View From the Bushes

The toughest part of being creative for a living are those times when you are not creative. Then you sit down with a blank piece of paper, or in this case a blank computer monitor with a cursor flashing ominously in one corner. It's even worse because I'm composing this using a Linux text editor, run from a command line so I don't even have a neat background or spiffy GUI to take the edge off the void. Though it could be worse: at least I allow myself the minor comfort of using pico rather than the soul-crushing emptiness that is vi.

I image that some people have no idea what vi is. Allow me to explain. I was once reading a book by Guy Kawasaki who was talking about his days at Apple and describing what it was like to compete with Microsoft. This was back in the late 80's, so back when most people liked Microsoft. If I recall correctly it went soemthing like this, "If you want to know what it's like to compete with Microsoft put your head in a vise and turn it until you can't stand it any longer, then turn it three or four more times." This is what vi is like. (You knew I'd get to the point eventually).

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Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero,
Ross