It is all about not thinking.
Tap into the hive mind. Sure there are other means of procrastination but think about it… this is the killer app of the internet.
Take the mouse, click here, click there and off you go in a whirlwind of opinions and words words words.
Words that embody thoughts. other people’s thoughts.
And so you have tapped into the hive mind.
It is an interesting duality between total submission to whatever comes down the line to you and your selective navigation in this sea. Not to mention the judgments and opinions that you formulate while reading this stuff.
The individual doesn’t exist except for the choice in the sequence of webpages consulted.
You live a moment of total submission to the internet yet you think you are an individual because you “choose” which blue underlined text to click next. This is like the free will monologue all over again…
Sometimes tapping into hive mind is a great thing. How do I do this? Or that? Something technical. Something complicated. A product review. These are all kinds of things that may be helped by tapping into collective experience of many people out there.
The internet is great… no doubt.
But I am not going to lie to myself.
Clearly, the main objective in me wasting this morning away by browsing the web high on coffee and sugar is the fact that I didn’t want to think. Not even a little bit. And so the internet provides me with this … it can last hours and days if you don’t watch out.
So what is wrong with it? Well first there is the classic “interfering with other things” indicator but second and foremost is the promiscuity. Think about it, you are letting your brain be controlled by random little douchebags with an internet connection that wrote something in a newspaper, in a blog, in an article.
Do you want these things in your mind? Do you want their opinions and their world view to be imprinted on you?
I don’t. I am tired of wasting time. I want to stop this bullshit.
So if I don’t want to think what am I going to do?
How can I rewrite the neural impulse of “i don’t want to think” also known as procrastination?
Maybe I can make a list of “easy things” that need doing and then go to them as soon as I feel that vibe.
I could start by cleaning my house! I think the only reason M. doesn’t want to come over anymore is because everything is so filthy. Or how about cooking food? When is the last time you did that?
Then there is web-pages that need revamping. And e-mails that need sending. Wait… this is on the internet again… damn it! This is so hard.
More to the point is how to make myself want to think?
In the past, usually working on the paper for one or two consecutive days gets me into a mode of productivity. But this happens only when I have clear deadlines or some perceived goal.
We need some real time mood changer. Applying the pot operator usually takes me from the “want to think” state to the non-thinking state. What we really need is the inverse of the pot operator! This is going to be hard though because i think the pot operator is not full rank!
This remains an open problem.
So if you integrate all the bittorrent packets coming though the modem at this moment you will see a complete mess. There is the desktop, 2 laptops everyone is trying to download.
After downloading, everything gets consolidated on the server into neat categories.
Very nice but why doesn’t the server do the donloading too?
I tried that a few months back with screen and a command line bittorrent client. That was less than exciting and the command line bittorrent proved to be a challenge.
Today, I added some unstable repositories to the server and then:
apt-get update
apt-get install torrentflux
Godda love debian…. a few minutes later I had a working setup.
Now I just have to go to http://192.168.0.102/torrents/index.php and my torrents get downloaded directly to the server. I can do this from the office, from any computer.
One could simply write a plugin for freeNAS and you have a killer app!
New ideas:
A usb femal, iPod + some other plugs device that goes onto a FAT32 filesystem and takes all the music one might like.
In particular only new things.
A small embedded device that runs some code.
USB female, iPod male,
With the option of going home and plugging it in to a networkstorage device with 500G of room.
