Journal Jucius Maximus's Journal: Slashdot Damages My Productivity 20
The observations here apply to me, not you. I'm not saying that slashdot damages everyone's productivity. But it damages mine.
Basically over the past year I have noticed that I grades are dropping and I spend tons of time on slashdot reading/posting/etc and having a damn good time. Just look at my number of posts. But dropping grades are bad.
Last summer when I was doing development work for a company, I blocked slashdot on my machine via hosts file and my productivity jumped. Just the inconvenience of having to remove it kept me paying attention to my job.
And look at me now. I have a major paper due tomorrow and I'm writing in my slashdot journal. Damnit, I have to keep myself away from this place!
no moderations! (Score:1)
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P.S. Rhubarb and strawberry aren't in season until July! That sucks!
Me too (Score:2)
So do games, of course; I've see offices full of people playing Solitaire. What I really need is an old-fashioned electronic typewriter...
Re:Me too (Score:2)
Ain't it the truth, eh? (Score:1)
It was kinda funny actually, a friend of mine and I were chatting online when he asking what I was doing:
Me: just using up this latest batch of mod point on
Him: your what on what?
Me:
Him: (after loading it) oh my god...
Me: what?
Him: this is scary. it's like a home base for geeks
Me: Yeah, I know. It's home ^_^
Anyway... I empathise. I'll also add you to my friends list = )
Re:Ain't it the truth, eh? (Score:2)
Heh, I know excactly what *you* mean too :-)
I only realised recently that the /. homepage would appear only as gibberish to non-techies. I mentioned it to a prof one time and she told me that she couldn't translate it!
Re:Ain't it the truth, eh? (Score:2)
Worse for me. I got addicted to Slashdot after changing my specialisation from pure theoretical CS (love programming, couldn't take all those theoretical bullshit) to Information Communications Management (which, at least in our non-descript but highly funded public university) is a bit of dark side (that's lit/art / mass communication) mixed with CS and computers in general. (See, I have this irritating habit of abusing parentheses; already becoming one of you Lit majors. Besides, most of my past posts have been on spelling and grammar, so...)
I blame my CMC (Computer-Mediated Communication) lecture for this addiction. He was the one who suggested (informally, I assure you), that there's a certain tech discussion forum that covers my interests in Lego, fair bit of programming, astronomy, biology and physics.
Question: Can I sue him for lost time?
And oh, guess I'll add both you guys as friends. Helps to have a support group at hand.
Yupp! (Score:1)
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You are right. Btw, here I am at 4 AM with a term paper due tomorrow (actually today.) Bah! I must get back to writing!
Re:Yupp! (Score:1)
Just an update. I finished the paper at 6 AM, got to bed, and still made it to my 8:30 class.
On a related note, I am extremely relieved that it is the last day of classes. (Exams start on Monday.)
Re:Yupp! (Score:1)
I know what you mean. (Score:1)
I mean, err.... I like linux. Really, I do...
I run Mandrake at home...
Re:I know what you mean. (Score:1)
Myself.. (Score:1)
indeed (Score:1)
slashdot addiction (Score:1)
I got rid of my television about three years ago because of the massive
amount of time I wasted in front of it and just replaced it with the internet. I'v considered making a support group for slashdot addicts where we can encourage each other to go outside, get things done at work or college. Somehow I think it would just become another forum to compulsivly reload. Arrrigh.
It would become a journal on slashdot. (Score:1)
Re:slashdot addiction (Score:2)
I find that it helps to put 127.0.0.1 slashdot.org in your hosts file. It helps in the short term.
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