SS: I'm In An Internet Rut

[faither]

Same sites, same routine and order. Anyone have any hints to help me out of my rut?

[redcolours]

heres something to make it worse - go and check out livejournal or myspace or blogger accounts.

[Daedalus]

heres something to make it worse - go and check out livejournal or myspace or blogger accounts.
ROFL Hope no one ever goes to you with a drug problem. "You smoke too much weed? Pssshhh! Here, have some CRACK."

[MrGreg]

Same sites, same routine and order. Anyone have any hints to help me out of my rut?

Why don't you do something offline, like maybe, I don't know... start a family?

[ramazank2]

Fantasy baseball is coming!!!

[Nija]

Why don't you do something offline, like maybe, I don't know... start a family?
Yeah, two families should take enough of your time to never be on the internet!

[ialsohaveadream]

You could always enter a yak-shaving competition.

By the way, noting that your avatar is a baseball, you might enjoy the brushback. (http://www.thebrushback.com/)

[Maarchk]

well he seems ok with being on the internet... just not ok with going to the same 5 sites... So perhaps people could list there 5 favorite, non-GotApex sites, and that way people will have other places to wander to when they have finished their daily 12 hour visit to Apex. :) Personally i do

www.yahoo.com for news, fantasy sports, emails, and such.
http://www.blogmaverick.com/ because i like to laugh at Mark Cuban.
www.ebay.com to look for random cheap houses i can collect.
www.certcities.com to see about becoming an mcse
www.google.com And every day i try and type in something i am interested in in google to see if i can pick up an interesting website to add to my daily adventure in the world of the web. Examples include fractals, laptop picture frames, and mba jobs.

I hope this helps and that other people do the same :)

Mark

[oblongmelon]

Same sites, same routine and order. Anyone have any hints to help me out of my rut?

I completely understand. I get into that rut all the time...so alot of times i'll just go to google and type in a word..and see what comes up..when I'm not doing that I'm doing geneology online.

[faither]

Why don't you do something offline, like maybe, I don't know... start a family?

I'm no Dick Van Patten, so in my case four is enough. Family is started... and done.

Mark, that's a great idea.

[redcolours]

listing top 5 sites you go to is a good idea! it points you to what you would not otherwise have known about.
but maybe we can also list 5 things we do to keep ourselves busy.
here's what i do/did:

1) built my own site, which i update daily - keeps me busy. i had my shtick/gimmicks going on in it (such as concert ticket giveaways, site merch, etc). it seems to pick up some mild interest, so im happy. either way, im kept busy.
2) i go to a LOT of concerts (another thing that keeps me offline from sites). but when i get online, i check out the fan forums of the bands/performers i check out. met a lot of nice people there who love the same music im into.
3) pick up a consuming hobby, like a) buying DVDs and watching them ona glorious HDTV, using a b) custom-built HTPC thats been tweaked to no end. Ok, thats 2 things right there rolled into 1.
4) take lots of pictures, and photoshop it to no end, and maybe upload them for a photo gallery for people to see. ok, thats another 3 things rolled into 1.
5) going back to what i did with my site, i started making T-shirt designs, and sometimes just making shirts with stupid silly sayings i find funny. Its fun - people get a kick out of the first shirt i designed.

[Memo]

http://www.lotgd.net
Fun game, if you ever played LoTR on old BBSs you'll love it.

http://en.wikipedia.org
They have new information on the front page everyday. Interesting stuff when you're bored.

[BigJon]

www.thedentedhelmet.com/forums

That's my new place on the net...got me out of my rut and out to my garage to start working on a costume.

[AlpineJay]

if you're into technical stuff and haven't yet added www.digg.com to your list, it's a must.

[clutchy]

www.theinquirer.net computer news with a fun twist
www.dpreview.com for brushing up on photo techniques
www.bayarearidersforum.com to see if any of my riding buddies have died...
www.foxnews.com
finance.yahoo.com i'm watching intel stock right now...

[Jeffbx]

http://www.waiterrant.net/ - excellent blog - very well written & entertaining
http://messageboard.tuckermax.com - interesting messageboard - some REALLY entertaining threads
http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/ - always good to kill a few minutes
http://www.clientcopia.com/index.php - ditto for this one
http://www.notebookforums.com/index.php? - because at the end of the day, I'm still a computer geek

BTW, anyone remember that site where you type in your name, and it visually displays the popularity of the name over the last 100 years? I think I saw that linked here a while ago...

[Kudos]

www.ozzu.com
web developer forum, very good for information

http://www.nuklearpower.com/index.php
funny website