20 Things I Don't Get (Please Enlighten Me)

I make lots of lists.  Going through a few recently and decided to gather random notes, thoughts, questions related to things I don’t get.  Some I literally can’t comprehend.  Others I just can’t fathom.

None of these are meant to be provocative - I pose these with total (or close to total) sincerity.  I would love hear anything you have to say on the following ...

1. What either “the message is the medium” or “the medium is the message” actually mean, and why someone decided both made sense.
   
2. Why Keith Richards is not more widely recognized as a brilliant guitarist.  Have you heard "Jumping Jack Flash?"
   
3. The semantic web.  Can someone explain sans jargon?
   
4. “The Phantom Menace” (acting, story, special effects).
   
5. Why people are so shocked I like NASCAR.
   
6. Why anyone would expect Michael Jordan to be as good a man or basketball executive as he was a player.  
   
7. Perez Hiton.  Or for that matter, why people find cruelty so funny.
   
8. FriendFeed.
9. The intense debate over Twitter auto DMs. 
   
10. Why any team still runs the “Cover 2” defensive scheme. 
    
11. Crocs.
12. Why people blindly bow at the alter of Seth Godin. 
    
13. Mafia Wars.
14.  Banana Republic since 2002.
    
15. Isaiah Thomas (the man, the coach, the executive).
16. Scrubs (the TV show).
17. The incessant Tom Cruise bashing.  Was the Oprah couch dance that bad?
    
18. Why more people don’t gush over Flickr. 
    
19. “Dances with Wolves."
20. Why the last three years have flown by in the blink of an eye.

Comments

[BTRIPP]

Ian ... I'd love to help out, but going down that list, I'm at a loss on most of them as well!
Re. #5: I'm no NASCAR fan, but I don't see any reason YOU can't be one. Re. #16: My Wife loves "Scrubs", but I have no use for it. Re. #20: For me that's "the last 30" (old enough to really appreciate #14)!

[t-bone]

re 19---couldn't agree more..i liked it at the time but caught it on TV a few years ago and it was dated as hell, pure Hollywood shmaltz...meanwhile, it stole best pic from Goodfellas which is still perfection every single time over and over and over...

re 12, wasn't his own tipping point about 5 years back?

[Carl Loeb]

re #1: I'm not sure Marshall Macluhan ever thought the phrase made sense, but I am pretty sure he believed it sounded good.

[Tmycann]

RE 5: Actually... on my list of incomprehensibles that entry would just read "NASCAR"... ;) Watching vehicles drive around the same track for hours... Really...?
;)

[Nike Shox R4 Flywire]

Congratulations on that very difficult decision. I encourage you to stay in that realm of being you, remember there is no competition there.
Make your uniqueness non-negotiable. Realize that when you enter the “competition phase” it is because you abandon your uniqueness and that you will compromise other areas in order to “win“or prove yourself a success.

[Nike Shox R4 Flywire]

Congratulations on that very difficult decision. I encourage you to stay in that realm of being you, remember there is no competition there.
Make your uniqueness non-negotiable. Realize that when you enter the “competition phase” it is because you abandon your uniqueness and that you will compromise other areas in order to “win“or prove yourself a success.

[Asics shoes]

Once I met, destined to chance, A visit to life; friendship, A blessing, with all sincerity, In each of the blog, my blessing is a fragrant forget-me-not, collect my every wish sincerely, each, each one blessing, my heart to every detail, every move, each of you, send to deep wishes!

[Air Jordan]

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

[Coach Factory Store]

*When we vacation in the tropics, to escape cold winters, we are warmed by the sight of bright flowers basking in the sun.

[lacoste polo shirt]

it stole best pic from Goodfellas which is still perfection every single time over