Women In Art - On YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs

Week 10: #23 I Am... Complete!

They say it's harder to open up and learn new things as you get older.
But despite some griping, and doing exercises on some topics I wasn't interested in, this was the best training exercise I've ever been involved with at HCPL!

I know I was exposed to a ton of technological tools and ideas that I wouldn't have been otherwise. Some I cared for, some I didn't. But I'm still grateful to have been introduced to them all.

I couldn't estimate the enormous effort involved in preparing and running the program for us, monitoring those involved, and helping out the totally clueless folks. But I sincerely appreciate the effort in our behalf, and the fun things I got to learn [or finally play with on work time].


FAVORITES
YouTube - a great video collection site! I could get very addicted.

Downloadable Media - lots of audio fun for this big fan of music, books-on-audio, and old-time radio.

Flickr - it's a lot of fun, but it can eat enormous amounts of time digging through this huge "shoebox" full of photos.

LibraryThing - I like to make lists and picture catalogs. I'd love to make my DVD collection on this sometime.


LESS FAVORITES [only because of what suits me personally]:
Blogs - I'm not the kind of person who enjoys maintaining a blog, or surfing to read other peoples. Maybe a celebrity's on-line journal, but even that's a lot to keep up with for me.

RSS Newsreaders - would love to have the time to surf my favorite feeds with these. But I have to get up from the computer and walk around sometime.

Avatars - a necessary visual, I suppose, to show some personality, yet maintain some on-line privacy. But awkward for me, since I've never been all that comfortable dressing up as a character in a costume in real life.

Social Networking - my life is so very full and enjoyable as it is that I don't have much desire to reach out and network with even more people on-line. I know I wouldn't have the time to maintain those additional relationships anyway.

Passwords for everything - sheesh!

Podcasts - too much like listening to the damn radio for my taste.

Thanks!!!

Week 9: #22 Downloadable Media - Deal Me In!

I think I could really enjoy this. I found lots of down-loadable audio to interest me in HCPL's collection. And some video too, [although my video-watching plate is pretty darn full these days so I don't think I'll be downloading even more].

But audio I can download to a CD, and listen to in my car during commutes to and from work is very desirable to me. Because it's only in my car that I have the time to listen for enjoyment without being restricted to headphones.

I found various New Age music titles I want to hear, and a lot of Jack Benny radio shows.
As to mystery books I found the original Sherlock Holmes short stories, and Rex Stout "Nero Wolfe" novels. In the classic novels there's "Journey To the Center of the Earth," "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," and "Walden."
In comedy books I found "I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This," Bob Newhart's autobiography.

So I found lots of audio that I want to listen to. I'm just limited by my available free time!

Week 9: #21 Podcasts Were Pointless

I'm not just trying to be a wet blanket here, but podcasts wound up being pointless for me. I'm saying that despite the fact that I feel very positively about the iHCPL training topics and exercises.
But I'm a music fan and audio collector, and I've had years now to build a great collection. So I'm used to listening to exactly what I want to hear when I want it. I avoid listening to the radio almost entirely, [except when the radio plays while I'm in the process of popping CDs or audiotapes into my car player]. Even satellite radio is of absolutely no interest to me.

But I realize that podcasts could be useful, informative and fun if you find exactly what you're looking for, but I spent hours searching found almost nothing. It was like scanning back and forth through a hundred radio stations trying to find favorite songs and never catching any.

I tried podcast directories, topics, genres and keyword search combinations. I tried favorite TV show websites that I though had related podcasts and updates. The directories all seemed to either be very wide in topic and take a lot of browsing to narrow down, or were all by two-bit radio "discjockeys."

I added the RSS feed to my Bloglines for NPR's "Performing Arts" topic, but that's as close to a feed for actual podcasts as I could get and still find one on a topic I cared about in the slightest.
So I consider podcasting useful, but didn't find any to suit me whatsoever.

Week 9: #20 Me Discovering YouTube

I am fairly impressed with YouTube and find some of its content quite exciting.

I discovered it for the first time late one night about 2 months ago when I'd fallen in love with a song in a music video in an Apple Nano player TV commercial. I had the commercial on our digital video recorder [in the middle of a show we'd taped]. I played it a few times trying to make out the lyrics, and then tried turning on the closed-captioning and was then able to read the lyrics.

Still didn't know the artist's name or the song's title, and the simple main lyrics, "1 2 3 4" made me think identifying it was going to be tough. But I then tried the Apple website on my home laptop computer, pulled up the TV commercial and credits, and was able to find the corresponding album on Amazon.com for the song, "1234" by Feist. A reviewer's comments there mentioned the YouTube video, and that was it.

After watching the Feist video I went searching for Neil Diamond, [who I've been a serious fan of for over 30 years]. I was amazed at the rare performances content I found. Many common clips too, but just as many that were unique and unknown to me of Neil in his prime in the 1970's when I first discovered his music. I was astonished to watch so many intense, dramatic performances of songs that were still fairly new at the time, and I stayed up watching till close to 1am.

Today I went searching to find a particular music video of the Mason Williams guitar instramental, "Classical Gas," and found it [more or less]. I'd seen the "music video" during a Smothers Brothers TV episode in the late 1960's, but not since, and it was always one of my favorite pieces of music. I found a recreation of the original video, which is what I've linked to on this blog.

I like what I can find on YouTube, but I wish the clips were of larger size, better resolution, and recordable to DVD [in case they disappear from the web at some point without warning].

I'm not sure what features might be interesting if applied to library websites, since they too would suffer from the limited resolution and screen size. Videos might have to be limited to "talking heads" because of the lack of viewable details?

Neil Diamond - Holly Holy

Neil Diamond - Solitary Man

Classical Gas Video Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour 1968

Week 8: #19 Zoho "Not-So-Good" Writer

I like the idea of an on-line office programs such as Zoho Writer, but after trying to use it several times it just annoyed me.

Working Space: Zoho won't let me see as many lines of text at once as I need. The web insists on using the top 2 inches of my screen for itself. Then Zoho Writer takes several rows for it's tools and settings, and empty space at the bottom for it's Find tools, leaving me a dozen lines or so of text visible at a time.
Throw in double sets of scroll bars for both the web and Zoho, and it's a lot of back-and-forth work to use.

Lag Time: it often took 30-60 seconds to load, save, or make changes, leaving me twiddling my thumbs.

Unpleasant Surprises: I experimented with many of the tools to learn how they worked, but they often took me to parts of the program I couldn't predict and then couldn't get out of.

So, I've used my share of word processesors and desktop publishing programs, and I might have better luck with Zoho on a different day, but we didn't get along well today.

Week 8: #18 Social Networking... Or Not!

I see the many plusses of on-line social networking, but can't say I'm interested in it myself. I don't keep much of a daily journal, and networking would mean "putting myself out there" a lot more than I care to.
My wife and I lead pretty happy, quiet lives together and we're sort of homebodies. We like our house, garden, cats, computers, TVs, books and collections of cool stuff!
We like to dine out once or twice a week and go shopping together. We don't travel much or socialize with that many folks. We have friends to have fun with when we like, but can have solitude and some peace and quiet whenever we choose without having to "humor" unexpected guests.

So we've got a real nice balance to our lives already, and I'm glad people have this option for sharing on-line with others, but I'm really thankful that I don't have the need. Amen.

Week 7: #17 Blogging, Technology, "the World of Tomorrow" and me!

When it comes to modern technology, I choose to believe that there's hope for me!
What I mean is, I'm at that awkward age; not too old to try new things, but not young enough to have always been immersed in modern tech.

For instance, I love DVD's and Compact Discs, and especially love having machines at home that let me record my own. When it comes to collecting my music just the way I want it, I work from my record albums, audiocassettes, and CD collections. Yet I don't seem to have much interest in downloading MP3's or getting an iPod. [maybe when I surf the web more and preview music and discover I really, really want to burn things to CD?]

And I've got a new laptop computer at home with a 17 inch screen. It's got wireless access to the web [which I had no hand in setting up - it was done for me by a tech friend].
I do so enjoy surfing the web and discovering things about my hobbies that I was completely unaware of before, and might not have discovered any other way. But then I hate the times when I want to find info, but waste hours surfing and finding squat!

One one hand I could blog and chat with folks on-line for hours if I so desired, but on the other hand I could just as easily encounter a bunch of idiots in the process [just like in real life]. Such are the problems of being content, and having more interests than free time.

I was slow to get cell phones for my wife and I. We had more and more instances when cell phones would have come in pretty darn handy! But then we just got basic model phones. No cameras, no web access, and no text messaging, which suits us just fine.

Gee, maybe I'm floating between two worlds. Or maybe I just have the best of both?
These days I have most everything I want to entertain me at my fingertips, so I know contentment! But I also know that there's more to discover and fascinate me anytime I want it.
I have contentment and challenge, so I just consider myself incredibly lucky! In this great, modern technological "world of tomorrow," I only lack my flying car and my jet pack!

P.S. I posted a comment to "Ferretnews" who said "I read through a couple of people's blogs. I feel uncomfortable "invading" someone else's privacy. Basically most technology is fine; there's no way to avoid it. I have let a lot of technology pass me by; ipods, fancy cell phones, etc. just don't interest me. Cell phones [and their obnoxious invasion into everyday life] bothers me a great deal. I have been enjoying learning about the various computer technologies through this 23 things training. The exercise I liked the most was photo editing and uploading. That was useful and fun. I'll post to Scott McCullar's blog."

My Post:
Thanks, Libby! I wanted to post to yours as well! I felt the same way about a lot of the tools. Very interesting, and I might play with them more later if I figure out how I might use them for my hobbies and such. It's weird thinking that I've "let technology pass me by," but I prefer to think it's just a matter of time management and having lots of fun stuff that I'm interested in. I'd like photo editing tools more if there was one that let me edit or eliminate parts of pictures, and combine parts of one with another. But they all seem affect entire photos at once. Unless you buy Photoshop, I guess! Go, Ferrets!

Week 7: #16 Wiki Fun

I added my blog site to the favorite blogs page on iHCPL, and posted to HCPL's wiki on these two Favorites topics:

FAVORITE RESTAURANTS:
Scott/ADM-I may come to realize just how pedestrian my tastes run by listing my favorites like this, but here goes:

• Outback Steakhouse
• The Olive Garden [the "Tour of Italy" dinner]
• Boudreaux's Cajun - the "Chicken Fried Chicken" & gravy
• Pancho's Mexican Buffet
• Lam Bo's Chinese Buffet, and Hunan Chef II [on Highway 59 at Greeway Plaza].
• Sweet Tomatoes salad buffet
• Baytown Seafood
• Papa's Barbecue
• Yia Yia Mary's Greek Restaurant, Galleria
• Bombay Brasserie in the Village
• Fuddrucker's hamburgers
• La Madeline [breakfast]
• Taco Bell
• Jack in the Box [Bacon Ultimate Cheeseburgers, what can I say?]

Mind you, I only dine at one of these once or twice a week at most. Honest!

FAVORITE TV SHOWS:
Current Shows I really like:

• LOST - it fascinates me. I like the characters, plot twists and entwining mysteries. I've avoided visiting on-line discussion groups about it so that I can still "have a life."
• Pushing Daisies - I love the quirkiness and cleverness of the plot progression. The characters have witty and funny dialogue and the visuals are fascinating. I know it's a production from movie director, Barry Sonnenfeld [who did The Addams Family and Men In Black movies] but it also has a look-and-feel of Tim Burton comedies too.

Older Shows I really like:

• Nero Wolfe - just made aware of these 2 seasons of Timothy Hutton TV mysteries by a friend. Fantastic! Even more so because I love his dad's TV mystery series, Ellery Queen.
• Banacek - TV detective starring George Peppard. First season DVD is out, 2nd season coming in January.
• Eureka - on SciFi channel.
• Keen Eddie - 9 episodes about an American police detective working in London.
• 3rd Rock From the Sun - starring John Lithgow. I'm constantly amazed by how often I laugh right out loud while watching episodes of this show!
• Night Gallery - particular episodes of the Rod Serling show.
• The Venture Bros. - Cartoon network animated show. Hysterical parody of the old Johnny Quest cartoons.

More favorites, but that's enough for now.
Scott-ADM

WIKI PROJECTS
I'm not sure offhand how I could use a wiki for collaborative projects.
But the first possible project that comes to mind is Admin's recent Fire Safety Preperations. I've been contributing Fire Exit maps and notes to Support Services efforts to update our fire safety plan. A wiki could work well for writing a collaborative draft document between Ron, Lonnie, Ekesha, myself and others that could ultimately be shaped into the official policy, and be used for fire plans for the branches as well.

Week 6: #15 Library 2.0 Philosophy - I Like Getting What I Want!

I'm very much a believer in a "Library 2.0" and the future of collections. And I'm excited by the possibilities, because I like getting what I want!

I own a variety of personal collections myself. And every time I get to "play" with them I notice new things, which raises new questions about them. And I like going on-line and getting my answers quickly. [cause there's hardly anything more fun than finding the elusive answer to an annoying question].

I love being able to literally "ask" the world wide web [or library on-line databases] and get the instant gratification of an answer. Especially at work, when I can then stop at a store on the way home and know exactly what item I need to purchase .

Or when a bothersome trivia question pops into my head, and I can get a quick answer and go back to my duties [instead of having it nag me all day].

And I'm a library customer as well as employee. There've been many times when I've learned of an interesting book, music CD, videocassette or DVD, and been anxious to see it, and been thrilled to learn I could obtain it easily from my own library system!

So, because I have fun with my own collections I appreciate new concepts in storage, access, space-saving formats, and anything else that can give me a new perspective on a favorite collection.
Because I like getting what I want!

Week #6 #14 Technorati Not-Me?

I have to say I didn't find all that much in Technorati to interest me personally. I enjoyed poking around in the popular topics to see what was there, but I was never able to surf too deep before any one topic seemed to peter out on me. And the search tags and widgets didn't seem to be much help to me.

I tried searching topics, wandering through the 100 most popular ones, reading what people had to say about my favorite interests and what news they contained about any of them...

...but it never seemed to result in very much. I tried multiple times on multiple days on multiple topics to find things of interest, but just about the time I thought I had moved beyond "investigating and learning new things" into actually "wasting work time web surfing" is when the topic would more-or-less dead end for me.

Of course, it may also have something to do with my general lack of interest in blogging and on-line socializing to any real degree. I enjoy the web and the tools and information it offers me, but I'd rather use my time to discover and read things of interest than communicate and debate with others over what I've found. Even knowing that sharing with others is a great way to discover things in the first place, I'd rather use the time I'd spend communicating back and forth with others on my personal research [since my free time is particularly valuable to me].
But at least now I know Technorati is there if my needs grow to wanting to use it.

Week 6: #13 Del.icio.us and Tagging

I think Del.icio.us would be useful to me if I let it. I see how it would be handy for collecting interesting websites I stumble on at work [in the course of my duties, you know] and bookmarking them for easy access at home where I'd have more time to play in them uninterrupted for awhile.
And I'll have to start thinking about how it could be useful when I'm travelling. It would be an effective way to store bookmarks to show my folks when I visit. I could easily pull up sites on Georgia history that I want to show to my Dad, and later I could pull up my favorites and check them [after the folks have gone to sleep and I'm bored].

I'd probably make lots of folders for Home Repair projects, art deco artwork, DVDs and movies, Neil Diamond, Star Trek, computer games, and cable movie schedules, to name a few.

But the thought of all that scares me a bit too. When I stop and estimate the amount of sheer time and thought that I give to all my hobbies now, and then consider gathering and collecting tools like these that would effectively double the amount of free time I'd want to spend...

Yikes!

Week 5: #12 Library Elf Reminders

I guess I'll have to wait and see if Library Elf will be much of a help to me or not.
Reminders are always useful though, especially if I manage to include my wife's Houston Public Library card account too.
Especially since I work in the Administrative Offices, and when I actually get to visit one of our branch locations I go crazy picking up videos and art picture books. Same way for me and my wife when we visit Houston Public branches on weekends. Reminders certainly couldn't hurt and might be just what we need.

There's still the big difference between knowing that books, videos, and music CDs are due for return, and reading, watching and listening to them within the remaining time.

But since access to library materials is always what I like to call an "embarrassment of riches," I'll just admit that these are the best kind of problems to have.

Week 5: #11 Library Thing

I can sure see how a book lover could go crazy with this site, making a cover-art "photo album" of their collection. I doubt I'll go to the effort to make such an on-line list, but it's particularly interesting to search for old books I own, see the cover art, and see what cover art exists for other editions.

I was hoping to find the specifics for a 1950's hardback edition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Lost World" that I found in my local library and read as a kid. I'd already discovered the Scholastic paperback edition by that point, but as any booklover knows, there's just something extra cool about reading your favorite book in different editions.

I think I'd be interested in using the "All Consuming" site for cataloging movies I own, but that would be one more "hobby" to add to my long list of fun things to do when I have time.

For now I'll just enjoy seeing on my blog the cover thumbnails of all the comic book reprints I'm enjoying these days.

Week 5: #10 Playing with image generators

I had fun looking at the generators and picture tools, but didn't really find much that I wanted to make or caption with them. I created an avatar and posted it, but I'm not much into costumes or fashion experimentation in real life so mine is plain, but science-fictiony.

I did appreciated the time I spent experimenting and getting exposure to the new tools, but the overall experience for me was similar to flipping through a great big gift catalog [full of cheap gift ideas]. Fun, but not much I'd buy. And I consider myself a creative guy, but as with any tool, knowing about it can easily lead to using it for particular projects later after further thought.

Week 4: #9 Finding Feeds

I enjoyed browsing the additional newsfeed tools and looking for feeds of interest, but didn't find much else that I wanted to link to my Bloglines account.

I was tempted by those relating to comic strips and humor, entertainment, home repair and garden, but quickly reached a point where topics duplicated or I thought I had more than I could handle as it is. In the future I will probably be tempted by those relating to science fiction, plastic models, Star Trek, comic books, DVD releases, music, and half a dozen other topics, but for now, at this stage in my exploring, I think I have enough.

But thanks to this exercise I now know that feeds even exist, and as I web surf more favorites from work or home and stumble on sites of interest that offer such I can add them.

Week 4: #8 RSS Feeds-Danger! Danger!

Well I've completed the exercises. I've created a Bloglines account and added 11 feeds including iHCPL's Flickr feed.
In the process of surfing for feeds I started wondering again if my computer has problems, since videos I tried to watch on various web sites suffered pauses and buffering stops-and-starts.
I've come to expect this on computers though. Seems a lot of videos and audio spots on the web give me this kind of delivery. They either pause and drag while trying to watch say, movie trailers and TV show clips, or the viewing screen that pops up is too darn small and fairly useless for seeing much of the visual action.

Anyway, I've had a little too much fun searching for RSS feeds that I'm interested in. It's been somewhat of an effort determining what topics I want, and figuring out whether they're available as RSS or not though.

I say "Danger, Danger" because they have the potential to waste enormous amounts of my work time if I'm not very careful and maintain good work habits. I linked half a dozen newspaper comic strips, and about as many entertainment news feeds. I'll never be at a loss as to what to do on my break ever again.

I've known these kinds of web options were available and avoided seeking them out for just these reasons. I was afraid it would be like suddenly receiving a dozen new magazine and newspaper subscriptions at home. Here's hoping I can control it all and incorporate them into the allowable time I'm already spending on my breaks and lunches.

But since it's something I have to do for WORK, I guess that would be okay.
I'm learning something new, but personally dangerous! And I get training hours for it!

Week 3: #7 Edited photos

I played with Pixer to have some fun with a cute picture of one of our cats, Maggie.
I played with the color adjustment and added some lizard-green colors to re-inforce the lizard hunting theme.
Also created a version in an Impressionistic oil painting style, and a tin-type sepia version.

Good ol' Maggie!

Week 3: #6 Additional Flickr tools

I browsed a whole bunch of Flickr mashups, webapps and tools and didn't find much that I thought would be of use to me. At least not at this point in my familiarity. I found a lot of tools for things I didn't want to do with my pictures.

I'll keep playing with Flickr to see if I can get it to work for me, but it's hard to use when you've been warned not to post personal or identifying names or pictures of yourself, friends, pets, work, home, etc., so I'm having trouble finding pictures to post.

All the Flickr tools I played with behaved like a slot machine that wouldn't win. I kept selecting and clicking their buttons, and they spun and spun and random things of not much interest kept floating to the top. Usually smaller on screen than I could see comfortably too and they wouldn't enlarge.
Rats!

Week 3: Exercise 5 Discovering Flickr

Well I've discovered Flickr and I found it a mixture of fun and frustration.
Getting it to work for me was like continually driving around the block to find a house address number.
I guess my problem is a mixture of the learning curve on the program and my lack of intuitiveness about it.

Frustrating, because I really enjoy the mass collection of visuals, but it's hard getting it to do what I want; seeing the pictures I like and maybe saving them as wallpapers. Every task I attempt with it seems to take multiple passes to make work.

I posted a photo to my blog, but it wasn't from Flickr. When I tried to do upload from Flickr [a Yahoo account program] to my blog on Blogger [a Google account program] Blogger wanted me to set up a Google account.
Now I have a new laptop computer at home that I've been using to surf and pay bills online, and I know I'll benefit from the exposure to new "Gadgets and Gizmos" and website tools from iHCPL...
...but with all the bill-paying I've been setting up home I'm just so SICK of creating usernames and passwords and account numbers and verification trivia questions by the dozens.
Each one opens a floodgate of "account status" response ads too that aren't exactly SPAM, so they flood my inbox. Cripes!

Week 2: Exercise #4 - Online Safety and Privacy-Contradiction In Terms?

Although I've heard about online safety and privacy, I've pretty much always felt "safety" and "privacy" are oxymorons when paired with "online." The medium is a constant reminder to me when using it.

"Instant messaging" seems awfully similar to me to people who are "just talking off the top of my head," or "shooting their mouth off" about a situation without thinking first. [For myself, I almost always, always benefit when I think first before talking]. I don't know that people can communicate that clearly when writing quickly.

Other constant reminders:
-bouncy advertisments on nearly every public site that seem a little too desperate to catch my attention and sell me things. The way they so actively pursue on-line customers and their personal contact info always reminds me to be careful and makes me feel like I'm running from a flock of panhandlers.

-receiving a bunch of e-mails while I'm in the process of writing one. I'm in the middle of expressing a series of thoughts while a series of those from other people drops in out of the sky.

The "reply-to-a-reply-to-a- reply" e-mail phenomenon often seems to me like a crowd of people all talking out loud on their cell phones at the same time.

But then I also figure it goes with getting used to all the new technology, tools and related social interactions. [new tools are fun! new tools are exciting!]

IzItCoolOrWhat?

I thoroughly enjoyed the 2-hour "Gadgets and Gizmos plus Websites" program held at Freeman Branch. In fact, it was one of the most interesting programs I've attended during the 14 years I've worked here. I even wish it had been twice as long.
In particular, the explanations of various gadgets that I'd heard of, but never really seen good definitions in my wanderings.

When it comes to collecting music I'm fairly "old-school," in that I have record albums, audiocassettes AND compact discs. I like burning my own music CD and movie DVDs, but I have separate stand-alone CD and DVD recording machines at home for that. I've been saving digital photos to CDs at home on the computer, but haven't been downloading music or videos. It's always seemed simpler to record from original sources rather than from on-line.
Maybe I'm just remembering years ago when music and videos played on computers generally suffered stop-and-starts, gaps, jumps and shutdowns during playback. [wait a minute, my work computer still suffers these problems sometimes]!

I am intrigued by the MP3 disc recording capacity of 200 songs. But when I'm burning my own compact discs part of the fun is anguishing over what songs I want and in what order. And I know how long that takes. I can't imagine how long it would to assemble and cut an MP3 disc or the amount of nursemaiding involved.
But I'd love to be able to archive such a large collection, if I could also copy from it and make backup copies. I wouldn't want to spend an enormous amount of time burning the perfect collection and than have it magnetically erased or damaged when I dropped it. [Especially since I know the agony that comes of a chewed audiotape, a scratched record album and a cracked CD].

I look forward to playing with photos and specialty web sites! I'm hoping that the Cnet game download site and the "old school gaming" site will provide some fun at home, and that the CD and DVD covers site will come in handy. I know that YouTube can be an enormous amount of fun, but I won't be doing any investigating of it at work since the site is blocked on my computer.
Ah, well.

Week 2: Exercise #3 - Day 1 on Blog Island

I've crawled ashore onto Blog Island, wondering if my random thoughts and ideas can survive here.
I very much enjoyed the introductory class at Freeman Branch today that showcased the multitude of interesting web tools, features and devices that I hadn't been aware of or had the time to explore.
I think the hard part of blogging and other web lessons for me will be the time away from my duties that it will take. Too much fun. Too easy to play around and not get work things done.