About Me

Wake Forest, NC, United States
My life has had its normal ups and downs. I cooked professionally for years and was a breakfast, lunch, and a dinner cook. I was a saucier, a sous chef and a chef. I was an actor in a made for TV movie entitled "The Secret Life of John Chapman". For years I pit crewed on an A Production Corvette and traveled to races all over the Northwest. I ran computers at Boeing to test 737 and 747 development. I was responsible for and ran computers at Cape Canaveral for the early Apollo flights and on an atoll in the South Pacific (Kwajalein) for early star wars testing. I've developed and maintained computer applications for years and was part of a team of 9 or so tasked with developing and maintaining the processes used across EDS to manage projects and develop software. I developed and maintain a website for people who are caregivers of people with Parkinson's Disease. For fun I exercise regularly, read, and play with new programming languages. My wife blesses me tremendously. She is truly my Beloved. The progeny are source of pride and wonderment.

Sunday, May 29, 2011

"You", not "I"

Have you noticed that when folks are interviewed by a reporter after some disconcerting event, they describe their feelings with the pronoun "you" and not the first person singular pronoun of "I"?

I can't help but wonder if, by using the "you" the person being interviewed prefers to describe their feelings from a group perspective so that they aren't alone in experiencing them. It seems to me that anonymity is broader in a group and personal responsibility is lessened.
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