~ Archive for September, 2004 ~

Quantifying My Life

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It worked!  While I was writing the little paragraph about
writer’s block, I remembered an interesting idea I had recently. 
Last month, I created an excel spreadsheet that would tabulate how I
felt about my life every month.  For starters, I decided I would
use a number between 1 and 10 for how things are going.  I’ve long
suspected that a number like this would move in predictable
cycles.  Unfortunately, my memory about overall feelings in a
given week or month are generally not reliable after a while, and I
don’t keep a diary.  Hence, the idea of keeping a
spreadsheet.  I think the ideal would be to go by days or weeks,
but that’s a pretty big task, so I’m sticking to months for now. 
If I find any interesting results, I suppose it will become a new blog
entry in the future.  It would be fun if more people participated
in this and we could actually compile a dataset…

Writer’s Block

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I haven’t posted for a long time now.  I’ve come up with several
interesting ideas for a blog posting, but they never seem to make the
cut.  I don’t know if this is because my standards have suddenly
become high or I’ve hit a patch of writer’s block.  If the latter,
I suppose writing about writer’s block might somehow alleviate it so
here I am.

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