My Internet addiction waxes and wanes. It is particularly bad right now. I really need to spend more time Not Online.

This realization coincides with the first week of the semester, a semester in which I’m teaching an online course about the Internets and starting a dissertation about Wikipedia and another, very old encyclopedia. I go and visit the Very Expensive Copy of the Very Old Encyclopedia, but I also spend a lot of time working with the University of Wisconsin’s digital scans.

Obviously, I need to start finding more real-world recreation and save the mouse clickin’ for work. That’s the saddest thing I ever heard.