Um, well, yeah

Just took an Internet Addiction Test. My results: 

36 points

You are an average on-line user. You may surf the Web a bit too long at times, but you have control over your usage.

Take the test.

At times I think I might score higher.  If I am in the middle of an intense internet discussion/argument, or if something big is happening in the news, if the war heats up or it's election time, my score might go through the roof. 

At the moment, however, I am finding the internet to be pretty boring. I couldn't care less about whatever politician was caught in the airport bathroom and everyone's predictable reactions. 

Walt and Mearsheimer want Israel to give away the farm and Olmert seems on the verge of doing so. This is not boring - just frustrating - so I stay away from blogging about it.  I'd end up saying the same thing over and over again anyway.

Maybe I am tired of blogging.  I certainly am tired of political blogging at the present time.

Thinking that I will just blog the silly, ridiculous and odd for a while as a sort of palate cleanser.

   

Comments

[Jack]

Maybe I am tired of blogging.

Sometimes it is good to take a break.

[oceanguy]

I hear you... As you can probably tell since Top Chef gets more attention than anything else at my place lately.

Maybe we should just be glad at the luxury of only being mildly unhappy with the state of affairs. Nothing bad enough is happening to really get the interest level up and there seem to be so many little manufactured crises to take the blogging addicts' attention... If blogging means having to find something "important" to write about two or three times a day, then I'm tired too.

[draftervoi]

28 here. Seems pretty reasonable to me.

BTW, I've recently discovered people who are "blogging music," i.e., they're digitizing old, obscure vinyl records that have never been issued on CD, writing why they liked the record, and make the files available for download as compressed .mp3 files. Yeah, it's a total copyright violation, but they don't seem to be getting any negative response. Most of this stuff is obscure one-offs, artists who only managed to get out one album on a major label, or artists who put out their own work.