'OMG more snow - check web site for details'

I'm also thinking surely the terms of use for twitter include not impersonating an airport or neighborhood or city.

There are in fact tweets for airports: LAX, ORD, and SFO, - doh SFO is Studio SFO, doesn't even look like airport updates. Looks like SJC is private. PHL is, or was by the time you read this, tweeting about a power supply.

Likewise there are tweets for cities: newyork, brooklyn and sanjose - doh sanjose's tweets were disabled - due to " due to strange activity".

Indeed.

Yesterday I Heard a Woman Get Hit by a Car

Unseen, a woman and a car collide.

That sudden stillness and undivided attention by the onlookers. People reach for cell phones and traffic stops.

The sound is nothing like a car crash.

Nothing fatal, no head injuries but a thrown body and significant bodily injury.

A doctor happens to be on the seen. A siren in the distance and questions of what to do.

Staring doesn't seem to be all that helpful but several people don't seem to be able to do much else.

Getting impatient with blocked traffic also doesn't seem to be helpful but several people seem to have other places to go.

Being oblivious also seems unhelpful but two women drink coffee and talk about youth soccer until the fire truck lurches up. "What happened?" they ask. "A woman just got hit by a car" a staring person replies. "Oh wow."

A listening person marvels that staring and being oblivious are options but then is being an ear-witness any more helpful?

Devil's Tower, More than a Laccolith?

While there is only one result on Flickr for Devils Twoer there are 8,511 for Devil's Tower. Elsewhere you can find a nice close up of the igneous intrusion and some eerie photos from a rainy day visit to the tower. There's also a nice view looking almost straight up the tower and there is also some discussion about Devil's tower as possibly being a laccolith. The tower also shows up on lots of climbing blogs, such as this cool climb to the top.

Welcome Bulgaria! What's the Deal Wyoming?

Checked analytics for the first time this year and while the intention is still to stay off analytics the stats were a good distraction. From the worldwide map of visitors, someone from Bulgaria has found bold lentil. Welcome.



But Wyoming?

Nothing.

Not a single visitor.



Fine. Time to do some research and post some more topics of interest to people from Wyoming.

But wait isn't this just blogging for the map?

Some kind of abstract collection on a color coded map.

But if the goal is to get a visitor from every state, every country even then how does the task of blogging shift? Instead of a narrow topical focus that reflects from personal interests out, the writing has to be diverse, localized and more a reflection of potential visitors interests.

Blogging from the outside in, so to speak.

Might even be cheaper than collecting $12.50 in state quarters.