Category: Thought

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Deciding to drop Alastair Reynolds’s Revelation Space after less than a hundred pages.  Why does so much sci-fi have incredibly wooden characters?

Last night I had a dream that I was in New Orleans and had inhaled or injected some sort of magic powder.  I could reel back time a couple of minutes anytime I wanted and correct actions that I had taken.  I stumbled across a Deck family gathering, by torchlight, and was bewildered that my grandmother was there among the other people.  Then someone clued me in that the powder not only let me step back time, but also see the dead.

6/18 Deeds
Sent Benjamin a chapter — 60 GP
Ran three errands — +2  Dut, 60 GP
Read 50 pages — 15 GP
Wrote 1000 words — +1 Inv, 50 GP
GP subtraction — -100 GP

6/19 Deeds
Worked at paper — 60 GP
Went for a run with Jane — +1 Sta, 20 GP
Did Benjamin chapter — 30 GP
GP subtraction — -80 GP

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I think… I am done with my fruitless tinkering around trying to get my social media all up in each other’s bidness.  When you start going down the rabbit hole of creating apps and APIs and all that bullshit, that’s when you know you’re in trouble.  I hate to see that time draining away when I could be… you know, writing or editing something.  Producing content, that manna everyone desires to taste.  I’m just going to leave my half-sewn relationships among social media sites as they are.  So maybe my WordPress to Facebook won’t be entirely satisfactory, and maybe I’ll lose a few followers each day on Twitter because I’m not posting hourly witticisms or solecisms.  That’s all right.  I’m in this for the long haul, motherfuckers.

Today’s Deeds
Recorded Tiki Hut — +1 Pre, 20 GP
Met with journalist — +1 Pre, +1 Gen, 20 GP
Edited Benjamin chapter — 40 GP
Uploaded Tiki Hut — 15 GP
GP subtraction — -30 GP

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Two things that I’m enjoying right now:  Mass Effect 3 and Breaking Bad.  As for the former, I know to expect heartbreak at the end, but I’ll be enjoying it up until that point, I think.  It’s just nice to be back with the old gang again, and on an HDTV this time.  As for the latter, Jane and I are catching up on it on Netflix, and we just watched the very intense third episode, involving a tough choice the main character has to make.  Really top-notch storytelling.

6/15 Deeds
Edited Benjamin chapter — +1 Fin, 40 GP
Worked at paper — 60 GP
GP subtraction — -90 GP

6/16 Deeds
Edited Benjamin chapter — +1 Fin, 30 GP
Wrote 1000 words — +1 Inv, 50 GP
GP subtraction — -162 GP