NaBloPoMo
I’ve signed my doom for the next month. I just signed up for NaBloPoMo, which means that I should be posting every day for the month of November. I’ve been meaning to sign up for this for about two weeks, but I keep forgetting. Someone mentioned to me that it was nearing that time today, so I finally got off my tookus and signed up.
I’ve been really really slacking with the blog lately, and maybe this will kick me into high gear.
I thought about doing a “conspiracy theory of the day” set of blogs, but I decided to avoid doing that. I have several books (plus the Internet!) on the topic, but I just don’t have time to do the proper research on the conspiracy theories. Maybe I’ll throw in one or two here and there, though.
My plan is to do free associative writing. I’ve written a Perl script to pull out 5 words from the Linux dictionary word list (/usr/share/dict/words). I’ll pick one of those words, and then free associate single words or short phrases about the word that I pick. I’ll do that for about two minutes, and then I’ll pick a word/phrase from my list, and write about that for at least 5 minutes, or until I’ve exhausted my thoughts on the topic… whichever is longer.
There are 479,625 words in the file. That should result in some interesting things.
If this is your first time here, and you want to know more about me, then read through the archives. I think you’ll get a pretty good idea about who I am from my writings.
Here’s to hoping that I can post 30 days in a row!
PS: My son is due on the 21st, so my posts around that time and after that time may revolve around him… Just a fair warning.
