Category: Random
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Entering the matrix
I’ve found myself frustrated in the last twelve months or so with a few mundane computer tasks that I have to undertake regularly, both for life admin and for work. Things like sorting out variable savings budgets, typing the same sentences over and over again in emails and other correspondence… I have also found myself […]
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What a difference…
Sometimes the gurus get it wrong… it may not be best to ‘mark’ down when you feel like your life is on a trajectory. Since the last blog, the contentedness I felt at managing things vanished. In its place was left a gaping hole of uncertainty. Doubt. Fear. And most keenly felt of all: a crippling […]
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Pomodoro ramblings
In my first classes this week, I introduced first-year students to the Pomodoro technique. I’ve had a mixed relationship with the technique, but sometimes find it useful in terms of getting my head fully into a project during its opening stages. In solidarity, I too typed non-stop for 15 minutes (a reduced pomodoro — usually they […]
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Welles and the frame
Suffice to say that Orson Welles taught me all I ever needed to know about framing*. Happy 100th, old friend. * for ‘framing’, read ‘all of cinema’.
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Writing
I haven’t written for a very long time. That seems a strange thing to say, given that I bill myself as a ‘writer, producer, and researcher’. But it’s true. In terms of actually setting mind to page without the baggage of scholarly rigour, it’s been an age. Given I now work for an institution that […]
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7 February 2010
Thoughts from the elder Moleskine: ‘When I was a child, I thought as a child acted as a child, spoke as a child… but when I became a man, I turned my back on childish things.’ [1 Corinthians 13:11] The church expects that every person should grow up. Why? There is no harm, no danger, […]
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A Thursday
She’s laughing at an in-joke with herself about everyone on board; She’s engrossed in her book; He has his headphones in, openly staring at each commuter in turn; All the other men are suited, reading their papers or fumbling with technology that was crafted much later than their fingers stopped working; There is an amicably […]
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Today I wrote a letter
It’s been a very long time since I sat down to write a letter. On paper. Without the aid of a spell-check, or the need to select a font, or to find and insert an email, or remember to attach an attachment. But today, I did.
Daniel Binns 