Will Reed effect (2) Dec 13, 2005
Will Reed is a person who went to high school with me.  I'm ok with Will Reed now.  I didn't used to be.  He's one of those people who's very opinionated and likes to share these opinions with other people.  I'm opinionated, but I mostly share my opinions on this website, where they largely fall on deaf ears.  This is a good thing, because otherwise I'd probably get beat up.  Or maybe knifed. 

So anyway, Will had some opinions about music, and specifically about the band Phish.  He used to talk about Phish all the time and go to their concerts and sing their songs in social situations.  Everything revolved around Phish.  You'd be talking to him and he'd suddenly break out into song because you pieced together three words from a Phish song.  Not surprisingly, this annoyed me.  Taking into account the fact that my teen years were comprised of a series of anger problems, I let this annoyance get to me, to the point where Will was the Bain of my existence.  I couldn't stand him.  I hated everything he liked.  I made fun of everything he said.  He was the epitome of stupidity and idiocy in the world.  He was my Newman. 

When I got to college, I was in a different environment.  I didn't have Funkwagon or it's alternate members.  I didn't have Ms. Curcione teaching me physics like I was a 2nd grader.  And most importantly, I didn't have Will to give me guidance on what not to do.  So I found myself trying some new things and finding that they weren't as stupid as they sounded coming out of Will's mouth.  I started liking Phish and found that they were actually really cool and talented, something I still believe to this day.  I started going to concerts and buying t-shirts, going against Will's jab at the Gathering of the Vibes ("Mike, you still buy shirts from the shows you go to?  What a loser.").  And I enjoyed ultimate frisbee, something I wasn't able to do for years. 

Like I mentioned before, I'm ok with Will Reed now.  So Will, if you ever find this site, no hard feelings.  But seriously, you were really annoying in high school. #psychology
Too much good smell Dec 13, 2005
I regularly walk past the room at work right next to mine, and I'm overwhelmed by what would normally be a good smell.  It's some sort of men's cologne.  But of course, like almost all men who wear cologne, the user uses too much.  It's too much of a good smell.  Too much of a good smell is a bad thing.  And it's not like the guy just walked by me and brought a waft of the odor with him.  It's not like there's a fan in the room that's circulating this pungent aroma.  Nope.  It's just all over the place.  And it gets all up in my business.  So hear this, users of cologne:  Stop wearing so much cologne that it makes the people around you sick.  You're no longer doing a good thing.  You're doing a bad thing.  Bad. #psychology
Commander Keen Dec 13, 2005
Commander Keen is a computer game from 1990 that changed the world as we know it.  Well, maybe not.  But it was cool when I was like 10. 



Keen 1 - Invasion of the Vorticons Episode 1
Keen 2 - Invasion of the Vorticons Episode 2
Keen 3 - Invasion of the Vorticons Episode 3
Keen Dreams
Keen 4 - Secret of the Oracle
Keen 5 - Goodbye Galaxy
Keen 6 - Aliens Ate My Babysitter #entertainment