Family Party

Just got back from my family thing, drunk and high. That’s the actual ideal state for a family celebration, I think. My aunt kept shoving drinks at me—Sekt, Radler, all this weird multivitamin juice—and meanwhile my younger cousin and I had snuck away with a hookah full of apple tobacco and a deck of Skip-Bo cards, with Blur on in the background. That’s really all a family gathering needs: some chaos, some games, a little buzz.

Somewhere in the middle of all this, I’d picked up on some drama in the blogging world about RSS feeds. People were actually fighting about it, which seemed kind of absurd to me. I don’t have much of an opinion on RSS or Atom, to be honest. They’re just tools for reading blog posts in different ways. That’s it. If a video doesn’t load through your feed reader, that’s not the author’s fault—it’s just a limitation of the technology right now.

I don’t know why people get so worked up about technical standards. They’ll catch up eventually. Someone will figure out how to support everything—podcasts, videos, whatever weird formats people dream up. You just have to wait. The internet moves slower than everyone thinks it does, even when we’re all losing our minds about it.