Trapped in a Web

To me, It's amazing the things one would do on the internet. There is a total diference of using the computer when you are trying to kill time and when you are trying to get something done. Let's say you want to make a payment to your car insurance, so you go to the website, and while you're at it, you might as well check you're Facebook and emails, too, right? As you check the other sites that you didn't set out to check, you find that you care less about what is there, like, an interesting email about how Tim Lincecum is dominating the National League West, but you didn't come here to see that, really. You signed up for those emails, and you like to see that every once in a while, but not today. You're on a mission, but you felt you had to check you're email while you were here, right? But you're not really paying much attention to what you are checking. You don't want to let you're emails get out of hand because then you'll probably just delete all the unread emails because you REALLY don't have time for that shit.

But then there are the times, like I used to have back at the casino, where I would waste a solid three hour block of time watching videos on YouTube. No problem there, because I had no mission when I went to the computer. I was simply killing time. I like the internet better when I have hours to waste. It's funnier that way, I think. There is a lot of great comedy on the internet these days.

So anyway, not much to report today. I discovered Google Reader yesterday, that's sort of what inspired this post. They have this thing on there called Google Reader Play, which you can rifle through things that are somehow popular, and enjoy them. That's a time-waster, no-mission type thing. Do that when you have no bills to pay. I found it fun. Let me try to include a link here...Let me see...Here try this out. I hope that works.

Enjoy the internet. It's currently killing the Sunday newspaper for me. I'd like to read that, but damn this internet thing is so fantastic.