May 28, 2005
an excess of spare time
And so yet another of us has succumb to the digital revolution. Who exactly 'us' might be is a curious question for another time. Nevertheless, I appear to be sticking my toe into the proverbial pool of internet journaling, ranting, and general information sharing. The only problem is that I lack something truly interesting to share, but clearly that hasn't stopped many folks before me.
I find the line between opinion-sharing and ranting to be a difficult one to tread, especially in a scenario such as this. Blogging (I must mention that the spell-check on this thing just told me that 'blogging' isn't a word) is a word that was not in my vocabulary a not-so-long time ago. It's a different kind of discussion. This is a place, so to speak, in which meaningful dialogue does not take place online, ironically, but instead at a slower, more deliberate pace. One that requires depth of thought in presentation and response.
I don't have any trade-related knowledge to share. Nor am I in need of a place to vent about a world turned on its head. Personally, I'd like to know the original orientation of world's head and how anyone can tell when it's backwards. I have pondered recently the notion of 'on its head'. At the gym, there is an older man, probably in his late fifties, who, it appears, uses head-stands as a form of exercise. For 2 minutes straight, he stands erect, adjacent to the wall, holds his feet straight up, and balances uneasily on the top of his head using his palms for balance. To this man, upside-down may be a way to get fit. Or maybe it's a way for him to achieve a sense of normalcy and unity with the world for three periods of two minutes each day.
I simply have an excess of spare time.
Posted by ben at May 28, 2005 12:38 PM