I admit it. I’m a
January 9th, 2003 Chris
Tags: navel-gazing, tech, trivia | Comments Off
I admit it. I’m a junkie. They say admitting it is the first step to recovery, but I’m not so sure.
You see, I was one of those kids who could pull out the encyclopedia to work on a project about England, and end up reading about everything from Eggplants to Emus. Absorbing information is invigorating to me. They say knowledge is power, but all I know is that it makes me bad-ass at Trivial Pursuit.
It all starts innocently enough. I sit down to read the news (from the BBC, of course), and before I realize what’s happening, I’ve got eight Netscape windows open, containing topics ranging from John Poindexter to bonzai potatoes. Sigh.
So if it’s useless information you’re looking for, let me know. (Did you know that the longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds? Or that the odds of hitting the Powerball jackpot (120,000,000:1) are three times worse than your odds of being injured by a falling coconut (40,000,000:1)?)
I really need to get on Jeopardy…