Following my reading for my CS 404 class today, I've been thinking about the information that I absorb. I think there's too much of the junk variety. For example, I spent about 1 hour today watching the Simpsons, another hour playing Super Smash Brothers Melee, and about half an hour looking up Jonathan Coulton videos. I spent a lot more time than this on school and work, but it's still an uncomfortable amount of luxury.
I think I'll try turning off the information flood for an hour every day to see what happens. I have no ideas for what to do in that time, but I know that people in the past have gone their entire lives without TV, video games, or the Internet. I hope that giving my mind a break from these things will give it time to make better use of what's already in there.
But for right now, I have to finish this post so I can go watch Family Guy.
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