Stability Phases

I believe that if a graph was drawn of the average human life, it would look like a heart monitor.  Usually, the line is flat.  Eventually, though, if the patient is healthy at all, there is a large bump upwards, followed by a dip. 

In fewer words, it's a line with occasional disturbances.

Same with life...or so I've observed.

People seem to have large phases of calm routine, but then every 5 years or so, something monumental happens.  Since I've only been able to really observe three phases, I talked to some real adults that aren't still half kid like me...they said they saw the same thing. 

It's an interesting thing to me, and I wonder why it happens.  Think about your life, though.  Divide phases by changing location, moving, things happening, trends in what you enjoyed in your home or outside life.  Even trends in things around you. 

Food for thought.  And I promise this will be the last serious post for a while.


Andy

Day Four

The Wikipedia article on Minimalism is over 2,500 words long.  Trust me, I counted.  Learning by example is, according to science that I made up just now, one of the best ways to learn.


We can conclude, then, from my loose fact and made up stuff, that the Wikipedia article is completely and invariably not helpful.

[If O'Reilly and Glenn Beck use this kind of logic, then by George (Bush, of course) I can too.]

Back to the subject at hand.  Please refer to this article to learn what Minimalism is first hand and in person.  You will be enlightened.



"Simplify, simplify" said Thoreau.

Day Three

Angst is a funny word. 

It feels odd to say, has only one vowel, and is just uncommon enough to be surprising but not unknown.

It's etymology is vague and boring, so instead please enjoy this painting of a man or woman plagued with angst.


I think this is my first true muse-ette.  The others have been mostly muses. 

Anyways, enjoy.  I love all 90 of you.

More Musetteing. Hopefully it isn't too upsetting.

Facebook
Twitter
Wordpress
Groups
Notes
Texts
Blogger
Email
Youtube
Forums
Flickr

Decisions.

Is that idea important enough to blog about?

Is that news flash worthy of a Youtube video?  Or just a status update?

Should you tweet it, or text it?

That witty bit of word you have floating around in your mind; how should you put it out there?  How does one decide when to use what network?

There are no set rules on what different means of social media are for, but there are definitely (muddled) rules of etiquette for what should be posted, where.  We all have some ideas of these rules.  We all see similar things on different sites; trends on what kind of post goes where.  There are some people (and we all know at least one) who use Facebook like it’s Twitter.  They post 4 updates an hour, on average, and seem to think that nothing is too trivial to post as their status.  Their internet reputation is almost as small as their life in your news feed.

Then there are the people who use Twitter like it’s Facebook, and Facebook like it’s a personal blog.  Every Facebook status is exactly 420 characters long, and has deep meaning that the writer thinks is genius, but no one else thinks anything because no one else reads it. 

Professionals are different.  No status update is ever too long or short, no tweet to deep or shallow.  (A tweet too shallow?  How is that even possible?) 

No blog post to short or too long, no forum to wide or too narrow.  These are the web elites.  They know just where to post any bit of information they have or want to share.  They know what to post about, and when.  They ignore trolls and gather followers like...like...

Simile fail.

I probably should have opened this topic on a forum, instead, now that I think about it...

Anyways, good luck out there.


Andy

Guidlines, Goals, and...another word that begins with "G".

Guidelines:

1.  Guidelines shall be stated after goals.

Goals:

The primary goal of this blog is to write about one topic every day, for the next 365 days.  Now, onto the guidelines.

Guidelines:

1.  I can't think of any guidelines.  Except for one.  I will not discuss girls on this blog for two reasons.  The first reason is that I suck at it.  The second reason is that it starts with "G", and I needed another word that started with "G" for the title of this post.


Here's hoping none of you get rained on,

Andy