in what may turn out to be yet another running gag in this series, kai has raised the painful, existential question of whether we blog on demand. as with other painful, existential questions like 'why are we here?', 'does God exist?', 'is singapore a democracy?', and 'why is there so much work during term, and even after?', it may never be resolved.
it may even be debated by philosophers 2,000 years from now.
but now, since it is not the job of historians to speculate about the future, i shall attempt to answer it.
no.
***
there are much simpler explanations regarding the mysterious correlation between andre's tag date and the date of my post, which, as kai has correctly (albeit imprecisely) pointed out, fall within 24 hours of each other on the temporal scale.
1) it could have been a coincidence.
2) aliens did it.
3) my doppelganger did it.
4) there is a mysterious force for order and symmetry in this world (yet to be discovered) which manifested itself when andre tagged. mysteriously it guided my fingers towards the keyboard and sparked another post. for all you know, i might even have been sleepwalking.
as you can see, there is no need to get exotic. just because there is a temporal correlation doesn't mean there is a causal link. the exclamation "we do not blog on demand!!!" might not even have been aimed at andre. it might just have been a general warning against would-be blogpost-demanders, or an informal statement of constitutional propriety (i.e. this is not a blog incorporated for the purposes of meeting blog-demand).
however it does seem that kai has some motive in bringing up this comparatively trivial issue.
i blame the romans.
you see, their skirts are now an old running gag losing most its flavour. some among you, perhaps, are just thoroughly sickened by the idea of julius caesar revealing too much while dismounting a horse. you might even have puked. (sorry for the mess!)
but more importantly, it seems that kai is trying to create a new running gag. he is casting around for something to fashion humorous material out of, in order to retain the roman-skirt-hating readers. in other words, it is a media conspiracy. it is a plot to keep you all reading. it is like the falklands war with argentina.
and, unwittingly, he has stumbled upon a painful, existential question.
***
P.S. regarding romans once again - i don't think they could ever get enough of indecent exposure. "bathhouses for the curious," as crystal says, but even those bathhouses had floors of porno mosaics and walls of porno frescos. (obviously they felt they were not getting enough of it!) maybe they found the idea of zhao genging more titillating than full nudity.
it may even be debated by philosophers 2,000 years from now.
but now, since it is not the job of historians to speculate about the future, i shall attempt to answer it.
no.
***
there are much simpler explanations regarding the mysterious correlation between andre's tag date and the date of my post, which, as kai has correctly (albeit imprecisely) pointed out, fall within 24 hours of each other on the temporal scale.
1) it could have been a coincidence.
2) aliens did it.
3) my doppelganger did it.
4) there is a mysterious force for order and symmetry in this world (yet to be discovered) which manifested itself when andre tagged. mysteriously it guided my fingers towards the keyboard and sparked another post. for all you know, i might even have been sleepwalking.
as you can see, there is no need to get exotic. just because there is a temporal correlation doesn't mean there is a causal link. the exclamation "we do not blog on demand!!!" might not even have been aimed at andre. it might just have been a general warning against would-be blogpost-demanders, or an informal statement of constitutional propriety (i.e. this is not a blog incorporated for the purposes of meeting blog-demand).
however it does seem that kai has some motive in bringing up this comparatively trivial issue.
i blame the romans.
you see, their skirts are now an old running gag losing most its flavour. some among you, perhaps, are just thoroughly sickened by the idea of julius caesar revealing too much while dismounting a horse. you might even have puked. (sorry for the mess!)
but more importantly, it seems that kai is trying to create a new running gag. he is casting around for something to fashion humorous material out of, in order to retain the roman-skirt-hating readers. in other words, it is a media conspiracy. it is a plot to keep you all reading. it is like the falklands war with argentina.
and, unwittingly, he has stumbled upon a painful, existential question.
***
P.S. regarding romans once again - i don't think they could ever get enough of indecent exposure. "bathhouses for the curious," as crystal says, but even those bathhouses had floors of porno mosaics and walls of porno frescos. (obviously they felt they were not getting enough of it!) maybe they found the idea of zhao genging more titillating than full nudity.
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