First comment: I've gotta admit, you do a remarkable job of keeping your two halves separate. Everytime I come over here and read I feel like I'm reading someone else.

Second comment: You threw ME on a tangent just now. I wanted to write something about how our writings can identify us. And a-ha, I just noticed that actually does sort of tie in with my first comment there. What a surprise... what a... thing, of some sort. BUT, I couldn't figure out what it was exactly I wanted to say about that, so maybe I'll come back to it, but the tangent you threw me on is the idea of reading sources online. I didn't read your link there about the faces; I went there for a second and immediately saw that that post was in response or relating to something else, which was linked right at the top. So I started thinking about just how deep this sort of thing could go.

Not that this sort of thing hasn't always gone deep like that, but here it's become easy to go ahead and link to a source and then leave some stuff unsaid. In fact you commented on that in another entry I just read. How much is left out? I've always been fascinated in the way information not only degrades when it's transmitted and interpretted by people, but also shifts and changes point. What I'm talking about isn't what you were talking about which probably wasn't what that linked post was talking about which probably wasn't about...

I think noise introduces new meaning to a signal, too. which is my favorite part. Which if I get into right now I won't finish for a while. So I won't.

And thanks for the link to The Raven. Seems like a good thing to check periodically.