The moving finger writes and having writ moves on

This is a great time to be alive, especially if you don’t have deadlines. I spent the last 90 minutes getting sucked into one interesting thing after another. I had to grab something from Facebook, which is not on my list of frequent destinations, and came upon a new blog from the team at Brandon Hall which turned me on to a nifty little image generator

…which I posted to my Research Page, where I store tools and links I expect to return to. Wanting to keep track of the Brandon page and several others that have popped up on my radar in the last couple of days, I stuck a feed list on the Research Page for entertainment while waiting for complex searches and so forth to pop up their results. Something shiny flashed by, and I found myself on my Pageflakes page, like Facebook something I rarely visit. Dilbert popped up, observing that if you back away, you see we’re all termites chewing on the same log, Susan Blackmore raving on TED about unleashing memes, and damn, I was thirty more interesting links into it that I realized I’ve got a deadline to meet in about an hour. Perils of the monkey-mind.

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#1 Rex Davenport on 08.15.08 at 4:47 am

During an informal lunch among folks I work with, the topic of distracted searching came up. We have all fallen victim to initiating a well-meaning search for a bit of needed information only to find ourselves checking out airport bus schedules to LAX. A columnist in a Florida newspaper (I wish I could remember his name) many decades ago would write an entire day’s column on “what I learned while looking for something else.” He only had a dictionary, a Roget’s and a Bartlett’s. Imagine what he could have learned if there had been an internet in his era. My most recent distraction? Garfield comic strips with Garfield removed. Zen-like.
http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/

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