What would we do without the Internet?
18/07/2004
It’s a lazy Sunday afternoon
Taken December 03, Lomo-ed July 04
And here I am sitting in front of the PC like I do on any other workday. Lovely. The scary fact is that it is – it’s something I enjoy. It sure beats going outside with 4 million people in your face who really need to get out of their homes and just live a bit.
It’s not a replacement for getting out and having fun, no. Nothing beats the feeling of walking through the malls and whipping out the plastic. The rows of perfectly lined skincare products. The smell of essential oils and all the other goodstuff that’s jampacked into each little jar, tube or bottle. The thrill of trying out that top you just saw in the window display and having it look just like you want it to. The familiar strains teenybopper chart toppers at best, muzak or techno at worst, over the sound systems that strangely make you happy and excited and willing to buy close to anything.
But it sure is a lot of fun. It’s like the bestest, fastest, most convenient way to find out what’s happening, and to find out how to do with what you want to do. And the more you read, the more possibilities there are.
In the last four hours, I’ve checked my primary email, and from news alerts I set up I went on to read about Oddpost and checked out what life was like for them. After blogging that article (among others), I go on to catch up on my friends’ blogs and phlogs. Inspired, I decided to read a photoblogging tutorial I came across some time back, but after the second paragraph, I decided it was a larger undertaking than I was prepared to put up with (which was, incidentally, the same outcome the last time I read the tutorial).
While writing this blog, I’ve caught up on Abraham Maslow, his hierarchy of needs, local news about the DPM taking over on Aug 12, and how he has to handle China being sensitive, and how if I had the time to start that lifestyle channel at work, we could blow crap like this out of the water.
It’s endless fun on the internet!
