How does one Earthling hanging out in the cellar (or anywhere close to a feed) wander and browse the Internet to reach fulfillment?

1. Start with interesting tweets.  To get interesting tweets, look for interesting people who regularly post links to potentially interesting starting points.

2. Check in with your social network.  Could be LinkedIn, Facebook, Plaxo, or the like. Look for posts that could be useful — such as one of your professional contacts at LinkedIn from across the country announces they are in town next week.

3. Take action based on good old snail mail. I got an invite to my college reunion; I check the website set up and find that no one in my class of 3000 is anyone I recognize.  If I were to go, who would I want to be there? I dig up my old class freshman register from the archives my wife has argued I should throw away — (our “Facebook” was called the Pigbook) — It showed names, faces, hometown, and … height. Sounds pretty random now, but it used to be common custom at chaperoned mixers to pair couples by height.

So here’s some of  my wanderings today:

• Mitch Kapoor tweets about a Grateful Dead site where many concerts from 10, 20, 30 years ago are available for streaming and listening. So I find background music there while I look at tweets to click on…

• I read that the pirates still have the first American sea captain captured since  the Barbary pirates in the 19th century; although he almost escaped, he was recaptured.

• Meanwhile, a bunch of creative folks with plenty of spare time use Google’s Latitude app to write a message to mom via video.

• Taking matters into their own hands (rather than wait for a slow bureaucracy to act) businesses affected by a road closure in Hawaii fix the road themselves

• Green job posts aplenty today.  Here’s one for an Executive Director in Georgia.

• Finally, here is a creative use of Twitter to build a business network by giving something of potential value away in return for my participation growing their network.

• Getting back to building out my own network, using the Pigbook to trigger my memory, and typing names into the online reunion database, I find that while I went to college 500 miles from where I live now, there are two people I knew well who live and work less than 20 miles away. One of them works for a company where having a connection could lead to a business opportunity.

Networking? Procrastination? Avoiding doing the mind-numbing tasks to explore where passion might take you? This is the flip side of WILF bewilderment. Sometimes the side trip is necessary to the journey.