In defense of "boring lectures"

Humbly offered by a practitioner of the boring art

[A Philosopher giving that Lecture on the Orrery in which a lamp is put in place of the Sun, Joseph Wright of Derby]

The other day, I was Googling one of my friends, as I sometimes do as a method for avoiding work. I am something of a certified expert in this technique. I accept it as a failing too deeply rooted to ever hope to fully cure. You just tr…