Comments for KeithGoode.com http://keithgoode.com The personal philosophy of the thinking man's man. Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:14:29 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 Comment on The Tangled Web of Ancestry by keith http://keithgoode.com/2009/01/13/the-tangled-web-of-ancestry/comment-page-1/#comment-1529 keith Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:14:29 +0000 http://keithgoode.com/?p=70#comment-1529 Thanks! I think I'm officially going to change my name to Keith "the Barbadian" Goode. Thanks! I think I’m officially going to change my name to Keith “the Barbadian” Goode.

]]> Comment on The Tangled Web of Ancestry by Siobhan Welch http://keithgoode.com/2009/01/13/the-tangled-web-of-ancestry/comment-page-1/#comment-1528 Siobhan Welch Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:48:48 +0000 http://keithgoode.com/?p=70#comment-1528 This is really interesting! Funny all the things you can find out. Thanks for sharing. The names are great! This is really interesting! Funny all the things you can find out. Thanks for sharing. The names are great!

]]> Comment on Azazel & the Peril of Vanity by keith http://keithgoode.com/2008/12/24/azazel-and-the-peril-of-vanity/comment-page-1/#comment-1478 keith Sun, 04 Jan 2009 04:26:26 +0000 http://keithgoode.com/?p=50#comment-1478 Perhaps I didn't express my thoughts clearly. I don't think that <em>everyone </em>that takes advantage of Web 2.0 is narcissistic, just like I don't think people who've kept journals for however long people have been keeping journals were narcissistic. I don't think I said that anywhere in the blog post. However, I do think that the ease-of-access to an audience of millions combined with personalities trained their whole lives to think the world revolves around them is a dangerous combination. Studies suggest that the number of people "afflicted" with this narcissism is increasing significantly. While I do have a blog, a Twitter account, a Facebook account, a MySpace account, a FriendFeed account, etc., my motivation for starting most of them was business-related, trying to learn about social media and SEO. -- My blog is my way of recording my thoughts. My Facebook is now my way of keeping up with old friends. The rest, I could live without. But, frankly, I do ask myself, "Who the hell do you think you are? Why would anyone want to read your thoughts anyway?" I have no delusions about my popularity <strong>or </strong>my importance. That said, there are personalities out there that crave the attention (dare I say the name Tila Tequila?) and really don't offer anything in return but self-promotion. They aren't experts on anything, but they'll spend hours in front of a webcam spouting off about something trivial on YouTube. On Twitter, every day, I receive a tweet from someone saying, "Hey, I'm trying to get to 1000 followers by next month. Help me out." Why? Why should people follow you? Right? Okay, now to the human nature issue. ... I agree. I readily agree that when human beings aren't faced with <strong>real </strong>challenges for survival, when they can sit around and not worry about poverty, plague, or sabertooth tigers, it is very easy to become self-absorbed. If you want to find someone who's really got a grip on the importance of family and community nowadays, find someone who lived through the Great Depression, if you still can. And yet they are some of the most humble people you'll meet as well. ... Correlation? I think so. Thanks for the comment. ... By the way, what are you doing reading my stupid nonsense anyway? There are a lot more important people than me out there. ;-) Perhaps I didn’t express my thoughts clearly. I don’t think that everyone that takes advantage of Web 2.0 is narcissistic, just like I don’t think people who’ve kept journals for however long people have been keeping journals were narcissistic. I don’t think I said that anywhere in the blog post. However, I do think that the ease-of-access to an audience of millions combined with personalities trained their whole lives to think the world revolves around them is a dangerous combination. Studies suggest that the number of people “afflicted” with this narcissism is increasing significantly.

While I do have a blog, a Twitter account, a Facebook account, a MySpace account, a FriendFeed account, etc., my motivation for starting most of them was business-related, trying to learn about social media and SEO. — My blog is my way of recording my thoughts. My Facebook is now my way of keeping up with old friends. The rest, I could live without. But, frankly, I do ask myself, “Who the hell do you think you are? Why would anyone want to read your thoughts anyway?” I have no delusions about my popularity or my importance.

That said, there are personalities out there that crave the attention (dare I say the name Tila Tequila?) and really don’t offer anything in return but self-promotion. They aren’t experts on anything, but they’ll spend hours in front of a webcam spouting off about something trivial on YouTube. On Twitter, every day, I receive a tweet from someone saying, “Hey, I’m trying to get to 1000 followers by next month. Help me out.” Why? Why should people follow you? Right?

Okay, now to the human nature issue. … I agree. I readily agree that when human beings aren’t faced with real challenges for survival, when they can sit around and not worry about poverty, plague, or sabertooth tigers, it is very easy to become self-absorbed. If you want to find someone who’s really got a grip on the importance of family and community nowadays, find someone who lived through the Great Depression, if you still can. And yet they are some of the most humble people you’ll meet as well. … Correlation? I think so.

Thanks for the comment. … By the way, what are you doing reading my stupid nonsense anyway? There are a lot more important people than me out there. ;-)

]]> Comment on Azazel & the Peril of Vanity by Siobhan Welch http://keithgoode.com/2008/12/24/azazel-and-the-peril-of-vanity/comment-page-1/#comment-1477 Siobhan Welch Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:36:59 +0000 http://keithgoode.com/?p=50#comment-1477 While I see what you're saying about this next generation, and ours, and our parents[ and how they can be considered the "Me" generations, I tend to see a pattern. I think this self absorption is more of a reflection of human naturethan a cultural shift. And while the venues of expression available to us have increased in number, people have always kept diaries, written memoirs, taken photographs, etc. and expressed themselves artistically on what one might call an amateur level. That said, I find it interesting that you seem to condemn Web 2.0 and people who take advantage of its capabilities when you have a blog, a twitter acct, a facebook acct and Flickr acct. But would you say you are self-absorbed because you write a blog about the subjects that interest you? Probably not! While I see what you’re saying about this next generation, and ours, and our parents[ and how they can be considered the “Me” generations, I tend to see a pattern. I think this self absorption is more of a reflection of human naturethan a cultural shift. And while the venues of expression available to us have increased in number, people have always kept diaries, written memoirs, taken photographs, etc. and expressed themselves artistically on what one might call an amateur level.

That said, I find it interesting that you seem to condemn Web 2.0 and people who take advantage of its capabilities when you have a blog, a twitter acct, a facebook acct and Flickr acct. But would you say you are self-absorbed because you write a blog about the subjects that interest you? Probably not!

]]> Comment on My Blog Inaction Day Contribution by Julie http://keithgoode.com/2007/10/17/my-blog-inaction-day-contribution/comment-page-1/#comment-1193 Julie Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:11:06 +0000 http://keithgoode.com/2007/10/17/my-blog-inaction-day-contribution/#comment-1193 One more thing. The whole reason that some people demonstrate and raise the alarm is to get an issue noticed. Clearly somebody somewhere achieved their aim because here you are, writing about environmental issues (whether for good or bad) so the message has gotten out. The conversation has been started. Sometimes that's the true aim. The people at the protests are on the far left, but they've moved the chains (borrowing a football expression.) But I think you get my point. It's like this: most of us aren't extreme and aren't fond of extremists. But the extremists also provide us the luxury of seeming reasonable and rational if only by comparison alone. And slowly we edge closer to an objective. There was a time, after all, that abolitionists seemed like crazy Yankee leftists. I'm glad they got their message across, though. Aren't you? One more thing. The whole reason that some people demonstrate and raise the alarm is to get an issue noticed. Clearly somebody somewhere achieved their aim because here you are, writing about environmental issues (whether for good or bad) so the message has gotten out. The conversation has been started. Sometimes that’s the true aim. The people at the protests are on the far left, but they’ve moved the chains (borrowing a football expression.) But I think you get my point. It’s like this: most of us aren’t extreme and aren’t fond of extremists. But the extremists also provide us the luxury of seeming reasonable and rational if only by comparison alone. And slowly we edge closer to an objective.

There was a time, after all, that abolitionists seemed like crazy Yankee leftists. I’m glad they got their message across, though. Aren’t you?

]]> Comment on My Blog Inaction Day Contribution by Julie http://keithgoode.com/2007/10/17/my-blog-inaction-day-contribution/comment-page-1/#comment-1192 Julie Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:12:58 +0000 http://keithgoode.com/2007/10/17/my-blog-inaction-day-contribution/#comment-1192 Keith, I always appreciate your posts. Just wanted to mention that there are many, many people who, like you, love the feeling of being in nature and are concerned about the practical implications of human behaviors--implications such as air pollution, habitat loss, and resource depletion. These concerns have a common-sense self-interest behind them. Of course you are going to have extremists out there yelling that the sky is falling. In my experience, these folks generally seem to be those that are new enough to their awareness that their alarm has not tempered yet. They react on impulse and passion, not knowledge and understanding. Unfortunately for many of us, they hurt the efforts of others working to protect our natural resources. Others have tied up their ego so much in railing AGAINST things that they've lost sight of what it is they want to accomplish. Then there are the life-longers who are just like you. Trying our best and fully aware that the average person doesn't have time or inclination to bike to work, stop eating cows, or recycle their yogurt tops. (Humor.) There's a saying I use. Any jackass can kick down a barn door, but it takes a carpenter to build one. Using that analogy for environmental protection, you should know that there are thousands or millions of people working quietly behind the scenes every day to try to make the things you mention easier, convenient, and more American, if you will. Whether it be subtle efforts at the education you mentioned (bite-sized and to the point, yet obvious and high enough profile to have an impact) or the efforts to develop new technologies that make saving energy easy, or products that are less toxic, etc. We're out here. We're working hard. We are tired, too. We are also just trying to get by. We get it. And we deserve not to be lumped in with the less enlightened of our brethren. Thanks for reading. Keith,

I always appreciate your posts. Just wanted to mention that there are many, many people who, like you, love the feeling of being in nature and are concerned about the practical implications of human behaviors–implications such as air pollution, habitat loss, and resource depletion. These concerns have a common-sense self-interest behind them. Of course you are going to have extremists out there yelling that the sky is falling. In my experience, these folks generally seem to be those that are new enough to their awareness that their alarm has not tempered yet. They react on impulse and passion, not knowledge and understanding. Unfortunately for many of us, they hurt the efforts of others working to protect our natural resources. Others have tied up their ego so much in railing AGAINST things that they’ve lost sight of what it is they want to accomplish. Then there are the life-longers who are just like you. Trying our best and fully aware that the average person doesn’t have time or inclination to bike to work, stop eating cows, or recycle their yogurt tops. (Humor.) There’s a saying I use. Any jackass can kick down a barn door, but it takes a carpenter to build one. Using that analogy for environmental protection, you should know that there are thousands or millions of people working quietly behind the scenes every day to try to make the things you mention easier, convenient, and more American, if you will. Whether it be subtle efforts at the education you mentioned (bite-sized and to the point, yet obvious and high enough profile to have an impact) or the efforts to develop new technologies that make saving energy easy, or products that are less toxic, etc. We’re out here. We’re working hard. We are tired, too. We are also just trying to get by. We get it. And we deserve not to be lumped in with the less enlightened of our brethren. Thanks for reading.

]]> Comment on Mid-Life Reflection, Lifelong Fascination, and Longing for Something Unknown by Siobhan http://keithgoode.com/2007/10/08/mid-life-reflection-lifelong-fascination-and-longing-for-something-unknown/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Siobhan Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:44:24 +0000 http://keithgoode.com/2007/10/08/mid-life-reflection-lifelong-fascination-and-longing-for-something-unknown/#comment-9 I think it would be a good idea for you to teach English in Japan. At least for a couple years. You must! I think it would be a good idea for you to teach English in Japan. At least for a couple years. You must!

]]> Comment on KeithGoode.com: Episode II – Attack of the Gnostic by Alan http://keithgoode.com/2007/04/14/keithgoodecom-episode-ii-attack-of-the-gnostic/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Alan Sat, 18 Aug 2007 13:11:16 +0000 http://keithgoode.com/2007/04/14/keithgoodecom-episode-ii-attack-of-the-gnostic/#comment-7 'People will walk in and out of your Life, the ones called Friends are those who leave Footprints on your Heart and Harmony in your Soul." Author Unknown ~~~ This reading was enjoyable as I took every turn of this excellent and thought provoking content I related to your sincerity and honesty. You have uncommon writing talent and a promising future at HomeAway.com. The fact that you have been with us such a short time and been chosen for a demanding leadership role is evidence of the trust and respect our "C" level directors have in you. For sure, you'll have bridges to build while traveling through our business goals, but you have the tools and materials needed to see they are well placed and properly constructed. You will be tasked with perhaps the toughest challenge of all in mentoring a novice, crusty, mal-adjusted, salt and vinegar Jr. SEO specialist that has transitioned from CSR work. May the spirit of tolerance swiftly take refuge in your cranium, and dwell there daily for use "as needed". Take flight Keith Goode.....the sky will grip your hopes and allow you to Soar! Ol' Alan ‘People will walk in and out of your Life,
the ones called Friends are those who leave
Footprints on your Heart and Harmony in your Soul.” Author Unknown
~~~

This reading was enjoyable as I took every turn of this excellent and thought provoking content I related to your sincerity and honesty.

You have uncommon writing talent and a promising future at HomeAway.com. The fact that you have been with us such a short time and been chosen for a demanding leadership role is evidence of the trust and respect our “C” level directors have in you. For sure, you’ll have bridges to build while traveling through our business goals, but you have the tools and materials needed to see they are well placed and properly constructed.

You will be tasked with perhaps the toughest challenge of all in mentoring a novice, crusty, mal-adjusted, salt and vinegar Jr. SEO specialist that has transitioned from CSR work. May the spirit of tolerance swiftly take refuge in your cranium, and dwell there daily for use “as needed”.

Take flight Keith Goode…..the sky will grip your hopes and allow you to Soar!

Ol’ Alan

]]> Comment on About Keith Goode by keith http://keithgoode.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-6 keith Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:19:48 +0000 #comment-6 Thanks for visiting, Keith. There does seem to be a fair number of Keith Goode's in the world, eh? I'm lucky to have reserved the domain name when I did. I don't always have time to update my site, as I stay very busy with my real job, but I'll try to add as much as I can when I can. Feel free to keep the discourse going on any of the topics I write about. I always enjoy an intelligent conversation. Best regards, Keith Thanks for visiting, Keith. There does seem to be a fair number of Keith Goode’s in the world, eh? I’m lucky to have reserved the domain name when I did.

I don’t always have time to update my site, as I stay very busy with my real job, but I’ll try to add as much as I can when I can. Feel free to keep the discourse going on any of the topics I write about. I always enjoy an intelligent conversation.

Best regards,
Keith

]]> Comment on I Are Smart Too! by keith http://keithgoode.com/2007/07/19/i-are-smart-too/comment-page-1/#comment-5 keith Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:14:14 +0000 http://keithgoode.com/2007/07/19/i-are-smart-too/#comment-5 Well, thank you for proving my point. Not a single multi-syllabic word was used in your comment. Though I must commend you for being able to string more than a couple of words together at once. I'm sure that beats your normal use of grunts and hand gestures. But why did you use "..." at the end of your comments and your "name," as if you were going to continue your line of thought? Or is that how you think? A thought pops into that pea-sized brain of yours, and before you can write it all down, it fizzles into nothingness. Here's the truth: You are a classic Internet troll. You lurk on the web, vicariously reading through other people's opinions, and then when you actually have an opinion of your own, you're so unsure of yourself that you won't provide your real name or your real e-mail address. I doubt that's really even your opinion. I'm guessing that you're just trying to stir the shit. You're just one of the millions of people adding proof to John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19), which states: (Normal person) + (Anonymity) + (An Audience) = (Total Fuckwad) Listen, "You suck...," leave the thinking to people who are capable of it. The sun in Austin has clearly baked your brain and your cajones away (meaning, I know your IP address and that you're a Time Warner Road Runner customer in Austin, TX). If you want to grow some and have an adult conversation, feel free to include your real identity the next time you leave a comment, rather than hiding behind the security of your anonymity. Otherwise, I'll block your IP, and you'll have to go try to make other people feel as small as you are. Well, thank you for proving my point. Not a single multi-syllabic word was used in your comment. Though I must commend you for being able to string more than a couple of words together at once. I’m sure that beats your normal use of grunts and hand gestures. But why did you use “…” at the end of your comments and your “name,” as if you were going to continue your line of thought? Or is that how you think? A thought pops into that pea-sized brain of yours, and before you can write it all down, it fizzles into nothingness.

Here’s the truth: You are a classic Internet troll. You lurk on the web, vicariously reading through other people’s opinions, and then when you actually have an opinion of your own, you’re so unsure of yourself that you won’t provide your real name or your real e-mail address. I doubt that’s really even your opinion. I’m guessing that you’re just trying to stir the shit. You’re just one of the millions of people adding proof to John Gabriel’s Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19), which states:

(Normal person) + (Anonymity) + (An Audience) = (Total Fuckwad)

Listen, “You suck…,” leave the thinking to people who are capable of it. The sun in Austin has clearly baked your brain and your cajones away (meaning, I know your IP address and that you’re a Time Warner Road Runner customer in Austin, TX). If you want to grow some and have an adult conversation, feel free to include your real identity the next time you leave a comment, rather than hiding behind the security of your anonymity. Otherwise, I’ll block your IP, and you’ll have to go try to make other people feel as small as you are.

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