lately, i’ve been doing a lot of writing for work. test plans, paper outlines, summaries, etc. i don’t know what the deal has been but it’s been a notable shift in prose generation. despite the fact that my co-workers seem to do everything in MSFT word, i have a strong need to do at least the first cut in emacs. here are a few things that have made me most productive on the prose generation front....
just because you can do something doesn’t mean that you should. ...
kathy and i biked on over to check out terrence malick’s, “the tree of life” at the lagoon theater on monday. clearly the guy’s a perfectionist with the composition and the delivery. the photography is first rate and the mix is impressive. but please, do we really need 30+ minutes of primorial soup intermingling and 2001 space odyssey-esque music and photography? every time new fluids collided i needed to quell the urge to go do something different....
this nybooks article got me to thinking about the role of the library in my life over the years. when i was a kid there were multiple trips to the library each week. we were beneficiaries of what i can recall as a solid library system. now, i don’t know how true that was/is, but the library certainly held a place of reverence in our home and i could count on it being open pretty much every day of the week....
in the hopes of not wasting 20 minutes trying to make drawers work in the future. remember the following. when using drawers in a file the following are your friends. ...