On Faith
I saw The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe this weekend. High production values created a solid film. I have my quibbles, but they’re just quibbles. What struck me most about the movie was that it could have been made five years ago. The technology certainly existed then. Narnia presented no particular technical challenges beyond those faced in, say, The Fellowship of the Ring (though it certainly benefitted […]
Where Do You Find The Time?
Quite possibly the single biggest limiation on my lifestyle is finding the time to work on all my projects. Note: I have time to work on them. The problem is making sure that I get around to each and every one of these projects regularly. Right now, I have the following major projects: Animation Writing Giant Armors Improving Syllable.org Writing a website for a friend Improving security and general maintenance on this web server Blogging Keeping up […]
Brief Soapboxing
Bankrupt airlines should not be given bankrupty protection. They should be allowed to die. I do not want to pay (through my taxes to the government which provides this bankrupty protection) for a bankrupt airline. I’d rather two-thirds of the existing airlines die, if they can’t figure out a way to stay profitable.
Friday, January 13, 2006
Just got back from a visit with my parents, where I partook of an excellent Chinese-style meal, helped my Mom with her Motorola Razr phone, and filmed myself in their basement. Filmed myself in their basement? Yeah. It’s for an advertisement that Otherspace is making for a local anime club; part of it involves a shot of an otaku sitting in a basement somewhere, looking bored. So I volunteered to be that otaku. Turned out pretty […]
Bad And Good
It almost got me! Almost. Resistance came this close to derailing me today. It started yesterday, as I realized that I need to completely rewrite chapter one of my young adult novel, Giant Armors, within the next day or two if I want to get it to my writer’s group in time for them to review it by our next meeting. So I knew I’d have to get some writing done at lunch today. So […]
The Plateau
Saalon writes about his pretty bad year. Here’s the comment I left on his blog: I’m reminded of a concept from the book “Mastery:” The learning process is not a steady ride upwards. It is a series of plateaus punctuated by upward movement. Most of one’s time is spent on the plateau. So, the book contends, learn to appreciate the plateau. Understand that you are just building up to visible growth. When a house […]
Sunday, January 8, 2006
Would’ve written something scintillating on here, except our server was down…again…all day. I am powerfully resisting the urge to explain things here, as that would probably be bad for me. Meanwhile, my illness has relapsed (with a sore throat this time) and while my day has been relatively enjoyable, I’ve spent all of it waiting for this server to come back online so I could do StUFF with it. […]
My Work
Amazing what a few days of illness can do for a person. Seriously. Sure, I spent much of that time watching anime and Good Eats (finished season seven!), but I also spent a fair amount of it doing nothing. Just thinking. And that’s a very good thing. I also re-read more of The War of Art, and contemplated turning pro. And then began to turn pro, in my writing and for Otherspace. In fact, yesterday, while I was still feeling […]
Resistance
Started re-reading Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art last night. What an amazing book. It’s been another good swift kick in the seat of my pants. I’ve let Resistance whittle down my work on my novel. I’ve accepted rationalizations and let time slip by. No more. Today, now, I choose to work on that which furthers my purpose in life. In other news, the VR story will end this Friday. Really. I plan to post […]
Musings on Media Deprivation
And I’m back online. Boy, that was an experience. By the end, I craved more media. I wanted easy stimulation. And that worries me. Stimulation is easy, sure, and it’s not necessarily bad, but it’s not necessarily good, either. I wonder if I wouldn’t be better off with fewer distractions. Or maybe I just shouldn’t rip myself away from all media for such a long period of time. Oddly, I most […]