29 Apr 08
| R. Buckminster Fuller: |
The things to do are: the things that need doing: that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. Then you will conceive of your own way of doing that which needs to be done—that no one else has told you to do or how to do it. This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual. Try making experiments of anything you conceive and are intensely interested in. Don’t be disappointed if something doesn’t work. That is what you want to know—the truth about everything—and then the truth about combinations of things. Some combinations have such logic and integrity that they can work coherently despite non-working elements embraced by their system. You will find the world responding to your earnest initiative. |
The Things To Do
| R. Buckminster Fuller: | The things to do are: the things that need doing: that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. Then you will conceive of your own way of doing that which needs to be done—that no one else has told you to do or how to do it. This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
Try making experiments of anything you conceive and are intensely interested in. Don’t be disappointed if something doesn’t work. That is what you want to know—the truth about everything—and then the truth about combinations of things. Some combinations have such logic and integrity that they can work coherently despite non-working elements embraced by their system. You will find the world responding to your earnest initiative. |
28 Apr 08
Wrote 2,500 words of tutorials for Your Online Life, my next major venture. Not bad. But I need to write at a much faster pace if I want to get this site done by Friday.
I’m worried that I’m over-reaching myself. I’ve started to look at other money-making opportunities, too. I may have to supplement my income with some web-based consulting work; anyone have any recommendations for good websites?
Meanwhile, I’m advertising my tutoring services on Craig’s List. We’ll see what happens, won’t we?
28 Apr 08
Wrote 2,500 words of tutorials for Your Online Life, my next major venture. Not bad. But I need to write at a much faster pace if I want to get this site done by Friday.
I’m worried that I’m over-reaching myself. I’ve started to look at other money-making opportunities, too. I may have to supplement my income with some web-based consulting work; anyone have any recommendations for good websites?
Meanwhile, I’m advertising my tutoring services on Craig’s List. We’ll see what happens, won’t we?
27 Apr 08
Back from another great trip to see Saalon and LWQuestie (their IRC names, to presere anonymity). We watched Hard Boiled, which is certainly the best John Woo film I’ve seen. Though granted, I’ve only seen another, A Better Tomorrow.
Came back and been watching cheesy sci-fi films from the 1950′s and 60′s. Most are oddly earnest. They want to be true to themselves, despite the incoherent plots and poor editing.
But, for example, the one I”m watching right now features the classic slow-motion iguana as a dinosaur. Was this convincing at any point after Flash Gordon?
The Weekend and Slow-Motion Iguanas
Back from another great trip to see Saalon and LWQuestie (their IRC names, to presere anonymity). We watched Hard Boiled, which is certainly the best John Woo film I’ve seen. Though granted, I’ve only seen another, A Better Tomorrow.
Came back and been watching cheesy sci-fi films from the 1950′s and 60′s. Most are oddly earnest. They want to be true to themselves, despite the incoherent plots and poor editing.
But, for example, the one I’m watching right now features the classic slow-motion iguana as a dinosaur. Was this convincing at any point after Flash Gordon?
24 Apr 08
Toffee Bars:
Combine a pound of light brown sugar and a pound (four sticks) of butter until light and fluffy. Add two egg yolks and 1.5 teaspoons of vanilla; mix well. While it mixes, sprinkle in a pound of flour and half a teaspoon of salt. Spread this mixture in a well-greased 8.5″x11″ pan, and bake at 350 degrees for half an hour, until the bars are golden brown.
Meanwhile, chop up four ounces of walnuts or pecans, and get out a bag of milk chocolate chips. When the pan comes out of the oven, sprinkle most of the bag of chocolate chips onto the bars, wait a few minutes, and spread the melting chocolate evenly. Sprinkle with the chopped nuts. Cut into rectangles before it’s completely cooled.
Half a bag of chocolate chips creates a thin layer of chocolate; a full bag creates a very thick layer.
Try not to eat them all in one sitting.
Toffee Bars
A recipe for toffee bars:
Combine a pound of light brown sugar and a pound (four sticks) of butter until light and fluffy. Add two egg yolks and 1.5 teaspoons of vanilla; mix well. While it mixes, sprinkle in a pound of flour and half a teaspoon of salt. Spread this mixture in a well-greased 8.5″x11″ pan, and bake at 350 degrees for half an hour, until the bars are golden brown.
Meanwhile, chop up four ounces of walnuts or pecans, and get out a bag of milk chocolate chips. When the pan comes out of the oven, sprinkle most of the bag of chocolate chips onto the bars, wait a few minutes, and spread the melting chocolate evenly. Sprinkle with the chopped nuts. Cut into rectangles before it’s completely cooled.
Half a bag of chocolate chips creates a thin layer of chocolate; a full bag creates a very thick layer.
Try not to eat them all in one sitting.
22 Apr 08
Long, good day. Finished copying some BBC Radio productions from old audio cassettes to MP3. Wonderful to have technology that does all this quickly and easily. Of course, that’s ignoring the hours I spent setting up that technology.
It’s odd. I’m still without a full-time job, and I feel none of the gnawing dread I expected. I know I can’t keep this up forever, of course, but I’ve got months before I need to worry, and I’m not worrying. I’m just chugging along with various projects.
Not as many projects as perhaps I should, though how many “should” I do? I’ve been gardening and drawing and cooking and designing RPG adventures. Some work on potentially paying gigs, but…geez, why not enjoy my life? I could have a heart attack tomorrow.
Funny, that; I keep defending my lack of “productive” behavior. Shouldn’t need to. This is my life.
Which makes it tough to blog sometimes. What do I really need to tell the world? Aren’t my actions enough?
Reflections on Not Working
Long, good day. Finished copying some BBC Radio productions from old audio cassettes to MP3. Wonderful to have technology that does all this quickly and easily. Of course, that’s ignoring the hours I spent setting up that technology.
It’s odd. I’m still without a full-time job, and I feel none of the gnawing dread I expected. I know I can’t keep this up forever, of course, but I’ve got months before I need to worry, and I’m not worrying. I’m just chugging along with various projects.
Not as many projects as perhaps I should, though how many “should” I do? I’ve been gardening and drawing and cooking and designing RPG adventures. Some work on potentially paying gigs, but…geez, why not enjoy my life? I could have a heart attack tomorrow.
Funny, that; I keep defending my lack of “productive” behavior. Shouldn’t need to. This is my life.
Which makes it tough to blog sometimes. What do I really need to tell the world? Aren’t my actions enough?