You’d think that with the relatively rapid clip that I put out posts on here, I would have very few ideas that never made it to the main page. But actually, there have been dozens of posts and concepts that have been discarded for any number of reasons. So if you want to run with them on your own blog, feel free to do so. Anyway, here’s just some of the gems that never saw the light of day on Needle, Meet Haystack:
- Why having a dog has prepared me for fatherhood more quickly than being in a relationship – ended up sounding convoluted
- Miss Independent (a companion to the Domesticated Bachelor piece) – someone else made a post almost identical to this concept, and it covered what I wanted to say far more eloquently than mine would have
- Low-budget cooking (tips and recipes) – strayed too far from the main blog concept
- Avatar and your job search – turned into a movie review more than a helpful metaphor
- Why do people love monkeys so much? – don’t know when I wrote it, but I was probably tipsy; had nothing to do with anything, but it was kind of amusing
- Event planning horror stories – based around one event that happened about a year ago; too much to fit into one (or several) coherent posts
- Various lessons learned from travelling around Europe – most ended up being something along the lines of, “be careful around hobos”
- Stuff having to do with my music/DJing – strayed too far from the main blogging concept
- The problem with political parties – too much of a rant, and WAY too political
- More “economics in the job search” posts – ended up finding other examples to illustrate the same points, and there are enough awesome social econ blogs out there (like Weakonomics and Eco-comics)
- “I can’t think of anything to post today so here’s some random crap”-type posts – I thought of better post
- How to Become a Cult Classic – a lot of this related to the expert posts, so it seemed redundant
- More math posts – one statistically-based post is really enough
- Posts on my personal life – goodness knows that that won’t really help anyone
- Details on some upcoming projects – they’re not done enough, but you’ll be hearing about them soon
If you’re actually interested in seeing any of these posts, let me know. Otherwise, they’ll be relegated to the ol’ recycling bin known as “Random Posts I Never Finished”! Ooooooooo….
In my head, there was some ominous music playing from about “Otherwise” on.
In other news, there’s a new mobile version of the site for your portable devices (it loads automatically when you open it from your smart phone), so you can enjoy NMH anywhere!
