Some Blog Site

For a recent blog post, I knew I had written about “raising awareness” a while back and wanted to reference that. Not having all my blog post dates memorized, I turned to a search engine for help.

Many years ago, when I setup Some Blog Site, I added a search feature that uses Google to provide results. So I started with that. I looked up “awareness” on the site and did not get the page I knew existed.

Then I switched to Duck Duck Go and it gave me the page I wanted as the first result. Just for fun, I tried Bing, and Bing was also helpful.

I rarely use Google anymore, because my recent experiences with it are not good. If it won’t find things I know exist and am looking specifically for, how can I trust that it will give me the right results for something I don’t know as much about?

Note that I didn’t grab the Google screenshot before the latest post, so originally it didn’t have the first four results, which are the one I just made and not the one I was looking for.

Here are Duck Duck Go and Bing:

It seems Google prioritizes recent results and just kind of forgets about older results, not even bothering to mention they exist.

For fun, I thought I’d try one more check, with the keyword “helmet”.

Here are Duck Duck Go and Bing:

Anyway, I normally use DuckDuckGo now, because it gives better results and because I can turn off any AI responses.

Here is a guest post I wrote for SCL back in the day (2011 in case you’re wondering). It wasn’t run because I didn’t actually write a full blog post for Jon, I just sent him an outline of ideas. But I decided to fill it out and present it to you today.

What is the Entryway called?

Depending where you grew up, you call the church entryway different things. Please vote on what you think the church entryway should be called:

A. Entryway
B. Foyer
C. Vestibule
D. Narthex
E. Lobby
F. Airlock

I don’t have personal experience with this, but I was thinking about the old topic of raising awareness and for some reason I made the connection with drunkenness.

Normally to have fun you go to an event and it’s a higher level than your normal activity, so you end up having fun.

Being drunk fools you into thinking you’re having fun. Instead of going to something that’s a higher level than your normal activity, what it does is bring your mental ability lower so whatever you’re doing seems fun. But if fun, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder, I suppose that accomplishes its purpose.

This is somewhat related to the concept of raising awareness in that raising awareness becomes pointless when everything is raised. But it’s the opposite in that your current experience becomes better if you keep it the same but lower your brain functionality. I.e. you’re more easily impressed or amused.

Which might not seem to be a bad deal to some people, but you can’t sustain that. It’s like so many people these days – instead of aspiring to be someone better, they look to bring down the other people.

Here is a guest post I wrote for SCL back in the day (2011 in case you’re wondering). It wasn’t run because I didn’t actually write a full blog post for Jon, I just sent him an outline of ideas. But I decided to fill it out and present it to you today.

If you want to get out of some job or activity in the church, you have to bring a spiritual aspect to your reasoning. The easiest one in this case is to play the “body of Christ” card when someone asks you to do something.

“I know you need someone to teach Sunday school, but that’s like the role of the mouth or the hand or something. In the body of Christ, I’m the shoulder. Or maybe the collarbone.”

There are legitimate reasons to play that card though. Maybe you have tried to work in the nursery and you know that’s not where you belong.

Just don’t claim to be the tonsils.

Now that no one is talking about the Thorndyke font anymore, it’s time to announce that Font Grill has released a new font.

Introducing: Isabeau Font

AKA: Ladyhawke

Go download Isabeau.

I was inspired by the opening credits of the Ladyhawke movie. I was going to call this the Ladyhawke font but then another font in the movie caught my eye. I couldn’t make two different fonts both called Ladyhawke, so I decided neither one would be called Ladyhawke. I’m naming the fonts after characters in the movie.