Is this thing on?

Welcome, me.

This is the internet.

What? This is it?

That tends to run through my mind more often than not now as I'm wasting time by staring at my laptop screen. Not everything is a waste of time here. There's the news, and ZeFrank, and e-mail, and on rare occasions actual coursework. Yet most of the time I find myself staring at someone who thought it would be funny to pour gasoline into a hollowed out watermelon, light it on fire, and then hit it with a baseball bat.

Actually... that one was kinda funny.

I wonder how I'm going to describe the infancy of the internet to my future grandchildren on occasion. Should I have grandchildren, that is. Will I describe it as a place of wonder where you could learn about anything and everything because it has degraded into a cyber-Sodom where all pages are meaningless collections of flash cartoons with a bad taste in humor or will I describe it as the latter because it has become the former?

That was a horrible sentence, but I have no inclination to fix it.

This blog is a test for me. I want to see that this doesn't degrade into my last flailing attempt at blogging. Maybe I can make something meaningful out of this. Maybe I can take the vast and incredible opportunities that now lay before me and create something wonderful.

I'll do that later. Right now? I'm gonna go watch one of those awful flash cartoons.

What? Sometimes, rarely, they're just what you want.