Profitable Timewasters

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When I woke this morning, I had (I believe) quite a full list of things I wanted to accomplish today. Five or so hours later, it's nearly lunch-time and I haven't started or even thought about starting one of them! I have, it is true, spent maybe 30 minutes in total with small routine things (like making coffee, reading emails and dealing with notifications on MyLot) but the rest of it, it seems, has been spent browsing the Internet in search of information about 'things which caught my eye'. For example, I spent some considerable time looking at endoscopes for Android phones on Amazon, not because I wanted or needed one but simply because I saw an ad and didn't realise that such things existed so cheaply. (If you don't know what an endoscope is, it's a small camera on the end of a long flexible cable which is used to inspect pipes and other small spaces). Of course, whilst I was reading about endoscopes, I came across a word I didn't know the meaning of and that sent me down another path which led not to the usual online dictionary, but to a quite remarkable 'visual thesaurus'. You know how a word may be used in more than one way and how all these different, but related, meanings feel as though they could be displayed as a network? Well, Lexipedia does more or less just that and it seems such a useful tool that I felt I ought to share it with you guys! Now don't get lost, will you! Come back and tell us your wool-gathering experiences! .