{"id":2453,"date":"2009-10-27T19:38:24","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T23:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=2453"},"modified":"2009-10-27T19:38:24","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T23:38:24","slug":"news-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2009\/10\/27\/news-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"News, Poor"},"content":{"rendered":"

We adopted the phrase “It’s not my cow” at work. Actually, I adopted that phrase. Everyone else says something else, but I could never remember what it was, so I stuck with “cow.” The reason for the phrase is that, with surprising frequency, we’d ask another developer a question and get the response, “I don’t care.” And then we’d rush to clarify that it’s not that we don’t care<\/em>, but that we have no opinion one way or the other. So it’s now a bit clearer. “It’s not my cow” means, “I don’t have a preference either way, so I’ll defer to you.” “I don’t care” means, “I don’t give a crap.”<\/p>\n

So what don’t I care about?<\/p>\n

For one, the news that Kate Gosselin gave her dogs back<\/a>. How could anyone care? At all? If she were run over with a steamroller tomorrow, I would only feel the slightest bit of sadness. Not that I dislike her (well, actually, I do, but that doesn’t mean I wish harm upon her), but I don’t find her life any more interesting than that of a random person picked out of the phonebook, and if some random person I don’t know died tomorrow, I wouldn’t care at all. (Otherwise, I’d have emotional breakdowns any time I read the news?)<\/p>\n

Furthermore, if a close friend of mine were to tell me that they had given their dog back to its breeder because they didn’t have time to care for the dog, I would say, “Oh, I see,” and promptly forget about it, because I wouldn’t care.<\/p>\n

Why, exactly, should I care about this? It’s not really that I don’t care; I don’t really care that much about 75% of the stuff in the news. Here are some other news stories (fictional) that I would consider about as interesting as Kate Gosselin and her dogs:<\/p>\n