...(contd)

Okay, that was a cheap gag. (Gag? What gag? Oh, do try to keep up.) And not only cheap, but also desperately unoriginal, being pinched pretty much wholesale from Beckett's Trilogy and probably several other places I can't think of right now.

Still, let's not get hung up on the chimæra of originality. As someone I'm too lazy to google once said, good artists borrow, great artists steal, and while I make no pretence of being a great artist I can't see any reason not to, as it were, borrow their modus operandi. In the words of Jerry Devine, the secret to becoming a star is knowing how to act like one.

So, where was I. Oh yes, of course. Dithering.

One of the corollaries of being indecisive is being unable to say no. As a result of which I've agreed to do various things that a sensible person might have politely declined, and a couple of those count among the items I'm indecisively prowling towards. Also there are various things I'd like to do for myself that I don't really have time for, things I would like to commit to but never quite do. And, it probably goes without saying, I constantly go off in idle moments and acquire new things to occupy my copious free time. For example, this.

Logically, if I spent all the time I spend dithering actually doing some of the things I'm dithering about, well, I'd get a lot more done. But that just isn't how it works, is it? That's like saying that ye olde singletasking computers were more efficient. Of course they were, but that's not the whole story.

Much as I'd like to be able to singletask reading Quicksilver, and then maybe polishing off the sad fanboy travesty that is Angel of Darkness, and then hacking out the next 100 blog entries in a single tranch, that's just not going to happen. All of those things and many more have to coexist with the swirling maelstrom of haphazard infelicities that constitutes my life.

Well, so be it. Life is multithreaded, and I should hope so too. The alternative doesn't bear thinking about.

Even so, I can't help wishing for a slightly better scheduler. This one really shouldn't have got out of beta.

Where do I submit the bug reports?
Posted by matt at October 2, 2003 11:42 PM