web surfing and fascination with curious topics which totally eats up my time

[darkoshi]

The Iko-Iko song played on my MP3 player in random mode, and I got curious about the lyrics again ("jshakomo finale..." etc.). I had looked them up in the past, and thought I had even posted something about them. But I didn't find said post... maybe whatever post I was thinking of was about some other song.

So I looked up the lyrics again. This is how the next half hour of my browser history goes, starting from the bottom. Is this how other people's web browsing goes?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sri_Lankan_monarchs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanj
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Kaffirs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro_Asians_(African_Asians)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maroon_(people)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obeah
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoodoo_(folk_magic)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candombl%C3%A9
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_African_Vodun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawdy_Miss_Clawdy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iko_Iko
https://www.google.com/search?q=iko+lyrics&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

That's without even yet searching on the 10 or more versions of the song mentioned on the first Wikipedia page, as I'm curious how they all sound.

There's a lot about world history and African religions that I'm not very familiar with. Things that I've maybe heard about a few times, but not enough to remember many details.

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Below is an hour of my browser history from 10 days ago, when I looked up the protocols on the flag being flown at half mast, and progressed to reading about Mormons. That's another bit of history and religion I'm not very familiar with. Golden Plates!?! (Coincidentally, this week I heard a co-worker talking to someone else about his trip to Utah, and how he met with some Mormons and discussed their religion.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker%E2%80%93Fancher_party
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Meadows_massacre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exaltation_(Mormonism)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealing_(Mormonism)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riding_the_rail
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asahel_Lathrop
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_pole
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam-ondi-Ahman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bug,_Arizona
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigham_Young
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirtland_Safety_Society
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urim_and_Thummim
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urim_and_Thummim_(Latter_Day_Saints)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschatology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Mormon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_of_Christ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apologetics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_plates
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burned-over_district
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1838_Mormon_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilburn_Boggs
https://www.google.com/search?q=lilburn+boggs+ordered+mormons+to+be+killed
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/283330-former-gop-senator-endorses-clinton-after-orlando-shooting
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2016/06/14/3788497/cole-county-missouri-flag-orlando-shooting/
http://www.usflag.org/nff.half.staff.html
http://halfstaff.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dag_Hammarskj%C3%B6ld
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-mast
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Below was 2 hours back in March, when I looked up a reference someone had made to "Mrs. Prothero" in a comment, started reading about Dylan Thomas, and ended up fascinated by the idea of an actual real-life "War of the Golden Stool" (how Indiana Jones like!), including an African queen fighting against the British.

"Where is the Golden Stool? I am the representative of the Paramount Power. Why have you relegated me to this ordinary chair? Why did you not take the opportunity of my coming to Kumasi to bring the Golden Stool for me to sit upon?"

Not understanding the significance of the stool, Hodgson clearly had no inkling of the storm his words would produce; the suggestion that he, a foreigner, should sit upon and defile the Golden Stool, the very embodiment of the Ashanti state, and very symbol of the Ashanti peoples, living, dead, and yet to be born, was far too insufferable for the crowd. Almost immediately, the queen mother of the Ejisu dominion within the Ashanti kingdom, Yaa Asantewaa, collected men to form a force with which to attack the British and retrieve the exiled king.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaa_Asantewaa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Golden_Stool
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Gold_Coast_Map_1896.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Ashanti_wars#/media/File:Gold_Coast_Map_1896.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Ashanti_wars#Fourth_Anglo-Ashanti_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Anglo-Ashanti_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Beatrice_of_the_United_Kingdom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert,_Prince_Consort#/media/File:Queen_Victoria_Prince_Albert_and_their_nine_children.JPG
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert,_Prince_Consort
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Matrimonial
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_consort
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jure_uxoris
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish-Lithuanian_Commonwealth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeronwy_Thomas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeronwy_Thomas-Ellis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarianism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Thomas
http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/xmas.html
https://www.google.com/search?q=prothero#q=mrs+prothero
https://www.google.com/search?q=prothero

Comments

[marahmarie]

It has never occurred to me to post the output of what I search for. But yes, I certainly jump down similar rabbit holes. My main all-consuming 'let me explore this from 20 different angles" topics tend to run 1) some aspect of technology (my News Genius and Hypothes.is History output would run for pages; unfortunately I automatically clear History on every browser exit, so I can no longer prove this) 2) some aspect of politics (my Trump sessions would seem truly astounding, and yes, I do read most or all of every page I travel to) and 3) some aspect of science, health, food, food science, and occasionally the kittehs. Mathematics has a similar bewitching effect but those History outputs don't run as long because I hit my math floor pretty quickly, then my brain blows up and I'm done.

Back in the day I created my entire other blog by heating Firefox past its RAM capabilities again and again on straight AOL research. I used to have folders with literally hundreds of bookmarked links and the browsing sessions would probably reveal URLs stretching into the thousands every few months.

Every day I'm not doing that kind of super-intensive research is an absolute vacation for me, as I put most of that time in in addition to full-time jobs I was holding and housework and gardening and cats and cooking...yeah.

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Fascinating stuff about the song.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, I was doing a bunch of reading on fringe mormonism this week. I hit a couple of those links, although I was spending more time reading about Ervil LeBaron and his thugs.