Madness Factor

I must apologize for the lack of activity on Madness Factor as of late. I feel like I have nothing new to say—I visit the same blogs each day, and rather than use my blog to link to them or the stories they highlight, I have opted not to post at all. No doubt thousands—and in some case millions—visit my favorite blogs every day, so it’s pretty safe to assume the few people who do read Madness Factor already know about the latest technological oddity or hilarious home-made video. Heck, MTV even has a program dedicated to the unusual/fun/weird/insertappropriateadjectivehere stuff that you can find on the web. How do I compete with that? (Curiously, my friend Spine has expressed a similar sentiment on his blog this week. Will pharmaceutical companies soon be manufacturing new drugs for “blogger dysphoria”?)

I have decided to reserve posts for when I have something (at least somewhat) original to say…. I hope that will be at least once a week from now on. And that probably means things will get a little more personal around here, too.

Here’s a personal tidbit right now: How is this for synchronicity? I am currently writing for a gaming company. I recently got an e-mail from an old college friend I hadn’t heard from in 10 years. Turns out he works for the same gaming company, doing audio design. But he didn’t know that when he contacted me. Gaming has not been a significant part of either of our lives, so it seems somewhat random. Or maybe it’s not random—maybe the gaming industry is where all the disaffected creative types who went to college in Vermont and who now live in Seattle end up….