http://www.internettime.com/2008/08/the-moving-finger-writes-and-having-writ-moves-on/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:55:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.internettime.com/2008/08/the-moving-finger-writes-and-having-writ-moves-on/comment-page-1/#comment-1425 Rex Davenport Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:47:50 +0000 http://internettime.com/?p=1413#comment-1425 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/ 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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