Why People Are Sad

You should click through to this great post I found on Reddit. The paragraph below describes a lot of people’s problems and the rest of the article critiques the most common (and incorrect) solution.

It’s a bit depression, but at least it is honest. Glad that it’s not me.

clipped from www.violentacres.com Modern day Americans are often trapped in lousy, disappointing, soul crushing careers. If they are not divorced already, their marriages are on the rocks. They live far outside of their means, rack up thousands of dollars of debt, and then they work overtime to pay for the toys they never have time to play with. They dedicate their lives to pleasing ungrateful children who won’t amount to much more than they did. Hours of their downtime is spent in front of the television, switching from reality show to reality show, because it is easier to watch other people live life than it is to live their own. In a rare moment of creativity, they might write a secret out on a postcard and send it to a website because they don’t have a single person in real life that they trust enough to share their fears with. They feel all of this on top of the usual human maladies of sickness, death and grief.

Words Matter

• Employees May Wash Hands
• Employees Should Wash Hands?
• Employees, Please Wash Hands
• Employees Can Wash Hands !
• Employees Usually Wash Hands -

No, of course – Employees Must Wash Hands. Period.

Every word matters whether you are printing a catalog, writing ad copy, asking for a reference or mass producing signs for restaurant bathrooms.

Nuggets

Just a few bright spots from the weekend.

Seth Godin writes a great post: short, thought provoking, makes sense and then it leaves you with a free prize. Ever since I got the new Firefox with spell check I’ve been seeing everyone’s (haha) glaring grammatical mistakes in email. Apostrophe’s are another great ecample.

The weather has finally turned and it’s the BBQ season. Thinking of doing a bloggerQ.

Next time you want to give yourself an excuse check out Django Reinhardt. He decided to become a guitarist even though he only had the use of two finders on his hand. Check out this clip from the ’30s.

And of course with baseball season just underway, take a look at the funniest baseball fight in history.

That’s it for now – get some sun.

What about the Tortoises

I clipped this from an article I found on reddit talking about humans being natural runners. I just liked this line. Aren’t tortoises the tortoises of the animal kingdom and if they really are not, then are humans really more tortoise-like than every other animal?

clipped from www.physorg.com “Humans are terrible athletes in terms of power and speed, but we’re phenomenal at slow and steady. We’re the tortoises of the animal kingdom,” Lieberman said.

Long Vacation

I’m not sure what is better, the look my face or the look on her face.

Just had a long vacation to visit almost the entire country of Costa Rica. It’s a nice place; you should visit.

I’ll be writing soon.