Thoughts by Brian Alden Bass: Have I Bored The Bear or Bored the Boar?

Friday, August 12, 2005

Have I Bored The Bear or Bored the Boar?

Sometimes I wonder how boring this is. I got into listening to "pod casting" last night and I realised that not everyone is entertaining. It is like watching reality TV except it is worse. Here I am typing a simple paragraph that may or may not be good. Pod casts are 10 minutes to 2 hours of usually mindless dribble. I say that because I was listening to "picknick" last night that was basically a couple recording themselves eating in the park for an hour. You hear " This is good pastrami" "Yeah I thought you'd like it." "So when do you go in for back surgery?" "Oh next week. " So they take this gem of an MP3, put it on the internet and allow people to search for it on places like podcastalley.com and then you get to listen to the mundane dribble. It is basically a prime example of how people think they are popular and once they get on the internet they realize having a weblog or pod cast is a hard thing to do, if you want to do it right. Occasionally I'll go searching for other people's blogs just to see if it is entertaining. Most blogs seem to be a little entertaining to those who know you, otherwise it gets real boring quickly. If someone didn't know me then this blog would seem like a really bad article. Don't believe those major news sources that sensationalize blogs or pod casts. They are all wrong. A majority of blogs and pod casts out there have only 1 or 2 posts. Then the writer notices how no one visits and they quit. The successful ones are made by people who are successful already and advertise their blogs, plus people already pay attention to them in real life. Anyway, this post was hardly amusing or had any real intrinsic value. Is it worth it? Let me leave with this - The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.

Thought of the Day
Once upon a barren moor
There dwelt a bear, also a boar.
The bear could not bear the boar.
The boar thought the bear a bore.
At last the bear could bear no more
Of that boar that bored him on the moor,
And so one morn he bored the boar--
That boar will bore the bear no more.

// posted by Brian @ 8/12/2005 10:46:00 AM

Comments:

My question is how long did you listen to this picnic podcast? It is was truly boring then I hope you didn't listen for too long. Podcasts are only entertaining if you're interested in the subject matter. For example, I listen to The Force.Net podcast every week. That's usually entertaining. I don't know that I could listen to a sewing podcast or anything like that.
I usually like you're blog, as long as it's something that's personally happening to you....not just telling us a news story.
Peety

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Anonymous : Aug 12, 2005, 11:24:00 AM

I have never even heard of a podcast before so that means I must be way behind the times... So did you and Mr. T hook up for guys night Brian? I agree with Peety that you should have more stories about you because let's face it, your life is like a fox sitcom....

Benz

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Anonymous : Aug 12, 2005, 5:56:00 PM