Another Old Entry from a Different Defunct Blog

A word of explanation--this is the only published post from my autobiographical blog, Me! Its URL was brandonvernpickering.blogspot.com. I have decided to condense my blogs and make sure that only people I know can read my posts. Here's what I kept from that one. It was originally published 4/22/08.


The multiple blogs are all part of a program to compartmentalize the various components of my personality, and explore them separately. This will be a sort of "anchor blog," in which will comment on and explain the others. In this way I plan moderate myself.

I love factoids, so here are a few:

1) Strathroy is a city in Southern Ontario, where me and Virgie stopped to get awful Chinese food and ice cream on our way from Hamilton MI to Niagara Falls. We were on our honeymoon.

2) It seemed like there was another factoid which would explain some strange element of one of my other blogs.

3) The largest bony fish is the Ocean Sunfish. I used to cath tiny freshwater sunfish in the Snoqualmie River and various oxbow lakes which that river created. My brother-in-law Bob Siko and my friend Devin Guthrie taught me to fish. I am not a good fisherman.

A few words about my own Dr. Jeckyll, Dr. Bingpickler. I used to become Dr. Bingpickler without fail on Friday afternoons, especially if I could find a decent straight man like pentalingual Greg Svanidze. His full name is Ramdon Bingpickler V. That's not a Roman numeral for 5; it's his last initial. I changed his name from B. Vernon Pnuterington sometime in my second or third year at Whitworth College, which also has a habit of changing its name. I changed the name to make Paul Stephens laugh, but he seemed to think the first name funnier than the second. At least, he always called me Pnuterington and rarely Dr. Bingpickler.

This persona has not always been received well. Virgie likes him well enough, and that's what matters now. He makes her laugh. Now that I've brought up my wife I have reason to explain the other blog. Virgie is a very intelligent seminary student. She defends her own opinions competently, much better than I defend my own. For this reason I wind up adopting her opinions on matters that I don't care about or haven't thought through. My opinions are very malleable, so after she has explained position on some issue, and a few months have elapsed, the position becomes my own. This is not often problematic, but it erodes my faith in my abilities to come to my own conclusions. That's what the Correct Thoughts About Religion blog is for, to give a forum in which to come to my own conclusions, using only my brain and stuff I read on Wikipedia. It may be a truly pathetic blog. Let's see. I have come to a conclusion about pornography and intend to post something about it today. First I will talk to Joshua.