Clawing for Attention

I understand the need for every app, especially the news ones, to claw for attention. I think the worst offenders do so and have sponsored/suggested ads peppered in through their content.

The Yahoo! Newsroom app is the worst of all the ones I have. Once I open it, I think I get 20-25 notifications within two or three days of news it believes I want to look at. Some of it is just the Yahoo! content, a good deal being videos. I’ve never been a fan of video news. Television news is fine, but video news in general has been iffy for me. Newsy has been an exception, though I haven’t quite given them as much attention as I had in the past.

Another offender is LinkedIn. They don’t do notifications quite as often, but they like to randomly have their badge light up just so anal-retentive people like me who want it gone can open the app. That then starts the cycle, because once one opens the app, more notifications come in. Pinterest too.

But it’s all free, so I really shouldn’t complain, right? Or turn off the notifications and badges? But then I might miss something.

Craigslist Moves

Pretty much every apartment except the one I’m soon about to vacate after three years and two months I’d located, prospected, and signed leases for because of Craigslist.

Craigslist, while I can’t say I’ve been on it much lately, had been a big part of my life in my twenties. Sometimes it would be idle browsing, sometimes for job searches, and sometimes it would be for apartments.

Having decided I was going to not renew my lease this time around, I’d first went via Apartment Ratings (since that’s how I’d found where I am currently). Not finding ones that jumped out at me pretty readily, I went to old reliable Craigslist.

And now I’m moving. Oh, the 21st century.

9 Additional Sins

There are nine others that are making more and more sense to me. Some of them seem more repugnant to me than others, but they’re something I just might put to memory.

New year, self-reformation some.

Reviewing

Reviewing is kind of fun.

It allows me to tell a story coherently and sometimes with a little creative wording. Sometimes I have to think about where I’d like to review, though, because the majority of places I do go aren’t where one would think of or have time to analyze.

And then I’m kind of a homebody.

Esoteric References

I'm that guy who makes references only a handful of people would get, and it's an interesting feeling.

When I get up, I listen to news podcasts, as I do when I'm alone at lunch, and when I'm doing something at work that doesn't require as much concentration. Even so, sometimes I blank. I'm even having some memory problems where I'm not as sharp at remembering what I've experienced and said than I've not.

But I know about Koeppen climates, North Dakota weather, and the population of Wyoming.

I could tell you about the seal they had to take off an airport runway in Utqiagvik sooner than I could that there, apparently a couple years ago, was a smash-though of a Chinese restaurant around the corner from my apartment and an armed altercation at the Kroger next door to it within the same month.

I know some world leaders' names a little more easily than I do my own constituency representatives.

But it's all okay. It's lonely, and I only slightly care, but it's okay.