Billy Idol Gets It

Why doesn't Jay?

Last night, right before I went up to bed, I checked the interwebs to see what doins where a happenin'. SCU directed me to the Nennth Inning (which I STILL cannot get onto my blog roll) and a discussion of book value taking place. I ususally stay out of these discussions. There isn't anything that I can say that Gellman hasn't already said, and said better. If you haven't read the post and discussion, you should. It's highly entertaining.

But it got me thinking, maybe I'm looking at this wrong. Maybe there's something I haven't thought of yet. I asked my self these questions because the whole argument seems like a no-brainer. I decided to ask my wife. This is that brief exchange:

Me: Hey Katie, what is something worth?

Wife: What is what worth?

Me: Anything. What is anything worth in general?

Wife: What someone will pay you for it.

Me: OK. What if I had a widget store, and a book that told me what the widgets were worth. Now, you like widgets and came into my store. You found a Widget that you like and my book told me to charge $30. But, you know you could get the same exact widget on Ebay for $7. What would you do?

Wife: I'd get it on Ebay.

Me: Right.

Wife: And, you probably wouldn't be in business for very long.

Me: I don't suppose I would.

Wife: I don't think you should say "worth"

Me: Huh?

Wife: Well, things are worth different things for different people. You should call it value. Your widget may be worth $30 to you, and you may not be willing to give it to me for less than $30. But the value is $7 because that's what I can buy it for. You should say value.

Me: I suppose I should.

Wife: And, your book is wrong.

Me: I guess it is.

Wife: Does this have something to do with baseball cards?

Me: Yes

Wife: I'm going to sleep now.

Me: Want to stay up for 2 more minutes?

Wife: Not really.

Me: OK.

I just wanted to post that because if Billy Idol gets it, and my wife gets it, how come Jay doesn't get it? I thought it might be somehow relevant that my wife (who could car less about baseball cards) inherantly understood the basic concept without thinking too hard about it.

My favorite line?..."your book is wrong"

My wife, like Martha Washington, is a hip, hip lady.

Blogger Hates the Nennth Inning

Let me be perfectly clear, it's blogger that hates The Nennth Inning, not me. I like it quite a lot. That's the reason I've been trying to add it to my blog list for the last month. I'm usually at work when I try. It never works. And then I forget about it.

Well, I tried again just now and the same dang thing happened again. I'm too dumb to be able to figure it out myself so I'm enlisting you, my faithful readers (both of you) to help me out, if I am, in fact, helpoutable.

So here's what happens. I go to this page and hit "add to list", just like I've done with every other blog.

This screen pops up and I paste the Nennth Inning's URL into the space. I click "ADD"

Then, after some flickering I get this screen. Usually you can just see the new site listed. For some reason it doesn't work with The Nennth Inning.

Blogger adds the"rename remove" thingy over to the left and skewed. Always in the same place.

After that it doesn't matter what I click on. It just won't add it.

Has anyone else run in to this? Is there any way to fix it? It's a strange problem no?

I just don't want people to think that I'm the only one who can't seem to figure out what a great blog this is. Plus there's a lot of pictures of good looking girls there.