Some of the things I learned this year

December 21st, 2009 • chatter
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It’s been a great year, much better than last year! Outside of school, I think I learned some interesting things:

- No matter how much you try to watch what you eat, college football season will wreck your diet. Every time.
- A job is more than likely something you’re always going to hate.
- A good pair of cowboy boots can be the last pair of shoes you need to own.
- American Apparel makes the most comfortable tee shirts known to man. Too bad the rest of their clothes are aimed at hipsters and their ads are the epitome of “sex sells”.
- Photography is a lot of fun. I can see why “hobbyists” will spend as much money as they do on something they’ll never make a profit on.
- Writing is also fun as a hobby. Blogging to try and make money is worth its weight in headaches and lead, and sucks the life out of you.
- Comparatively, music gets worse as you get older. However, upon looking back, most stuff you listened to as a kid/teen is just as bad as today’s music. Sometimes, it doesn’t even sound different.
- Progressive rock is an immeasurably deep genre.
- Never randomly play ELP’s Karn Evil 9 (Parts 1 & 2) in a bar when you’re getting ready to leave. It’s probably best not to play at all since it’s only 20 minutes long.
- On average, I drink over one gallon of liquid every single day. That’s typically split up between coffee, tea, and water — mostly the latter.
- I think I have started smoking too much.
- Beer tastes really good. Except at the end of the night when you lie down and it gives you heartburn.
-Netbooks, as popular as they are, are huge wastes of money. If you want a netbook, buy any laptop with an Intel Celeron or other ULV processor. It’ll be just as slow and useless as a netbook.
- E-book readers, also very popular and chic right now, need a lot more work before they’re ever an acceptable replacement for books. All the UIs stink, the e-ink screens refresh too slowly, the physical device designs are all boring, publishers are deliberately dragging their feet on a market that could easily make them gobbles of money.
-Journalism is, essentially, dead. This goes for “old” media and “new” media alike. Of course, people have been saying this for at least two decades but it’s proven itself this year. A great example of this was the Fort Hood incident in which most media outlets depended on Twitter for news. Their first problem: depending on Twitter. Their second problem: depending on Twitter.

I could go on but I’ll choose not to, I really need to get back to work. Let’s hope 2010 is as fun