Computer mooching
Surfing is a good name, but mooching is a better description of what I do at a PC sometimes. I can just mooch at it. Not doing anything. Not getting anywhere. Not really thinking about anything useful. I was reading my Thoreau book the other night and I came across this:
"You can't kill time without damaging eternity."
I suppose I'm talking about the difference between doing things mindfully and doing them absently: mooching.
It also reminds me of that TV programme that was on when I was a kid: "Why don't you?" AKA: Why-don't-you-switch-off-the-TV-set-and-do-something-less-boring-instead? (Answer: because you'd all be out of a job if we did!)
I shall stop, and switch it off. Got books to read.
"You can't kill time without damaging eternity."
I suppose I'm talking about the difference between doing things mindfully and doing them absently: mooching.
It also reminds me of that TV programme that was on when I was a kid: "Why don't you?" AKA: Why-don't-you-switch-off-the-TV-set-and-do-something-less-boring-instead? (Answer: because you'd all be out of a job if we did!)
I shall stop, and switch it off. Got books to read.
posted by Gill at
17:55
3 Comments:
Actually I believe that sort of being on the internet has an official name - WILFing - What Was I Looking For? I do it all the time! It drives my DH mad if he's working in the kitchen while I'm doing it so I have to restrict it to when he's not around LOL! I can quite understand why it's so irritating but he can't quite understand why it's so irresistable to me!
Hi Clare,
It's weird isn't it? Like a black hole in time. Computers do things to the vibrational rates of our brains IMO.
Oh I LOVED "Why don't you?", and really miss it. Those were the days!
I have the same thing with my dh Clare, he doesn't like it when I am lost in cyber world as I totally switch off from the family.
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