Axodys

I’ve been playing a lot of Myth II lately and it’s made me realize how little progress I had made on the solo levels five or six years back when the game was first released. There’s actually quite a bit of variety to the solo levels that I had never seen because I got stuck/bored/disinterested somewhere along the 4th or 5th level and moved onto other things. Kind of sad, yet cool now that I’ve had the opportunity to play through them on MacOS X thanks to the efforts of the folks at “mythdev.com”:http://mythdev.com.

Philip Greenspun: “What is the point of blogging?”:http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2003/10/04#a2500

bq. Blogs are interesting because they support the 2-paragraph idea.† It is sort of ridiculous to create a separate .html file for every little aphorism or fleeting thought and it would be a shame to clog search engines with pages that have such a high machinery-to-content ratio.† Blogs and the RSS format make it work.† Everyone can write like Nietzsche or a Marcus Aurelius, even if few people ever come up with enough clever small ideas to fill a 200-page book.

I just noticed that Axodys is looking kind of grim at the moment. No entries, just a long list of archives. I guess I’ve just been losing momentum lately. Or more accurately for several months.

Speaking of writing and momentum it just occurred to me that, that I’d better get back in the writing mood with “NaNoWriMo”:http://nanowrimo.org exactly one month away. I really want to attempt it (writing a 50,000 word novel in 30 days) again this year, but I’ve tried it twice and failed both times. I usually get off to a pretty good start and hit 10,000 words or so without too much pain and anguish, but then I slowly start to get behind, and by the time I get to the halfway mark basketball season begins and I start losing motivation. I want this year to be different though, I really do.