This distinction between a makers and managers schedule is helpful, in helping me justify both my unproductive stretches at work (it really takes me a while to engage with a hard problem) and why I haven't really worked on my game since I was unemployed. It may be possible to work a non-routine job and create something in the off hours, but I don't think I could do it and sustain life and order. The momentum shifts are too big. Since I came back to this job, I've been mostly on a manager schedule, which is good, (social interaction!) but means I've been really struggling when I end up with a task all of my own.
I think this distinction could also be used to classify games. Civilization can only be played on a makers schedule, for example, which is why I'm trying to switch back to Go.
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01:11:51 PM,
Wednesday 12 August 2009
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11:15:29 PM, Tuesday 11 August 2009
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11:06:12 PM, Tuesday 11 August 2009
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Does anyone have a numeral 4 of which they are particularly fond? I'm contemplating making a stained glass house number. I figure picking a 4 is the first step. Finding a 0 to go with it will be relatively simple.
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11:24:13 AM,
Tuesday 11 August 2009
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Raise The Red Lantern succeeds terribly well at what it tries
to do. It isn't entertainment. A brutal, relentless movie. Perhaps
slightly less stylized than his later movies, but just as arid, and
has a fury to it that his later ones don't. (except maybe Curse of
the Golden Flower, but at least that one has catharsis) I'm not sure
I can entirely recommend it. It's one of those, "why does the
director hate me?" movies. Absolutely gorgeous. Subtly done, in one
sense, but not another: there's nothing awkward or crass about it, and
it cleverly lets hope and humanity show occasionally before crushing
it, but it also isn't going to let you escape or enjoy yourself, and
you certainly aren't going to be allowed to miss the point.
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08:59:53 AM,
Monday 10 August 2009
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Also cleaned the algae off the north side of the house. I'm okay with aquariums growing algae, but I'm not entirely clear why my vinyl siding should do so. And finished moving a bookshelf upstairs onto the landing. (I moved the shelf qua shelf last weekend, but the books not so much) Most of the books in the house are still in utter disarray from the move, but this one now makes a kind of sense.
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09:18:58 PM,
Saturday 8 August 2009
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I have installed a mailbox! I didn't pour a concrete base, in case I change my mind, so it has a very slight amount of wobble to it. And it is the cheapest mailbox Lowe's sold. But I think it'll be very pretty once the ivy inundates it. Before we had a on-house mailbox. There were a couple problems with this... It meant the mailman had to climb the steps in the winter. Things got wet in it. It had fake buckles, something I'll never understand in my life. (I think it was trying to look like a black leather satchel) but, most importantly, it didn't have a flag.
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02:31:41 PM, Saturday 8 August 2009
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OOCQotD: "Whatever method is used, don't worry when the bat squeaks loudly when handled."
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04:30:23 PM,
Friday 7 August 2009
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At it's height the Roman empire, it had a population density similar to the Dakotas.
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02:06:04 PM,
Friday 7 August 2009
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It looks like we may be headed for a ballot initiative trying to repeal 40B, the law that allows affordable housing to be built over the screams of local zoning boards. Whether it's good law or not is seriously over my head, (though reducing economic segregation is great). But the debate over this is going to bring out all the ugliness suburban Boston has to offer.
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11:58:15 AM,
Wednesday 5 August 2009
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Isn't this missing the point? People keep talking about the Cash for Clunkers as if the only point was to improve the average fuel economy. But even ignoring the whole stimulus thing, old cars pollute in lots of actually toxic ways, burning oil, failing catalytic converters, etc. Also, keeping aging Ford Explorers out of the hands of teenage drivers is good for all of us. The NYT article originally proposing this doesn't even mention fuel economy. It's bizarre the way CO2 emissions have overshadowed all other environmental concerns.
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09:32:05 AM,
Wednesday 5 August 2009
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No, I'm not ready for Burma to have nuclear weapons.
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01:39:39 PM,
Tuesday 4 August 2009
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