Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

> I *enjoy* what I do - it's just that after I've done it, it feels
> horribly hollow.
....

I do understand.  Whenever that old "Why-am-I-knocking-myself-out-for-a-bunch-of
greedy-selfish-hairless-monkeys-wallowing-in-their-self-imposed-ignorance?"
feeling gets me down, there's a little song by the Bonzo Dog Do-Dah Band that
cheers me right up.

I was lucky enough to find a link to it (with some nifty clay-mation) here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aolMV0oNCBE

Enjoy.

Best Regards,
Mike C.

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Invisible wrote:
> Yeah, but what's the point of achievement without rewards? Or at least 
> recognition?
> 

The fun of getting there, and the knowledge that you did.

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>> Yeah, but what's the point of achievement without rewards? Or at least 
>> recognition?
> 
> The fun of getting there, and the knowledge that you did.

Not to mention the knowledge that some ancient Greek guy figured out the 
solution back in 842 BC and if you'd just read a book, you could have 
saved yourself 8 pages of algebra...

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"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote

> I think part of my problem is motivation. When I've completed something
> really cool, I want people to gather round and say "hey, that's really
> cool Andrew!" Usually about half way through a project I start to
> realise that nobody on Earth is going to give a ****, and I loose the
> will to go on with the project. :-(

Then do stuff for which people will give a ****

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"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote

> It would just be nice if now and then I could do something that actually
> *impresses* somebody...

Impressing people online is more improbable than winning the lottery. With
something like half the world online (OK, making that up, but probably
close), even if you are in the top 0.001% of the population in any given
category, it means there are probably over 10,000 others who are better than
you, and we have all already seen their work, read their blogs, watched
their videos... etc. The solution? Buy a lottery ticket.

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. wrote:
> "Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote
> 
>> I think part of my problem is motivation. When I've completed something
>> really cool, I want people to gather round and say "hey, that's really
>> cool Andrew!" Usually about half way through a project I start to
>> realise that nobody on Earth is going to give a ****, and I loose the
>> will to go on with the project. :-(
> 
> Then do stuff for which people will give a ****

Heh. As if I could ever pull *that* off...

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Mike the Elder wrote:
> I was lucky enough to find a link to it (with some nifty clay-mation) here:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aolMV0oNCBE

Sometimes I can't help but feel that YouTube will be the downfall of 
society :(

-- 
...Ben Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com

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Invisible wrote:
> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> 
>> I sooooo need one of those. It describes me perfectl
> 
> It's the story of my life. So many great ideas, so little time to 
> complete them.
> 
> I think part of my problem is motivation. When I've completed something 
> really cool, I want people to gather round and say "hey, that's really 
> cool Andrew!" Usually about half way through a project I start to 
> realise that nobody on Earth is going to give a ****, and I loose the 
> will to go on with the project. :-(
> 

My problem is I simply don't read every thread, and don't reply to all 
the ones I do.  Since I've seen many thousands of threads of posts which 
are nothing but "Cool!" or "Wow!" or "lol" and nothing else, I've 
stopped posting such replies myself.  They feel a bit too close to spam 
for me.

That doesn't mean I'm not impressed; I just don't feel I have anything 
worthwhile to contribute to the thread.

-- 
...Ben Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com

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Chambers wrote:

> My problem is I simply don't read every thread, and don't reply to all 
> the ones I do.  Since I've seen many thousands of threads of posts which 
> are nothing but "Cool!" or "Wow!" or "lol" and nothing else, I've 
> stopped posting such replies myself.  They feel a bit too close to spam 
> for me.
> 
> That doesn't mean I'm not impressed; I just don't feel I have anything 
> worthwhile to contribute to the thread.

Heh. Maybe that's why nobody comments when I write something in my blog. 
Maybe I should just assume that no comments = everybody is intimidated 
by the sheer awesomness of what I just wrote and doesn't want to spoil 
the moment with cheap Monty Python references? :-D

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On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:07:22 -0700, Chambers <ben### [at] pacificwebguycom>
wrote:

>
>My problem is I simply don't read every thread, and don't reply to all 
>the ones I do.  Since I've seen many thousands of threads of posts which 
>are nothing but "Cool!" or "Wow!" or "lol" and nothing else, I've 
>stopped posting such replies myself.  They feel a bit too close to spam 
>for me.
>
>That doesn't mean I'm not impressed; I just don't feel I have anything 
>worthwhile to contribute to the thread.

Well put! Even so I wasn't impressed, I don't know enough to be
impressed. I've worked in/with computers for coming up to 40 years and
that programming thing is not my thing. 

Andrew you can talk to Dr John about that next week. I'm looking
forward to meeting you.
-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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