Redirection
If I write anything at all these days, it is more likely to be on blogger. No particular reason other than that it perhaps seems more appropriate to write about things that are not work-related on a forum that is also not work-related.
Not that I write much to begin with. A lot of my recreational time is spent in offline activities nowadays. I've got kites to fly, children to amuse and educate and well, I'm too lazy and too introverted to really put my whole life online for the world to read.
Plus, I'm putting sketches together for a book about mythical sea-dragons, based on conversations I've been having with eldest daughter.
Most of the time, if I have some useful information I got it from the 'net anyway. If I have a new idea that I think should be looked into, it's either too difficult or time-consuming for me to pursue, or else it's been done.
For the rest, I pour that into my day job. New ideas, new applications, new tools, processes, systems: I supply these to my place of work. It's hard to come to terms with the idea that my job is my creative outlet, especially when there are so many others out there who do their job by day and by night, take to the skies in gadget-laden helicopters, saving the world from the forces of darkness.
Or just write some nifty software.
I mean, I'm happy with life and I'm properly occupied, but really, do you want to read about it? Really? Maybe I didn't sleep well last night. Do you care? Should you? Is it interesting? I don't think so. Reaching out and communicating should not be about the mundane, the bland. The every-day minutiae. I'm not interested in the bizarre co-dependency that exists online between the exhibitionists and the voyeurs.
So, knickers to it all. Any left-overs will probably end up at the fifth edge:
Fifth Edge (The Five-sided Square)
Posted at 11:39AM Feb 01, 2006 by malk271 in Document Oriented Desktop |