Bad habits and whininess
Mar. 16th, 2006 05:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewduckerBack in the olden times, if I wanted to know about something I'd google for it. More recently, I'd gotten into the habit of checking out the associated Wikipedia article (I have a shortcut set up on Firefox for http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=wikipedia+%s so that I can just type "w whatever" to google for the right article).
I realised that this was pretty silly a fair chunk of the time when looking at tech stuff, so when looking into Winny (a Japanese P2P program) I just googled for it. The top hit was, of course, the Wikipedia article for it, thus proving Ginsberg's restatements of the first law of thermodynamics.
And now the whining. My initial thought, after returning from the doctor's this morning was "Oh goody. I can get some stuff done around the house today." Ha! Spent it sitting on the sofa watching TV. The System of the World, the book I'm halfway through (and thoroughly enjoying) has been entirely beyond my capacity to get to grips with. Simple internet conversations became draining. On the plus side, I'm in the perfect mood for Friends episodes I've seen 4 times before, because they're the intellectual equivalent of hot chocolate - totally uncomplex and lacking in anything that might require effort. This LJ post took me about 10 minutes to write, because I kept having to take pauses and gather myself. Bah!
I am, however, going to drag myself to the corner shop and buy soup. Mmmm, soup.
I realised that this was pretty silly a fair chunk of the time when looking at tech stuff, so when looking into Winny (a Japanese P2P program) I just googled for it. The top hit was, of course, the Wikipedia article for it, thus proving Ginsberg's restatements of the first law of thermodynamics.
And now the whining. My initial thought, after returning from the doctor's this morning was "Oh goody. I can get some stuff done around the house today." Ha! Spent it sitting on the sofa watching TV. The System of the World, the book I'm halfway through (and thoroughly enjoying) has been entirely beyond my capacity to get to grips with. Simple internet conversations became draining. On the plus side, I'm in the perfect mood for Friends episodes I've seen 4 times before, because they're the intellectual equivalent of hot chocolate - totally uncomplex and lacking in anything that might require effort. This LJ post took me about 10 minutes to write, because I kept having to take pauses and gather myself. Bah!
I am, however, going to drag myself to the corner shop and buy soup. Mmmm, soup.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2006-03-16 06:00 pm (UTC)Still abit wary of wikipedia: I have come across a few things that the facts really need to be checked out on. Now got into the habit of first port of call then double check the details. They are currently trying to start a wiki in similar format for the medical profession - something I am even more dubious about! I caught a doctor trying to open an electronic door by flicking the light switch today! You would think the whole light/dark thing was a way of saying you've got the wrong switch.