Neuroplasticity and musical taste
Neuroplasticity is a ten buck word for a simple idea; the brain is designed to keep learning things.
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I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Pennywise Administration
“I work for the horror clown in chief but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.”
Home repairs
Replaced a bunch of halogen lights with LEDs today - or rather, I paid a guy to do it. Some had burned out and another two had been half eaten by possums (mine oldest enemy).Been a few repairs to effect around here recently. It's been a decade since we renovated and the years have worked their magic.
Little brother is watching
I had a co-worker in the word cave today. Thomas was off school with a tummy bug and... well, he can't really expected to keep his head in the books without a stern disciplinarian standing over him with a cat o' nine tails, can he?
So he took up position somewhere behind me, gurgling and farting away all day.
The pleasing quiet of a backwater blog
I had a busy week on the Twitterz and Facebuck this last week, mosty due to thinking out loud about the hotel industry's scammy preauthorisation charges. Hundreds of mentions, thousands of RTs and lots of traffic to a coulmn I wrote for Fairfax.
One troll of course, because it wouldn't be the internet without them, but I tend to get off lightly. After all I'm a white, middle class male.
Still, a lotta traffic. A lot of talk. A lot of stuff happening.
Thinking of getting a new keyboard. By... Microsoft
Look! It's not that I don't love my Apple Extended keyboard. I do. I really do. But with Dragon borking itself in the last major update I've been typing more often than dictating, and I'm starting to feel it.
Been thinking I should try an ergonomic keyboard and most of the reviews point to this badboy from the orc foundry at Redmond.
Routines
And while I'm on the King, he famously sits his arse down everyday and cranks out ten pages. At least I think it's ten pages. Maybe it's 2000 words. Whatevs. He has a routine. That's the secret of writing, just turn up every day and do it.
