Tuesday, 12 November 2013

Quantity over quality

*Clears dust from blog* It has been a while...
I've been thinking recently about content overload. With the internet taking over everything, our attention spans are getting shorter and shorter. We demand to be entertained, and we cast aside anything that bores us even for second. Why? Because there is a long, long, loooong line of other distractions just waiting a few hyperlinks away. We suffer from FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) and feel a need to consume so much content so quickly, that we gulp it down instead of savoring it. Let's use gaming as an example. I bought the Humble Indie Bundle and found myself with many games all there for me to play at once. As a result, I now have a guilty conscience full of perfectly fun, yet unfinished games that I abandoned in my rush to play the rest. I used to replay games, hunt for secrets and try to experience everything they had to offer because I only got maybe 2 games a year. I'm babbling a bit, but you get my point: We need to slow down, avoid overexposure to new content all the time and enjoy each offering to it's fullest.

Monday, 24 September 2012

World Wide Culture

Webculture fascinates me, it is a phenomen that has risen from the soup of connectivity. People all over the world now have the ability to share their opinion and shared opinions will always influence others. The web community is just like any other community in that there exists peer pressure. Inside jokes exist in the form of internet memes. The sheer size of the web community means that things spread, nothing exists in isolation. People are realising that they have anything they want at their fingertips. There are pros, there are cons, but either way The Web is moulding the people of today like nothing in history ever has. You can insult the upbringing and genealogy of people on the other side of the planet and that sort of power changes people. I am right now composing something to toss onto a pile of other opinions the size of a small moon for reasons I can not name. I think there is more research to be done...then posted ooh I hope people in Brazil like it yippideedoo.

Wednesday, 9 May 2012

Girl Friends

When you're with your guy friend, you walk together, sit together, laugh together ect. You are seen as being friends. However do that consistently with girl (space) friend and people assume things. They will tease. This makes things awkward. I am irritated with this state of affairs. There, vent session over, carry on.

Sunday, 6 May 2012

Procrastinationception

Procrastination is what leads to last minute stress and sloppy work. I tend to procrastinate a lot. Its a flawed human logic that says "I don't feel like doing it now, so I'll do it later when I still don't feel like doing it and don't have the time to do it properly". As I write this, I am procrastinating. I should be studying. I'm writing a blog post instead. Sis, I am disgusted with myself. I think I'll put off what I need to do by doing things I put off doing yesterday, that sounds good. Yes. Now. Leave the keyboard. Stop typing. But typing is more fun. Fine, three more letters. QWE

Saturday, 5 May 2012

First Post, whoopdeedoo

Right, lets get into the whole "Blogmode". Creative juices flowing vigorously and all that. Greetings ye rare fortunate few of humanity that stumble across this wealth of knowledge and stuff.
Why did I start a blog? Because I want people to read what I think? NO. Because writing down what I think is therapeutic, relaxes the mind. However, you getting the treat of reading all this is a side effect. Lucky you ;)