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Abasement of the Northmores
After a rather disappointing day, where I just sort of maintained cruising speed – didn’t really do much useful, but didn’t stop completely – it is now late at night, when I should be sleeping (as I can’t sleep in tomorrow, because I have a doctor’s appointment in the morning). But I am not sleepy……
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Pointless power
Given that I have just been getting into PowerPoint a lot more lately – downloading templates, giving those two conference presentations – I was somewhat dismayed, but enlightened and impressed, by Edward Tufte’s sharp critique of its use. He claims that the program and the culture that has sprung up of how to properly create…
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Blur
In between yesterday’s mix of effectiveness and dilatoriness, and the future… and a long, intricate dream, which had me visiting a Los Angeles that turned into Hong Kong, trying to find my way to the northwest (which was, however, in the northeast), a large shopping mall, and casually talking to a German guy (who turned…
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Cooler heads
Over the past couple of days the temperature has been dropping; today it is actually cold – raining, gray. Not miserable though; there’s a light behind the clouds, and it all just feels cool, refreshing; the mild autumn chill (yes, I know, in August? – well, this is northern Europe, near the North Sea) is…
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Living badly
Yesterday: left the apartment so that the cleaner could take over; had lunch at a nearby Italian restaurant. Ended up eating too much, eating wrong, feeling terrible – exhausted at the end of the day. The patterns: bad eating, no exercise, television, Internet – by the time I woke this morning I was so angry…
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The whole point
I’m enjoying this blog. It’s not a big deal, I know – mostly just small, casual writing, with the address shared with a few friends – but it is succeeding in exactly what I wanted it to do, that is, helping me to get into the habits of writing, communicating, thinking, making sentences. Even at…
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Paul Attinello 