Standing Around

I liked this article about testing the sitting versus standing desk styles.

I like that they come to the same conclusion I have come to from all the differing activities and work styles I've had over the years: standing is more productive (and from the studies, healthier) than sitting all day, but sitting has its purpose, especially when needing to relax and/or focus.

I do find it interesting that sitting covers both relaxing and focusing, as those almost seem like opposite ends, but I think the point for both is to relax the stress so that the mind can do its magic, versus rote doing that seems to prosper most when standing.

I do not think that means what you think it means

xkcd today

The "I could/couldn't care less" part of Weird Al Yankovic's Word Crimes was my favorite part of that video.

At the same time, it got me to thinking...

If a person is talking about a topic, then they are inherently caring about the topic in some form or fashion.

So, despite the on-the-surface logical argument that when someone says, "I could care less," they really mean, "I couldn't care less," I've come to think that they really do literally mean "I could care less" without realizing it, because the moment they actually DO care less, they stop talking about the irritant and move on with their lives so that I don't have to keep listening to them drone on and on and on about the topic that they otherwise claim that they could care less about.

(I'm just as guilty of the droning thing.)

Funny, though, how "I really couldn't give two shits about that," gets said overwhelmingly with couldn't (versus could) as the pivotal word automatically. It's as though everyone just KNOWS that they really couldn't give two shits about something.