http://www.agnoiology.com agnoiology: n. the study of human stupidity. This is the weblog of an agnoiologist, mostly studying myself. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:29:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm truly blessed to have such great friends on both coasts of this beautiful country. http://www.agnoiology.com/2008/07/23/east-side-west-side/ Is it just me, or is Obama very meme-resistant? It's hard for the right-wing to get some criticism to stick. They're gone through so many things. Note that I said meme-resistant, not meme-impervious. He's not utterly invincible, but it's harder to get things to stick. Another question: Is meme-resistance an important ... http://www.agnoiology.com/2008/07/22/meme-resistant/ I was looking through Psycho-ward.org, and it struck me how much that site relied on "Reader Responses." Most of the content was generated from user e-mails. There was one page where I wrote maybe a few paragraphs, and the rest of it was "Reader Responses." The more successful sections of ... http://www.agnoiology.com/2008/07/20/my-old-website/ I saw Wall-E again today. That means a lot because I'm the kind of person who only watches movie once. I'm reluctant even to watch the same movie on DVD. Even when I like the movie, I will rarely watch it again. I really enjoyed Wall-E, so I went with ... http://www.agnoiology.com/2008/07/19/dirty-earth/ So, I'm in Vegas, with relatives. I'm sleeping on the couch. I have no privacy, and it's driving me nuts, haha. http://www.agnoiology.com/2008/07/18/sleeping-on-the-couch/ Okay, why does my blog theme keep getting its options changed, even though I'm not touching anything? Grr... Anyway, I was rafting, and now I'm going to Vegas. Who knows how much blogging will be done in the next few weeks? Expect this month to be sparse. http://www.agnoiology.com/2008/07/16/what/ This book, Let's Get Results, Not Excuses! bugged me. It kept saying excuses was the overarching problem, and if you eliminated excuses, you also rendered inert a whole host of other problems you'd find in a corporation. I recall various analogies to illustrate this point, but an analogy is not ... http://www.agnoiology.com/2008/07/14/thoughts-on-lets-get-results-not-excuses/ I didn't find The Science of Influence, by Kevin Hogan, all that helpful. It's targeted towards salespeople and while I am interested in learning more about sales, I am not a salesperson by trade. Furthermore, the book doesn't have enough science to warrant its title. On one level, I appreciate ... http://www.agnoiology.com/2008/07/14/thoughts-on-the-science-of-influence/ I borrowed Man's Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl, from the library, and now I really wish I had my own copy. This is why I hate the library ;) It's an amazing book, and I recommend it to everyone. It's about Frankl's experiences in a concentration camp during the Holocaust ... http://www.agnoiology.com/2008/07/08/quotes-from-mans-search-for-meaning/ My sister had the graphic novels Maus I and Maus II sitting on her shelf for the longest time. The cover art always intrigued me. The books were about the Holocaust and the people were drawn as animals -- the Jews were mice. I never actually read the books because ... http://www.agnoiology.com/2008/07/08/thoughts-on-maus/