The World Question 2010

The Edge posits its annual question, How Is The Internet Changing the Way You Think?

I read this question on someone else's blog, though I cannot for the life of me now remember whose. I thought it was interesting and began composing an answer in my head and planning a post. A couple weeks elapsed during which time I became aware of additional ideas I would like to add to my still theoretical post, but whenever I sat down to put fingers to the keyboard I was eventually distracted by more pressing concerns like when was Mafia Wars finally going to open up Bangkok and how many more rounds of Farkle would it take to win back all the chips I'd lost. Wait, are they called "chips" or "points"? Let me go check that real quick...

Today, determined to finally spill my story, I began a search for the pointer-outer of this interesting article leading me on a search of the most likely bloggers' sites where I then lingered to read their newer postings. Where was I...?

In spite of how it seems, not all my time is spent online (though I'll admit to hiding my online status so you'll never know for sure), and I determined to disprove any evidence that the internet was breaking my thoughts into byte-sized chunks by picking up a book, a big fat one that would require a great deal of concentration to finish. After two weeks of plowing through -- insert name of the book after getting link from Amazon store in case anyone wants to buy it through my site and while I'm there quickly check my store credit balance and notice, dang, it's still zero, and think that a Kindle might be nice and consider checking out the new iPad for comparison later, but first add a status update that just popped into my head when I used another open window that was still running Facebook, and oh! hey, it's my nephew's birthday, just a quick b-day wish and a laugh when I read my daughter's post to him before getting back to, ummmm, oh yeah... Infinite Jest. I'm a whole -- run out to the car to find the book to check the page number and discover the bookmark fell out and futilely spend a good 15 minutes trying to figure out where I was, so for convenience sake estimate that I'm -- 100 pages in. Time for youngest daughter's dance class, time to get back in the car. Listen to "Living On Earth" and note a teaser for an interesting story I will not get to hear as it comes too late in the program and aim to look it up when I get home. Get home and forget it. Remember to try and file online paperwork for a past benefit claim and review online college application. Remind myself to update Sarabelle's transcript with corrections and additions, check Facebook and try to complete this post instead. Pride myself on the fact that while I may occasionally converse in the third person, at least I don't limit myself to 140 characters. Just learned while fact checking Twitter's limit, although apparently there are now ways to get around that. Kids interrupt to ask me to find a movie on Netflix. After searching, spend a few extra minutes adding reviews of previously viewed movies for enhanced future movie recommendations. Notice my RSS blog file has 61 updates...

Wait, what was the question again?