Showing posts with label three things. Show all posts
Showing posts with label three things. Show all posts

Sunday, September 7, 2008

Three Things (continued)

Three Things that Make Me Smile
  • Learning about emerging technologies.  The incredible rate with which our society is able to technologically evolve is astounding.  I enjoy witnessing and participating in the collaborative effort to awesomify our lives.
  • Observing and playing in our political process.  Despite its countless inadequacies and downfalls, I don't think anyone would deny that it is fun and incredibly entertaining when our nation gets all riled up about coming elections.
  • The excitement of what's around the corner.  Just when I start to feel summer coming to a close, I realize that snowboarding season is about to begin.  Although, I can always find something to replace the words "summer" and "snowboarding" with...
Three Things that Make Me Cringe
  • Communicating with visibly miserable people.  If you respond to the basic "how're you?" with anything less than "good", our conversation is already off to a bad start.
  • Working with materialistic people.  If you live your life with a storage unit leased on indefinite terms, I question your effectiveness.
  • People who are non-communicative, especially in the context of electronic communication.  I'm sorry if you hate the basic technological mediums of conversation, they're here to stay and you need to adapt.