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As I mentioned in my Rotating immersion post, I’ve been rotating through various interests. The present one has been World of Warcraft. While probably not the best thing to be wasting my time on, considering the other stuff I had been working on and what I’m capable of, it’s important to me to be able to do this so that the next time I swing back to something “useful” I will be completely refreshed.
The basic idea is to have some “downtime which isn’t downtime”. I can either work hard on awesome stuff and then keep working out until I’m a burned out shell, or I can work hard on awesome stuff, then switch to working hard on less awesome stuff and ping-pong back and forth. My overall effectiveness is higher, plus it’s more fun for me.
 Level 60 Love
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I was never a “Vanilla WoW” player, and so I never got to see the vast majority of the raiding at that level. I sortof saw patches of stuff, and I even got to wipe on a world dragon a few times. Having not seen all this content, and having gone through most of the quests and very thoroughly through all of the instances I’ve come to appreciate the stark contrast between Vanilla and everything since.
- See also World of Warcraft Classic, the official revisit of
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For a while now, I’ve been playing the online game World of Warcraft (“WoW”). Come to think of it, I’ve been extremely unproductive in anything that’s important to me in life because of this game. Hmm.
But my habit of searching and reviewing has stayed with me. One of the things which attracted me to this game in the first place is the possibility to customize the game client (Forum: UI and Macros). Since it is impossible to create one interface which is universally acceptable, it is extremely good to allow developer customization.
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Some people can plan long-term. Some people can make a daily to do list. I can do this too, but only for everyday things.
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It’s my nature to gain and lose interest in things, like the tides coming and going. I’ve tried all sorts of tricks to schedule and change focus, but they just don’t work for me. So I’m going to declare a new way of doing things. A way which works to my advantage. I’ll call it “rotating immersion“.
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“I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass… and I’m all out of bubblegum.” — They Live – (1988 movie)
There is a concept which I’ve been introduced to thanks to playing online games (corpse-running after a wipe). I don’t know where it came from, and I’m sure there are parallel phrases which convey the same meaning, but this phrase speaks to me..
 OCZ Agility SSD
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An SSD is a spectacular speed improvement.
- 2013-12 – The drive suddenly locked up and no system will detect it. OCZ is out of business too.
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2015-10 – I didn’t mention this, but I believe the problem was due to a half-inserted power cable. The hard drive was sortof dangling around, stuffed into a corner of my case because I was too cheap to buy a bracket for it. My bad. =( Also, it appears that Toshiba has bought OCZ.
Maybe I ought to post random and interesting stuff I’ve bumped into in the software world.
Since my absence, I’ve come back with a need to update and sometimes recompile a whole lot of software. The 64-bit experience.. well.. isn’t even a milestone apparently.
Everything I’m turning to is already 64-bit ready. There was one program so far which I needed to do some thinking to get it to work.. and even that wasn’t so hard.
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Update: Five Things is meant to help with this sort of thing.
So at some point you migrate from little scraps of paper to sheets of paper.
- Then you migrate to notes in your computer.
- Then you migrate to a documentation system.
- Then you migrate back to notes in your computer.
- Then you migrate to one big note.
- Then you categorize your notes.
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Then you review and prioritize your notes.
All the while, your notes have been gathering strength, preparing to assault your free time.
You open the flood gates .. and .. nothing happens. The very notion of a list is intimidating, and actually “doing” anything is based on inspiration. Priorities have shifted around so much over the years that looking at the list just gives a lot of “yeah, that ought to get done one of these days” instead of the burning-hot passion there used to be.
