Dumb Riffs » officeness http://karlwhitney.com/dumbriffs Karl Whitney's blog Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:11:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://karlwhitney.com/dumbriffs/2009/08/footnote-humdrum/ http://karlwhitney.com/dumbriffs/2009/08/footnote-humdrum/#comments Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:06:50 +0000 Karl Whitney http://www.karlwhitney.com/dumbriffs/?p=567 I’ve got my head down working on an introduction to my thesis at the moment, which entails a lot of sitting in a chair for long periods and, inevitably, quite a lot of internet browsing in lieu of quantifiable work. Thinking of buying a new bike? Well, I wasn’t a minute ago, but it now seems to be the most important item on my agenda, as I surf manufacturers’ sites, trying out my close-reading skills on the specifications of each bicycle. And I’ve also discovered that reliable time-wasters such as Twitter and Facebook become over-familiar and quite superfluous with overuse. Maybe that’s the story of the Twentieth/Twenty-First Centuries: new and innovative technology adopted quickly and exhausted before we’ve even got a chance to know whether it’s actually useful. Anyway, back to combing through footnotes – you know, the kind of activity that motivates me out of bed, motivates me down the stairs and out of the door, and motivates me down the street every morning.*

* Motivation, Motivation, Motivation - Peter Cook on Clive Anderson’s chat-show.

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