Comment 19N Surprisingly Addictive

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The Solitude of the Internet

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Surprisingly Addictive (Score: 3, Funny)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-04-30 17:06 (#19N)

I took an awesome vacation with the family to the Adirondacks (http://therandymon.com/index.php?/91-Six-Nights-on-Fourth-Lake.html) looking forward to some time away from the Internet and looking forward to some isolation and time to reflect. But dammit if I didn't find myself down on the dock with my Nexus 7, trying to leach the neighbor's wifi connection so I could look some things up on Wikipedia, check email, etc. Surprisingly addictive, this information network. I might try it again and this time go gadget free, but I dunno, maybe that era has come to a close. I'd at least want my ereader so I could do some reading, and a cellphone might be nice, and ...

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2014-04-30 22:57 Funny +1 rocks@pipedot.org
2014-04-30 18:07 Insightful +1 songofthepogo@pipedot.org

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