Beseeching those of the future
As a historian, I devote inordinate amounts of time and energy towards reviewing primary sources; that is, documents that document (as they do) the events of the period in question that were created at the time of the event.
As a historian, I wonder if someday future historians will read idleThinK as a primary source, and construct a deductive view of what a blog is, based on my obscure and bleary-eyed writings. Oh dear. I can see the report now, clear as perspex:
In the late 20th century, with the advent and exponential proliferation of the internet, a phenomenon contemporarily known as "blogging" exploded on the virtual scene. Specialists in this field have conducted extensive research on this fascinating sociological trend, concentrating their studies on one of the few remaining iconic specimens of the period, one "idleThinK.com". Judging from the nature and content of this particular blog, we may deduce that blogs were vast repositories of any renegade, uninspiring, insipid and socially unacceptable conceived by blog owners. We may also draw important conclusions about the rather primitive mental state of the 20th century mind, which seems to be rather prone to irrelevant ideas and chronic incoherence. It was, indeed, a dark period in the intellectual development of mankind.
Dear Historian of the Future: It's 6.43AM and I'm having trouble stopping my brain from leaking out of my ears. Please do not judge my species from my late-night ineptitude.