Archive for the ‘Just Thinking’ Category
When Is It (or is it ever) Okay To Lie?
I saw this question on Plinky a few months ago and immediately I thought, it’s never okay to lie, but is that the truth? Is honesty always the best policy? I was reading a couple of blog posts on honesty and perjury and the majority of people who commented agreed that honesty is the best [...]
In: Just Thinking · Tagged with: Lie, Lying, White lies
I am conductor, hear me cook
Ever look at someone and wonder how they got that particular job? A job that’s not exactly advertised in the paper, but somehow they got word of it and get paid to do it. I’m sure some of my co-workers wonder the same thing about me, but this isn’t about me, it’s about Vanna White, [...]
In: Humor, Just Thinking, Work · Tagged with: career, conductor, cook, jobs, ramp agent, vanna white
Should You Care What Other People Think?
Do you care what other people think about you? I asked a few people this question and they said they don’t care what other people think. Well actually they said they don’t give a rat’s *** what people think, but I was putting it nicely. Sometimes it seems like the attitude today, and not just [...]
In: Emotions, Family, Just Thinking, Relationships · Tagged with: Control, Emotions, People
You’re So Vain You Probably Think This Post Is About You
Many years ago when I was much younger and could stay up late, I had a night time ritual. Every night before I went to bed, I would watch at least an hour of stand-up comedy on television. I studied comedians, got to know some of them by face and many of them by name. [...]
In: Just Thinking, Life · Tagged with: Being First, Competition, Self Importance
Being Human In the Age of the Electronic Mob
“Has the Internet seduced us into thinking that we can in fact live in a world without other flesh and blood people, we can just deal with screen people.” Paul Comrie-Thomson The other day I was talking with a friend who commented on how the use of the Internet has made people so impersonal that [...]
In: Computers, Just Thinking, Social Networking, Technology · Tagged with: Computers, Email, Human, Social Disorders, Technology, Text Messaging
