Alright, I am going to make a bit of an amalgamated post right now because I firmly think that enough of anything is worth something. One turd is a piece of crap, but three hundred pounds worth is manure.

Right now I am listening to "Weird Science" by Oingo Boingo, a band that changed it's name with every subsequent album. I learned this from Scott, a man that I worked with who was almost universally disliked by his coworkers. I thought very highly of him as a person, although he was a bit of a dreamer. The bit about that band is interesting, though - yes?

I am reading a few bits on the internet today rather than watching videos like I might otherwise, because I am beginning to question my position in life and how I am working (or not) to better it. As Branden so perceptively stated once said over a school lunch so many years ago - I tend to get analytical when I am depressed. No - don't console my depression; if anything I have found that people's attempts to do so prolong it. Peter Balaz never tried to console me when I felt blue, he just forced something distracting upon me and I almost always was better off for it.

So you are probably now wondering what I was reading. Too bad - here comes another tangent.

In proper English formal writing we are taught that one must not refer to themselves, being the author. To use the word "I" in a formal paper is to have committed a sin against the literary world, it seems. Right along that same vein is the abhorrence of the use of "you" referring to the readership. Personally, I find myself using these words much more than is allowed (at all?) and I take no issue with their use. It makes the writing more personal and endearing and therefore more welcoming and better received by the reader. Therefore I must conclude that it means the words written are better understood because they grab the reader's full attention rather than "reading like stereo instructions".

There is music playing as I type this, and I find that piano music distracts me more than other (more tumultuous) genres like rock. This I think proves out that more "classical" and "instrumental" music is engaging more so than lyrical music. Perhaps it is like a movie rather than a book, when it is "incomplete" for lack of a better word, it tends to induce more imagination and therefore more cognitive participation rather than just acceptance as is and ergo ignorance from apathy.

How many kids with A.D.D. does it take to screw in a light bulb? Do you want to go for a bike ride?

Alright, back into the point of the writing, what I was reading prior to starting into this deplorable disjointed mess.

From the website http://hhanaanddhana.blogspot.com/2006/05/worthless-people.html comes this tidbit of experience and the wisdom that comes with it.