Archive: Productivity category
Knowing that I was going to be speaking in one of our student wards this morning, yesterday I decided I'd procrastinated long enough and really ought to prepare my talk. Throughout the day I made a few weak attempts to start on it, but each time I felt blocked, ...
Hurrah, our Internet is back up again! During the day on Saturday it was fine, but by evening it had slowed to a frightful crawl, barely dribbling out a few bytes here and a few there. Since then it's been comatose. Except it's also been a malicious ...
Sometimes I feel like I'm running to and fro like a guillotined chicken, scarcely stopping to breathe. (Or whatever it is headless chickens do.) Hurry, hurry, hurry, never stopping to catch my breath, staring down the clock as I go from one thing to the next. It's ...
Over the weekend I had a small string of epiphanies which popped up during church on Sunday, family home evening on Monday, and some conversations I've had over the past few days.
The first came from the theme for the ward conference I attended: "Therefore, dearly beloved brethren, let us cheerfully ...
In my library science readings, we recently had some articles on reference via chat. They mentioned two things about real-time chatting (IM, Gmail, that sort of thing) that I found rather interesting:
First, conversations can be disjointed without actually ruining the flow of things. You know, you say something, ...
I don't like legal pads. I want to like them, but I can't. Notebooks where the pages come out when I don't want them to are like fingernails on my mental chalkboard. The Moleskine Cahiers are like that -- the first 32 pages are fine, but then ...
I just came across Paul Graham's latest essay, "Stuff":
Companies that sell stuff have spent huge sums training us to think stuff is still valuable. But it would be closer to the truth to treat stuff as worthless.
It's brilliant and makes a lot of good points. And of course ...
My laundry luck ran out today. I washed a megaload of clothes -- all my usual stuff plus the new purchases -- but apparently it was too much for the poor dryer to handle, because instead of coming out nice and wrinkle-free as usual, my clothes emerged looking like ...
Well, I don't think I've gone a week without posting since I began this blog. It wasn't just blogging that I gave up, though -- I didn't check my e-mail even once. I'm so proud of myself. :) So anyway, I was in Kansas at a family ...
So this is what 3 a.m. looks like? It's been many, many years since I was up this late. I just got back from the midnight showing of Harry Potter 5: Order of the Phoenix, and I'm amazed to report that I managed to stay awake for 99% ...
