I ignore the bugs in my code to deprive them of their importance.
for the past 5 years iāve been searching my memory for the title of the great brain seriesā¦finally at christmas i remembered and ordered it from amazon. i re-read it cover to cover and loved it. my wife more than once reminded me iām 40 yrs old reading a kids book. iāve never run into anyone whoās even heard of the book.
see how I skipped right to the ennui
I had no freaking idea who Susan Boyle is until today.
But thanks to your blog, I learnt something today! Thanks Jeff!
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Thank you for triggering some memory neurons to fire again - I read The Great Brain as kid too but all memories of it had completely evaporated. Theyāre not well-known books over here in the UK, and I canāt think now how I ever got hold of it.
Well I will do the philosophical disagreeing part:
I think that ignoring is actually taking the easy way out. Its like saying āDoing something about is too much work therefore I will ignore itā, so in the end a semi-defeatist option.
Sure we need to do it - o/w our brains will explode. But there are too many examples of bad things that happen because people who were not directly affected by it (but had the power to change it) ignored it (all of us can think of examples). So its important to evaluate what you choose to ignore, philosophically speaking.
Jeff, Iāve got to say that I love your blog. I donāt always agree with you, but itās always worth reading.
Also, the Great Brain series is one of my all-time favorites as well.
I wonāt ignore our elected officials, although I loathe most of them and would love to not give them one brain cellās concern. But itās dangerous to ignore the dangerous.
Frankly, I would have gone with obsessing about one or other other flavor of āleggy blondeā. But thatās probably only because Iām superficial, shallow, and otherwise emotionally stunted.
So if you want to give Susan some extra attention, I canāt see how the universe will be too bent out of shape by it.
-irrational john
Jeff you are now blogging about blogging and reality TV ā¦
ā¦ shall I come back when you are better?
Kudos on mentioning the Great Brain series. Those are great books for young adults.
One place this really works: politicians.
With the European elections coming up in a couple of days, party pollsters really donāt like it if you say youāre deliberately not voting as everybody sounds the same. And the best thing? Itās true!
Nope. Not going to ignore you. I like this site too much. While I donāt always agree with all you say, I find it incredibly helpful to digest what you say so I can understand you, even when I donāt agree.
So feel free to ignore me, but Iāll not stop reading as long as you keep posting.
āIf you donāt like whoās on the cover of Wired, just donāt look. If no one talks about her, sheāll go away.ā
I ask again, wanting enlightenment on English usage: why āherā and āsheā?
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There is a fascinating book called āOstracism: The Power of Silenceā that discusses why the silent treatment is so effective. I stumbled across it randomly on Google Books and ended up reading it for hours it was so interesting. In particular, it recounts a story of a husband who stopped talking to his wife for a reason she couldnāt even remember, and never said another word to her for 40 years until his death.
You can take a look at it here: http://books.google.com/books?id=2_C_d7IBOqQC.
Hah, I remember the silent treatment. My parents tried a minor form of it on my and my brothers when we were younger. All of us liked it - I was an introvert, and it gave my brothers a reason not to tell them where they were going when they left the house.
Do you think blogging about Susan Boyle is an adequate way of ignoring Susan Boyle?
āI wish I had two brains so I could ignore her twice as hard.ā
Fantastic.
Well said! Thank you. 
Iād love to see more ignoring and less flaming going on in a lot of places on the Internet, and even sometimes in real life!
-Max
Iād like to Boyle that Susanā¦ wait that doesnāt workā¦