The Internet is (among other things) a place for kindred spirits. Actually, that might be overstating things a bit, but it is at least a place one is often surprised to discover that other people share one’s most obscure interests, or one’s more outlandish beliefs. You may not like those people, but they’re out there – sharing your experiences, like it or not.

I have often described this little site of mine as the blog that does everything wrong. I tend to update infrequently, post slightly wordy pieces (tl;dr), I rarely use pictures in my posts, and my responses to current events are not timely. You see, I thought I was just not very good at this whole “blogging” thing, but actually I may unwittingly be part of the Slow Blogging Movement. (Note: I don’t know if there’s actually a movement.)

Not since I stumbled over a description of ordinal linguistic personification have I felt such immediate concordance with somebody else’s take on a hitherto undefined aspect of my own life. Of course, it’s possible that in this case I may just have self-servingly latched on to someone else’s theoretical framework in order to justify my extended catalogue of bad habits.

The fact is that I’m not rebelling against anything. I don’t care about Page Rank or timeliness. And by “don’t care” I don’t mean that I’m heroically indifferent; I mean I’m an apathetic ass.

Still, it’s a wonderful thing to discover that you are not alone; especially when you find that others are taking up your tragic position out of some sense of moral virtue — that you may not necessarily share, but still….

Thanks to Sonya Chung at the Millions for linking to the Slow Blog Manifesto, thus leading to my ruminations on the subject