Let me know if you've seen my motivation around anywhere
Posted at 23:53:00
on Thu, January 05th 2006 by graham
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Motivation is lacking at the moment, it seems. I've spent the last two nights effectively just dicking around with the manuscript, writing bits and pieces and then removing them because they just didn't make any sense. It's depressing, but I suspect it's a similar condition to that which afflicted me when the word count was in the low twenty thousands: the feeling that you've come so far - is there anything left to give?
Well, there's 50,000-odd words between then and now, so I guess the answer is a firm yes. I just need to get back on track.
I was hoping to go to a coffee shop tomorrow, Cafe Nero or the Whale Tale, and get something written, but the car needs new brake pads so I guess that's off the cards, too. Irritating. Very irritating.
Anyway, today's links roundup (I have to do something with my time, right?):
- BBC NEWS: Germans flock to see silent monks
- An unlikely film has been filling cinemas in Germany in recent weeks: a three-hour documentary with hardly a single spoken word, set in a monastery.
- (tags: news interesting research religion silence films monkscarthusian terrorofthebell germany)
- Data Mining 101: Finding Subversives with Amazon Wishlists
- Someone took the time and trouble to scour America's wishlists for 'dangerous' books, with tongue in cheek.
- (tags: datamining privacy security amazon data research terrorismantiterrorism)
- My Bionic Quest for Boléro
- A deaf geek tinkers with his cochlear implant until he can hear Ravel's Boléo again (via BoingBoing)
- (tags: music software science deafness cool news geekery hackingjourneys)
- Take a leap into hyperspace
- Burkhard Heim produced a theory that may allow for the effects of gravity on an object to be mitigated using immense magnetic fields. This could (theoretically) lead to a propulsion system whereby spacecraft travel in, for want of a better word, hyperspace
- (tags: space spacetravel spaceflight research sciencequantummechanics physics hyperspace scifi ideas travel)
- Cheerleading can kill (El Reg)
- Because jumping up and down with pom-poms is inherently dangerous.
- (tags: cheerleading news humour elreg science medicine)
- BBC NEWS: AA upsets dead driver's relatives
- Bureaucracy gone mad
- (tags: bureaucracy AA news stupidity death humour)
- What is your most dangerous idea?
- Lots of very clever people talk about their most dangerous ideas. (via Slashdot)
- (tags: 2006 cool future futurology history humans ideas cultureinteresting philosophy science politics religion research scifi storiestheory thoughts reference writing weird )
- Swansea IT staff shunted to Capgemini (El Reg)
- This is a familiar concept to anyone who went through the L!beration at Pendle last year, although it was handled better than what has happened at Swansea. L!berata is one of the reasons I left, actually.
- (tags: localgovernment pendle swansea privatisation egov)
- Ian Pearson's guide to the future
- A list of articles by BT's resident futurologist (via Warren Ellis)
- (tags: research computers ideas science future futurism futurology trends ianpearson theory warrenellis)
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