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Friday, 16 September 2005 12:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daInsomnia's a real pain. I was up waaay late last night, and by rights I should be dead tired. Every month after my Perlmongers meeting I am always wired, though, whether or not I go out for a beer, or go straight home.
Tomorrow's likely to be busy, with a few meetings with the Research Support group, plus some beginning-of-term lab fixin' to do, as well as getting started on new things my boss wants me to work on. So, I should head to bed just as soon as my valerian pills kick in (they're herbal, partly placebo, but they also do relax part of my brain so that if I want to sleep, I have a better chance of it).
I just saw Memento for the first time. Great film. Occasionally I feel like that character, though my short-term memory's not really the problem, it's my middle- to long-term ("oh, I said I'd do that last week? Three weeks in a row? Oops.") memory. Like the character, I've got a system; I take tons of (searchable) notes at work. But I also could stand to be a lot more organized and selective about my attention. ...For example, my web-browser here at home has eighteen tabs open. Watching the movie, I had a little deja-vu as he flipped through his Polaroids trying to figure out what he had just been doing. I do that, but with windows on the screen. And virtual terminals. And detatchable sessions. And tabs. And KVM switches. Yes, I could probably stand to keep a bit more focused.
To my credit, 14 of the 18 tabs were for a talk I just gave at my Perlmongers group, on maypole, a web-development and database framework that I don't know nearly enough about before Tuesday. In the process I got a simple web-app for work 85% or 90% finished. And now I know what questions to ask on the maypole mailing-list.
(By the way, if you're the same way about organizing dozens of computer windows, you, too, might have NADD. Read and rejoice, for forewarned is forearmed! *grin*)
And now, to sleep.
Tomorrow's likely to be busy, with a few meetings with the Research Support group, plus some beginning-of-term lab fixin' to do, as well as getting started on new things my boss wants me to work on. So, I should head to bed just as soon as my valerian pills kick in (they're herbal, partly placebo, but they also do relax part of my brain so that if I want to sleep, I have a better chance of it).
I just saw Memento for the first time. Great film. Occasionally I feel like that character, though my short-term memory's not really the problem, it's my middle- to long-term ("oh, I said I'd do that last week? Three weeks in a row? Oops.") memory. Like the character, I've got a system; I take tons of (searchable) notes at work. But I also could stand to be a lot more organized and selective about my attention. ...For example, my web-browser here at home has eighteen tabs open. Watching the movie, I had a little deja-vu as he flipped through his Polaroids trying to figure out what he had just been doing. I do that, but with windows on the screen. And virtual terminals. And detatchable sessions. And tabs. And KVM switches. Yes, I could probably stand to keep a bit more focused.
To my credit, 14 of the 18 tabs were for a talk I just gave at my Perlmongers group, on maypole, a web-development and database framework that I don't know nearly enough about before Tuesday. In the process I got a simple web-app for work 85% or 90% finished. And now I know what questions to ask on the maypole mailing-list.
(By the way, if you're the same way about organizing dozens of computer windows, you, too, might have NADD. Read and rejoice, for forewarned is forearmed! *grin*)
And now, to sleep.
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Date: Friday, 16 September 2005 04:45 am (UTC)D'oh!
And how!
Date: Friday, 16 September 2005 07:43 am (UTC)One thought I had while reading it is that the entire internet is just a big multitaskers dream. With one connection you can get webpages and IMs and VoIP... while even radios and TVs can only have one station at a time.
And to think, some people have multiple monitors :-)
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Date: Friday, 16 September 2005 02:47 pm (UTC)I briefly toyed with twelve desktops to match the twelve function-keys, but I really wasn't using anything past the first six, and when I got a dual-head setup at work I find I really don't need more than the equivalent of eight. And I still don't find myself using the middle sets very often. :)
I guess you do more visual work, with mapping and game-boards and such?
Re: And how!
Date: Friday, 16 September 2005 03:01 pm (UTC)Excpet that they're figuring out they can multitask TV as well. Badly. It's funny but I find CNN, for example, drives me nuts. Too much happening at the same time. Everything is always on "breaking news" mode because they don't want you to change the station.
I definitely prefer the control I get with a computer, over TV and radio. Though I like the radio a lot too; it's good for multitasking. And letting somebody else choose the "agenda" is fine too, while I'm otherwise occupied (with chores or washing dishes)
Too bad the radio-broadcaster dongle Mom & Dad got me for Christmas doesn't have a strong enough signal to broadcast my computer's audio further than 10 feet, I'd really like to be able to treat computer output like radio too.
Yeah, the internet sure changes things...
Re: And how!
Date: Friday, 16 September 2005 08:50 pm (UTC)Re: And how!
Date: Friday, 16 September 2005 08:56 pm (UTC)