Comments on: Your “Someday” List Can Change Your Life

By: David

David — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:18:25 +0000

It’s not the disagreeing with him that bothers me. I love me some critical thinking and analysis.

What bothers me are 1.) the tone of the criticism. 2.) the fact that the disagreement is often with some small, minor, often inconsequential facet of the post 3.) the negative comments are often not “disagreements” but ad hominem attacks that do nothing to advance the discussion in the comments section.

By: AnnJo

AnnJo — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:47:21 +0000

Johanna @6, I nearly choked on the orange I was eating when I read that comment.

By: Tizzle

Tizzle — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 09:01:30 +0000

I dunno if this post was repetitive. But I liked it and feel like I should try out the suggestion. The fact I didn’t remember him saying something just like it within the last 10 days kinda shows that repetition isn’t a bad thing.

I read this blog (via rss) more as a daily reminder of what I’m trying to do. I swear, there are very few things I can do to be more frugal in my own life (except for sacrificing happiness), but reading about it keeps me focused.

I was hoping the comments were gonna be a bit less negative and a bit more inspiring. Now I just feel like I should counteract the general flow. Eh, ymmv, as they say.

By: David

David — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 03:25:34 +0000

For clarity, I (David) who cannot tell the difference between Maxwell Smart and Maxwell Grant and possibly Maxwell House am not the person (David) who is sorry for Trent because other people (who may or may not be called David, or even Maxwell or Johanna) disagree with him. Such people do not depress me about the state of humanity in the least; the state of humanity would, I think, be the poorer if everyone agreed with everyone else when everyone else was patently wrong.

By: Riki

Riki — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 01:42:31 +0000

Also, all the criticism pretty much writes his pay cheque every month.

By: kevin

kevin — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:36:33 +0000

@22 David – Don’t worry about Trent – he doesn’t read comments anyway.

By: David

David — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:45:51 +0000

Trent, I am sorry you have some of the most bitter and carping commenters in the PF world. I disagree with you sometimes but the people on here who troll your website daily–ehem, Johanna, ehem–just to criticize your work make me depressed about the state of humanity. GO SOMEWHERE ELSE PEOPLE. Your comments do nothing to further the conversation that a “comments section” should allow.

And now I will move on because my own comment is drifting into that territory. Carry on.

By: kevin

kevin — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:07:48 +0000

Simply put, Trent is obviously not passionate about Big Bang Theory.

By: Dave M

Dave M — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:25:19 +0000

Trent, I promise I will donate $20 to your favorite charity if you can avoid trashing broadcast television for a month (remember folks, Hulu is OK). I’ll let you start next Monday 12/12 as there are probably some articles in the pipeline that still regurgitate this tired trope.

+1 for Big Bang Theory (haha #1 Misha!)

By: Steven

Steven — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:02:24 +0000

I like to chill out on the couch in front of the TV watching The Big Bang Theory…

Does that make me a bad person?

By: getagrip

getagrip — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:09:06 +0000

I think the better point of such a list is things you’d “like” to do. So looking at it should be an encouraging reminder of things you might think are fun or interesting to do and using some of your down time for that. I don’t need another weekend chore or household activity list. Too often we look to TV, the internet, etc. when we’ve had enough of the chores or work and want to veg. I like this idea as an occasional alternative to vegging out assuming you are putting things on the list that you actually would look forward to doing rather than things you think you should be doing.

By: McKella

McKella — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:54:48 +0000

I love this! I already have lots of “to-do” type lists laying around, the biggest one being my “Handprint List”, which is similar to a bucket list. I haven’t looked at it for a few weeks, but thanks for the reminder.

By: kristine

kristine — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:52:29 +0000

Chad,
Yes, but it is an elaborated version of a post section about a week ago, in which this exact thought was succinctly put in two sentences. The additions are not substantive insights. There was already a lengthy comment conversation on the value of such a list, vs. the value of boredom as way to incite imagination. A mere week later is too soon for a repeat.

By: Chad

Chad — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:47:11 +0000

The negativity of comments on this post is interesting because I actually thought this was one of the better posts he’s made in a while. I’m inspired and plan on starting a list (and trying to log off the net more).

By: David

David — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:06:30 +0000

I think I probably did – comes of quoting from memory when you don’t actually have one.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:57:38 +0000

Maxwell Smart? I think you meant Maxwell Grant.

Sorry about that, Chief–

By: Gretchen

Gretchen — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:53:23 +0000

Aren’t you already writing a novel?
Don’t you make your living off people ” sitting on the internet debating someone in a forum over something completely unimportant”?

By: David

David — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:53:06 +0000

“Sure you could write a novel in three weeks, but how good would it be?”

Walter B Gibson, under the pen name Maxwell Smart, is estimated to have written over a million words a year during a 15-year period from 1934 to 1948. These words eventually comprised some 282 novels (they originally appeared in serial form), so his output slightly exceeded a novel every three weeks.

Were they any good? Only the Shadow knows.

By: valleycat1

valleycat1 — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:35:33 +0000

I don’t understand why it’s ok to create your own box to be able to stream internet content to the tv screen (from Trent’s Saturday post) – presumably because one plans to watch shows that way, but not ok to surf the tv directly. Yes, you have more control about which show you actually watch, but you’re still watching TV.

By: Brad Moore

Brad Moore — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:59:25 +0000

Thanks, Trent. I am going to incorporate part of your idea! I going to send an email to myself, title it something like “someday list”, and when I think of something to add, I’ll add it and send it to myself again. I would probably lose the notebook…hard to lose an email!

Mine might have a different flavor cause my first thing will be doing a ropes course with the fam – which we plan to do over Christmas holidays!

Thanks for the idea!