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Attention Spans

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Not paying attention to the camera

In psychology you learn that attention is a finite resource.  There is only a limited amount of attention that any single person can give to any particular stimulus.  You can pay a little attention to multiple things or you can give all of your attention to one thing.  For instance, right now you are reading this, but not with all of your attention, most likely because you are listening for your boss to walk up behind you and you want to be able to close the browser before they realize you’re reading a site about drunken debacles instead of doing whatever it is you do so that your boss can afford an $85,000 rug in his office.


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Violent Acres Contest #2

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

Is it any surprise that the words fecund and fecal look so similar?

Violent Acres Contest

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

There is a website called Violent Acres that is running a contest. The contest is simple, create a catch phrase for her banner. The prize is even simpler, a link to your site and eternal fame, in your own mind, at least. Well, here’s my entry, borrowed from a friend that knows it all too well.

Life is hard, but it’s even harder if you’re stupid.