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Speak Your Mind 164 #816-820

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QUESTIONS

1. Which do you like best: plastic picture frames or wooden picture frames?

2. How do you think life would be different if you lived in Russia?

3. Do you like to wear sunglasses?

4. Does your locker need to be cleaned out?

5. Do you like chinese food?

ANSWERS By: Austin Smith

1. i prefer wood due to the craftsmanship.

2. I would be a lot less free and a lot more employed (with like a real job, and not a silly internet job). (and a lot less happy I would say)

3. No, I don’t like glasses in general.

4. I’ve been out of it for two years so I’d say no.

5. Yes, but on a limited scale.

 

Speak Your Mind 163 #811-815

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QUESTIONS

1. What is a good age for girls to get married?

2. Have you ever worn a wig?

3. How tall is your father?

4. Do you think American women should shave their legs and arm pits?

5. In what ways do you think rich people are different from other people?

ANSWERS By: Austin Smith

1. Whenever they want to.

2. No, I haven’t.

3. About 5’6″ now down from almost 6′.

4. I’d prefer it, but they shouldn’t have to.

5. They are rich, they suffer fewer, or can absorb larger consequences than others.

 

Different Sameness

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So I have been working, and I wasn’t. What was I doing instead? Playing a game. On my phone in this case, but it was a deep phone game. Anyway it got me thinking about some things. Like why I wasn’t working, that was a problem. What made playing this game better than working for me?  And when I say work I don’t mean boring office job: I actually enjoy doing my work. I don’t know why some games just grab me and make me an unproductive zombie. Good thing I’m me and can turn it around into a blog post, right? (Didn’t think so)

Anyway, I was thinking about why some things make me distracted and it occurred to me that it may be a different kind of mental stimulus, like my brain needs to focus on something different so I play a game. But then I was wondering why some people who have boring jobs chose to play boring, simple phone games, like Fruit Ninja or something like that? After thinking about that for a while what I’ve come to believe is that we as humans want something different, but not too different. I play games that involve lots of strategy and planning, which is similar to what I do, but different enough to be interesting. I think it’s fascinating how things like this work in my head. Like I want something that is the same, but will make me think the same is not boring.

I guess that’s the way we do everything. It’s the reason we don’t like change or end up branching out too much in life. We specialize in what we enjoy, or learn to “enjoy” (Read: tolerate) what we do. And we don’t want to do something different, but we get bored, so we yearn for something else. And something very similar is still something else.

At least this is my theory for the time being. I’m sure it will evolve with time, but now that’s what I’m thinking.  If you have any ideas similar or contrary I’d like to hear them. I could just be completely wrong.

Speak Your Mind 114 #566-570

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QUESTIONS

1. How old do you think your principal is?

2. Why do you think indians wore feathers?

3. Do you like exercise?

4. What is one way you think the world will be different in 100 years?

5. Have you ever been playing an outside sport when the sun started to go down and you couldn’t see well?

ANSWERS By: Austin Smith

1. I no longer have a principal.

2. Because they symbolized powerful animals that gave life from their flesh or were great hunters.

3. Sometimes, not in copious amounts.

4. Technology will be through the roof, as in computers.

5. That happens all the time, though I’m not sure I was playing a “sport” or not.

 

Using Different Notebooks

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Quite a few people still use notebooks, it seems. I use them more than most. Unfortunately, most people use them for school. Composition and spiral bound notebooks are the most common everywhere. For most of the people using them, the only distinction between their notebooks is the class they’re used for and maybe the amount of subjects or the color of the cover. I use my notebooks differently. For starters, they are of all different shapes and sizes. Colors and bindings, too. I do have preferences, but I also want to find new preferences.

I use my notebooks based on their type. By that I mean I have a different one for every task. I have one for stories (several actually), one for sketches, one for my “drawing every day” drawings, one for story notes, one for general notes and cartoons, and many others. I’m not sure how many people do this or something similar, but I find it handy to be able to grab a notebook and know exactly what is in it. This over-specialization has backfired and it resulted in me combining several notebooks into one, leaving a few books without a home.

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Those instances are few and far between, though. In general I’ve found it good to specialize my notebooks. If I am doing a certain task I can take a small notebook that is suited for the task instead of a large one that covers everything. It also enables easy referral since I don’t have to constantly search the one and only notebook for something on a specific topic.

It doesn’t just come down to using different same-brand notebooks or even differently sized notebooks. I use completely different brands with completely different styles for my various books. I use Mead, Moleskine, Field Notes, Top Flight, Bienfang, Strathmore, Rhodia, Clairefontaine, and even military-grade Memorandum books. I use all different rulings from blank to dot grid, and I’ve even found a hex grid notebook.

I’m not sure where I’m going with this, I just think it’s weird that I use notebooks like this. Is it? How do you use notebooks? Most of the people I know seem to use them in the way I described above, where they just have one that holds every thing. Or a large one and a pocket one. Either way, my giant bag of notebooks I take with me and cycle through my satchel will continue that way. And I will continue to write on paper notebooks. And I will love doing so. And I hope all of you writing on paper notebooks will love it as well.