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In January of 1997--a dark time when the people of Lombard, Ill. were enslaved by giant ant-like creatures and forced to work in the titanium mines beneath the Roosevelt Road Dairy Queen. (Things are much better now.)
Since July of 1995--just a couple of months before corporate URLs started to litter TV commercials and billboards.
Telling myself I'm going to spend just five minutes looking at a site, then sitting there for an hour reading everything on it.
Daydreaming, drawing, dancing, keeping the cat off the kitchen table. Oh, and I do watch TV on occasion (but only quality TV, like The Simpsons or Soul Train).
Nope.
I remember being swept away by the action and drama of the Trojan Room Coffee Machine.
I'm afraid the Surgeon General will determine that staring at a monitor all the time is hazardous to your health.
I'd say the best preparation for a career in print journalism is going to college and taking classes that require you to write a lot of papers. Periodically, you should forget about a paper until right before it's due so that you have to stay up all night typing, drinking cold coffee and wondering if you would maybe feel better if you went and threw up. If you think to yourself the next morning, "Hey, that was kind of cool," you're all set.
I like both dogs and cats. If politicians were house pets, I'd vote Independent.
Not paying attention. I secretly suspected that I knew more than my teachers did--except for Mr. Spaulding, who taught me that television is evil, that poetry is difficult to write and that George Washington Carver was a genius.
I guess I'd like to describe something hip and classy, like a set of miniature reproductions of the works of Marcel Duchamp, but actually all I have on my monitor is a a black corduroy baseball cap and a leaky snow globe.
chocolate-covered raisins. I get them at Whole Foods, so they must be good for me, right?
Netscape, Microsoft Word, Eudora, Quark XPress. Also Lotus Notes, which I'm inclined to believe is the tool of the devil.
I can never seem to narrow things down to just one favorite; right now, I'm working on some Henry James.
I like Kellogg's Corn Pops, or generic versions thereof (though I'm not sure I should admit to eating something called "Golden Corn Nuggets").
As with most activities, surfing is better with a little Marley going in the background.
When did you join Internet Underground?
How long have you been online?
What do you spend most of your time doing online?
How do you spend offline time?
Do you surf with links underlined?
What was the first site that really caught your attention?
What scares you about the Internet?
What best prepared you for your work?
Are your a dog or cat person? Or perhaps some alternative pet?
"In high school I was...
Describe your favorite monitor decoration/toy?
The ultimate online snack is...?
What applications are usually running on your computer?
What's your favorite book?
What's your favorite cereal, and when do you indulge?
What tunes play while you surf?
