Repurposing

Sunday, 14 March 2010 by Marcus Aquinas.

I think I have let this thing sit and gather dust for long enough. I’m still not sure what I’m going to do with it, but I cleaned out all of the old junk in preparation for new junk. I would have saved it all except that I forgot where the “Export” button was hiding and didn’t find it until the “Delete” button had finished doing its work (bummer, but oh well). I copied off everything of importance to another webspace a few months’ back, so it’s not like it’s any great loss (arguably not a great loss in spite of my having copied the important stuff elsewhere).

So, what to do? What to do? I dunno (what do you want to do?).

For the moment, I’m working through John Stuart Mill’s treatise, “On Liberty” (which is probably why I saved the Epictetus post) and it seems I can’t go more than a paragraph or so without hitting something that just really clicks. I suppose that the surprising part is that I had already reached most of Mill’s conclusions, but had never read them before now. Weird, because I know I’m nowhere near as sharp as Mill was (this is a guy who was reading Plato, in Greek, by the 3rd grade). Nevertheless, we shall see where it leads.

In the interim, I am busily playing Fallout 3, Bioshock, Grand Theft Auto IV, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Civilization IV, TES IV (of course), and the like. They’re all getting a little old, but there just isn’t anything out there that’s grabbing my interest.

Eidos has released a teaser trailer for “Deus Ex 3” that has me semi-drooling, but it’s not going to hit the shelves anytime soon. They promise lots more goodies at E3-time in June, but still….

It looks like Rockstar is going to port the GTA IV expansions to PC at the end of the month. I’m not sure that I’m impressed enough with the game to be interested in them, but it’s there should the mood strike. “Splinter Cell: Conviction” is due out next month. Preview comments have been pretty good and all of the earlier incarnations were decent, but the $80 price tag is a little scary.  Beyond those, I don’t see anything earth-shaking on the horizon before summer. We’ll just have to see how it goes.

As to the repurposing, at worst I’ll just have a clean slate on which to blather. At best I might have the germ of a thesis or dissertation. Only time, talent and patience will tell (assuming that I have any of those).

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