My friend Jason writes : And what's with the nooranch business? I assume this is nooranch as in noosphere, a ranch of ideas or something? Are you going to chase herds of majestic ideas across the pampas and corral them at night?

Well, that's about the size of it. And well put.

Jason also informs me how profitable his online poker playing is turning out to be, as he's won around $4000 since December.

It's an activity that is so crazy and unjustifiable and unhelpful to the world that there's a sick kind of beauty to it. Plus when the hourly rate is a lot better than what you make at your "real" job, you start to ask yourself scary questions.

Indeed. Clearly writing blogs and wikis is the wrong online game to be in.