Thursday, July 01, 2010

QUESTION: What kind of bear is best?

On any given day, my job pretty much sucks. I try to remind myself that it could suck harder (twss) but on days when I do nothing but stare at I-9s (don't ask) or hear that Joe's company is giving away Kindles or iPhones or $50 Amazon cards FOR NO RAISIN, I get a little stabby.

And these are the days that I am so happy that Google Reader exists. I subscribe to about a billion things, meaning that at any point of the day, I can go there and be entertained. I like to think of it as a physical place, sort of like what The Commons was like at Wittenberg. Between classes, you could stop by and grab a cyberwrap (Chipotle-sized, customizable burritos) or a tiny pizza, and catch up with whoever happened to be there at the time. Wittenberg was a tiny school, so the chances that you would run into someone you knew were pretty good.

That's what Google Reader is like. There's some activity going on at pretty much any point of the day. Someone is sharing something, or there's a new Harry Potter read-a-long post to read, or there's an important conversation going on in the comments. A conversation like: what kind of pop-tart is best? (answer: anything frosted.) Or: what are your thoughts on donuts/bagels? (cake donuts, give me all the bagels.) Or: could James Franco be more crazy awesome? (No.)

When I think back to the early days of the internet, I am appalled at how low tech my blog/website reading was. I put my favorite blogs and websites on the sidebar of my own blog and I'd click on each one individually when I got bored to see if anything had been updated. LIKE AN ANIMAL.

Google Reader, though, Google Reader makes sure I don't miss anything and I don't have to do any work at all, really. I am being for serious, you guys, when I tell you that some days, I could not make it until 5 without my Greader. It is my precious and I wants it GIVE US THE PRECIOUS.

6 comments:

  1. I'm ashamed that I waited so long to give into the sweet, sweet heroin of the Google Reader. Of course, now I have to fight to get anything done. Sometimes science just has to wait.

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  2. Oh, and I vote for teddy. Or koala. Either one is fine.

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  3. I also wanted to point out that I really enjoyed it when you said LIKE AN ANIMAL.

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  4. "That is a ridiculous question."
    "False, Black Bear."
    "That's debatable. There are basically two schools of thought..."
    "Fact: Bears eat beets. Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica."

    Ironically, I am sharing this on my Google Reader RIGHT NOW.

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  5. Seriously, Sir, important stuff goes on in Google Reader. And at first I was all, "koala is a donut flavor?" but then I got it. Wow I'm slow.

    Ashley, I forgot to say that when someone shares something I posted in Greader, I feel all fuzzy inside.

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  6. Oh, The Commons. I miss the tiny pizzas.

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