“Eileen, pace yourself. It’s only Scrumspan. We’ve got three lightmodes to go before good-binge.”
Tag: work
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Paul Ford gifts us a new modern lexicon for time
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Chinua Achebe on Aspiring Writers and Work
I don’t get the deluge of manuscripts that I would be getting in Nigeria. But some do manage to find me. This is something I understand, because a budding writer wants to be encouraged. But I believe myself that a good writer doesn’t really need to be told anything except to keep at it. Just think of the work you’ve set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can. Once you have really done all you can, then you can show it to people. Chinua Achebe, on being solicited for advice from aspiring novelists. Quoted from an 1994 interview with the Paris Review.
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James Gurney Draws Dinosaurs All Day
One time my son had a friend over. I heard the friend say in a stage whisper, “Does your dad have a job?” No, my son replied. “He just stays home and draws dinosaurs all day.” James Gurney, creator and illustrator of Dinotopia, on growing up with art. (His Gurney Journey blog on illustration, drawing, and painting is very much worth reading, by the way)
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Ergotopography
“The art of writing symbols that say where you’re working from.” The original was WFH, Working From Home. Following that pattern, then, you might get:
WF(O<-<)
Working from a bathWFgl___/
Working from a boat (with an outboard motor)WF§-__/
Working from a boat (with a more serious motor)“WF ”
Working from spaceWF=====
Working in a linear accelerator…
(Via New Scientist and Language Log, which has an interesting discussion of trying to work out what the best neologism for these ASCII art variations should be)
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Speed Projects Approved
Speed Projects, go! A good reminder/incentive from the FAT LAB crew to stop screwing around and get more projects done, faster.