Just a Little Thing

I learned the most helpful and delightful thing this morning over at Bad Alice's, specifically by following this link. There you will learn about virtual "stones"...represented like this:

(o)

which you can leave when you visit a blog. And why is this meaningful, you ask? Because sometimes I read posts that leave me commentless. Either there's too much to think about and I don't want to be hasty or it's just said so well that there's nothing meaningful to add. But, especially when I'm visiting friends, I like them to know I was there. I mentioned as much to Charlie in a comment recently, to which he replied that a quiet smirk would suffice. I believe he means this:

:o)

for lo, I've seen it often enough on his comments. But whether a smirk :o) or a stone (o) I am very happy to have some bloggy shorthand for those times when I'm neither sufficiently clever or sassy enough to leave a comment.

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And also, apparently someone has declared this week "delurker" week, which means that those of you who come by but don't leave comments are invited to come out of the shadows of Blogtopia and say "hi". Or leave a stone. Or a smirk. Whatever. I know you're out there. "Delurk" this week, won't you?