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. ...
once upon a time people loved quicken. quicken was intuitive (and the company was more or less named along those lines) and it just worked. then along came microsoft money. i, a blue blooded devotee of everything UNIX, embraced that application with both arms and i might have on occasion tried to dry hump it. yes, i loved that app. then $MSFT decided that they were going to kill that product....
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....