OK ... there was no freak out. But i did watch 'Vistor Q' last night. I don't recommend that you do, in fact -- stay away. After that i watched the remake of 'Assault on Precinct 13' -- it was a very good take on the original. Hell, it was actually better. The fellow whose room i am subletting while he is away in Arizona is a playright, and he has a lot of great books, mostly classics, in the room. I picked up the play "Closer," because it was short and easy to read. While i didn't really care for the ending, the play was very stylish and one particular line really grabbed my attention:
"Everything is just Version of Something Else."
Looking back on my life, i don't think i've every really come up with one single original idea. Not that it bothers me -- i am an extremely *creative* person. But i never really *create* anything. Being creative is not about being able to create something new, i feel -- it is about being able to produce without having to directly copy something. To be able to improvise or just sit down and concentrate on producing something *from yourself*. We are subjected to so many ideas from our fellow humans that it is next to impossible to not *lift* something -- but when you can *come up* with something without having to cheat, well, that's what i call being creative.
But ... everything is a Version of Something Else. And that's not going to stop me from trying to be original. ;)
Apart from writing your journal in a different way than everybody else around here, right?
Re:What do you mean?
jeffa on 2005-05-13T18:25:45
Actually... i'm exercising laziness! ;) Re:What do you mean?
bart on 2005-05-13T19:12:24
It's bloody near unreadable.
Lazy? I don't get it. I just copied your latest journal text in the browser, made a new draft journal entry, pasted it in, selected "plain old text" as the format, and looked at the preview. The page layout was roughly identical to yours, except it used a variable pitch font, complete with automatic wrapping inside the paragraphs.
I could even replace your *create* with <em>create</em> , and it appears as "create". So you get the best of both worlds: easy paragraph formatting, and the option to format emphasized text with HTML tags.
What more do you want?
Re:What do you mean?
jeffa on 2005-05-16T14:07:42
"It's bloody near unreadable."
Then don't read it.:)
Re:What do you mean?
jeffa on 2005-05-18T20:46:13
Hah!Just gained an XP point at http://perlmonks.com/ and my quip was, and i quote:
You are a unique snowflake.Now that's funny. And looks like i have to spell it out for you bart. This is my journal. When i post my personal comments, i post them in a manner that looks like they were typed by a typewriter. Not to mention, i don't want to bother with markup. Stream of conscious, man
... dig it? Next you'll be telling me to capitalize my i's ... [roll's eyes] Re:What do you mean?
bart on 2005-05-19T00:03:41
Urm... Did you just forget to type in TT?Re:What do you mean?
jeffa on 2005-05-19T14:39:20
I am replying
... not writing in my journal. ;)
