museless aiming

4 items tagged musing

Verse

I wonder how many poets write their verse like prose, and divide the lines up later... This is a serious question, though it sounds stupid. More to come.

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Mon Apr 30 21:43:23 BST 2007

Watching people speak

An exhausting weekend. I realize that unlike the Romantics, I feel the most inspiration while surrounded by people -- not just randos walking by, or even friends, but acquaintances speaking, arguing, declaiming. It's a constant flow of input, and even if the speech is uncompelling, the reasons why it's uncompelling are interesting. Even bad delivery is incredibly nuanced, a hugely complex interaction, once you get over the idea of comfort/discomfort. I think I just find public speaking about academic topics incredibly interesting. This weekend was perfect for what I mean, three 20 minute speakers, followed by a 45 minute discussion. I should go to more conferences. Fascinating as anthropology, provocative for my own thoughts, continual inspiration.

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Mon Apr 30 10:49:30 BST 2007

Pop nihilism

The best is, of course, Peggy Lee's 'Is That All There Is?' That was my only thought when starting this article, but I may have to expand it. Was that all there was?

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: music : : musing :
Sun Apr 29 01:58:02 BST 2007

Utility and futility

Given any task, I'm all for efficiency and optimization. But in terms of what task to do, I'm less rigorous. This may well be a character flaw, and it's something I've been thinking about because I've been getting flak on IRC for mentioning the fact that I'm writing my own content management. People are accusing me of 'reinventing the wheel,' but my view of it is, if I don't like the way the wheel works, why wouldn't I make my own?

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: cms : : musing : : tech :
Fri Apr 27 12:31:16 BST 2007