A fave enjoyment of mine on the weekend is to open two browser windows (I prefer Firefox) on my dual monitors, and within each one, begin the process of saturating it with tabs. This happens naturally: I could be at Wikipedia and spot more than a single link branching from an article I want to delve into further, so all of those get opened up as new tabs. Or I could be at YouTube and see several possibilities of "What do I watch next?" from the current video. Like branching timelines in many a time travel romp (cause 'n' effect!), I often go on numerous tangents that end up intertwining closer than anyone could've originally forseen, and end up reinforcing my original queries as a result.

Often, these connections are excruciatingly extensive to describe, and don't make much sense unless you're actually here with me. A popular philosophy is that whether in work or play, I treat browser tabs like a deck of cards: I like to fan 'em out to see what I've got, and fold them back together.

Frequently, I'll be watching video in one monitor while reading text or looking at still images in another. This is not because I want to overload (or overwhelm) myself with info; it's the natural consequence of my learning dynamics. As I place high importance on being a creative person and generating new art (be that Torley Textures, Video Tutorials, solo piano music, etc.), I must take in a proportional amount of input to retain a healthy pool of inspiration from which to draw on. You may've noticed in my right sidebar, I have a Clipmarks widget which shows intriguing items from 'round the web I've clipped to share. This is one of several ways I keep track of my non-SL travels.

After seeing Hiro Nakamura's literal "string theory" on Heroes, I'm inspired to find some way of more effectively recording the causality of my divergent, and consequently convergent, paths. I've looked at some mind-mapping software, but at the rate I move, manually inputting data is a bore/chore/waste of time, so I need an automatic solution. There are inventions like Google Web History which hold promise, but the trends it's showing me are inaccurate, and "Interesting Items" hasn't yet generated much of promise. I haven't really used StumbleUpon in awhile, altho that's a fun way to fall over the eclectic.