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Keep those wheels spinning
I want to post at least once every week until the end of the year. This means you will sometimes get posts like these.
Numbers are crunching
- Gigahurtzes in new laptop: 2.3
- RAMS in new laptop: 4
- Working CD drives in laptop: 1
- Stickers on laptopt: 3 out-of-factory-tech-speccy ones, 0 user ones.
- Number of books currently reading: 4
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"World history is the history of men violently oppressing women, children and artists." -- Sławomir Mrożek, Dziennik. 1962-1969 -
Why I no longer read writing advice blogs or write about Twilight
One of my fav blogs on the web is, as I have mentioned, Chuck Wendig's Terrible Mind ... s. Yet lately I found myself avoiding more than half of Chuck's posts on the thing. The writing half to be exact. I still come in for Painting With Shotguns and movies and the vidya. Oh, and Search Term Bingo. But not the writing posts. Nor the editing ones ( Read more... ) -
This is why you should set up a basket early
The cat (as most other animals in my house) is of the opinion, that when something is not being worn, it becomes a lie. As I have been putting down my street clothes on the dresser lately (I like to have them close), he has taken to perching there, overseeing the room and shedding his fur on my jeans and sweaters ( Read more... ) -
Euro cartoons
I just watched some animated shorts on "Kino Polska", a channel which specialises in Polish movies, especially old classics. The one that caught my eye was "Siódemka w krainie dziwolągów" (pl. "Number Seven in the Land of Freaks"), which was about a sailor caught in the Bermuda Triangle, who is transported to a land where instead of noses and ears ( Read more... ) -
Eden ends
I am now officially an otaku - I have completed one manga series, which is now currently sitting on my shelf. I purchased the final, 18th, volume of Hiroki Endo's Eden on Friday, for PLN 22,90 (volume 1 cost me only 16,00, but I got it at a reduced price ( Read more... ) -
Procrastination is incurable
I think I have lately realised the big problem with procrastination. Self-help and productivity blogs keep saying that it's a problem with stress thresholds, a problem of commitment, maybe even a culture problem. Yet they all miss the biggest problem, the one that makes you actually frequent those blogs for years and years, despite the fact you're ( Read more... ) -
The Amiga comes to HTML5
Do you know what colour cycling is? No, you don't because you're either too young or you didn't pay attention at the time. I barely remembered it when I stumbled upon this thing on metafilter:
[Colour cycling] was a technology often used in 8-bit video games of the era, to achieve interesting visual effects by cycling (shifting) the color palette ( Read more... ) -
Battlestation
Here. This is how my desktop look right now. Notice the suspicious lack of a ton of books. They were moved to a new bookcase. Notice the suspicious Zeon Principality Dom on the right hand speaker. That's Mod. He's our new intern.
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Project MAPLE, Phase 7
I have long ago come to the conclusion that it is not how hard you fight your battles, but how you choose your battles that counts. In a way, it does not matter whether you're walking or running, as long as you are on the right road. What I am trying to say is that, it is more important to know on what to expend your efforts than doing the job ( Read more... )