Comments on Diana Kimball: Trying

hi,you are inspiring..cant say more.

2008-11-15T09:54:13.603-05:00

hi,

you are inspiring..cant say more.

Awesome that you found a picture from Humana Ex Ma...

2008-11-13T04:19:26.188-05:00

Awesome that you found a picture from Humana Ex Machina from CSUF.

Great writings by the way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AAmzx8RUQA

This is an honest blog. But let me warn you agains...

2008-09-12T15:47:22.175-04:00

This is an honest blog. But let me warn you against the danger of Ehrmann's ontology. (And it's an ontology, let's not be naive.) If you think you're young, and you think there's still time, then you're not ready to write. You will be--soon--but not now. "gracefully surrendering the things of youth." Tsk, tsk. Anything you write--and you will write--will be about clawing back at those things of youth. And you'll claw back because you'll suddenly change, realizing that the only real perspective from which to write is one of terrified hope for the honesty of the past.

I've bookmarked your blog. Keep working.

I figured out quickly, as a child, that nothing I ...

2008-09-11T02:57:46.383-04:00

I figured out quickly, as a child, that nothing I built with Legos ever became real. And more importantly: nothing I built was ever finished. I was always missing a piece, or wasn't quite what I had originally imagined. And thus, in building my universe in small blocks, I managed to develop a philosophy of never being convinced something is complete, and committing to being unsatisfied with that.

Unfortunately, that spilled over to the web once I was introduced to it. My only real goal, at one point or another, was to figure out how it worked, and maybe to a less extent make my mark on it. With neither rhyme nor reason to my web exploits, I built a number of small, almost pointless pieces that I thought were useful, but never finished. And with an unwillingness to set boundaries and goals for my projects, it seems I've built a disjointed, unpolished, and altogether confusing universe, on the web and elsewhere.

I can only aspire to develop some better method to organizing my noise, perhaps such as those you mention here. However, I can't subscribe to the thought that any system(s), sophisticated and proven it may be, can change or even improve upon my current best efforts without some manner of sacrifice I wouldn't be willing to make. The constant upkeep of my current systems is sacrifice enough.

Brilliant (in both senses). Hear echoes of myself ...

2008-09-09T10:41:45.830-04:00

Brilliant (in both senses). Hear echoes of myself here.
Trading off speed for something like "breadth of audience" or "effectiveness of translation" is a real challenge. You definitely tackled it here.
Thanks for the sunshine.

Ms. Kimball,Terrific post. Honest, hopeful, insigh...

2008-09-09T09:31:55.373-04:00

Ms. Kimball,

Terrific post. Honest, hopeful, insightful. I'm afraid it's making me re-evaluate my methodology, and that's making me grumpy because I'm already really busy. But that's the best time to do it, don't you think?

-IP

what's the opposite of "tl;dr"deligtfully long and...

2008-09-08T21:41:46.295-04:00

what's the opposite of "tl;dr"

deligtfully long and wonderfully enjoyable?

"I send my love to you; I send my hands to you; I ...

2008-09-08T18:31:57.442-04:00

"I send my love to you; I send my hands to you; I send my clothes to you; I send my nose to you; I send my trees to you; I send my pleas to you; won't you send some back to me?

Send your ways to me; send your calls to me; send your days to me; send it all to me; and when I'm high and square; when I would have you there; you will be"

--Will Oldham

Good thoughts. I've been musing on Merlin as well ...

2008-09-08T17:22:27.534-04:00

Good thoughts. I've been musing on Merlin as well today: http://www.hitthosekeys.net/wildkeys/2008/merlinsmeltdown/

But I like what you've written here better. It goes deeper into what I meant to say.