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Well, looks like I'm back to "busy enough that dreams are suppressed" stage. Pity.

Webcams, I think, are one of the most distracting devices known to man. You'll be doing something on your computer, minding your business, nothing special. Then, the trigger. You'll either see your reflection in the screen (easy for me since my desktop is completely black) or perhaps see a well-composited picture online, and BLAM! Photographing spree ensues.

Then you have a bunch of pictures of yourself, probably not really looking at the camera because you're looking at the screen, which is generally below the webcam. Also, one or both of your arms are stretched out to hit the "capture" button. Your posture is probably not particularly good, and every single picture is posed, by virtue of being a picture you took of YOURSELF. Admittedly, on rare occasions, I'll just mash the button while moving around and seeing what happens, but it's still posed to a large extent because I'm still keeping half an eye on how I look on screen.

So what do you then do with these pictures? I mean, usually if people see how many self-portraits you take of yourself, they think you're an utter creep or at least irretrievably vain.

Reality check. I guess free fun always has its pitfalls.