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Oneword: Forget

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Pau
on July 4, 2008
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First of all, I’d like to share a nifty little discovery that may help those like me who suffer from a perenial case of writer’s block.

It’s called Oneword.

The concept is kinda cool if you ask me. You log onto the site, it gives you a word, and you have 60 seconds to write about said word. You are only given the instruction: “Don’t think. Just write.”

Given my now hectic schedule, I don’t think I need to go into detail as to why this appeals to me. Not only do I need to devote only a couple of minutes a day to this, but it should keep me in practice for when I start school. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that I’m going back to school in a couple of weeks.

So anyway, here goes nothing. I don’t plan on doing this everyday, only when I feel all creative, but have nothing to be creative about.

Without further ado, the word of the day is:

FORGET

I would like to think that I’ve forgotten more than I can still retain. Maybe because that would imply that while I have very little knowledge at my disposal, I have at one point in my life, learned quite a few things. And maybe those can come in handy when needed.

Gak. Yeah, a whole minute and this was all I could come up with. I know it’s crap, but at least it’s something. I hope to get better the more I do it though. Plus it’s fun.

Check out all the entries for FORGET.

Gettin’ Busy!

Published
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Pau
on June 5, 2008
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Most bloggers would warn you about an impending blog hiatus before it happens. Unfortunately, I’m not most bloggers. I choose the more sensible approach of warning you of the impending blog hiatus not so much as when the hiatus is still in its “impending” stages as it is in the “growing roots in my blog” stage.

That way, anybody so inclined to argue with you would have lost the desire to even care long before they realize you’ve stopped blogging. Or making sense.

I’m also the type of person to shout “FIRE! FIRE! YOUR FUCKING HAIR IS ON FIRE!” long after the paramedics have taken you away. But that’s just how I roll.

Anyway, hiatus. I’m on one.

Why? Because for some reason, my psyche has decided to convince the rest of me to be useful at work. Yeah, I’m not sucking at it as much as I used to. Who would have thunk right? But I’m pretty sure it’s just a phase, and I’ll be back to my useless self before long.

Also, I’m getting busy with a lot of stuff concerning my offline life from which I’m surprisingly deriving pleasure from.

So, yeah. Later guys.

If you still want to keep tabs on me (all two of you), you can check in on:

  • My Twitter
  • My Friendfeed
  • And my Plurk (Some people want to abandon Twitter for Plurk but I’m not quite there yet. Plurk is loads more fun than Twitter, but Twitter is still head and shoulders above it in terms of convenience)

See you all on the flip side.

In which I go into all manner of random geekery

Published
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Pau
on May 23, 2008
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There’s a couple of things that you should know about me.

  1. I’m cheap
  2. I don’t believe in the English language.

Well maybe the second thing probably has nothing to do whatsoever with the subject at hand, but I still think it has to be said. You see, I am a firm believer that the English language is simply a contrivance given to us by our Alien Overlords during ancient times because it entertains them to no end to hear us say words like “organize,” or “marmalade,” and “Reginald.” Don’t get me started on what passes for Alien humor.

Either that or they were simply growing tired of seeing us sew various numbers of chickens on our clothes (Which is how mankind used to communicate in those days. Or so I’m told. By me).

So anyway, I got myself a new laptop. Well that may not be the entire truth. I didn’t so much “buy” as “waited for my mother to get tired of her beat up old laptop and give it to the one person she knows who would actually want it.”

At 1.5Ghz with a mere 512MB RAM, old Lappy is no spring chicken. Which actually goes without saying. Because no laptop, no matter how new or snazzy it is, can remotely resemble poultry.

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