If I Were To Ask You...

If I were to ask you if you are busier than you were 10-20 years ago, how would you respond? I would certainly say yes, but this article from The Atlantic suggests it is more a case of a blurred line between leisure and work time. I don't know. I certainly still feel busy. Maybe the argument only stands up if you compare it to 50+ years ago.

If I were to ask you if you saw the finale of season 28 of Survivor last night, how would you respond? Some of you might have recorded it but not had time to watch yet. If so, you should skip over today's Clarity of Vision. No, I don't tell you who won...well, not exactly.

BTW, the Newhart finale aired in 1990.

If I were to ask you if you'd like to learn a new text editor, how would you respond? Actually, it is not so much an editor as an enterer (is that a word?). What? Yeah, it let's you enter text, but you cannot go back and change it, not even for misspellings. What? Why would anyone want that? Read this and you can see what the author's intent was. Still, not for me.

I love this quote from Kurt Vonnegut. "Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand."

What if I asked you the Earth's precise diameter at the equator? How would you answer that? It is 7,926 miles. That was one of the questions in the National Geographic Bee. The winning question? I would have had no idea as to the answer. Read more about the Bee here.

What if I asked you if you had heard any new groups or songs recently? I haven't, although I also haven't really tried. Anyway, Yahoo! Tech has 8 places you might want to investigate.

What if I asked you if you had time to sit here and keep reading, or if you needed to get to work? Actually, it doesn't matter because I need to get to work. Thanks for letting me ask you stuff today.