2 May 2008...6:58 am
More stuff to do on Sunday if you’re bored
A few months ago I wrote a rather tongue-in-cheek post about Stuff to do on Sunday if you’re bored, and linked it to a similar post by An unfinished soul, and it has proved to be one of the most popular posts on this blog, as indeed it was for An unfinished soul.
Unfortunately An unfinished soul blog has been deleted, so the link no longer works. So I thought I’d update it a bit, and add some real stuff to it, to replace the missing stuff on the non-existent link.
So here is a new list of stuff to do on Sunday if you’re bored, or things to do on Sunday if your board, which some people seem to look for in search engines. How many boards would the Mongols hoard if the Mongol hordes got bored?
Blog surfing
There are lots of blogs out there and some of them have interesting stuff that you might not have read. Some of them, of course, are downright boring. So how do you find the interesting ones? Here are some possibilities:
Blog Explosion. You can enter a category of blogs that you are particularly interested in, and one that you are not interested in at all, and you will be served up blogs mostly on your preferred topic, but interspersed with a few others for variety. If you register your own blog, it will be served up to other people who are surfing as well, so it is also a way to get more visitors to your blog. Provided the blogs that are displayed are updated at least once a week, then if you surf them on Sundays when you’re bored, you should see new posts even if you’ve seen the blog before. The blogs you see are a mixed bag; some good, some bad, some boring. But you can exclude the bad ones from future surfing, and you can also comment on them and review them. One of my blogs got a “Great Mommy/Daddy blog” rating. Go figure.
MyBlogLog. If you don’t belong to MyBlogLog, you can join. But even if you don’t belong, you can see the widget in the sidebar on the right that shows recent visitors to this blog. Click on one of them, and you’ll be taken to a page with a list of their blogs, and sometimes samples of recent posts. Then you click on recent visitors to their blog in the widget on their blog, and so on. Chances are that visitors to a blog will have similar interests to the blog writer, and so you might find other blogs on topics that interest you. Some of the blogs and bloggers have tags to show their interests, or topics on their blogs, and you can click on these to get a list of blogs and bloggers interested in that topic. And sometimes if you see tags you are not interested in, you can avoid those blogs. I myself tend to avoid blogs with tags like “money”, “marketing” or “entrepreneurship”.
Make a list of all the people you’ve ever known
I mentioned this in a recent blog post, so I won’t go into great detail. But it has been calculated that the average person gets to know about 1750 people in their life time. So try to make a list of all the ones you know — friends, family, acquaintances, even enemies. Say where you met them, what you remember about them, and so on.
If you’re a computer fundi, try to design a database program to record the information you collect.
If there are some you haven’t seen for a long time, and you’re wondering what happened to them, enter them in Who? Me? You might even find they have been looking for you!
Is someone looking for you? Who? Me?.
Check with Who? Me? now to see
if someone has left you a note.
Go church crawling
Go out walking, riding, driving and stop at the first church you see where something seems to be going on. Check it out.
If you’re in South Africa, go to the nearest township school between 8:00 am and 10:00 am and check the classrooms for activity. Join in the first one where something seems to be going on.
After the service, chat to the minister, find out the name of the church and what they believe, and blog about it.
Why are you reading this anyway?
A lot of people seem to get here by typing this in a search engine, but when I typed it into Google I got:
We’re sorry…
… but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can’t process your request right now.
You might like to try Altavista instead.
Have fun!
1 Comment
4 May 2008 at 10:46 am
since i like for Sunday to be a day of rest and reflection, one of things I am doing right now is reading through blog posts I marked in my reader as “read when I have time.” Not all are “spiritual”, but most are longer, thought-provoking, or meaningful to me for different reasons.
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