Archive for September, 2009

I check the statistics of my blog every now and then it makes me wonder sometimes if a real person is going through my posts progressively or if it’s a web crawler. Unfortunately, wordpress doesn’t track IPs so I can’t tell if it’s a bot. Funnily enough “someone” or “something” visited my Epitome post. The title is actually meant to be Epiphany although Epitome doesn’t sound too off-topic of a title so I guess that’s the reason as to why nobody pointed it out. In addition, I tend to have extremely random blog titles so people might have just ignored it like they have with my numerous other posts. However, the more likely reason is that they simply did not think too much into it.

I find that as the years go by the amount of things to write about decreases dramatically. Back in High School, I would make constant rants about anything that I found annoying or interesting. Then Uni came and it became somewhat more problematic as I had two different sources of readers, and my less than obvious references would generally leave at least one crowd scratching their heads. Now, I tend to get more visitors from strangers than I do from people I know. However, those visitors generally visit my “Tutorial” posts but even then, they might take interest in a typical post like this.

So the question is, what the fuck do I write about?

I’ll talk about something I haven’t talked about in a while.

People.

How often do you guys judge someone within the first few seconds of meeting them? You might judge them by their race, clothes and/or initial contact. How strong is the first impression?

I tend to react quite strongly depending on how the first impression goes. However, first impressions can change sporadically, might change during the second meeting, it might be a gradual change…it might even be a change after several years.

Not too long ago I was placed under a rather inconvenient situation (which I shall not mention as it may release the identity of several individuals), instead of attempting to help me figure out what to do, my friend of many many years decides to emphasise on my stupidity. It’s sort of like yelling at someone for tripping over a step, they don’t intend for it to happen, it just happens. What I found interesting was that this other fellow who I rarely talk to decides to go out of his way to help me. It’s moments like these where I tend to step back and conduct a bit of re-evaluation.

Varying circumstances also lead to re-evaluations. What does this mean? Well, have you ever been friends with someone simply because it benefited you? I cannot express the number of times this has happened:

Friend: I’m gonna tell you something, just don’t tell anyone else.
Me: Sure, why would I tell anyone? I mean…who’s there to tell?
Friend: Exactly, that’s why I’m telling you this.

It shits me so much. Might as well not tell me, not like I have any impact on the matter. As soon as your circumstances change, your so called friend won’t bother coming to you for anything. Let me ask you computer geeks this…if you never had any pro skills, would some people still bother talking to you? I’m sure you all have PLENTY of contacts who only talk to you when their “computer dies” or “internet dies” and you just want to scream at them for being such an idiot. On a side note, I absolutely HATE it when people come to me and say that their “computer is slow” when they really mean the “internet connection”. Not too long ago I got asked “So…can you hack into computers and stuff?” after I told them my degree is IT.

I’ll probably just leave it at that for today.