March 19, 2004

• I likely spend an hour or so a day hanging out around these parts. Usually broken down to 3-4 visits. See, I'm a bored, tired student who only as time to kill - so MoFi is the perfect spot for me to come to read, comment and find cool links to impress my friends!
• It varies wildly for me. Some days I'm far too busy here at work to look at the Lavender, other days... I somehow find the time, and check in constantly over an eight-hour workday. When I'm home, not so much, except when I'm avoiding writing.
• I'm on Spring Break (tm) here, so it's a bit easygoing this week. But I've has relatively easy classes this (& last) semester, anyway.
• had As you can see, the English spelling classes have been harder.
• It varies - oops, you know what the music means. . . our time is up.
• Whenever I realize I'm in a cubicle I come to monkey around until I forget where I am. So, I'm here every half hour or so while at work.
• I check the site at work a lot. Probably too much. But I hardly ever read Mofi at home - maybe once on the weekends if there's a thread I am following closely.
• even though I'm on the computer all day at work, I feel, you know, like I should be working. Oh, you'll get over that, mamasaurus :)
• I'm a computing student. Therefore I sit at a computer all day (and all of the night, usually, too) and waste time browsing the internet instead of doing any programming or research. Monkeyfilter is a time wasters best friend. Or maybe its a time wasters most dangerous enemy. I forget which...
• depends on how intensely i'm avoiding a task at work. heh. in that case i can be here quite a bit!
• Most of the time spent here is from work, which doesn't exactly help deadlines, does this sound familiar to anyone here? but...I...Just...can't...resist....oh maybe just one more peek to see what everyone else has to say.....(30 min later) ooop! gotta get back to work now. Yeah well that is my work life most days. But I'm with you mamasaurus little'uns take up all my fun time at home
• even though I'm on the computer all day at work, I feel, you know, like I should be working. kids these days....
• Ditto what certainsome1 said, except I check in pretty regularly at home. You see, there's a monkey on my back. *rimshot* *crickets*
• On the beginning of the lavender I had too much time to post and discuss but lately I had less and less time as my responsibilities became umbeareable. I check often and try to read most of the comments but commenting takes a lot of time for me when it's more than one-liners and posting pactically impossible most of the time (that explains the decreasing quality of my posts and why my personal blog is abandoned). Also I refrain myself from commenting on several topics because work-stress makes me bitter and nonsensical.
• For a long time I've tried half-heartedly to break the habit of interrupting whatever I'm doing periodically to check some interesting site. Until recently it was any one of half-a dozen or so sites. These are quick looks (do other people read comments before or even instead of, looking at the main link?) but at times I get hooked, especially when thinking about posting. This can be a problem for work, though I've discovered that the projects I do in a hurried and sketchy way are sometimes better received than the ones I work hard on...
• i only work a few months out of the year so i have craploads of spare time, plus when i am at work i have to do a lot of "hurry up and wait"-ing so i like to check in on mofi (and mefi) a lot, to pass the time. i guess it adds up to at least an hour at least 5 times a week. gah. i should be reading more books instead.
• My time on Mofi is generally well after 10 pm, PST, due to two little ones to chase after. It is addicting for me because I rarely watch TV and I generally don't buy newspapers. So, I get on the computer and all of a sudden it is 2-3 am. Yeah, I'm always tired, but unless I am about to collapse, I can't help it. It's my drug of choice.
• Plegmund - since I'm on dial-up (does this qualify as "living simply"?), I generally read the comments to see if the download wait is offset by the quality of the link. Come to think of it, maybe time vs. quality explains some of MeFi's current cultural problems. Back in antidiluvian times (1999 or so), was broadband rare enough that posting only "the best of the web", as opposed to Yahoo news flashes, op/ed pieces, etc., the quality of the post was all consuming? The old-timers there keep harping on that, while the relative newcomers don't understand their concern. Just a pointless rumination. And, being retired, I have some spare time, so I check in on MoFi two to four times a day. Often, it's just a passing glance, but sometimes much more. And, sorry about this, but I decided to go for the Old Biddie rant. Those who are so bored by jobs, cubicles, etc., has it occurred to you that you have some stake in making your circumstances interesting to yourselves? You did apply for and/or accept what you got, right? Was there anything in the job description which said "let us enterain you"? I can tell you from experience that there's some nice content in any job, and if you mine it, that might not only calm your angst, but could also get you promoted. shinything's crickets jump into my yard and sing loudly.
• My "Weird Band Names" post took about a half-hour to put together, which is about average for me. I really need to re-prioritize my "internet time-sink" activities, and move the MonkeyHaus up the list a few places.
• I surf shamelessly at work (nobody looking over my shoulder). If I've got work to do, I do it; otherwise, I don't see what the company is losing by my reading online sites rather than sitting facing the door, ears cocked for the arrival of more pieces to edit.
• I check MoFi frequently at work, mainly cos I'm online most of the time, tracking down stuff or updating our staff intranet. It's something to look at for a few minutes in between mind-numbing "loading" pages and academic citations.
• ::practices cocking ears:: Ooops... I accidentally eared my cock...
• yep, i have a problem. usually the first hour (or more) of my day is checking and responding to email, then surfing MoFi until i feel guilty. i also regularly use my lunch hour to read and post comments. sometimes it's a lunch hour and a half. i often check in again at home, before bed. (broadband is so nice, but so seductively addictive...) plus just any time i have to be somewhere in 20 min or less, and i feel that i don't have time to start anything important, so i surf. of course i do pretty much set my own hours, aside from teaching, and i do work at home and on weekends when i need to. it's my own projects, on my schedule. no boss looking over my shoulder (well, ok, my advisor helps me keep on track, but she's pretty laid back), just my guilty conscience and my wife asking me when i'm gonna graduate and get a real job. like it says on my profile page - if i could focus on my own stuff more often i'd probably be done with grad school by now. oh well.
• My hunny-bunny and me started a company (she's the one with the drive really) that I promptly made myself useless to. So I have all the awake hours to read and post (until the rapidly mounting guilt dictates a return to being useful). So I live in the world of timeporn I'm on the internet 10 hours a day. I've found that I can yell at our kids parent and bat penguins read important articles on the net simultaneously so all is not wasted. I post and comment rarely (relative to the time I spend on the net) as I'm scared of bannination. OT - where has Dizzy been lately?
• I check MoFi both at work and at home. My job allows some free time to surf while things are processing. Funny how we prioritize our time... MoFi is one of those priorities.
• Come to think of it, maybe time vs. quality explains some of MeFi's current cultural problems. Back in antidiluvian times (1999 or so), was broadband rare enough that posting only "the best of the web", as opposed to Yahoo news flashes, op/ed pieces, etc., the quality of the post was all consuming? The old-timers there keep harping on that, while the relative newcomers don't understand their concern. Just a pointless rumination. I think you may be right, there path. Up until last summer, when I was on a dialup connection at home I would only click on links that looked likely to be interesting. I couldn't really use any site which used flash, or even anywhere which used a lot of images. Now, with broadband, I can have fifteen browser tabs open the same time, images load up straight away, and going backwards and forwards ebtween pages no longer requires a painfully slow reload. All this means that I can look at much more utter rubbish now than I ever dreamed possible before.
• I'm here every morning like clockwork, blinking sleepily at the screen even before the coffee has brewed. And often, late at night, sometimes far too late, during the hours when. I may check at random times during the day: after a workout, or between pieces while practicing the piano (the sign of somebody who doesn't want to practice just then...). Sometimes, if I'm alone, I'll even surf during dinner. And god help me if I'm trying to get work done on the computer. My old development workstation does not have a MoFi link on its desktop, and that's by design. I share frogs' problem, but I'm getting it under control, I think. MoFi fills a lot of my schedule's interstices. Be interesting to see how my MoFi hours rack up as the days grow warmer and longer, and I spend more hours out of doors. I like the notion of time porn.
• I mainly find time to surf between periods of frenetic masturbation.
• "Wendell, what's that in your ear?" "What?" "I said, what's that in your ear??" "I can't hear you, I've got a cock in my ear!"
• I just hope it isn't Blaise's...
• i'm so lucky to be neither under the demands of official work or masturbatory needs. i can pop in here as i please and have time from 'real' life....cooking, cleaning, walking dog, reading books....
• All this means that I can look at much more utter rubbish now than I ever dreamed possible before. dng, you have exactly defined the wonder of the internet. The information revolution: access to more utter rubbish than you ever dreamed possible before. I was going to say that I was doing well this week not wasting obscene amounts of time on the internet, but then someone posted that block game, and I can't stand losing...
• All this means I can now look at much more utter rubbish now than I ever dreamed possible before. Thanks, dng, for saving me from hitherto undreamt perils. This is exactly why I stopped watching TV.
• Monkeyfilter: Access to more utter rubbish than you ever dreamed possible before.
• ... if anyone's still reading this thread ... I normally access MoFi at work, but lately I haven't had as much slack time as I like. Occasionally I'll log on at home, but usually my husband's hogging the connection or I'm too busy wasting time playing The Sims.
• I thought I could refrain from posting at least ONE thread, but obviously not. Actually, I had a life over the weekend. It's gone now. *mutters: "Where's that damn mouse?"
• Oh... The Sims. Now that is time porn. I've whittled away hours of sleep-time trying to get my two Sims to move in with each other.
• What's even worse is trying to raise your baby to childhood. Argh, I don't know how many kids I've lost to social services. In the game, the game.