i'm a victim of the internet.
god bless you, internet, for providing instantly assloads of information regarding nearly any subject imaginable. wikipedia, you've been a great friend in fueling nights of curiosity binges for this trivia whore; everything from C macros leading to the design history of Objective-C, to the Danger Doom discography leading to the next planned Deltron 3030 album, you make it so easy to dive into your many information rabbit-holes and play for hours on end.
but i've burnt out. i've heard it called "information overload". i like to think of it a symptom of "jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none"ness. i have plenty of interest, and the wonders of the wired make it trivial to gather more and more information on any of them, then (attempt to) stuff all that info in my head for some later use.
one problem of course is, if i don't use it i lose it, so everything i put in, if i don't do anything with it it just fades away as if i never learned it in the first place. the other danger is that i tend to use this "research" as distractions from actually accomplishing stuff, or from discovering, delving into, refining, and clarifying my own deeper personal thoughts.
so my resolve this week: no internet research outside of work hours. i can't survive a complete internet blackout though. i need my wired to comunicate with everyone i care about and who care about me (a week without katie is torturous enough). aside from that, this week's after-work free time internet usage i'm going to limit to downloading games so as to rediscover some of my classic favorites (starting with zelda: a link to the past), discovering or rediscovering music and movies, looking up guitar tab to get more songs under my fingers, and more frequently spilling my thoughts and confessions onto this here blog.
shit, i don't know what's gonna happen. i don't even know if i can make it.
no more idle research, spike. do. or do not.
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