Tags: musings
Lemmings, Mass Movements and Facebook
by patndoris on Jul.18, 2009, under Musings
I read an interesting quote recently about why people either embrace or abstain from Facebook. In my typical, and often convoluted way - it reminded me of lemmings, of mass movements and social hysteria - breeding not uniqueness, but instead, reducing us… more »
Is Reality Really Real?
by patndoris on Feb.06, 2009, under Musings, Al-Anon/Recovery, Science?
Well golly sergeant! (Sorry Gomer Pyle flashback.) How's that for some serious alliteration in a post title? Now, stop asking yourself if I'm going to say Shazam! and let's get back to this most interesting dichotomous (yes - I did look that up and I do… more »
Updating the Archives
by patndoris on Dec.24, 2008, under Musings, My Philosophy
I don't really see the point in having old blog posts hanging around for years upon years...collecting virtual dust, entombed in the sarcophagus of my sidebar archives. Mummified entries are just Yankee Doodle Dandy, but only if tomb raiders haven't stol… more »
Immortal Internet?
by patndoris on Dec.16, 2008, under Websites, Musings
If you're like me, you think of the internet as more or less immortal. It's this great invisible being (like the supercomputer Deep Thought in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that churns on thinking for 7-1/2 million years) that exist forever, and it's… more »
Why Can't I Leave Well Enough Alone?
by patndoris on Nov.27, 2008, under Musings
To those of you who had problems with my blog today - my deepest apologies. I don't know why when something works well, I still feel the need to try and fiddle with it. The result today was five hours of frantic hair pulling for me, and some annoyances t… more »
Where has Common Sense Gone?
by patndoris on Nov.23, 2008, under Musings
Common sense is not so common. ~Voltaire Common sense, just what is it? According to Merriam-Webster it is the "sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts." Now we as humans, the top of the food cha… more »
Moving or Shifting?
by patndoris on Jul.15, 2008, under Musings, Science?
And shift....and move...and shift...and move. No it's not some new aerobics routine I assure you. (The closest I get to that is exercising my fingers on the keyboard.) It's all about the little things in life and how the smallest change can seem so unset… more »
Antidisestablishmentarianism
by patndoris on Jun.16, 2008, under Musings
When I was in school, I had to learn all kinds of useless knowledge. I had an English teacher who insisted we work through the Reader's Digest "Increase Your Word Power" book, and one of the words I had to learn to spell was sphygmomanometer (W… more »
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