Getting Things Done

Alright....so....I take after my dad...alot.  I realize this now after years of quietly hoping that "I would never be like him".  No, no, don't get me wrong; my father is a true gentleman, a wonderful person, and a great dad.  But it's the little quirks that I hope I would never pick up.  Like how he is thinking about something and completely spaces out.  How he always seems lost even though he knows where he is.  How he stresses out about things like difficult left turns.  Like his constant nonsensical longwinded stories....oops got that gene, too!  I mean, Aww Lawd, hearing he, my sister, and I talking about anything must be torture....luckily, my mom has the attention span of a hummingbird...though, that may have been an evolutionary trait for her sanity.  [I still remember the time I was watching "Finding Forrester" with my dad; I had to leave before it was done and when I asked my dad later how it ended, he went on a 45 minute tirade about every detail, every furtive glance, every nuance of the set....just to realize he could have said "Sean Connery's character vouched for him in front of the board" nuff said.] 

 

Anyway, my dad has three traits that I just realized I have as well.  We both love books, we like to think we are totally organized, and we never read the books we buy.  All of these have culminated this morning to where I am now.  I'm sitting in front of a brand new copy of "getting things done" by David Allen; I heard about it after I started searching for what is called a "hipster PDA"....essentially notecards clipped together...which I feel that I invented and someone must have seen and spread it all around the net...jerks.  I started to get into these sites that promote this method...I even made a "tickler" file that Allen recommends. 

 

And now this fresh copy of his book, with his smiling, smug face on it that's saying "hey jackass, you just paid for my book, but you'll still be the same slob five years from now....i'm gonna buy a new boat and name it "the Sucker" just for you."  And rather than reading it, gleaning helpful tidbits of information, learning how to gain the "art of stress free productivity".....I'M SITTING HERE BLOGGING ABOUT IT. 

 

Boy, I'll bet there's a chapter in there about how blogs and the 'net are huge time-sucks.....well, i guess I'll never know....i wonder what dooce is up to?

 

lynx:

 

Just stumbled on this yesterday and Metafilter also mentions them yesterday....dunno what it is/who they are, but they talk about a bumch (yes, bumch) of great music: The Confabulators  (bands mentioned: Davendra Banhart, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Decemberists, Sufjan Stevens, and review of Sufjan steven's review from pitchfork, iron and wine) yum.

 

Audrey makes some purty pictures

 

Black and White conversion in Photoshop

 

Really funny McSweeney's list of Lesser known prequels