I've done a moderate amount of writing during this vacation trip. Sitting outside, with trees and plants in the garden nearby is most conducive to my creativity, I've found. Something about having life and nature nearby inspires more ideas in my head than bland office walls and florescent lights. Thunder rumbling, rain clattering, wind hissing …
Solaris (film)
I watched this, partially on the plane and partially after arriving, and my first thoughts were 'they sure don't make movies like this anymore' and 'music is very overused in modern movies'. This was a very slow, quiet, and subtle movie. There were lots of long, silent shots of scenery, and of characters looking at …
Alternate Worlds: in which everyone has to live through every second twice
Two seconds forward, one second back. You move the slice of pizza toward  your mouth, and right before you bite it moves back a bit and you've got to do it again. You bite, chew, start to swallow, then have to swallow again. Would your brain adjust to this kind of existence, or would every …
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Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem
The end of this novel went in a different direction than I expected. I was drawn into it right away and was excited by the story and the ideas and the potential, but it feels like in the end it left much unexplored. There was a lot of attention focused on the technical details, research, …
Alternate worlds: in which I can write 60 wpm
Not type, but write. Amazing prose, polished, complete, top quality words. In this word, I would write a novel per week... and that would three 8 hour days of solid typing. Every idea I had would be a story, every whim a plot. The books would pile so high that I'd have nothing to do …
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Jonas David 