nizo's Journal: Slashdot has stolen at least a day of my life!

I recently noticed that I have posted 754 comments in response to various articles and journal entries. If I took two minutes per comment (an incredible underestimate I am sure) that amazingly adds up to more than a day of posting comments! This is of course not counting the time I have spent just reading or creating these braindead journal entries.

This leads me to wonder, how else do I spend my time? First of all, I want to say I hate analyzing the way I spend me time, because that inevitably leads me to think, "Wow, am I wasting my life away or what?" So rather than go down that self-deprecating path, maybe I will instead concentrate on how I am not wasting my life (in comparison to other Americans for example):

- I have short hair that I cut myself (ugly buzz cut). Half an hour every few weeks and zip zap it is short. I figure I save piles of time by not having to wait to get it cut, plus I don't spend time combing it and all that crap.

- Reading vs television. I used to watch waaaay too much TV. Now I watch about 2 hours a week, plus maybe 4 hours of movies per week (which adds up to over 5 days a year, hmmmm). Instead of staring at the TV like a zombie every night I have started reading more. Even though it is mostly sci-fi crap it still seems better than watching TV. Video games are down to maybe an hour or two a week (some weeks none and others more, kinda comes and goes).

Comments?

Only a day?

[queenofthe1ring]

/. steals a day of my life every week. Not to mention art stealing probly another 1.5-2 days, plus boyfriend stealling weekends. So I'm down to about 2 days a week to do all my sleeping, school work, etc. No wonder I'm so behind...

TV, posting stuff online

[MonTemplar]

Having a full-time day-job plus usually getting sleeping after around 10pm, I don't have much time to post stuff online. I'll try and respond to messages directed my way, or when I have a flash of inspiration or insight. Of course, I also post my pictures to DeviantArt every so often, and news items and links tend to go on my weblog nowadays.

As for TV, I only watch a couple of hours a day at most, including breakfast TV and the evening news. The rest of the time, I tend to listen to the radio or read a boo

that's nothing

[Mantorp]

I spend about 25 days per year in my car commuting back and forth between work and home. I knew it was bad, but before you brought this up I hadn't calculated just how bad, excuse me while I go shoot myself.

Re:that's nothing

[nizo]

I am guessing if you spent nearly a month driving in your car non-stop, sooner or later you would get done in by a car accident. How long is your commute??? Do you listen to the radio/books on tape/etc, or ?

Re:that's nothing

[Mantorp]

My commute is just over 100 miles round trip, my average one way trip is around an hour twenty. I've done it in 58 minutes while speeding way too much late at night, and at around five hours during a blizzard.

I did the radio thing for a few months before I started doing audiobooks, been commuting for four years. Since audiobooks are so expensive to buy I've gone through almost every library in the towns between home and work. I also downloaded a good number of books (shhh don't tell anyone). I'm a big musi

I, for one

[Allen Zadr]

Spend way too much time online.
Spend way too much time on Slashdot.
Spend way too much time waching the television shows that other members of my family want to watch.

Yet, I get value from all of this. I learn things on Slashdot that I probably wouldn't notice elsewhere. Time I spend online is usually in persuit of something I want to learn, or in persuit of edutainment.

I learned HTML online.
I learned how to program JavaScript online.
I learned how to program Perl online.
I learned Linux online.
I lea