Committed to paper

Mulling over Will Self's rules for writing again, I was struck in a moment of pychedelic insight by the punning phrase "committed to paper". In these days of the internet and ereaders, it's a strangely resonant phrase.

Touch typing is like flying in my dreams

If I don't think about it I can rattle on quite confidently. The minute I think "Hey! I'm touch typing I am sudeentlgf; - am suddenly incapable.

I have the same experience when I start flying in my dreams. I'll float along quite happily for a little while and then I'm all "Hey! I'm flying!" and then - crash - I'm awake.

Life's complicated sometimes.

Memes

"Meme" has come to mean a joke gone stale. When something is labelled a meme it's just another way of saying "I'm fed up with this now".

Too Clever

I used to think I was too clever by half, but the world is now too clever by three-quarters.

Cynicism

Cynicism is just unharvested naivety left in the fields to rot.