I made Pennies from the Clay

Anyway, I have not updated this "diary" if you will in quite the span of time. However, in the spirit of academic pursuit, I'd like to make public a little wager of $20 I had with my friend T. Ly. Hopefully this post will not make null my status in the wager.
Perhaps, it is best to relate the context of our situation which pertains to the seminal theory that "procrastination" and "internet" do indeed "make you stupid." Our wager is that we would not use any personal computer for recreational purposes in hopes of enhancing our academic experience by promoting achievement and success. By making this public, I hope we will have some third party bear witness our endeavor. With this in mind, we acknowledge that this wager is personally maintained and relies solely on our honesty with each other.
Much of this abstinence from electronically based recreation is based on the web and the list of sites we hope to ban from our surfing habits are listed below (this is not the entire list as some of these sites only one of us visits/some have overlaps/some we barely ever use at all):



-things I'm still trying to quit-

radioblogclub
last.fm
gamespot
cnet
cnn
stumbleupon
msn
yahoo!
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-on the brink of quitting-

yahoo answers
grouphug
battleforums
avgirls.blogspot (NSFW)

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-things I plan on returning to after the 2 week period-

javtalk (NSFW)
oink.cd
download
isohut
demonoid
torrentspy
thepiratebay
mediafire
imageshack
torrentreactor
animesuki
boxtorrents
asiandvdclub
amazon
pricegrabber
ebay
metacritic
dvdclub
bitme
bitmetv
torrentleech
bithq
digital hive
bitspider
karagara

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-basically quit already or never got into (but will avoid due to possibility of eventual addiction)-

del.lic.ious
latimes
nytimes
digg
reddit
facebook
pitchforkmedia
allmusic
rollingstone
tinymixtapes
maddox
somethingawful
cokemachineglow
spin
ctrlaltdel
explosm
samandfuzzy
youtube
videojug
peekvid
ejb
newgrounds
google video
pennyarcade
clean.scanlover
myspace
flickr
picasa
fanfiction
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-exceptions-

meebo
gmail
wikipedia
(most e-mail/school related sites)

My friend has included some other video sharing sites and there are some complex and intricate rules that I will not discuss for the sake of maintaining a sense of brevity of what's going on. I will no longer update blogger until August 3rd or a later date. This will serve as a reminder.

Tangent: Hopefully this will turn out as well as my venture into vegetarianism. At first I tried it out for 2 weeks and it worked just fine. Broke the record and ate plants only for an entire month. Felt fine. This summer I have broken the 1 month record with an astounding 1.5 months of being a vegetarian. Optimistically, this "temporary" abstinence from internet based recreation will be longer lived than the instituted wager. We shall see. (This will show great mental fortitude.)