Sunday, August 7, 2005

Another web browser feature I would like to incorporate into my life

I've noticed lately that I use Firefox's pulldown list of recent urls whenever I'm losing interest in the project I'm working on. If I'm doing something online for work and I get bored, it's so easy to just pull down a link and check blogging.la or boingboing or any of the other sites I frequent when I'm feeling lazy. Sometimes the only way I can get myself to focus on work is by clearing the history. It sounds dumb, but that stops me from absentmindedly using the pulldown links, and I get more work done.

Sometimes it would be nice to "clear history" for real.

If I could just press one button, and be rid of every distraction floating around in my head... I could stop thinking about all the art projects I wish I were working on, all the email I still haven't answered, all the writing projects I haven't looked at in months, and actually get some work done for once. If I could "clear history" on my life lately, I could forget about how I fell down like a total spaz in the Express store last week (why did I go in there anyway? I don't even like their clothes!), and how I can't seem to make any L.A. friends, and how I've promised everyone I know a screenprinted t-shirt even though I've still never screenprinted anything, and how my life just isn't where I wanted it to be when I turned 30. I could erase every memory of every stupid thing I've said lately. Ohmigod I would use that button until the letters wore off, and then I would probably use it some more.

And then instead of thinking about all those distractions, I could think about whatever I was doing right then, and I'd be amazingly focused and get about six more hours of work or creative stuff done every day. And I would make lots of money and be wildly successful and I'd never want to "clear history" again. (Although I would keep that button handy in case my successful new self still trips over stuff in public.)

3 comments:

  1. hey lisa, hope your well. like the mermaid hair. maybe you could use some E6000 glue to make it happen(my stint as an arts/crafts store clerk is finally usefull).

    if you happen to create a button to take awy all the distracton, could you make me one too? so i can get my butt in gear and get more creative stuff going. btw, im looking at maybe going into art school(poss. starting with foundation courses).

    much love,
    justin

    ps- new portal i made that links to my others...

    http://www.freewebs.com/justinmcash/

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  2. Justin,
    today I was MUCH more focused, so maybe all you have to do is talk about how much you want a button like that and then you won't even need one anymore.

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  3. the other day, a friend of mine and me, were sitting h=in his car eating taco bell... and talking about all our friends who ahve this great drive. and there we were feeding our faces.

    btw, i have officialy found out that my dad wants a "better" life for me. he knows my art school intentions. he wants me to get me into a good job at the local big engineering firm(where he used to work). down with reality!!!! i told him i didnt want to end up working in a job i was misserable at, hoping for a 401k. haha. i dont' plan on "not killing myself" just so i can feed kids and a wife. just so that all the people around me are feed and have a house over there heads.

    life can more than that. anyways, long comment...

    much love,

    justin

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