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Stay the course
08 Nov 2024
such is the way to just write is what I forget so very often. Too much thinking, not enough writing. When writing, just write. When not writing, think.
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Why bother?
24 Oct 2024
Feeling so shit lately, man. Writing feels hard and pointless. Maybe because I don’t have a reader. But the machine can just do it all, can’t it? The whole system that we plug into that isn’t real that swallows up human endeavour and experience.
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Chess at night
23 Oct 2024
what am I doing man. Just sitting here, feeling lost and half aware. Stay with me buddy we’re going to be just fine let’s keep writing into the terminal while we wait for Patto to play his chess move.
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Summer is Upon Us
07 Oct 2024
Today I write in the terminal just to prove to myself that I can. It means nothing yet I do it anyway. This is part of the website form piece I mention in this post. I have this urge to strip away software layers and interface as directly with the machine as possible.
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Review: Neuromancer by William Gibson (1984)
01 Oct 2024
Took me a while to get through this novel because I found it quite demanding for a few reasons:
- I wanted to visualise the characters and setting which I found hard to do while simultaneously holding onto the varied plot points, characters, and settings
- A lot of my reading lately has been in bed which means I only get a few pages in before dozing off
- My mental state hasn't been particularly conducive to concentrated, attentive reading
- Conceptually I found it difficult to grasp the protagonist flicking through cyberspace depicted in the abstract
- I found the characters and setting quite unlikeable, which made it an at times unpleasant book to read
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how short the days are
01 Oct 2024
Life feels so short. Every day passes in a blink. I worry about wasted moments; about not spending my time ‘properly’; about regretting a life not lived to the fullest.
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Sunday
28 Sep 2024
Sunday morning. I fell asleep on the floor in front of the telly last night while watching Mrs Doubtfire (1993) with Sama. Woke up at around midnight and crawled into bed only to realise that Daisy needed to go to the toilet so off we went for a walk in the early hours.
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Been a while
26 Sep 2024
Ok, we’re back. I guess I’ve been avoiding this part of the whole blog thing for some time. You know, the writing part. It’s been over 2 years since my last post.
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Back again
14 Sep 2022
Been a couple of months, hey? Like, June. We’ve since moved home and gotten married.
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Whatever, man
01 Jun 2022
ugh. I’m alright. I guess. In a bit of a partying mood thanks in no small part to Mercury Hard Cider. Drank a can with dinner. Drank a can on my post-dinner constitutional, and started drinking a can while doing the dishes which remains on my desk, the can, as we speak.
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Links
25 May 2022
Part of the point of blogging as a writer, or so I’m told, is as way to keep links and ideas organised as a kind of thought catalogue. Here’s a blog I didn’t write about this idea of the Memex and why blogging is important for writers.
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All I Need
17 May 2022
Last night I was up late mostly writing a blog about uncertainty and life and writing.
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Still Uncertain
16 May 2022
My last post was about feeling uncertain about the direction my novel project was headed.
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Uncertain and Uncommitted
10 May 2022
I’m stuck on my novel project and I’m legit like only two weeks in.
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Productive Saturday
07 May 2022
Yeah so it’s a nice day in Sydney today. Cold but clear blue skies for the time being at least.
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Wednesday the 4th of May 2022
04 May 2022
Still figuring this blog thing out. It’s fun though. I’ve kept different journals over the years but recently settled on Google Docs because it’s accessible on all my devices and since I’m lazy, that works well for me.
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Tuesday
03 May 2022
Alright. Uhh, I don’t know what to talk about today. Have written a couple of stories for work – was a busy kind of morning on that front as per usual for a Tuesday.
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Monday
02 May 2022
Well another day etc etc. Once again I’m awake late which is what it is but I’ve had time to make coffee and stuff so that’s positive.
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Anxiety
01 May 2022
Today like most days I woke up feeling anxious. Huh, I scrunched my face up when I typed that out. Something about the word ‘anxious’ that makes me cringe a bit.
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High Performance
13 Apr 2022
A recent work trip down to the F1 Grand Prix in Melbourne got me into the sport again for the first time since I was a teenager.
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Twitter Bot 5
28 Mar 2022
Another update about my Twitter bot since I’ve been fiddling with it a bit over the past week.
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24 Mar 2022
Well something funny happened. I spent yesterday afternoon putting together a story about this hacking group called LAPSUS$.
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1
23 Mar 2022
Well I’m not entirely sure this is working typing straight into the browser version of GitHub. Trying out a new thing where I attempt to put down exactly 500 words of blogging each day.
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Twitter bot 4
04 Jul 2021
Sentiment analysis was like way easier to plug in than I’d expected. So much of this work has been done for me that it’s really been a matter of making it work for my own purposes.
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Twitter bot 3
01 Jul 2021
Well, the liking and retweeting function works fine but I must say the result is a little underwhelming. I mean, it does exactly what it’s meant to but yeah I dunno maybe the idea’s the problem? Or the implementation?
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Twitter bot update 1
29 Jun 2021
So I’ve had a really productive night on my Twitter bot. Probably almost time to hit the hay actually.
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Why this?
29 Jun 2021
I’ve been wanting to set up my own website for a while but never really had too much of the know-how or whatever and always found myself wanting to like I dunno make it on my own server and things because otherwise I’m just running a thing on Blogspot or Wordpress or whatever and instead of that I had a need or want to have more control over this.