Half-posts, character limits

I frequently find myself wanting to post some thought or something, but it isn't nearly long enough for a full post on RI or I don't have the time, energy, or enthusiasm to post about it. This could be helped if I do "half-posts," yet I don't want to clutter up the posts on here. I've thought about using another platform to publish these smaller thoughts, however, I have yet to find one I like.

First Week of School

Tired, busy, bored, along with anticipating a ramp up later, this is how I feel about school after a week. Well, technically a week, but with school starting with a half week it doesn't quite mean as much as a week would normally entail. Why not start on a Monday? I have no idea. While it doesn't make much sense to me, there's probably a decent reason for it, though.

Frustrated

Frustrated. In a word, that is my feeling towards this blog at the moment. I start a post, get anywhere from just the outline of what I want to write about, to almost fully writing out, sometimes even proofreading to prepare for publication, and, nearly without fail, I run across some article that utterly eradicates my entire logic foundation. Of course, this probably reflects on the quality of my research, but this has happened on even my very well researched articles.

The issue is that I do not have enough time, or, at least, I don't allocate enough, to research as much as I want or need to do what I consider adequate. As I already mentioned, I read a lot, but not focused research—to be honest, the reading I do daily is more entertainment to me than education. THERE. If I had held back that particular post until I realized that my reading is entertainment for me, I might have never published it.

About now is about when I sputter out and have no more points or content to put in the post. Two paragraphs, they feel so unsubstantiated, and so lonely. Perhaps that is all I should strive for, two paragraphs.

I started this blog as a way to... hmm, I'm not entirely sure on that. I suppose it was to have a platform to showcase my programming and math work, but neither have been producing results like I want. Perhaps I merely need to post more often—a more constant stream of smaller posts.

To finish positively, Rampant Intelligence has allowed me to practice writing, so that will help me when writing essays for school. Speaking of school, I need to go to bed; 8am comes quickly and I have a long day ahead of me. Perhaps with the start of school I will have enough downtime between classes to effect an uptick of posting on here.

Google Reader

"I recently read an article that said..."

That is an oft-used phrase of mine that you'll no doubt hear when passing time with me. I normally read for at least an hour a day, frequently in the range of two to three hours. My RSS feed reader, Google Reader, says I've read nearly 5,000 items over the one and a half years I've been using it. Of course, those 5k items do not include the in-line links in the article's text, nor the tangent subjects I read about because the article happened to mention it, which usually results in a lengthy visit to Wikipedia. Tangent: I wish I had statistics on the Wikipedia articles I've read—they would probably be quite interesting.

Other than my edification, I don't directly benefit from this reading; it is just something I do. You might have heard about those people who get 100% of their news from the Internet. I'm one of them. Here's how I do it and keep track of what I've read and what I haven't.