Proof of Addiction
A few days ago I talked about hyperconnection. I claimed that it could be considered an addiction.
So, when my internet at home cut out this morning, I laughed.
I felt very… disconnected. It was strange, and I felt frustrated. I called up Time Warner and they have said a technician will not be able to make it out until at least tomorrow.
Then I did what an addict has to do, I found a fix somewhere else. I drove to RIT to make sure I have the internet. I have been here for a few hours now, and I am just trying to get everything done that I usually do during the day. There is a comfort in staying connected. Usually I rely on my phone to handle lapses in internet connectivity, but knowing that I won’t have the connection for a prolonged time is, well, scary.
It almost makes you wonder what would happen if a larger scale loss of internet occurred. How many people would feel like I do? What would the reaction be?
I am an addict. Of course, I am also really not that ashamed.
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:45 am
http://www.southparkstudios.com/guide/
Watch episode 1206 (Over Logging). Maybe this is what South Park’s writers were alluding to all along (just a thought).
:-)
July 3rd, 2008 at 10:29 am
i completely understand this feeling and have experienced more than i would have preferred in the last few months. first with moving apts and then after switching cable boxes. argh! feed the need for internets!! i seriously fiend for it.
July 6th, 2008 at 9:36 am
I get it too. My iMac died about a month ago and for some reason my old Powerbook can’t authenticate to our wireless, so I was without internet at home until they fixed my iMac a week later. I found that I could really live without it… I had to to take a jacket and an umbrella with me to work every day since I couldn’t check the weather before I left, but I survived. I kept up on my email at work. I got my computer back on June 12th, I just hooked it back up to the internet yesterday. Good exercise in self control. I won’t have internet at home in Germany, I will have to go to the library like a normal human being to use it. Might as well get used to it.
Miss you Dave!
October 13th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
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