Things have been hectic at work, I will be having nightmares about telephones ringing for the next 3 weeks I'm sure. (Speaking of which....) so I've only had time to type up some random thoughts I've had over the past week, so here's your next edition of "not-so-deep thoughts":
- Since when did car horns go from being a instrument of warning to a tool of showing interest in the opposite sex?
- I'm going to start handing flyers to people who hand out flyers expressing my dislike for people who hand out flyers, although I respect their right to do so.
- I wonder how miss manners would feel about talking on your cell phone while eating with someone else at the table, I will ask her as soon as she gets off the phone.
- When are togas going to come back in style?
- I feel if you are going to protest something, at least get more than 10 people to commit, because you know at least 5 or 6 are going to phone it in.
- Why do they have protests on college campuses? I mean that's not the voting demographic that is really going to make a difference in this country's leadership.
- No president knows everything about everything...the problem is when there is one who know very little about very few things.
- Does Santa really use msn messenger and where do they get off making that claim?
- Can you ever have too many hanging folders?
- The supply officers of any company have all the power except...
- Keys are the keys to power, the more you have, the more powerful you are. Janitorial staff are the most powerful people in any building and most of them don't even know it. And without them, the industrialized world would come to a scretching halt.
- Hospitals promote the class hierarchical establishment by requiring uniforms of different colors. But if I'm in medical need, get me one of those people with white coats 'cause I don't want my life in the hands of those purple people. (honestly I really don't know what the different colors mean and this is for humor purposes only, so if you are a purple person, I apologies, especially if you could save my life)
- Are all blogs really this preachy? Am I saying anything new here that hasn't been already written by a 15 year old freshmen high school student in a creative writing class with a project due tomorrow morning and just goes and makes things up to turn in?
- Is this really worth your time reading? At some point I might actually put something educational on here.
Showing posts with label observation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label observation. Show all posts
Friday, March 23, 2007
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Memory
What is it about us that make us forget things so quickly? Are our short term memories being slowly bombarded with so much information so quickly that it is imploding on itself so that anything we just thought about is instantly washed away with the next wave of useless knowledge? Maybe it is just me. I find myself forgetting things mere moments after I think of them. This is why I must do things when I think of them. It doesn’t help that I am all about the procrastination.
What is worse is when you remember that you were supposed to do something. It always comes at the least convenient time, like, say when you are heading to work and you get like 7 blocks from your house/apt., too far to turn back, but close enough to feel guilty about not doing it. At least if you were to remember when you reach your destination you could say, “well, there’s nothing I can do about it now.” Or you remember at 1am, just fell asleep after watching one of those really bad movies on TBS or the USA network that you are not sure why you stayed up to watch it in the first place but had to watch the end because, hey, you watched this much already and you need to see how the guy with the prop knife and patch-stitched ski mask gets impaled with a nail gun that stuck him to the tree that is about to go through an automated wood-chipper that is conveniently located in a dark, in-the-middle-of-nowhere factory that the brunette just happened to run too after her boyfriend got it in the gut. And suddenly she’s all Xena the Warrior Princess and drop kicks the “scary” bad buy just in time so she could reach that nail gun.
Now, where was I? Oh right, memory, or lack there off. So yeah, you remember this thing at 1am and bam, you are awake for another 2 hours because it happens to be an important thing but like I said before, you can’t do anything about it now, but come the morning, you best not forget. So you stay up telling yourself not to forget to do that in the morning. Come morning, you are so tired and four hours of sleep separated you from what you had to remember, next thing you know, you are 7 blocks from your house/apt.
The weird things is, I can remember just about every hole on every golf course I have ever played, but tell me you have a tee time on such and such golf course and it takes me an hour to remember which one that is. I remember faces, I remember names, but faces with the names together, forget about it, no chance. I could see someone everyday for 2 years, not see them for about a month, then see them and blank, nothing. Ever find yourself in this position? So frustrating. A little tip I picked up from my Pop, go through the alphabet, thinking of names that start with those letters and usually it will hit you.
I remember being in my PSYC101 class several years ago (didn’t do to well in that class, shocking, I know) but we did one activity to explain why phone numbers are usually only 7 digits long. Apparently most humans can only remember a sequence of up to 7 digits and it significantly drops off after 10. Or try that game where you start a sentence and pass it down a line and see what you have by the end. If that is not proof that short term memory is about as big as (geek alert) the RAM on a 286 DOS based computer system. Actually, to continue that thread, people are a lot like computer systems, but maybe I will leave that for another time. Maybe someone can explain to me why I do better on the first game of Memory then any subsequent games? You know ‘Memory’, that game with the cards that you flip over and they have pictures or shapes or symbols on them. Back in the day they were actually cardboard cards, now all you have to do is click on the screen, isn’t technology wonderful?
Alright, I’ve forgotten everything else I was going to say about this topic so I will have to leave it for another time. Now go do whatever it is you are thinking about right at this moment, before you forget.
What is worse is when you remember that you were supposed to do something. It always comes at the least convenient time, like, say when you are heading to work and you get like 7 blocks from your house/apt., too far to turn back, but close enough to feel guilty about not doing it. At least if you were to remember when you reach your destination you could say, “well, there’s nothing I can do about it now.” Or you remember at 1am, just fell asleep after watching one of those really bad movies on TBS or the USA network that you are not sure why you stayed up to watch it in the first place but had to watch the end because, hey, you watched this much already and you need to see how the guy with the prop knife and patch-stitched ski mask gets impaled with a nail gun that stuck him to the tree that is about to go through an automated wood-chipper that is conveniently located in a dark, in-the-middle-of-nowhere factory that the brunette just happened to run too after her boyfriend got it in the gut. And suddenly she’s all Xena the Warrior Princess and drop kicks the “scary” bad buy just in time so she could reach that nail gun.
Now, where was I? Oh right, memory, or lack there off. So yeah, you remember this thing at 1am and bam, you are awake for another 2 hours because it happens to be an important thing but like I said before, you can’t do anything about it now, but come the morning, you best not forget. So you stay up telling yourself not to forget to do that in the morning. Come morning, you are so tired and four hours of sleep separated you from what you had to remember, next thing you know, you are 7 blocks from your house/apt.
The weird things is, I can remember just about every hole on every golf course I have ever played, but tell me you have a tee time on such and such golf course and it takes me an hour to remember which one that is. I remember faces, I remember names, but faces with the names together, forget about it, no chance. I could see someone everyday for 2 years, not see them for about a month, then see them and blank, nothing. Ever find yourself in this position? So frustrating. A little tip I picked up from my Pop, go through the alphabet, thinking of names that start with those letters and usually it will hit you.
I remember being in my PSYC101 class several years ago (didn’t do to well in that class, shocking, I know) but we did one activity to explain why phone numbers are usually only 7 digits long. Apparently most humans can only remember a sequence of up to 7 digits and it significantly drops off after 10. Or try that game where you start a sentence and pass it down a line and see what you have by the end. If that is not proof that short term memory is about as big as (geek alert) the RAM on a 286 DOS based computer system. Actually, to continue that thread, people are a lot like computer systems, but maybe I will leave that for another time. Maybe someone can explain to me why I do better on the first game of Memory then any subsequent games? You know ‘Memory’, that game with the cards that you flip over and they have pictures or shapes or symbols on them. Back in the day they were actually cardboard cards, now all you have to do is click on the screen, isn’t technology wonderful?
Alright, I’ve forgotten everything else I was going to say about this topic so I will have to leave it for another time. Now go do whatever it is you are thinking about right at this moment, before you forget.
Thursday, March 8, 2007
Not So Deep Thoughts I
Here are just a few of the thoughts that come to me over the course of a few weeks that do not warrant a full blog post but might get you thinking, not really pondering, just thinking...
- If it is going to be 18° F, we should be able to deny global warming no matter how many scientists say its happening.
- When Lloyd Dobler said kickboxing was the sport of the future in "Say Anything", I think he meant Ultimate Fighting, because he would have been spot on.
- When something goes around and comes around, what does it go around? A mountain?
- Public baths are now disguised as pools
- Underwater basket weaving doesn’t sound like a very easy class to take, in fact, I think it would be quite difficult.
- The Hatsfields and the McCoys should have settled their differences like most American families…on the “Family Feud” – “Survey Says…”
- When did straight brimmed caps become popular?
- Why do we reenact wars? Didn’t enough people die the first time around?
- You would run faster if Nike Shox really shocked you.
- Not enough people give toasts that involve everyone in the bar anymore
- History’s first news media outlet = some guy yelling from atop a box – not much has changed.
- Ever feel like you are using the force when you are walking through automatic doors or am I alone on this?
- Can the Oscars win an Emmy? I think so. Could the Emmys ever win an Oscar? Maybe in the documentary category.
- I would be curious to find out the percentage of people who actually work a full five day work week. That half-day for your “dentist” appointment doesn’t count.
- How many people do you know would give up their cell phones if it was found they shortened your life expectancy? Really? That many? Hmm, I would doubt that.
- What else can we pour hot water over to make really bad tasting water?
- 7-Eleven is promoting “Energized Coffee”; does coffee need to be any more energized?
- If it is going to be 18° F, we should be able to deny global warming no matter how many scientists say its happening.
- When Lloyd Dobler said kickboxing was the sport of the future in "Say Anything", I think he meant Ultimate Fighting, because he would have been spot on.
- When something goes around and comes around, what does it go around? A mountain?
- Public baths are now disguised as pools
- Underwater basket weaving doesn’t sound like a very easy class to take, in fact, I think it would be quite difficult.
- The Hatsfields and the McCoys should have settled their differences like most American families…on the “Family Feud” – “Survey Says…”
- When did straight brimmed caps become popular?
- Why do we reenact wars? Didn’t enough people die the first time around?
- You would run faster if Nike Shox really shocked you.
- Not enough people give toasts that involve everyone in the bar anymore
- History’s first news media outlet = some guy yelling from atop a box – not much has changed.
- Ever feel like you are using the force when you are walking through automatic doors or am I alone on this?
- Can the Oscars win an Emmy? I think so. Could the Emmys ever win an Oscar? Maybe in the documentary category.
- I would be curious to find out the percentage of people who actually work a full five day work week. That half-day for your “dentist” appointment doesn’t count.
- How many people do you know would give up their cell phones if it was found they shortened your life expectancy? Really? That many? Hmm, I would doubt that.
- What else can we pour hot water over to make really bad tasting water?
- 7-Eleven is promoting “Energized Coffee”; does coffee need to be any more energized?
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