Usenet == crack

[pne]

<davorg>Usenet is bad, m'kay?</davorg>

I stopped reading because I was spending three hours a day on it... then at one point, I saw a mention of something in a newsgroup and had a look for it, and a couple of weeks later, I'm back nearly to a full load.

I don't have much time during the week so I catch up on the week-end, rather than spending time with Stella.

And I'm not even reading everything that's interesting! For an info-junkie, Usenet is like crack.

Maybe it's time for another abstention period... but that'll be hard. Imagining what I'm missing... urg.

Comments

[lorelei-aisling.livejournal.com]

Haha.

LJ=Crack.

Ich lese LJ immer. =D

[pne.livejournal.com]

Ja, LJ ist auch Crack... wenn ich nicht aufpasse, kann ich auch stundenlang LiveJournal lesen.

Noch hält es sich zum Glück in Grenzen!

[timwi.livejournal.com]

I'm a little puzzled by this use of the word "crack". What does it mean?

[pne.livejournal.com]

• http://www.nida.nih.gov/Infofax/cocaine.html (http://www.nida.nih.gov/Infofax/cocaine.html)


• http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/drugfact/crack/ (http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/drugfact/crack/)


• http://www.crack-cocaine.net/ (http://www.crack-cocaine.net/)


• http://cocaine.org/ (http://cocaine.org/)

Metaphorically, something very addictive.

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[timwi.livejournal.com]

Ah.

[xaosenkosmos.livejournal.com]

Ich war slashdot-addict. Dann habe ich 127.0.0.1 slashdot.org www.slashdot.org in meiner /etc/hosts gesetzt.

Jetzt stundenlang LJ lese ich, ohne Grenzen.

Damned consumerist tendancies.

(i hope the German came out OK.. it's terribly rusty.)

[pne.livejournal.com]

I've pretty much given up on Slashdot and the Heise Newsticker... thank goodness, or my days would be even shorter.

But now LJ fills a fair chunk of the day that wasn't there previously, that's true.

(The German was comprehensible, but English is fine for me, too; I'm bilingual so pick whichever one you want.)