Motivation

I've put up a small printout of the motivational poster from despair.com recommended by the_tiddler. Sadly, I haven't been able to cut it down the correct size because we're not allowed free access to scissors round here. I suspect it's a health and safety thing — maybe they're worried that if sharp objects were freely available, the instances of self-inflicted exsanguination would be much higher than they already are...

Fast like a glacier...

I think the demotivational poster worked way too well — today was like a totally serious drag. I felt like I was stuck in that ep of the X-files where some high school kids find a cave that lets them slow the passage of time, but unlike them, I didn't have a murder/suicide pact waiting for me at the end of end of the working day...

Save your pennies and see into the future...

I meant to post a link to Friday's insanely great Penny Arcade strip, the one satirising Wikipedia, at the weekend but I was waiting for the link to stabilise. It now looks like I've waited too long because life seems to have overtaken art.

I wonder if this might be a foretaste of what Web 2.0 will bring to all of us: our lives as a series of smash cuts where the time from the set up line to the punch asymptotically approaches zero...