Get in on the John

Okay, so yesterday during a break at work I was surfing the internet with the help of one of the many social bookmarking sites that I use, and I see this cool link on one of them, and since I'm at work, I post the link to Del.icio.us so that I can get a better look at it when I get home.

Later, I check the front page of del.icio.us, which is where the hourly top three bookmarks are continuously updated, and I am unsurprised to find that the top link for that hour was the site I had bookmarked before. Social bookmarking sites seem to share most of the same top links most of the time, so this was nothing to write home about.

But then I saw that my name was listed as the first person to post this link on del.icio.us, and I freaked out, looked left and right for someone to show this to, remembered that I was alone in the office, and silently did the "Yesss!" arm-pump. I am kinda new to this whole "social bookmarking" thing, so the idea that my name (or at least my internet handle) was on the homepage of a popular website seemed like a tremendous accomplishment to me.

Rain drops keep fallin' on my head... (happy music)

The whole rest of the day I had a spring in my step, a certain confidence in my demeanor, that said that I was an important man; after all I was on the front page of a web site viewed by millions; perhaps you've heard of me? In my case a complement can sometimes be just as hurtful as an insult, if not more. My ego swells easily and extensively, much to my ire.


And thanks to this ill-deserved supreme self-confidence, yesterday's post about "Who wants to be a Superhero?" was particularly scathing (for me, at least). Okay, so the show wasn't that great, but I don't think I needed to say that Stan Lee was a senile and bigoted old man, because even though this might possibly be true, it wasn't very nice of me to say so. Besides, what am I, a television expert? Who am I to tell people where the line between so-bad-it's-good, and so-bad-it's-worse lies?

"Digging" my own hole.

And then I figured, hey, what the heck, I am king of the internet and all, so why don't I submit my post to every social bookmarking site that I can think of.




Two people actually voted for it on Digg, both within a minute or so of my posting it on the site, which led to much giggling-schoolgirl-like excitement, as well as my staying up until 2AM watching to see how my article fared.

When I finally went to bed I was sure I would be really late for work the next morning, but strangely enough, I actually woke up early this morning, and wasn't late to work, for once.

The penny drops.

Around mid-day it finally hit me about what an arrogant jerk I had been (look at what I named the links: both mention Stan Lee's senility); I still can't believe what a jackass I was to put that stuff up all over the internet.

My stupidity had a sorta neat side effect, though, that in one day I got as many visits as I normally do in a week. Check out the graphic:


Perhaps I should be an idiot more often.

Coming Soon.

I hope to mess around with my blog this weekend and make it look really cool, and ironically, some of the things I plan on adding are social bookmarking submission buttons. Some people just never learn I guess.