I was born during the thalidomide era when doctors had no clue that drugs fed to pregnant women had any effect on their unborn children.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide

I was born on time but was overdosing and had to be in an incubator for a while and then at some point during grade school I was placed on Ritalin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritalin

So the medical establishment’s bathing of my brain and body with chemicals is what I was referring to.

Thank you.

Thanks, Angel. I love the line “A deliciously dangerous and vicious blogger.” But I hope that’s not me. I (almost) never go for intentionally vicious and I hope that I am rarely interpreted as being so. Not to suggest you are saying so.

Yes ma’am, Iris. And now you have Walt on your side. Don’t gloat, though, or I’ll set you both down and take you deep into the heart of the philosophical nightmare that FRBR quickly becomes when faced with just such a beast in electronic form?

Clearly the author is the same. Perhaps we can say with a perfectly straight face that it is even the same content that was just “moved.” Which is the case under the story you and Walt tell –and I agree–but looked at in another way (FRBR) we quickly have serious issues deciding just which are the manifestations and which are the expressions? And what is the relationship of the first set of entities to the 2nd set?

And while my blog is not on typography (my pet example in this case) we might even possibly face the sort of issues that Allen Renear (and others) and myself disagree about when it comes to which properties belong to the expression and which to the manifestation. For instance, Allen has maintained that fonts used (typography) can not be a property of an expression, and I fully disagree in some cases. It simply is the case that in some circumstances a property like typography will be directly relevant to and expressive of the intellectual content. I.e., how does one do a book about typography without the type making a direct contribution to the intellectual content?

Blog properties get perhaps more amorphous, which is not to argue that this blog has any typography making a contribution or that there is any intellectual content.

Speaking of typography, blogs and class. Walt, in case I haven’t told you … I always click through to see your posts. I simply will not read a Walt at Random post in an aggregator. To do that would, for me, imply a lack of class.

And yes. It’s the same blog. Just like you’re the same person even if you move to a new house.

Best, and keep on blogging.

Three years is a pretty good stretch for an interesting, thoughtful blog–well, I guess the blogger is thoughtful–even split over two names. (I agree with Iris–big surprise there!–it’s essentially the same blog even if the name has changed.)

May others of us reach three years as gracefully (sez he, coming up on 34 months and assured of not getting there with as much class).