I haven’t been writing here nearly enough lately. I think that part of the problem is that microblogging (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) have been consuming too much of my time and creative energy, but another issue is that I’m just running short of ideas.

On the other hand, it seems that every week, someone blunders onto my radar screen by doing something that either outrages me or makes me laugh, or otherwise engages me on a personal level. I’ve long thought that I might try doing a regular feature on these people. I’m not thinking of being nasty or ugly, although from time to time that might be called for. Rather, the intent would be to share what caught my interest, and perhaps inspire some thought or even discussion about it.

I thought of a title, then rejected it, then came up with this one. “Blip of the week” is much less offensive than my original idea, and as a bonus, it’s spelled the same in both US and UK English. While my graphic logo does in fact represent an air-to-air fire control radar (!) locked onto a target and presenting the SHOOT symbology (!!), I’m not necessarily going to yell “Fox Three!” and make it go away.

But I might. I’m weird that way.

Thoughts?