Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Urgent Post: Intervention, Support Needed for Addicted Reader

The indispensable "NeverInDoubtMeter" (always available at the click of a mouse at the bottom of this pages) reveals that one gentle reader has already today spent one hour, sixteen minutes and twenty-seven seconds reading--and perhaps commenting on--this blog.

We fear addictive behavior. Nothing else could explain such a waste of precious time.

We urge other gentle readers to intervene, perhaps to form a support group.

2 comments:

Jon A. Alfred E. Michael J. Wile E. SWNID said...

Thanks for voluntarily identifying yourself. All we had was a city and an ISP, neither of which we could pin to any particular person.

Who is fixated indeed?

Lt. Columbo, we are your devoted disciple!

Jon A. Alfred E. Michael J. Wile E. SWNID said...

The peaceful reasonableness of blog comments since the beginning of your summer vacation has been a blessing to all gentle readers.

The number of page views that correlated with the time on the blog suggests something other than multitasking as you remained online here.

But we assert that the point of your fixation is not with us but with yourself. So we will explain, pedantically. We had no idea that you were the person so long connected. You assumed that we were fixated on you when we drew attention to the length of some anonymous person's connection. You told us it was you; we didn't know. Whom does subtlety elude?

You may be too young to remember Peter Falk as Lt. Columbo. So recall, reread or read for the first time Crime and Punishment (a.k.a. Greatest Novel Ever) to understand the revealing psychology at work there and here.