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By Dusty Kraft
My computer
sleeps about as much as an over-worked cow that's chained
to a milking machine, but in my case, the computer isn't
chained to a milking machine, it's the Internet.
If there
is a moment when our phone line is not in use and I'm home,
I'm already logging on-line. This kind of Internet addiction
poses a single question, what do I do with all that time?
Lazy Sundays, so many hours with simply nothing to do. With
any luck I'll be sleeping off the previous night and arise
at around noon, the average waking time for the Generation
Y'er. Without even giving a thought to my personal stench,
I turn on the computer to see what can occupy my time.
I check
my mail; nothing there, not a surprise. With all my console
video games not interesting me, I hop on the Internet and
go to my personal favorite search engine. I type in "SNES
ROMS" which are console games, in this case Super Nintendo
games, that have been transferred to the computer to be
used with another program called an emulator, which emulates
the console environment. Basically it's another way to play
games for free.
Yahoo
brings up a lot of results, but I choose to go to a site
called Plasticman's Emulation Zone (http://www.plasticman.org).
With this site I choose one of over 500 games to download.
This time it's Secret of Mana 2, a Japanese game that was
never released in the US. I decide to do something about
my hygiene while I download, it only takes about 15 minutes
to download in a worst case scenario.
After I'm clean and smelling good, I go back to the computer
and unzip the game and load it up on an emulator and begin
playing while I download some select tunes. About an hour
into the game I grow bored and decide to speed things up
a bit so I log on to GameFAQs (http://www.gamefaqs.com)
and search for my current gaming quest. I get some codes
and hints and apply them to my current adventure. Not
a half an hour later the game is no longer a challenge,
so I grow bored once again and quit the program.
I hit
up the Internet once more and go to eBay (http://www.ebay.com)
to see what kind of hot deals I can get. I search "Car
CD Players" and bid on one that looks good. Granted
you are supposed to be 18 to do that, but no one but me
knows that I'm not 18, and I always get outbid anyway. It's
just the thrill of buying that gets me going.
I've
never won a bid, thus I've never bought anything, but it
entertains me anyway.
Done with my shopping experience I think I'll work on my
Web page a bit. I've yet to upload it to any server, but
I make neat graphics and a sharp looking page, but I never
have anything to say, so I just leave it sit in the "Web
Page" folder on my computer, maybe one day I'll upload
it for fun.
Meanwhile
I decide to see how my music is doing on MP3.com (http://www.mp3.com)
and look at my personal stats. They're pretty low considering
I've only three songs and I haven't done any promotional
things in quite some time, but nonetheless Fusion Core (http://www.mp3.com/fusioncore)
is up on a site with music available
for all to see. I do my own mixing and tracking whenever
I get a musical revelation.
While
my mind set is still on music I switch over to look up some
concert dates on Pollstar (http://www.pollstar.com) and
search my favorite bands and venues. Some good shows, I'll
probably make a point of trying to go see them.
I also
check out The Rave's Web site (http://www.therave.com) since
it's my personal favorite venue in Wisconsin. A band that
I like just happens to be playing soon, good news for me.
So I send e-mail and instant messages to my friends hoping
to leech a ride off one of them.
I also
send an additional message to my brother to see if I can
crash with him in the dorms down in Milwaukee. I chat for
awhile, and then decide to catch up on some literature,
therefore I log-on to The Onion (http://www.theonion.com)
to read some pretty sweet stories; it is a true favorite
site of mine.
By now
it's a solid 8 or 9 o'clock in the evening so I talk with
the boys and girls online for a few hours.
Before
I sleep I make sure I'm getting the happening tunes to throw
onto a CD to play in my new set of hot wheels, a car truly
worthy of a style-minded man of the cruise like myself.
This way when I get a stereo to justify the car, I will
most definitely have the popular tunes that will attract
those lady friends.
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