Inoun - do we really need another blog?

I was joking around with a friend of mine the other day, and he told me that, "I have an over-exuberance in my verbosity." It is true, and sadly, I must concur. It comes easy to me.

So the only response that I could come up with at the time was, "I should write a blog." To which he responded at the top of his lungs, "THAT WOULD BE GREAT! You really should do that! ..... No, I am serious, you really should!"

I think he was looking to have me push my views about search and other random technical things into that great bit filled lossy protocol known as the Internet, so that my words wouldn't be completely lost and wasted on just him. Others have told me this as well of course, and even more have encouraged me to write books. Always, it seems, right before they delete my emails, but I digress...

The point is, do we really need another person spilling their guts out into, what my kids so affectionately call, "The Internets"? Well after a few seconds of advanced preparation and deep and insignificant thought, here we are. I am not only just another lone tree in the woods, about to be knocked over by the wind and storms of bit torrent, but I also know full well, that no single solitary person is around to hear it. Especially my wife.

But before I take my last dying breath, generations will most notably and of little note, remember that I was a noun. Hence the name. Inoun.

Nouns are interesting things. And being one, I reminisce about the t-shirt I wore to work the other day that said, "I am a noun." To which another co-worker, after seeing it said, "I wish I was a verb!" "Why is that?" "Because verbs get billable hours!"

And it put it all into perspective for me. I will never be a verb. I am a noun. I was born a noun, and I will die a noun. I guess it is possible that I could be used as a verb, like in how people say, "did you Bing it?", or "he Superman'd it", but even with that, in that dual purpose, I will still be a noun.

And nouns are very important in the grand scheme of things. Because, that is just it; they might be acted upon, and pushed in one direction or another within a sentence, but in the end, they are the actual "real thing". And without that, we wouldn't have much.

Comments

• Anonymous
  November 24, 2010
  haha i love it!!! keep it up

• Anonymous
  November 25, 2010
  Nice post.  It'll be interesting to see which direction you take this.  

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  November 25, 2010
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