First Post, Not Really

This post will mark the announcement of the blog to the general public. I wanted to get a few posts in before showing a larger audience, just to make sure I wasn’t announcing something that was going to end up being empty. I’ve fallen into the habit of writing every day on the train and I’m really enjoying it. Topics have been rather varied so far just because I write about whatever I’m thinking at the moment that I open my netbook. There are times when I remember a topic from the day before that I felt strongly about, so I’ll write about that. The formatting of the posts have been improving as I’ve been writing, which is probably another good thing about waiting until I had a decent amount of posts to start showing a wide audience. I’ve shown a few people to get some feedback; I apologize if you weren’t picked for the beta test, but that probably means I’m just a bad friend.

Enough about me, let’s talk about you. Who is this blog actually targeted at? The topics are so varied that it’s hard to really say. I think it’s just anyone who’s curious about what I have to say and find my writing style amusing. I’ve been told that the way I write reads well and is pretty funny at times. I mean there are things that aren’t even really meant to be a joke at the time, but then when I look back I realize how funny those things can be.

Alright, let’s talk about Nurse Jackie since the train is plastered with her ads. What is this shit? Someone said we needed a female version of house, so we’ll use a nurse instead of a doctor because it’s a woman. Honestly this seems to be the first time a woman is the lead in a series about medicine, and she has to be a nurse? There have been female doctor leads of course who have been shown to be incredibly smart, but there’s a difference between Dr. Cutty and House. House is very clearly the better doctor and the leading role. I haven’t seen Jackie, but I imagine there will be a few times where she upstages the doctors, but that’s not really the point is it?

It’s funny to think about the fact that I really don’t watch much television anymore. People ask me to watch things so that they have someone to talk to about it. Television is oddly some kind of multi-user experience, even though most people watch it in solitary. I also find it funny to see how much television other people actually watch. I don’t even know what it means to have that kind of time where I can just sit around watching TV and catch up on all the shows that I’ve missed. Really I don’t have any time for shows with commercials because I refuse to sit there and be advertised at. Whenever I watch one of the many house marathons, I realize just how powerful and terrible commercials really are. You end up seeing the same set of commercials over and over again because the show is usually sponsored by a particular company with an excessive amount of advertising money and has a particular audience it is targeting.

Marketing is an awful and awfully useful science. No one really likes their marketing team because they will degrade your product and do things that are maybe shady or may not show your product in the greatest light by moral or mature standards, but they are there to get people interested in your product. Marketing is an odd field in the sense that everyone needs it, but at the same time it needs everyone else. A marketer is nothing unless it has something to market, but once that desperate inventor has something to show off, the marketer can have the upper hand because now that the inventor has invested their life into something, they won’t let it go.

This about where I kind of just cut the post off abruptly because I’m nearing my stop and I don’t really know how to close out a post. Since this is the first publically announced post, I will do things a bit differently just this once. I guess I’ll thank everyone for reading this post and taking an interest in my blog. I hope you’ll continue to follow my, as you can tell, completely random thoughts on my train ride to work.