Enthusiastically Ambiverted Hopepunk
[Note: This was originally written back when I was hand-coding my pages. Original entry is here.]
Wow. I finally got all this finished, and it took until now for me to do anything else with it. Gerf. Ah, well. What did I do? Well, I found a nifty little place right about here that lets you set up a free counter for your pages, so I put one up on my main page and one up on my Web Wide Woodys page. Wow…let’s see if anyone’s actually stopping by. (grin)
[Note: This was originally written back when I was hand-coding my pages. Original entry is here.]
I actually have been doing some occasional work on my pages lately, just haven’t done much in the way of recording it here, just because few of them have been very major. The one major thing is that I’ve worked my ‘shameless promotion’ page into a changing schedule of things going on at the two clubs I’m dj’ing at, The Lost Abbey and Gig’s Music Theatre. Added a © notification to A Fable For Our Times, after the author got in touch with me and told me it was a copywritten work. He did let me keep it around, though, which I’m very grateful for…it’s a piece I really enjoy. I’ve also gotten submissions for a couple more people for my Web-Wide Woody’s page, and will be putting those in later tonight. Quite honestly, working on keeping myself awake for the next few hours. (grin) Ah, well. That’s it for now, then.
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Created a page to shamelessly promote myself, with the various (okay, two) clubs I’m dj’ing at currently. (grin) Hey, somebody’s gotta do it, right?
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Just a couple of quick changes at the moment. I’ve got a few more planned, but they’ll have to wait, as I’ve just been invited out to coffee at VI (Village Inn), and we must have our priorities, mustn’t we? (grin) Anyway…changed the ‘puter section of my main page to reflect the fact that I now have a whopping 20 Mb RAM in my machine. No, I’m not the least excited about this. (big ol’ cheezy grin) Also, as usual, a few more cd’s in my collection.
[Note: This was originally a post to the alt.fan.eddings Usenet newsgroup. I’m including it here for completeness. Originally archived here.]
Justin Hall wrote:
Is it possible that Beldaran was born with that name? Did Polgara formerly used to be known as Gara? I’m not sure about this, so any input is desired. The BEL’s on all the men seemed to be ‘tacked’ on at some later point. Did Beldaran, Poledra, and Polgara ever have previous names? I mean, is there really a law that prevents the use of Bel-something on anyone but Aldur’s disciples?
Okay…just read this last night, so dug up the passage, as I remembered this discussion while I was reading…. From the hardbound edition of the first three books of the Belgariad, pg. 514 (Magician’s Gambit, near the end of Chapter Ten).
The old sorcerer put his arm around the boy’s shoulders. “I thought you might see things that way, Belgarion. You’re bound to this the same way we all are.”
The strange thrill he always felt at the sound of his other, secret name ran through Garion. “Why do you all insist on calling me that?” he asked.
“Belgarion?” Wolf said mildly. “Think, boy. Think what it means. I haven’t been talking to you and telling you stories all these years just because I like the sound of my own voice.”
Garion turned it over carefully in his mind. “You were Garath,” he mused thoughtfully, “but the God Aldur changed your name to Belgarath. Zedar was Zedar first and then Belzedar — and then he went back to being Zedar again.”
“And in my old tribe, Polgara would have just been Gara. Pol is like Bel. The only difference is that she’s a woman. Her name comes from mine — because she’s my daughter. Your name comes from mine, too.”
“Garion — Garath,” the boy said. “Belgarath — Belgarion. It all fits together, doesn’t it?”
“Naturally,” the old man replied. “I’m glad you noticed it.”
Now, this doesn’t really address Beldaran or Poledra, or many of the
others, but it does shed some light on Polgara’s name…
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Okay, changed some things around again. At the request of someone who e-mailed me, I have brought my page about the new teen curfew law back online. To do so took a little bit of space, though, so I zapped some of the older documents here…the bit on why Santa can’t exist, the Net Cruisers Anonymous flyer, and the flyer I did for Gig’s (but never actually put out on the streets) a couple of weeks back. (shrug) Change is the only constant in the universe…that and the beauricratic mentality.
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Hey nifty…another person got ahold of me, so there’s finally a new link on the Web-Wide Woodys page! About time…(grin)
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Happy New Year!
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Well, Christmas has come and gone. Didn’t get much on my wish list, but then, that was expected…especially when the first item was a $2700 computer. (grin) Hey, I can dream. Did get some good books, hair clippers, a Sex Pistols t-shirt, and some other cool stuff. Let’s see. Well, no big surprise here…there are a few more cd’s in my collection. Um…not much else at the moment. (shrug) Don’t feel like working on anything else. Gerf.