COBOL
Few things are better than buying random old books online, forgetting about them, and then getting a surprise gift from yourself when they finally show up via media mail
extremely cute formerly-stray kitten
This little guy showed up in our backyard earlier this week, and then I accidentally trapped him in our garage overnight so now we have to keep him. His name is Dale.
And yes, despite how much I’ve been using and experimenting with 9 over these last few months, I wrote it in Org mode.
So, I wrote the first draft of that “how I organize all the shit I have to do” guide thing and it’s about 23k words. Now the real work–editing–starts, but I figure it’ll probably end up being a 50-70 page book-like object (and ebook also obviously).
It was a lot more fun to write than I thought it would be.
Thinking about writing some kind of “how I organize all the shit I have to do” ebook because maybe other people with similar jobs will find something there that helps them. Only reason I haven’t yet is being too sensitive about not wanting to be a “productivity guru” asshole.
Submitted some short stories around under the pen name I came up with last week. Thanks for the encouragement to go for it, Masto-friends.
Always fun when the first question the 7-yr-old asks at the dinner table is “so, you may not know the answer to this, but where did God come from?”
started writing a little script in Python for a thing and rage-quit after about thirty minutes and started over in Tcl, where things actually make sense
I'm not the hardcore Emacs person I used to be but I do enjoy writing long structured stuff in Org mode. I finally moved my self-documenting Emacs config to sr.ht: https://git.sr.ht/~kl/.emacs.d
the fact that the results of this were 60% "who cares" and 40% "get back to work" is just more proof that you all are my kind of people.
I've got many, many years' worth of followers on Twitter, but now I think I might want to self-publish stuff under a pen name. Is it too late?
Started to write something for the blog and ended up writing something approaching a letter to myself that I’ll probably print, read, and delete forever. Sometimes I need to type things out to know how I feel.
KL
boosted
Very low power personal computing, a thread
Thinking about what would be a happy combination of devices and computers for a really useful (and also fun, this is important too) person computing setup geared towards maximum utility and minimum computer/energy requirements. Clearly this is somewhat inspired by my recently renewed interest in PDAs. PDAs were way up the charts of utility/resources ratio.
Interesting way to spend a rainy Saturday morning: taking my "use an old word processor for writing" thing even further
Finished writing Part 1 of this new novel-ish thing. Feel like Part 2 demands a new writing process, like a change of scenery. Going to follow that urge and see where it leads.
TW: Linux that looks like old Windows
I'm not sure what prompted this trip down a nostalgia wormhole but I probably need therapy for it.
Applied Self Management Using Lotus Agenda: https://cdn-files.postach.io/c9f1abdc-e560-4bd2-bfe7-cc58dabb76f5/80dc6749-660c-4999-b471-88c86fed12c7/bb60d141-3686-48c8-9a8b-9325e7bd8203_orig.pdf
I know it's probably not cool to think this but Excel is pretty good.
