I know what you’re thinking, dear tiny reader base. “What the heck happened? Where did my regular dose of positivity about geekdom run off to?”, followed by “what the heck kind of breakfast should I have since it was sugary kids’ cereal the last couple days?”
As far as breakfast goes, I can certainly advise you that eating marshmallowy Lucky Charms for the 6th day in a row is your right and you should exercise it every single day. But as for that other question – well…errr…if you’ve ever run something online, you can identify with the fact that there are just times that you have to admit to people that you’ve been a little lax lately on the internet – that maybe playing Angry Birds Chrome instead of updating your online space isn’t very productive.
But this isn’t one of those times, right? Don’t worry, I’ve got a whole list of ready-made explanations that us geeks have for missing out on keeping our content current:
It’s the Internet’s fault: If the internet is anything, it’s one giant time sink and a perpetual temptation to be unproductive. The siren call of random articles on Reddit, hilarious imagery at Fmylife, and of course, Youtube makes updates a particularly hard thing to do. I mean c’mon, hitting the replay button on Lady Gaga videos which you find strangely compelling and catchy is totally keeping your brain entertained to do other tasks.
Had to beat that game, man: A lot of geeks like games, but the problem with a particularly good game is that it sucks you in like a black hole of productivity-absorbing nonsense. A simple need to have an hour session with your favorite title turns into “how the hell did it turn into 3am in the morning?!” with alarming frequency, which pretty much means you don’t have the time to do your updates. And with the advent of achievements in games, it’s made all the more likely that instead of updating you’re trying to beat that one boss on the ultra-hard-Icrushyourhopesanddreams difficulty level so you can have virtual street cred. Hey – you have an image to live up to online, am I right?
…and of course we can’t forget:
The dog ate it: Yep, that’s right. The dog ate my cable modem, my network cables, my power plug, and my wireless mouse. Then he went after my speakers, my printer, and made a sandwich out of both my monitors and power strips. I tried to stop him but he was just relentless and he looks so cute you can’t stay mad at him. Isn’t he a cute doggies? Yes you are. Yes you are, Doofus, I forgive you for chompin’ my desktop in half like a pretzel.
Uhhh…in other words, there’s a totally legitimate excuse for me not to update – and they’re all life-enriching, positive experiences that have totally grown me as a person! The important thing is that I’m back, and back with some regularity, so you’ll be hearing more of your dose of geek sunshine on this blog. I’ll even keep the dog away from my keyboard. Promise.
