Hey All
Hey everyone,
The Fratellis show was interesting. They aren't bad, even though I don't think I could survive on a sole diet.
I seem to be having a one of my bouts of Hypochondria.
In fact, I looked up Hypochondria on Wikipedia.org, and my symptoms match perfectly. I'm curious as to what that tells me.
I'm also curious as to why the option to switch between HTML and Plaintext doesn't seem to be on the Blogger site today, but that's not a huge concern.
On the way to the Fratellis show I found a ES magazine from last week where there was an article about how modern technology is actually hindering genius because the information overload is splitting attention in so many directions that it is near impossible for anyone to focus on stuff long enough for genius to occur.
It mentioned the idea of Flow Theory, the idea that truly great things only really happen in continuous flows of ideas. Have you ever been lost in something so much that you totally lose track of time. Suddenly you look up, and six or eight hours have passed? Flow theory at work.
I'm sure that I've had my moments of Flow Theory. Hunkering down in the library to make one of my weird techno compositions, messing with pictures in photoshop until I've got a million layers on top of each other, or lately, just typing until my fingers hurt.
Still, I always suspected that it was something more to do with lousy time management myself.
I am feeling proud, though... I am getting better at resisting the urge to check my mail when I really have to be out the door to get somewhere.
Speaking of Media Overload, I'm using Youtube to look at PWEI videos that I either haven't seen for years, or have never seen full stop. I'll have to see if they have ever released a DVD of their videos, since all the Youtube ones have been compressed to hell.
According to Wikipedia, Clint Mansell is nearly 43 years old. And a Scorpio. Figures.
Speaking of Scorpios, I think I'll drop Gus an email, see how he is doing.
Over and out.
-J
The Fratellis show was interesting. They aren't bad, even though I don't think I could survive on a sole diet.
I seem to be having a one of my bouts of Hypochondria.
In fact, I looked up Hypochondria on Wikipedia.org, and my symptoms match perfectly. I'm curious as to what that tells me.
I'm also curious as to why the option to switch between HTML and Plaintext doesn't seem to be on the Blogger site today, but that's not a huge concern.
On the way to the Fratellis show I found a ES magazine from last week where there was an article about how modern technology is actually hindering genius because the information overload is splitting attention in so many directions that it is near impossible for anyone to focus on stuff long enough for genius to occur.
It mentioned the idea of Flow Theory, the idea that truly great things only really happen in continuous flows of ideas. Have you ever been lost in something so much that you totally lose track of time. Suddenly you look up, and six or eight hours have passed? Flow theory at work.
I'm sure that I've had my moments of Flow Theory. Hunkering down in the library to make one of my weird techno compositions, messing with pictures in photoshop until I've got a million layers on top of each other, or lately, just typing until my fingers hurt.
Still, I always suspected that it was something more to do with lousy time management myself.
I am feeling proud, though... I am getting better at resisting the urge to check my mail when I really have to be out the door to get somewhere.
Speaking of Media Overload, I'm using Youtube to look at PWEI videos that I either haven't seen for years, or have never seen full stop. I'll have to see if they have ever released a DVD of their videos, since all the Youtube ones have been compressed to hell.
According to Wikipedia, Clint Mansell is nearly 43 years old. And a Scorpio. Figures.
Speaking of Scorpios, I think I'll drop Gus an email, see how he is doing.
Over and out.
-J
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