Glenn Reynolds says, of this list, Seven Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers,
You kind of want to make fun of a series like this, but it's actually good.
Uh. I went there, to the actual site with the instructions, or suggestions, or list, or whatever the hell it is (it's a blog, actually, on Blogspot, so have fun waiting for it to load! Go make a roast or resurface your driveway or something while you wait), and I first saw the word "Synergize." Shaking off the effects of encountering that word unprepared, I scrolled down a bit, and came upon the use of the termlet "Win/Win" used in a non-ironic context, and my brain locked up. I had to click back before I started drooling and twitching. So I guess I won't be making fun of it. I guess I won't be reading it at all. So there goes my chance of being Highly Effective, dare I say Proactive, and becoming a Force for Change in the World...
Aieee! The mind rays! They've broken thr--
Posted by Andrea Harris at March 29, 2003 11:08 PMI glanced over the list a bit and summed it up in my mind this way:
1. Be pretentious.
2. Take yourself and your blog waaaayyyy too seriously. You're changing the world here, people, not just typing random shit onto a webpage.
Wow Andrea, thanks for the link. It changed my life. No, really. It did.
Posted by: Aaron Haspel at March 30, 2003 at 01:30 AMMy evil continues to infect others. Life is good.
Posted by: Andrea Harris at March 30, 2003 at 01:40 AMI saw the word 'synergise' and immediately clicked the little 'x' button on the top right hand corner of my screen and erased my own memory.
Posted by: Steven Chapman at March 30, 2003 at 02:06 PMAh, eeeexcellent! The test proceeds as planned. You have no idea how incovenient those tinfoil hats have been to us up until now. It's all in the frequency modulation on your monitor.
Time to launch phase 2 of the plan, a country music song with embedded subliminals that will allow us to TAKE OVER THE WORLD! Just as soon as I find a proper 4 syllable name for myself....
Posted by: Joe Katzman at March 30, 2003 at 03:11 PMSo, I take it that the potion that was supposed to make everyone small, but turned them instead into Swiss yodelers, didn't pan out?
Posted by: Kevin McGehee at March 30, 2003 at 03:21 PMWhat do you mean? Doesn't everyone naturally yodel? (So that's why my cat won't come out from under the bed anymore.)
Posted by: Andrea Harris at March 30, 2003 at 05:12 PMOne of the inanities that I had to endure while working under the Clintonistas was the boatload of crap that is the 7 habits mantra. And I do mean the purest, refined, unmitigated crap.
Covey had apparently hypnotized the Bubba and The Hillary and convinced them that his method was sound. I happened to work under one of his politically correct assholes who thought Covey was hot stuff.
I did achieve the honor of ducking three Covey sessions, all mandatory, and hid out from the Coveynazis until the 2000 election. I was never so glad to see a change of administration.
The Covey stuff is basically good, common sense, but repackaged with icky-sticky coating and twitchy jargon. No thanks.
My wife was not so fortunate; she had to take the course, and got a lovely bound notebook just chock full of garbage. After her exposure, she called it a cult, one that suckered in the Clintons and those sycophants around them afraid to tell Bubba that Covey wasn't wearing any clothes.
Start with the end in mind. No shit, Sherlock.
Posted by: Jack Rich at March 30, 2003 at 05:47 PMYou're not half as horrified as you're about to be.
I was in the USAF for 9 years. The first year, I saw none of this Covey crap. The next 4 years, I was buried in it.
Four years of that shit did us an immeasurable amount of harm.
Posted by: Eichra Oren at March 30, 2003 at 05:51 PMYeah - it was all Joe's fault and the Clinton's too.
They brainwashed me into thinking hate was bad. You have convinced my of the wrongness of my evil, prententious ways.
Love and kisses.
Mike
Just a little. But I'll get over it. Thanks for the bashing.
Posted by: Mike Sanders at March 31, 2003 at 08:49 AM