14 – Metapost: Oh god when will it end

Another week, another meta-review.

• No, I’m not going to do a meta-meta post.

• A Year in Review

  I have qualms about using lists as a lazy shortcut for miles of prose: however, I am a programmer, and as such will take lazy shortcuts whenever (including now). Thinking back to the writing of the post, I mostly pulled the events populating the list previous blog posts, which is biased: it does get most of the major events, though. I don’t think breaking up the year-end review and the resolutions was a good idea (could be interesting interplay between the two), but honestly, I did want to fill up some more posts. I was also probably sleepy.

• Resolutions

  Short list, which is good (few resolutions to keep track of) and bad (I was probably sleepy when I wrote them), or maybe really bad (I only gave the list a few minutes of thought). Oh well, it’s not like a binding list of promises: also, I would like to do these things.

• Semester in Review

  Exposition, exposition, exposition about academics and class reviews that would be much better put on culpa.

• The Craft

  This was written in the full swing of my work on Pensievr, which also explains why it was 3 lines. If I kept writing, then my dad probably would have woken up and found me still writing.

• Late for a Job?

  This one was borne out of the fact I was mostly done with Pensievr at some ungodly hour of the morning (similar to the last post) and something that had been on my mind. It’s strange, writing down thought processes that flash through your mind in what feels like half a second…

• Winter Break Movie Reviews

  I had a draft sitting around, and I don’t plan on watching more movies. The reviews aren’t worthy of being called movie critiques, but that also wasn’t the point. However, it also constricts the population to whom the writing is interesting.

Overall: Still not writing fast enough. Not much to say about that: I might be getting faster, though, mostly by relying on a stream of consciousness style of writing. I’m also still writing around midnight: I’ve only managed to publish one of these posts before midnight. I should fix that sometime.