RustinHWright's Journal: Now that's two hours of my life that I'll never get back.

I just wasted at least two hours of my life being one of the loons trying to make some sense among the spittle-spewing idiots dominating the thread from the just finished /. poll on the Fourth of July.

Why did I do that? I know better. Why did I sit here, hour upon hour, participating in the most monumental troll-feeding event I've seen in at least a year?

Damned if I know. I mean, yeah, the various Brit comments included quite a few funny ones. And it was nice to see so much time put into writing about history, even if most of what was written was terminally muddle-headed.

But I would have been better off watching episodes from the first season of Babylon 5. On Youtube. On a 486. That's unplugged.

All of which comes down to the eternal question: why participate in most online discussion at all? To which my only answer is that I still haven't gotten my real world life back up to speed. Well, it's sure not helping to sit here bitching about it. So, while it's been nice to have had an opportunity to clarify my thoughts and interact with my fellow /.ers and even drive at least a modicum of traffic to my new blog, I think that I'm done posting here for a while. I think that I'm going to put a stickie note on my monitor that says something like:Thinking of Posting? Don't! A Day of Work on Product To Be Published Will Change More Minds Than a Month of Writing for the Internet.

In fact, now that I think of it, I may just print it out oversized, frame it and put it on my wall.

Seriously.

-Rustin