Starting this March (early), I will be pursuing Rotating immersion again. In no particular order, the things I am primarily interested in working on during March, April, May and June are:
This page will be regularly updated and will have links to all these major topics.
Continues with 2013 third-quarter immersion.
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[I suppose I could have elaborated somewhat, but I’m just not feeling it]
The past has a tendency to oppress the future.
The weight of past efforts puts unwarranted value on their topics.
Incomplete activities can be seen as an investment and are given importance. This bias exists even though we have limited time, and we view our current/future actions against a return on investment (RoI).
It is a little true that there is some investment in the past. An overall understanding of the goals can be seen as an advantage compared with un-pursued new activities.
One’s hobby needs to be the processing of past works; reviewing them for value and either identifying them as needing to be done or throwing them away. Otherwise the amount of ideas generated will become overwhelming.
Don’t be chained to nostalgia or that tradition-of-self, filled with the regrets of things not completed “yet”.
 The Nike of Samothrace
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Back in high school art class, there was an image of a statue in one of our textbooks. It was of a winged woman, missing her arms and head, leaning against the wind.
This image will stick with me for the rest of my days.
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I finally pieced a bunch of ideas together. When apart, each has always felt like they were missing something. Put together, and there is an epiphany.
I was going to do this big post on Minecraft, explaining what it is and why everyone should be playing it. But I haven’t been in the writing mood, and only the playing mood, so I’ve only collected a lot of notes.
But today the traffic became so bad that the server was brought to its knees. I think it’s a popularity issue, but let’s ask Google Trends to make sure:
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Ok, so I haven’t been writing here at all. Why? Well because I have too many different “systems” out there which each get a piece of my attention. So sometimes one of those systems suffers.
I do actually have 40-50 people a day who read something within this blog. While that isn’t the quarter million a month from the good old days it’s still some people who might care. Or not, I don’t actually know. There’s no real social aspect to blogging like it seems to exist elsewhere. Well that’s something I’ll ponder over sometime later. I’m antisocial anyways, so it’s low priority.
So seeing as there is at least “some value” in this place, I really should be thinking about it more often. So that’s why I’m back and why I’m writing this.
I suppose I may as well do one of my huge essay pieces, since there is just so much background which would need to be understood for a reader to actually “get” what I’m going to try to get across.
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Inspired by my previous post on Firefox’s about:blank, I decided to take some time to investigate changing my desktop background colour.
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Due to an interesting bug with fdupes (again, something I should write on) I splatted some of my system. While it’s trivial to restore stuff because I do proper regular backups, I decided to install the updated rc1 (Release Candidate 1) of Unity Linux.
