Archive for August 9th, 2006
Too many quizzes, not enough meat.
Wednesday, August 9th, 2006 | LiveJournal Archives | 2 Comments
So I’ve got this widget for my yahoo widgets engine that I’ve come to rely upon. Its a livejournal friends widget that basically scans your friends rss and shows you the six newest entries on your friends page. I’ve played around with all kinds of other friends alerts, but this has been, by and far, the most successful. It just sits there and shows me the last 6 entries so I don’t have to constantly click refresh on LiveJournal. Its actually increased my productivity by diminishing my distractions.
To be honest, I’ve come to rely on Yahoo widgets quite a bit, far more than the Apple dashboard widgets that come installed on a mac. Those are fuck-all useless. So now I keep my dashboard widgets in the background and I have all the useful yahoo widgets plastered all over my screen. Heather would complain that my desktop is too cluttered, but then again, that’s why I have two monitors.
Summer is coming to a close too damn fast for my tastes. Even though the past few weeks I’ve been bored off of my ass, I have felt like I haven’t done anything personally productive. I sit at home on the weekends and watch way too much TV and porn. Then monday comes and I zombify my way through the week until the weekend comes again. We have been hanging out with people quite a bit more as of this summer, so that’s extra good. I feel like I’ve gotten much closer to a lot of my friends recently.
I have put together my computer for my studio space for the remainder of my graduate career. Its not going to run WoW worth a damn, but I think its going to eat up and spit out photoshop like a big ol pouch of Big League Chew. I’m hoping thats the case anyway. Its running smooth and quiet so far and has almost 600gb of hard drive for all those photos I’ll be generating (500 of that is on a mirrored raid so I have some nice redundancy built in).
I do worry about my dedication to photography. I love it, I really do, but sometimes I don’t feel like I NEED to do it. I read something not long ago that said that an artist is someone who creates because they need to. So it did get me thinking about my desires and dedication. I do suspect that the doldrums of my everyday life get in the way of my “needs” on occasion. For example, there were many times this summer that I thought about grabbing my camera and just going out and photographing the world, but the inspiration quickly faded with the lack of motivation. Its like I NEED deadlines within which to work. So I do question my motivation for art. I love photographing. I love to see the results, and even though I’ve moved to almost exclusively digital, I still really enjoy the whole chemical process of traditional photography. There is something magic there that just cannot be witnessed in digital. The simplicity of digital just makes life easier and that’s really what I need to keep going.
Shit, I guess I don’t have any logical though progression here today. I’m glad to have written something, but I’d have preferred to written something readable and entertaining. Maybe next time. For now I have to go back to trying to beat this driver disk into submission. Its being a little bitch!
Too many quizzes… sorry.
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you laugh because I’m different, I laugh because you’re all the same.
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