I was up terribly early this morning on a hot date with three photographers. No, there’s something wrong with that sentence. It was lacking on the “hot date” front as it was 6am, and we had tripods at the ready. The net result is that I am a bit screwed up today which is regrettable.
So I eventually went back to bed this afternoon for a nap and I’m still kinda tired but I’m considering pizza as an option – it’s nearly dinner time – but in the meantime I’ve come to the conclusion.
I need to re-invent my internet browsing habits. The reasons for that are simple. Most of the sights I frequent frequently (that looks so bad) depress the hell out of me. This is not good.
Exhibit A – The Property Pin. It was entertaining when it launched because the property bubble was still inflating its way into the stratosphere. It is not entertaining now as it is full of Casandras telling me the economy in Ireland is about to implode, is a disaster, is a basket case, is completely messed up, will be wrecking our children’s children’s lives as we try to pay for NAMA. Idiots are recommending we abuse the Constitution to punish the hated Brian Cowen and the deriled Fianna Fail. I don’t have children. I’m already paying nearly 300E more a month to the government for this fiasco than I was 12 months ago. I don’t need to be reminded that the place is in a mess. In truth, the only thread I read with any regularity there lately is the Liam Carroll thread and that’s only because I’ve an interest in what happens in those court cases. For some reason, the news winds up there faster than I can find it on RTE.
Exhibit B – Bad Science Forums. I am sick of reading climate change threads. I find the Meaningless Banter forum quite entertaining although the huge amount of discussion engendered by Derren Brown last night was depressing – I thought they were more rational than to get hooked into the discussion, but it appears not. They point me to blogs which then further depress me – such as the sportsscientist blog which is heavily taken up with discussing Caster Semenya’s unfortunate difficulties at the moment.
Exhibit C – Boards Accommodation and Property. See The Property Pin for why and then add the feeling that some people still have that they are entitled to judge other people’s choices and actions.
Following a certain amount of comments I got for daring to judge people who feel I should be sensible all the time and do what they say I should in the way of buying property I can’t afford because that’s like planning for the future and paying into a pension I’m utterly disillusioned by some attitudes in Ireland. I couldn’t afford a house. If a bank were to give me a 100% mortgage right now I probably could but they won’t and I wouldn’t take it. But this wasn’t true 2 years ago and I don’t see why I should buy someone else’s crappy 2 bedroomed apartment so they can trade up when I never wanted said 2 bedroom crappy apartment in the first place and don’t believe in the trade up mentality.
Sorry. I’ll stop. I’ve a whole other blog post to come on that.
Mostly, I lately read photoshop and design pages. Which is ironic since it’s not something I was notedly talented at when I was younger. They are interesting but hardly entertaining. I’ve come to the conclusion that there is a ginormous internet out there with probably more entertaining stuff than The End is (economically) Nigh Repent Ye Who Don’t Behave Economically As We Deem Appropriate (impossible as what is deemed appropriate is often, in the space of 2 years mutually exclusive).
So I’ve decided to read Icanhazcheeseburger.com.
I don’t get cats. Friends have cats. Some of said cats even really look like little Hitlers. Some of them are unbearably cute. Historically, cats have always used their claws to declare their affection for me. But sometime ago, someone sent me one appropriate to a discussion we were having on twitter (easily the best invention of the web right now) and now, when I need a little ickle smile I surreptitiously go to the cats. I’m even able to kittenify web pages which has a fantastic impact on the Irish Times website I must say. Today was particularly useful.
And if the interwebs are getting you down too: Here’s where to go and how to do it. And it’s not impossible to uhem…change the tag it reads in Flickr. But kittens are most effective, particularly if there’s a picture of Declan Ganley on the front page of the Irish Times webste. Just by way of an aside.
Babies aren’t bad either.
Anyway.
The way I see it, the internet is full of depressing stuff, supplied by serious fora and the media – both mainstream and fourth voice – but it is also full of cool stuff which unfortunately I don’t find too easily. Games. Kittenify scripts. Slashdot. Fantastic art.
So I hereby volunteer to look at mainly Deviantart, sites about lighthouses, surfing, kitesurfing and photography for the coming few days. In this way I hope to purge my mind of the concept of NAMA and the thought that despite his promises after the European Elections, we are potentially stuck with Declan Ganley not shutting up again.
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