The folder for feeds that are halfway to the trash would be called “Stupid People,” if I ever bothered to make it, but instead I just gnash my teeth at them for a while and then put them into the trash.

Jonathan: I based the “Intelligent” rating on your wonderful fingernail post. And on the fact that you used the word exsanguinating therein. It’s a lovely word that one hardly ever gets to see.

1. I understand your need to list.
2. I would like to be a baller, too.
3. It is true that Deron is a cad and a card. He’s also a bit smelly at times.

1. I should’ve mentioned in my post that, for whatever it’s worth, I don’t drink not because I’m conceptually opposed to it or because I’m ‘straight edge’ or anything like that—I just think beer and wine and such, uhh, taste bad. I also don’t like coffee. I think I have the taste buds of a seven year old.
2. India: No pressure there, right? And where in the world did you get the idea that I belong in a folder called ‘intelligent people?’
3. Mary (about what you said about what India said): I have what I think is a similar folder in Google Reader called ‘purgatory.’ For me it’s sort of the minor leagues or a probationary period for new feeds that I’m not sure that I’m going to actually follow religiously.
4. Tracy, two things (here comes a list within a list): 1. Who said I have to be both of those things at the same time? And 2. apparently you’ve never seen Operation Petticoat.
5. Everyone: Thanks for the welcomes, and I think all of the coincidences about dates and years and blizzards and growing a foot at a time and things are weird. So I’m a little wary of you all now. But that’s okay. It’ll keep me on my toes.

India, you have a folder called “quarantine?” is that a transition to trash? I love the notion that you put things on notice in your feeds. Fair warning oughta set ‘em right.

The flock is patient and wicked that way.

Welcome!