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I have been waiting for this.

my name is john and i am an internet addict

Apparently, I have a brain illness...I am addicted to the Internet.    

I have determined that this illness crept into my brain sometime around 1994 or 1995 when I first started basking in the glorious rays of the beautiful Internet through the once-beloved Prodigy service.   

I wonder...was this illness latent in my brain prior to the arrival of the Internet?   Was it present when I was rocking out to Def Leopard and Guns 'n Roses...just sitting there in an idle state of readiness waiting to pounce? 

Or is the concept of Internet addiction and the corresponding negative consequences just a farce?   

Maybe not.   Maybe so.  I don't know. 

What I do know is that I love the Internet and can not imagine life without it.   

I miss my broadband connection when I can't have it.   I can sit on a boat in the middle of a sunny lake in the heart of Wisconsin on a July afternoon and accept that part of me wants to check my email.  I can consider it normal to check my email before doing anything else at the very beginning and very end of each day during my personal adventure on this big blue floating ball.  I love my Mac.  I love my iPhone. 

Fine!  I am an addict of the Internet variety.....and I wouldn't have it any other way. 

True or not (probably a hoax), I really love this story.

Make sure you watch the video.   The gnome appears at the end...

   

Tetris!

Something is happening here...

--  White people like Sushi

Regardless if you are vegetarian, vegan, or just guilty about eating meat, all white people love Sushi.  To them, it’s everything they want: foreign culture, expensive, healthy, and hated by the ‘uneducated.’

--  White people like to study abroad

If you need to make up your own study abroad experience, they all pretty much work the same way.  You arrived in Australia not knowing anybody, you went out to the bar the first night and made a lot of friends, you had a short relationship with someone from a foreign country, you didn’t learn anything, and you acquired a taste for something (local food, beer, fruit).  This latter point is important because you will need to be able to tell everyone how it is unavailable in your current country.

--   White people like coffee

There is no doubt that white people love coffee. Yes, it’s true that asians like iced coffee and people of all races enjoy it. But I promise you that the first person at your school to drink coffee was a white person. You could kind of tell they didn’t enjoy it, but they did it anyways until they liked it - like cigarettes.

 

Stuff White People Like is a great blog.   Well written and witty.   Perhaps even true.   

But why, oh why, have so many people alerted me to the presence of this blog in the last two days?   I don't get it.  I am talking about a fucking wave here, folks.  It isn't that one or two friends told me about this blog.   It is more like 10 or 15.  Something is happening here...

It reminds me of The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell, a gripping work about social epidemics and change.   Gladwell defines the "tipping point" as the moment when everything boils over and becomes widespread.   This is the moment when the line shoots up the chart.   Kinda like this...

I think a lot of Gladwell's ideas can be applied to those things that go "viral" on the Internet.   And it shows here...

But why does the huge skyward blast occur around the end of the first week of February and I am only hearing about it now?   And why are so many people telling me about this blog right now instead of last week...or the week before?   So weird.   

   

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After years of having a shitty 19 inch tv with no remote, I finally took the plunge and took a step up to this Samsung LCD HDTV. 

I had been watching movies directly on my Mac and that was all fine and good, but it was time to get something bigger.  Of course, I will still connect the Mac to the TV rather than buying a DVD player or anything like that....because of course, Macs can do anything.   

My iPhone is great....but you gotta love Google..

the future is almost here

Google Maps Street View has arrived in Chicago...

The building in the middle background behind the poll is where I live...

I love Google and can't wait to see what the Internet will look like in 10-15 years...

Happy birthday google

Long may you run....

i may need to get one of these.