10,000 Days is amazing. It's the most emotionally engaging album i've heard in a long time, closer to nema than Lateralus. I've only listened to it once all the way through, but i'll have more to say on it later.
I was thinking about bees today. I'm wondering if they can suffer brain damage. Sometimes they fly into the sliding glass door which produces quite a substantial thump, enough to make me jump. And when you're sitting outside and a bee is bugging you, sometimes you smack them, no? Imagine what it would feel like if something roughly 10,000 times your size gave you a good smack. And some bees can live for months. So do they ever get smacked on the head enough to become retarded; would you ever see a bee that had taken one too many konks, its tounge permanently stuck out, just flying in small circles until it was eaten by a bird, or just fell to the ground exhausted?
I'm bothered by advertising. This is nothing new, really, i've always been bothered by it. I actually get headaches from just watching commercials for more than a few minutes. If i could, i would make a law that all commercials had to be either funny or arty; and actually funny, like a good beer commercial, not funny like mildly amusing the first one or two times, and then progressively more irritating each succeeding time. I suppose there are much better things i could be doing with the ability to create laws, but i really do hate advertising (and personally i think it makes people stupid).
In particular, its that every company advertises their product or service to be "the best." Now i fully realize that companies want to sell their product, no matter how bad it may in fact be, and that they aren't going to go about trying to sell it by saying something like:
"The best you can get for less than $20"
or
"Always mediocre, always"
or
"Product X: it could be worse"
although such slogans would make me smile like so
. But they make completely unrealistic claims like "The World's Best whatever." I had this gin that went on about how it was "handcrafted" from "the world's finest ingredients" and distilled through a "speical process" and that they were confident it was the world's best gin. Bull. Shit. I'm a gin man; i love my gin, and this shit was awful. It's not a taste thing, it was just bad. It was overpoweringly sweet, it had a very bland palette and only about 5 botanicles. This stuff is below well quality. And yet, they "honestly feel it is the best in the world." I just wonder why they couldn't say something like "a fine American gin," something ambiguous, and that's not a flat out lie. And it's not just the gin; it seems like everything these days is "World Class" or "Superb" or "Premium" or "The Best." Such adjectives should be reserved for products that actually are that, not just whoever can print it on a label. But i suppose that creative marketing is a lot more difficult than abusing the limited vocabulary they alread have.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
-Aristotle
I was thinking about bees today. I'm wondering if they can suffer brain damage. Sometimes they fly into the sliding glass door which produces quite a substantial thump, enough to make me jump. And when you're sitting outside and a bee is bugging you, sometimes you smack them, no? Imagine what it would feel like if something roughly 10,000 times your size gave you a good smack. And some bees can live for months. So do they ever get smacked on the head enough to become retarded; would you ever see a bee that had taken one too many konks, its tounge permanently stuck out, just flying in small circles until it was eaten by a bird, or just fell to the ground exhausted?
I'm bothered by advertising. This is nothing new, really, i've always been bothered by it. I actually get headaches from just watching commercials for more than a few minutes. If i could, i would make a law that all commercials had to be either funny or arty; and actually funny, like a good beer commercial, not funny like mildly amusing the first one or two times, and then progressively more irritating each succeeding time. I suppose there are much better things i could be doing with the ability to create laws, but i really do hate advertising (and personally i think it makes people stupid).
In particular, its that every company advertises their product or service to be "the best." Now i fully realize that companies want to sell their product, no matter how bad it may in fact be, and that they aren't going to go about trying to sell it by saying something like:
"The best you can get for less than $20"
or
"Always mediocre, always"
or
"Product X: it could be worse"
although such slogans would make me smile like so
. But they make completely unrealistic claims like "The World's Best whatever." I had this gin that went on about how it was "handcrafted" from "the world's finest ingredients" and distilled through a "speical process" and that they were confident it was the world's best gin. Bull. Shit. I'm a gin man; i love my gin, and this shit was awful. It's not a taste thing, it was just bad. It was overpoweringly sweet, it had a very bland palette and only about 5 botanicles. This stuff is below well quality. And yet, they "honestly feel it is the best in the world." I just wonder why they couldn't say something like "a fine American gin," something ambiguous, and that's not a flat out lie. And it's not just the gin; it seems like everything these days is "World Class" or "Superb" or "Premium" or "The Best." Such adjectives should be reserved for products that actually are that, not just whoever can print it on a label. But i suppose that creative marketing is a lot more difficult than abusing the limited vocabulary they alread have.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
-Aristotle
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