And on the Meta Question

From John Farago, an undergraduate classmate, now teaching law:

i admire your willingness to blog, and share the implicit frustrations with the medium you express there ...i pretty much have avoided starting a blog because i find those frustrations overwhelming and unacceptable, and i'd suggest you may want to reflect a bit over time on whether that medium really works for what you are trying to do...at present i think it's a bit of a poor fit, but i have no idea whether to suggest adjusting your goals (to ones that better fit a blog's disturbingly rigid interactions with the dimensions of time and space) or adjusting the medium (to one that better suits your epistolary voice) or adjusting your friends (to avoid people like me who carp [OR CRAP?] without invitation on the meta-question of Whether This Was a Good Idea...)