Dustin must have set his alarm clock to wake him up bright and early to choose the blog-off topic today. That’s ok with me, because we slept in and I enjoyed the extra ZzzzZZzzz’s. Today’s topic is “the internet circuit.” Which I suppose means how I maneuver my way around el internet. However, I tend to wait for the internet to come to me, so it’s more of an internet show than anything.
The first thing I do when I pull my laptop out is to check my email. I think that this is pretty standard for most people. I, however, have about 17 email accounts (ok, I have five that I check on a regular basis). So, checking email is a bit of a process.
It really is hard to be this geeky.
I must admit, I read a lot of blogs. A metric shit-ton of blogs. So, the majority of my internet time is spent checking my RSS feeds. I also have an OCD-like pathological compunction to keep my blog bookmark in Safari devoid of unread articles (any unread entries show up as a number next to the bookmark). It’s a sickness, I know. I also can’t have anything in my trash, more than a certain number of items on my desktop and more than about ten unread messages in gmail. I figure that, as mental quirks go, this one isn’t even close to bad. So, I check my blogs as their authors publish new entries. It just makes me an excellent commenter. Or something.
I read a bunch of personal blogs, but I also read some informative ones as well. So, it’s not like I spend all day looking at pictures of other people’s dogs and babies on the internet. I mean, I spend way more time than I probably should looking at pictures of other people’s dogs and babies on the internet. But, I also read some gadget blogs (keeping up with new tech!), the Consumerist (Best Buy sucks!), photography blogs (learning new techniques!), cooking blogs (mostly the ones that talk about cupcakes!). And, well, a whole lot of personal and celebrity gossip blogs.
How else am I supposed to know what douchey thing Heidi Montag has done lately without a subscription to US Weekly?
With my blogs out of the way, I check out espn.com for the latest sports highlights and human interest stories about people without internal organs who still manage to race in triathlons. I read a bunch of online comics for geeky humor. Before I was eliminated before the playoffs, I obsessively checked stats and scores for my fantasy football team. And I’m a regular reader (and moderator for one) of a couple of online forums. One site in particular provides me with so many interesting and amusing links that I rarely have to go out and find things on my own.
Yes, I admit it, I’m a ginormous dork who spends a lot of time talking to other ginormous dorks on the internet. Why do you think that I feel the need to teeter around on ridiculous shoes? A little thing called over-compensation.
I’m actually trying to get away from spending so much time on the internet. I’ll let you know how that goes ones I’ve read the seven new articles that just showed up in my RSS feeds.
I have the same RSS OCD, but it also includes checking over and over again to make sure i didn’t miss one, like yours when you post all late!
My internet time has gotten even worse. I always have Google Reader open and I have 90+ feeds that I’ve subscribed to, but 3 of those are feeds for another public Google Reader feed that aggregates feeds (I guess that’s how to describe it). So I’m always getting new posts from blogs I haven’t seen before and I can’t just let them sit there and not read them!