384 days ago I wrote my first morning pages on 750words.com Since then I have: written 315,026 words (or about 7 novels) spent 12 minutes on every day’s words written an average of 820 words a day mentioned sex 408 times mentioned tea 503 times used 1402 curse words Writing the words every day is awesome. It’s [...]
Television is a waste of time, they say, nothing good can come of it and it’s a horrible form of media consumption. With all the Big Brothers and Celebrity Top Models and Kim Kardashians out there … who could blame them? Television really does seem like a colossal waste of time. Combine that with all [...]
The oldest joke online is that geeks have never seen a girl. Or that nice guys can’t get a girl. Variations of this story have been happening all my life, my fellow geeks tell similar stories and the internet is awash with rage comics saying the same thing. But this particular story happened last night, [...]
Yesterday someone mentioned on twitter that it’s amazing how I write a blogpost every day, especially considering the quality of my posts. Leaving aside for a moment considerations that this might have been an epic case of sarcasm … writing a post every day isn’t that difficult anyway. When you think about it, everyone probably [...]
Knowing how many readers a blog gets is pretty important for any blog writer. We like to pretend it doesn’t even matter, put on a face of “Oh well, I’m just writing this for myself, you know, to get the word out, I don’t really care if anyone reads it” What a bunch of hipsters! [...]
Today I learned that yesterday’s post where I spoke about the wonderful statics textbook that architects use it sounded a bit like a scathing review not only of the book itself, but the people reading it and that this was a bit … unkind, even mean. To be honest, all that stuff I just found [...]
Beginning of May I came across a pretty interesting website, 75owords.com. The general idea of the website is that you write 750 words every day. About anything. Unedited. Unhindered. Completely free. Just write about whatever comes to mind in whichever way it decides to come. When you’re done you simply tuck it away somewhere never [...]
Image via Wikipedia I just got out of a project managment and personal productivity exam. Having studied for it for almost a few hours I noticed an over-arching theme in the material: Never-ever ever multitask. Only ever do one thing. Don’t you dare do more than one thing at a time! This also seems to [...]
Last night I watched Avatar nice and proper at the moving pictures – in 3D of course because fuck it, if they spent developing the funky new tech for seven years, I bloody well feel obliged to watch the movie as it was intended. In short … it was fucking awesome! This is the first [...]
Image via Wikipedia Last night I was discussing goth music with a mate and somehow the debate turned into my showing him around what goth music was in the first place. Blahblahblah. This eventually led to my showing him Velvet Acid Christ, which I still don’t know whether they’re goth or industrial. And then I [...]
