This blog is a spawn of my two passions: reading articles and essays when I should be studying and sharing those articles and my thoughts with the rest of the world. Before this blog was created I was happily and enthusiastically posting all the articles I read or had an opinion on my Facebook. However I started to realize that maybe Facebook was not the best medium to communicate these ideas. Facebook gives you an area to comment on what you are sharing but I always felt this area was formatted more like a Twitter account then a blog so I would try to limit myself to three or four sentences.
For those that know me, three to four sentences is not my style. If I am going to take the three minutes to read an article I fully expect to be able to have at a minimum a ten minute conversation or three paragraph essay stating my opinion of the article. So in an effort to get my fix of procrastinating and opinion sharing I created this blog which will serve as a substitute to my Facebook article sharing and notes.
Now the name of the blog was my first challenge, and I safely came to the conclusion that Half Couch Observations was fitting. This name stems from a story and a term. First the story, once not too long ago my family had an extra couch, and I wanted to move it to the attic where I had a sort of "man cave" if you will. Well the couch would not fit up the stairs so I looked at my friend Andrew who was helping me and said, "We are going to saw the f*****g couch in half!" The next day we sawed the couch in half and took it upstairs. Now the second part of the name comes from the term, "armchair economist." An armchair economist is an economist who sits back in an armchair and just thinks about situations; basically one who does not do much "get your hands dirty" research. What better to describe what I do, sit in a chair, read articles, think about them, and comment. I am not an economist though and I do not have an armchair so this name was not fitting. I do have a half couch though and I generally enjoy using the term observe. Additionally the chances of "Half Couch Observations" being used on this blogging site were slim.
So it fit perfectly, and is now my main method of communicating what I am reading and thinking to the world. Hope the readers learn something and enjoy what I plan to be a regularly updating blog.
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