I sent this earlier to wasoxygen and the advice he gave me was to post it as soon as the pubski opened. ----------------------------- Weird hubski dream this morning. We had agreed to have a big party at my house. I’m forgetting many of the wild details, but at one point in the dream, I was having a long talk with mk’s mom telling her what a genius her son was. All night thinking about our puny race on this spinning sphere on the edge of a galaxy and feeling vaguely convinced that all previous conscious civilizations had got to a stage of civilization and then accidentally blew themselves up or blew their planet up through war and foolishness. And thinking, given the miracle of being a conscious monkey in clothes, is there any time to waste – doing puzzles or on-line games, for example. What is worth doing? And thinking the only thing worth doing is finding life out in the cosmos – because that is the only way foolish religions (i.e. all religions) will drop their notions of god and start to work together. But that would take thoughtfulness and reflection and more thoughtfulness. So now it’s morning. The pubski isn’t open yet, my eyes hurt, and there’s work to do (I mean in my puny life, not in the cosmos). Any advice? (Do I sound like a teenager? Ha ha) ------------------------------------------------------------ OK, I'm off to make a Jean-Paul Sartre omelette out of a cigarette, some coffee, and four tiny stones.
What is worth doing?
8bit advised me privately that what is worth doing is whatever you want to do. So I spent some time today creating a new blog inspired by hubski's #writebetterdammit tag. I believe the tag name was originated in this space by kb -- maybe it came over from reddit or somewhere. I don't know. I'll post it here in due course.
I always thought that it was caio that originally used the tag. mk, is there a way to check this out? Edit: So far as I can tell, this is the first post here on Hubski to use it: https://hubski.com/pub?id=16659
Fantastic, thanks for checking. I wouldn't want kb to accuse me of stealing, but I have so far called my blog "write better dammit" - it really is aimed at my students but some of it might be interesting to anyone. I googled the phrase and all I could find was hubski's use of it. Someone has an app called Write Dammit, and it's aimed at getting people to write. Period. Just write. I was looking through the tag today and one of the most intense discussions was on the use of periods and commas. My first blog entry is unfortunately long. These kiddies of mine have to be 100 words or fewer. (NOTE: fewer, not less.) First blog is 500 words. Second one is 100. But it's still under construction and consideration. It'll be fun. So keep this post buried in the pubski. I'm not ready to go public yet.
I used it first, but kb was a fan. ;)
My guess is that your mother assumed she was referring to your brother.
Funny you should mention that, tng. I wasn't going to say this originally because we all know that mk's brother is a valuable hubski contributor -- but and this is absolutely dream-true -- mk's mother replied to my praise of mk by saying, "Yeah, unlike his brother."