Welcome to The Slurper
So.
This blog is a form of my endless marvel at the web, or rather, the endless collection of information available at the web. There’s just so much stuff online, one can’t possibly be expected to wrap one’s head around it. When you look up an issue, you don’t just end up with a Wikipedia page and some scientific journals – you got reviews, online forum debates, lists of most influential blog posts, pictures of site visits, etc. And these are mere page 3 stuff on your Google hits. I know whenever I look something up, I’d end up having much more information to it than I ever thought possible (plus some extra facts on similar issues, subsets or otherwise). And the amazing thing is, this abundance of information doesn’t discourage you – well, maybe not to me – but it builds this unhealthy addiction to spend an hour in front of your computer to learn about something your neighbor happen to mention as they were walking their dog. Or something of the sort.
Since I’m now completely unable to talk comfortably about anything without giving a helpful URL on it, I thought it might be interesting to share how one roams around the internet, attempting to learn something, and attempting even harder to justify hours of reading trivialities as “learning”.
At the end of the day, I guess this is no more than a blogger writing about things she found interesting, although I’d like to think of this blog as a place where one can have a heightened appreciation of what’s out there. We may never understand what it’s like to be in a Total Perspective Vortex, but I’m convinced that looking at the online world is the next best thing.
