I have too many windows

I have an Openoffice window open, sitting waiting for me to type something. It's lurking down on the taskbar, with IRC, Mozilla AND Firefox (both with tabs open), Furc, and this. Not to mention Trillian and Winamp in the systray. My attention span is shot all to heck, which is probably part of why I don't write much. I need to write first, THEN do other things.

Well, maybe not write first. But I need to prioritize. I am a nerd. I crave systems for things. I should make one for me, and then stick to it, to allow me to actually do things with any regularity. So I don't end up, as I did just now, completely forgetting the Really Cool Thing I was going to write. Though in some ways, it's inevitably Really Cooler when it's not done, for it is then potential for really coolness, without the flaws of actual craftsmanship. Sorta like airbrushed models.

Daily Drabble

To: drawer@art.com
From: pencilguy@writer.com
Subject: Contractual Obligation

Okay, look. We both know the studio doesn't give a crap about this book any more. We've got two more issues then it's getting canceled. We already wrapped up all the storylines worth wrapping up. So, fuck 'em. Tell you what. You draw 22 pages of whatever you feel like. I'll make up some dialogue. I don't care what you draw, doesn't even have to be the characters. We'll say it's a Secret Crisis of Infinite Challenge of the Superfriends.

Still have that collection of crank letters for the last issue?

(I swear something like this is probably responsible for half the insanity in comics.)

A quote

"For a lot of Western otaku, Japan fills the same function as Middle-Earth or Starfleet or twelfth-century England does for other flavors of geek: it's a fantasy world where everything is attuned to their desires and, if they could magically get there, they wouldn't feel like outsiders anymore." - Shaneon Garrity

Daily Drabble

How many levels of meta can one discussion hold? How long before the conversation about the conversation about the conversation is so sprawling and disconnected from whatever was originally the topic of discussion that it collapses under its own metaphorical weight?

This isn't as idle a question as it may seem. In 1983, half of the philosophy department of a major metropolitan university suffered injuries from the fallout when a logical structure collapsed. All because one grad student pointed out the hadn't in fact, brought a pin for any angels to dance on, because nobody even uses pins these days.

( Footnotes that don't add to the understanding of the drabble )