Comments | grettaelizabeth: Regaining sanity

grettaelizabeth

Regaining sanity

Jan 11, 2007 15:07

I've got Kinkless mostly up and running now. Sanity is returning. The other night my software told me to empty the dishwasher and reload it and run it, and I did, and it was good.

I was talking to 14limes about how much trouble I was having without my software, and he called what had happened to me a "digital stroke." That's about right. (Matt, where ( Read more... )

gtd, ocd

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macabre0 January 12 2007, 00:34:49 UTC

I find it amusing that the program you're using is called "Kinkless". So inappropriate.....

;)

grettaelizabeth January 12 2007, 02:43:23 UTC

You're not the first to remark on that. :P

rojonoir January 12 2007, 03:45:47 UTC

I was going to say - sounds like a bug.
"The other night my software told me to empty the dishwasher and reload it and run it, and I did, and it was good."

Seems like one should be careful about this whole GTD software thing. Who knows what sort of nefarious things could happen if your database fell into the wrong hands and someone started adding extra things to be done.

And speaking as an AI programmer, there are endless possibilities for the enslavement of the human race by GTD robots.

Just sayin'.

jhvilas January 12 2007, 03:12:02 UTC

The closest I've come to what you're doing was by running LifeBalance on my now-dead Palm Pilot. It drove me nuts, so I took it off.

14limes January 12 2007, 05:25:22 UTC

"Digital stroke" is attributable, in this case, to Gordon Bell of Microsoft. Not sure whether he coined it.