Grace, you were my victim because that post of yours included the words “World Wide Void” and I’d googled it because I thought I’d come up with a nifty phrase but suspected people might have thought of it before me. You’re one of them, and your blog is popular enough to be one of the first hits on google. Obviously, more people read your blog than mine; obviously, you blog about more serious subject matter than I do; obviously, your blog is coherent (or I would not have linked to it).

So I found your blog and chose your blog for what were positive reasons, but the way I framed the link there’s no way to know that, and I apologize for that. I was trying to reflect on what it means for me to tell the whole connected world about my travels (and of course I’m influenced as an engineer and scientist by the incomprehensible number of published scientific articles that nobody can ever all read and that are harder to publish than a blog). In this introspective moment I lost sight of how others might feel when I ascribe my selfish motives willy-nilly and wholesale to them.

Thanks for responding in moderation, and I hope this reply explains things a bit. I’ll try to be more careful.

Whatever, dude. Whatever.