Originally posted at http://winterbearer.blogspot.com/2009/04/what-would-you-be-doing-with-your-free.html

The question arises of what outlet you have suppressed by your unending pursuit of World of Warcraft Achievements. Would you date more? Get more exercise? See the world? Perhaps you would craft in real-life--with your hands or your mind. Perhaps your trivial pursuits would lead you to contribute to the mass of public culture and evolve such internet memes as lolcats.

Lolcats? You know them well--there is the internet phenomenon of the pidgin or broken English combined with photos of funny cats which are now commonly captioned and are known as "lolcats". Along with the popular "I can haz Cheezburger?" cat, one of the more common of these photos is nicknamed "Ceiling Cat", http://leeh.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/ceiling_cat.jpg who was said to have been watching you doing something immoral (or is more acceptable nowadays?) when the picture was snapped.

A bit of lore has sprung up and Ceiling Cat has been transformed into a sort of God metaphor, since he is after all "watching from above". It's only natural then that the Bible be translated into Lolcats speak, which has produced such unconventional quotes as: So liek teh Ceiling Cat lieks teh ppl lots and he sez 'Oh hai I givez u me only kitteh and ifs u beleevs in him u wont evr diez no moar, k? - John 3:16 (Reference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOLCat_Bible_Translation_Project )

It follows then that Basement Cat, allegorically representing the Dark One, is documented as well. More to the point, another site has an abbreviated New Testament told in pictures, along with study notes. (Reference http://amyletinsky.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/friday-funny-the-saga-of-ceiling-cat/ )

All of which begs the question...Does anyone else have this kind of free time? Or would you rather be in WoW achieving more important goals, like killing 15 Fjord Turkeys in an oh-so timely fashion?

I think it's all a glorious waste of time either way.