Domo Arigato Mr. Robotnik

Many thanks to you, LiveJournal readers, for:

1. Loading me up with punchy quotes about "cyberspace" and the "information superhighway." Don't you love my facility with those cutting edge buzzwords?

2. Many fine username suggestions. I went with robotnik as you can all see—the faux Russian was just too fun to pass up. But there were many gems suggested, with King Robo and Robautry probably my favorite also-rans. Your friends lists have all changed my alias over automatically—if you do happen to have some manually typed link to me as kingfloyd somewhere, I believe it will only work for another couple of weeks.

3. Making that D&D club picture our most commented post evah. Hee hee. The past is funny.

I'd like to catch you all up on what's been going on in my life, but it's mostly job market stories, and it's probably not a good idea to post those. Suffice to say my immediate future remains in a Schroedinger's Cat-like state of uncertainty.

Digital Spring Cleaning

I read a Douglas Rushkoff piece today about the inefficiency of clinging to digital "possessions" like files, MP3s, and the like. The practice of bookmarking hundreds of URLs for hypothetical future use was singled out for particular ridicule, since web search engines are generally much more efficient than the preposterous bookmark management interfaces in the major browsers. Thus chastened, I have just deleted about three years worth of "oh, I might want to look at that again" bookmarks.

Except... about half way through, that neurotic packrat instinct took hold, and I couldn't quite bring myself to delete them all. So instead I'm unloading a random selection on you, or on the LiveJournal servers to be precise.

( Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here. Seriously. Don't Bother. )

Now my Favorites list is lean and mean, with only the dozen or so sites I actually visit on a regular basis. I have an RSS Aggregator and LiveJournal to bring me my brainless weblog content, and Google for everything else. I feel virtuous and clean.