Digital Alterity

I’ve been doing the whole Getting Things Done thing for several months now, and I have accumulated quite the project list. Keep in mind that in GTD a “project” is nothing more than something that takes more than one next action to accomplish an envisioned goal. Today in my weekly review—which I really tend to do about every other day to keep rein on myself—I stopped to think about how disparate and strange my projects actually are. I include them here strictly for entertainment purposes.

Add comments to Bactroid.net
Keep up with soccer more
Schedule a weekend with the guys
Send out team leader notes for 2005-07-26
Make RAUF jobs run simultaneously
Automate backup system
Finish Knights of the Old Republic
Unclog the spare bathroom drain
Hook up video game systems
Learn French
Organize Magazines
Get new Gator 1 Card
Replace broken light bulbs
Put software registration codes into NV
Knit a sock for Jen
Move to new apartment
Knit a cozy for my camera
Knit alpaca sock
Create a DVD of family reunion for Allyson’s family
Add ping to ChangeLogs
Get office ready for new on-call rotation
Write article about Garden of Gethsemane
Add categories to ChangeLogs
Replace scheduling request form
Consider next place to live
Knit a baby blanket for the Consolo baby
Buy a new car
Hang thermometer
Set up computers in new apartment
Backup home directory on invoker
Sync phone to pick up new Address Book entries
Set up kitchen in new apartment
Unpack books
Redesign Digital Alterity to work like a typical blog

Keep in mind that all of these projects are currently active and have an associated next action on my “to do” list. See yourself or your project on my list? You can be assured that your particular project will get done. It’s in the pool of things I can do/move forward.

We Wants It, Precious

Sony has released a download video service in Japan for the PSP. Now I know better than to get my hopes up because I’m very prone to gadget utopianism and an I-want-a-pony attitude, but I can’t imagine how cool the possibilities are. If Sony could convince people to buy in to such a download video service, the possibilities would be enough to make me implant a PSP into my arm mark-of-the-beast style. All I ask of a video service is simple (and extremely unlikely). Allow me to:

1. Watch the shows I want at a reasonable price. (99 cents per show?) They could even charge me per view if they wanted as long as they kept the effing price down.

2. Download shows regardless of the market in which they originate. I should be able to download British sports programs or new Japanese anime regardless of my geographic location. It’s called globalization, boys. Get on board.

3. Allow me to download sports matches. Convince as many leagues as you possibly can to buy into this. If you can’t get the big boys like the English Premiership or the NBA to release their valuable properties, then let the free market take over. Smaller leagues like Japan’s J League or the Spanish ACB would be much easier to convince, and maybe once they started cornering a new market it would force the big leagues in.

Do this, and I will buy any manor of hardware to participate in such a service.

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