The Ravings of Demented Rabbits

High On Information

I'd love to tell you all about my interesting week, but it pretty much wasn't, so I won't, other than to note that doing maintenance on your car at intervals more often than a year or so will save you a lot when you do do it. Just saying.

To reprise last week's gaming entry, I totally forgot the part where we were traipsing through the snow-covered forest towards the Main Evil Base, and I was like "This is the part where we get attacked by guys on snowmobiles, right?"

Rather shortly thereafter, we got leaped by guys in winter camo parkas wielding poisoned shortbows and shortswords. So, you know, no snowmobiles, but still.

In other news, I sure have been randomly reading Wikipedia a lot lately, because it's incredibly handy when you're thinking "I want to know about *thing*" to be able to pop it up and search for *thing* and then read about it a lot. I love the Internet.

But sometimes it can lead you to some strange, strange places. Like yesterday, when I randomly looked up Oregon and things therein (Monroe, FWIW, has a Wikipedia entry. Also, we ARE one of two states along with NJ to prohibit self serve at gas stations. For the WIN.), which led to reading about the various successors to Standard Oil, which somehow led to the Dow Jones, which somehow led to reading about Enron and Google, which somehow led to reading about the founding of Apple, Cray supercomputers, various oldschool workstation computers, and such, which somehow led to reading about Pong, Atari, and Nolan Bushnell, which somehow led, through the Commodore 64, to reading about EA and Activision, which got me off onto the Ultima series and Richard Garriot, at which point I said "I'm totally sleeping now." and stopped.

Because, well, self serve gas in Oregon and Richard Garriot. The relationship between them is so CLEAR.

Would it help to know that I used to read our Britannica downstairs all the time, at random?

Posted by Dwip at February 17, 2006 2:38 PM