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Date: 03 February 2006 09:05:12
That particular 'interesting' was referring to the number of visitors to my blog. Over the 4 months I've had it, the numbers have steadily increased each month. Makes me feel almost popular (either that, or there's lots of people like me avoiding doing stuff they should be doing!!).
Also interesting today:
* My cats are not like Garfield, they don't like lasagne.
* The people at nursery don't take any notice of the schedule I gave them for Alien of when she eats / sleeps etc. This is good in one sense because it means I have to learn to 'let go' already!
* Shopping for a youth group weekend, for about 15 people, actually takes 3 hours, not the expected hour and a half.
* The pancakes I had for breakfast were best before 9th January 2005.
* The packet of Ringtons Select Ginger snaps a kind person gave me yesterday are far far too tasty.
Now, some might question the 'interestingness' of some of the above. And they might be correct to do so. However, in the grand scheme of life, in theory anything could be interesting. It simply depends on who is reading it and when it is being written.
For example, someone who loves to watch Garfield may have always assumed that all cats are like Garfield, therefore all cats like lasagne. From my above 'interesting fact' they would now know that this is not the case. This may lead them into wondering what proportion of cats do actually like it, which might lead into further research. And this research could then be given to cat food making companies (or used by the person themselves to create their own cat food company), and these companies could increase their sales by marketing 'Garfields favourites: Lasagne - for the discerning cat' (as we know that not all cats like it). This would thereby validate the fact that the 'my cats don't like lasagne' statement as being an interesting one.
However, another person may immensely dislike cats (there are these strange people out there - I've met them) and have no interest in their eating habits, both as a race, and specifically in relation to my cats. In this instance, they would deny that the statement 'my cats don't like lasagne' is interesting. They may even go as far as saying that I have wasted their precious time by encouraging them to read what they consider to be a false statement. They read the title and were looking forward to reading interesting things, and I have misled them. (Although a couter attack to this might be to state that if they have read any of my previous blog entries, they would be aware that I do have a tendancy to talk a large amount of waffly bollocks, and it could be argued that they should have expected some form of exagguration or crap somewhere in the post. If however, they had not read previous blog entries and really didn't know what to expect, I would like to apologise unreservedly.)
I could continue along these lines, but I feel that even the most hardy of blog-readers may well be dropping off to sleep, so I wont.