I’ll admit it. I’ll openly admit it. Here are a few reasons how, and why. I’ll explain how this has affected my thoughts, and my actions in the italics:

Any movie made in the last 10 years, unless it’s a comedy, dark comedy, or incredibly obscure – I probably haven’t seen it. I just don’t enjoy paying $10 to watch something barfed out of Hollywood with a trite resolution to an hour and a half whine (or laugh track) fest.

Most recently theatre watched movie: Strangers with Candy, July 2006. Previous: Sphere, 1998, before that: Mrs Doubtfire, 1993.

I love the Internet as a tool; I still see it as such. Social tapestries are wonderous things, but I have my own home page. I have no need to use the internet to “find friends in my extended network.” Jeez, that’s so obnoxious, it’s annoying. If I want to meet people, I’d rather meet them socially – it’s a much easier, and faster way to weed out the freaks.

Every time I see a picture that says “Thanks for the ADD.”, I instantly mentally append, ”..let’s ride bikes!”

I gave up WebCrawler for Google in ‘98. I’ve been sitting there, ever since, even if they have dicked me out of about $100, and two years of promoting them. Fine.

I remember spending hours on Usenet, browsing hardcopy books, and a few of the primitive, proprietary searching systems on Sun, SGI, and the like. Now, I can usually find my answer in 10 minutes or less – not hours of indexing. However, it may not be as thorough, and many of these tools are no longer available.

Progress is good. Faster is good. Although, it comes at the cost of clarity, if not anonymity, at times.

I used to write things fairly fast, and loose while prototyping, then clean things up as I went along, adding as I saw my needs. Now, I find it works best if I brainstorm thoroughly, devise a plan, if not a topographical view of what I’m working on, what I need, and what I’d like. This has increased not only my productivity, but enabled me to write things with an more extendable format; I don’t find myself staring down the proverbial headlights.

Inspiration is great, but write down your thoughts and devise a plan, before executing.

I’ve discovered that so many trite adages actually make sense in the proper context – however, I’m not old enough to shout them out just to sound smart.. I’ll leave that up to someone else.