November 4th, 2007 by Jemaleddin Cole

So it’s the first day of Standard Time here in America, and it couldn’t have come at a more opportune moment. Here you are with an extra hour in the day, GIVEN to you by the people you will be cursing in a few months when they steal it back, and you have something great to do with it: NaBloPoMo.

No, I didn’t have a seizure at the end of that last post. It’s National Blog Posting Month, fool! The month where you commit to posting something on your blog every day. That’s right, 30 days and nights of talking about your cat, complaining about the lady in front of you at the checkout line, or whining about having nothing to write about. And even if you’ve missed the last 3 days, it’s okay, because you aren’t doing it for any particular reason.

I’m doing it, which obviously means that you should too. So sign up, and get writing.

Oh, and since I’m pretty sure that posting about NaBloPoMo doesn’t count, I’m going to go poke my cat and see what falls out.

6 Responses to “What will you do with all that time?”

1. Thanks to someone convincing me that I absolutely had to have a MacBook, I have spent nearly the entire weekend loading, configuring and playing with my new toy. This wouldn’t necessarily be all that bad, were it not for the other dozen items that I SHOULD be working on instead. Oh well. All too often I take any extra time I get and use it to get more tasks completed. As much as I resent myself for it later, it’s still nice every once and awhile, to just sit down, relax and enjoy some leisure time with friends or family or even your Mac. ;o)

   Hope you guys are getting the most out of YOUR “hour”.

   — jet November 4th, 2007 at 12:40 pm #

2. Well I wouldn’t recommend taking a walk this evening:
   “…pedestrians walking during the evening rush hour are nearly three times more likely to be struck and killed by cars than before the time change…
   It’s not the darkness itself, but the adjustment to earlier nighttime that’s the killer, said professors Paul Fischbeck and David Gerard, both of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

   …setting clocks back, and gaining an hour in the process, impacts our bodies and minds, and takes some getting used to.”

   People are just weird.

   — CanadiensFan November 4th, 2007 at 5:59 pm #

3. People are stupid for going along with this bullshit. Instead they should take on arbitrary constraints like committing to writing something on a daily basis for no particular reason.

   — Jemaleddin November 4th, 2007 at 6:33 pm #

4. I’m boycotting NaBloPoMo. Why? Because I can.

   — skank November 5th, 2007 at 8:05 am #

5. I thought you’d say that you’re on strike with the WGA.

   — Jemaleddin November 5th, 2007 at 6:41 pm #

6. 1st Google search result on “Because I can”:

   Juvenile Justifications for Irrational Behaviors

   Hehehehe

   Go WGA! :) (Although 24 fans will suffer!)

   — CanadiensFan November 8th, 2007 at 2:29 pm #