This is a repeat. (How do I keep something at the top of the page for an entire day? I'm sure it's easy but I can't figure it out.)
Okay, so I'm kind of a geek, but bear with me:
I have all of these regular readers - some I know by name, others I do not, some I know a little bit about, some I have actually gotten together with, etc. - but I thought it would be fun and interesting to open up this forum a little bit.
I want to institute a series which I will call, in my geeky splendor: "EXPERT DAY".
Everyone out there is an expert in SOMETHING.
Be it: making the perfect cheese cake, how to fix your carburetor, tips on how to get your kids out of the house in the morning - all on schedule, how to construct your resume ... or, something along the lines of: An Obsessive's Guide to Bob Dylan/U2/The Replacements ... or An Obsessive's Guide to Persian Poetry, to The Boston Red Sox (or whatever) ..."I am an Expert on Preparing your Taxes and Finding Little-known Deducation" ... "I am an Expert on the films of Judy Garland" - whatever.
There's a wealth of random knowledge out there and I want my hands on it.
I love people who are obsessed with things. Who are passionate about things.
It does not matter what you are passionate about, as long as you are passionate about SOMETHING. (There are limits to this, obviously. If you are passionate about setting up killing fields in the rice paddies of Cambodia, then I don't really want to hear from you the best way to go about it.) But I have a ton of random obsessions: the history of totalitarian regimes, American theatre, Nirvana, the Bronte sisters, outer space ...
You get the picture.
I want to host a series called "Expert Day" - If people would send me essays on their obsessions/the subjects which they are "experts" on ... I will post them in an ongoing series.
Really, the sky is the limit here. Recipes to resumes, child-rearing to Elvis Costello-watching ... I don't care.
If you're interested in this, please send me your "expert essay" in an email to redhead2@sheilaomalley.com - and I will begin to post them immediately.
Posted by sheilaThere may be an easier way than this but I know you can just change the time on this entry. Make it later than your latest.
Posted by: Rob at April 5, 2004 4:57 PMI'll handle the Judy Garland movies.
Posted by: Patrick at April 5, 2004 6:05 PMPatrick -
With my crowd of friends, there may be some competing "Judy Garland" entries. He who hesitates is lost.
Posted by: red at April 5, 2004 8:43 PMTo keep an entry at the top of your page, just change the time stamp on the entry. MT will display in chronological order.
If you want to make sure it stays at the top, just set the time stamp to 23:59:59 -- 11:59 pm and 59 seconds, in other words.
Just FYI.
Posted by: Dean Esmay at April 6, 2004 7:39 AMRed - For the record, I was kidding.
Posted by: Patrick at April 6, 2004 4:09 PM