This blog is a chance for a fresh start.
While trying to come up with the title for this new blog, I came up with two justifications for making a break with the old one:
#1: It was registered under my old email address from the University of Michigan. With Blogger's integration with Google, it made switching between accounts exceptionally annoying.
#2: A friend of mine outside of the U-Mich/Mattawan social circle read the blog and provided some constructive criticism. Then I went and looked at the archive and I wasn't terribly pleased. The only unifying theme behind the old blog was reactionary randomness.
I am keeping my favorite ideas from the old blog, like the wordplay on the title and the more fun ideas like the Battle of Marathon post. I would rather create some new content than join the chorus of bloggers talking about the various topics du jour. At the bare minimum, I want to make a weekly post about something interesting that I learned. Additionally, that "something" cannot include topics like "public figure X is a boob" or "Twitter is dumb."
I can't promise that I will go hardcore with "Battle of Marathon"-esque posts every week, but I really would like to explore more historical battles in a similar fashion. Next weekend, the first substantive post will be about an astronomical phenomenon.
