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Friday, September 03, 2004

The fallabilities of the common Peep

I ran across these websites because I'm a quilter.

I belong to this online quilting guild and people often post pictures of their finished products, links to interesting sites, etc. A lot of the time, I ignore these links because they tend to get tedious. There is this one woman who, it seems, has nothing better to do than to post ten to fifteen times a day with links to all sorts of quilting ephemera. While I appreciated it at first ("My, what useful links!"), after a while I noticed that a) the links she posted were often repeated, as if she were going through a cycle of links that she wanted to make sure everyone had; and b) that, usually, the links went to pages that were not related to any current topics of conversation. It seemed as if she were saying (through her clever use of links), "Look at the obscure links I have access to and that I am so graciously sharing with you out of the goodness of my heart." On top of that, if anyone asked a question, this woman would reply instantly with five to ten links that potentially answered said question. Every time. Who has time for sitting around and looking up stuff all day? Because this is how she operates--no matter what time you ask your question, within an hour or two she has links for you.

Rereading this, I realize two things. One, I sound really petty. I'm not--I don't hate this woman, I just get tired of constantly seeing her name in the digest of quilting emails I get every day. I mean, there are something like 2,500 members in this "guild," so why isn't anyone else posting? I get tired of seeing an endless supply of links to things that I'm not necessarily interested in.

Secondly, I have gotten waaaaaaaay off track, which should be heading in the general direction of Peeps, as the title above suggests. So, long story short, I was reading my quilting email today and saw the link to a woman's photos of finished products. When I decided to go check out her stuff, I noticed she also had a blog. This is kind of an anomaly, as quilters are notorious for not having enough time to sew, much less post their personal stories on the internet. (Which, in retrospect, gives me a little insight into two of my problems above--the other quilters aren't posting because they are busy QUILTING, while this verbose woman is NOT quilting, but rather sitting on her computer all day looking at quilting stuff. Hmmmm.)

Anyway, I started to read her blog, since she seemed like an interesting person and as before mentioned, I don't often see this kind of thing out of quilters. About halfway through I found links to some of the funniest stuff I've seen on the web in a while.

And so without further ado, here are links to Peeps Research, a site that explores the resiliency of that favorite Easter confection, and The Lord of the Peeps: Fellowship of the Peep, something you must see to really appreciate. Those who know me know that I'm not a big LOTR fan, but apparently, if you involve food, I'm there. Finally, here is a link to perhaps the most obsessed person I have ever seen. Must be seen to be believed.

Anyway, hope you enjoy as I did. Sorry for the rant, but if nothing else, I feel better having vented my frustrations. So there.

.: posted by amy 4:19 PM