Comments on: Silent majority

By: dale

dale — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:34:11 +0000

I like fantasising about the breast-sizes and testicle-densities (and combinations of each) of the various contributors. I like rubber. Your site makes me think of rubber. I like your site, in a second-order sort of way. I like cleaning products, too. Your site makes me think of rubber, though. Predominantly.

By: Mike Molloy

Mike Molloy — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 18:56:48 +0000

I found Crooked Timber by links on lots of other sites. I think Uncertain Principles was one that led me here. I like the variety of topics discussed, and the general sense of academic activity in the air. I’m a refugee from academia (philosophy), which has something to do with that, I suppose. CT has also been useful to me as a recommender of other sites—I believe I first found Making Light via Kieran’s post on the Cryptonomicon—and for recommending Kelly Link’s work.

By: Grimmstail

Grimmstail — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 17:33:48 +0000

Dang, I suppose I’m ont a true lurker now, since I have commented on a post for the first time today. But wait! That post came after this one! No, there is a time stamp on comments. Ah ha! I’ll lie! I’ve been a lurker here for several months now. There is slightly more information about me in comments over at pharyngula and cosmic variance if you care.

By: shmuel

shmuel — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 09:57:11 +0000

Read daily and enjoy most of the posts. Can do without the once in while esoterica such as book “reviews” or inter-blog drive by shooting. The quality of the post is typically high same about the writing quality. It does help in enriching my day.

Comments are a different story all together. Do you really must practice the first amendment?. Or, could there be a resento-meter where aggrieved readers can shoot at repeat, and hellish, offenders?

I am a computer scientist at GWU.

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 03:21:12 +0000

I read it to impress the ladies.

By: ;-)

;-) — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 02:13:00 +0000

Lurking classics grad student in Pton (where all grad students are sketchy lurkers regardless)… enough writing on dissertation, so no comments. Love the blog, nice blend of non- and non-non-academia links and thoughts…

By: Thompsaj

Thompsaj — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 02:05:38 +0000

Started reading CT this spring, probably googling for figures on Social Security (remember when that was big?) Never was too interested in blogs before, and CT really is the only one I read regularly; however, its main value to me is as a trustworthy way to find info and analysis that I wouldn’t have found otherwise on TV or in, say, the NYT. The commentary is at a high level and even the people causing trouble at least have to appear to have an argument. Also, I’ve learned nearly everything I know about what’s new on the internet in the last two years (and sunk innumerable hours in the process) from Eszter’s posts.

By: Scott Eric Kaufman

Scott Eric Kaufman — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 01:56:18 +0000

I read it for the same reason Laura does (but didn’t have the chutzpah to admit here in a public forum): that fascist Holbo demands all Valve contributors set our default homepage to rotate between Crooked Timber and John and Belle. So I frequently scan the titles of the latest entries to see if there’re any I could later be quizzed on, then leave.

Actually, my contemporary political theory simply isn’t up to snuff. Ask me about turn-of-the-century American politics and how the pernicious myth of “social Darwinism” influences the way we think about it (not to mention “its” supposed instantiations since), and I’d be the best blog commenter in whole darn world!

By: Ruchira

Ruchira — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 01:01:02 +0000

I found your blog via Saheli and enjoy your intelligent coverage of a variety of topics.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 00:20:20 +0000

I avoid coming to this site for months in spite of many of my regular reads linking here almost everyday. I have been a regular lurker here for the past 3 months or so, and I dig a lot of the issues raised here.

Keep up the good work.

By: Laura Carroll

Laura Carroll — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:54:45 +0000

Hello!

By: andrew

andrew — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:32:14 +0000

Your blog is great, and I check it every day. Sound analysis, bit of a tin ear politically when it comes to American voters but that’s neither surprising nor uncommendable. I rarely comment because just reading the blog and occasionally the comments already takes too much time without coming up with something to add.

By: dm

dm — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:40:47 +0000

I’m a computer consultant in New Zealand. I check CT at least once a day, but have not previously posted a comment. The main attractions are the high standard of postings, the breadth of topics and the standard of comments – the more successful posts generate extraordinarily good discussions. Keep it up!

By: Dan K

Dan K — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:33:19 +0000

Reads CT daily. Swedish. Like the mix here. Consume political, cultural and tech blogs daily. Culturally conditioned towards the liberal blogosphere but find right wing blogs anthropologically interesting. The day job includes university teaching and researching organizations. Prefer lurking, the day job includes enough writing. Oh, and I’m not the Dan K that posts frequently at TPMcafe (likes his stuff though)

By: Capt. Automatic

Capt. Automatic — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:39:06 +0000

I enjoy lightbulb jokes, cursory discussions of anglo-american philosophy, and long walks on the beach. I wish I could say the same about the Australian political scene and cursory (and somewhat more than cursory) discussions of sociology and economics. Be well, crooked timber.