Daily Meh is an edited stream of consciousness, by Simen.

What I love is passion. One of my fascinations is trade magazines. I love picking up specialists’ magazines about subjects I know nothing about. For instance, you pick up a magazine that is the house journal of tropical-fish keepers or model-train builders. I have no interest in model trains; I have no interest in tropical fish, but I love reading the magazines, because you get this insight into this world of debate and passion and argument, and then you get two competing magazines with different platforms who are dissing each other because this is a world where the people involved in it are absolutely in love with what they do. What geeks have, geeks in any field, be it a field like science fiction or a field like tropical fish, is that they are moved to do what they do because of a love and passion for the field above all else.

China Miéville, in The Believer. In case I hadn’t mentioned it once or thrice here already, I feel the same way.

Apropos, I’m reading Miéville’s The Scar at the moment, if you care. It’s good so far. Oh, and when he proclaims that “I very much like arcane words and baroque sentence structure”, he’s speaking the truth.