The paradox of productivity

This post was made to explain my feelings about my "productive mood" swings, because that became a really notable piece of my vacation time.

Since my classes will only start again in march, I realize, and ponder about, how unproductive my vacation times are (in general), and feel I should find something productive to spend my time on.

Before I went travelling to the beach for the past ten days, I felt like I should be doing something with my time, but I didn't have any ideas to work on, nor the energy to.

While I was away from home, there, in the beach, the good ideas started coming, and an urge to finally do something was growing. I started having some neat ideas for my game, GFA II, some slightly less interesting ones about simulated cellular automation, etc. The big problem in that moment was, of course, that all those ideas included my computer, which was here at home. Therefore I was just wandering around and thinking of the possibilities, which resulted in an urge to come back home and work on all these ideas.

Jan. 18th is finally here, and I'm finally home. Suddenly, all the ideas I had back in the beach don't sound that great anymore, and all I really want to do with my day is sleeping.

Well, I think the ideas I discarded, out of pure laziness, or forgetting how exactly my plans for them were traced, weren't worth it.

Now, some other ones might still ring a bell or two for me, those might be worth a try.

Did I mention I wanted to sleep? Gonna work on that, bye.

Hello Blogosphere!

So, after thinking through this a lot, I finally decided to make myself a blog. Making few but fruity postings every now and then, I might make this an interesting read for people around the internet. Won't reveal my personal shit here, though.

Mail me on gretgorbw[@]hotmail if you so wish.

While running around people's blogs in blogspot, I discovered there were pretty much three types of blogs:

1)The most frequent ones, that are made by mostly teenagers, where they discuss, with their friends, teeny personal life matters such as "which boy kisses well" or "which boy is gonna get beaten in school". These are pretty much mainstream blogs, obviously people who don't care about bringing up interesting content.

2)The "joker" ones, that usually post, among family vacation pictures, internet softcore humor such as lolcats, failblog, and joke-magazine sort of jokes. Once again, not very lenghty nor fruity content.

3)Finally, the few blogs that are actually worth reading: Blogs with interesting content, be it cool fiction novels, interesting, lenghty dissertations on everyday life, intelligent, well thought humor or readable scientifical essays. Good examples of those blogs that I know of are XKCD, Craig's List (I don't know if that can be considered a blog) and Wootmeister's blog. This is the sort of blog I want this one to be.


So, since that's what I'm aiming for, expect few, but worthy updates, bringing to you interesting paragraphs of rambling, discussions on polemical subjects and some interesting math and computing science essays.

I'm a major at computing science in the University of Parana, in Brazil. (OH NOES, PERSONAL INFORMATION! D:)

No, I can't fix your computer.