ILX's Oblique Strategy for the Day

22 February 2010:

Disconnect from desire

23 February 2010:

Things are not as bad as they seem.
They are worse than that.
They are also better than that.

fripp?

fropp.

xpost, yeah

24 February 2010:

Simply a matter of work

25 February 2010:

Discard the superfluous

26 February 2010:

Always give yourself credit for having more than personality

27 February 2010:

Think of the radio

28 February 2010:

Just below the surface of our everyday world lie riches.

1 March 2010:

Use "unqualified" people.

^if only prospective employees took heed

* employers

see how unqualfied i am

2 March 2010:

Mechanicalize something idiosyncratic

3 March 2010:

Make a sudden, destructive, unpredictable action; incorporate.

I think i want to name my company Greenhouse Media.

4 March 2010:

We have the right to choose our form of suffering.

In Soviet Russia, a form of suffering chooses you.

i misread that as 'we have the right to choose our own form of duffering' and it made me happy.

5 March 2010:

The quality of our perceptions determines the quality of our judgement.
Our judgement determines how we interact with the world.
How we interact with the world changes the world.
So, the quality of our perceptions changes the world.

the banality of our truisms more like

6 March 2010:

Lost in useless territory

7 March 2010:

Give the game away

I smell book option by September.

Oblique Hipster Puppy

8 March 2010:

A beginning is invisible.

There is some useful advice here!

9 March 2010:

Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do and do the last thing on the list

10 March 2010:

What would your closest friend do?

11 March 2010:

How would you have done it?

with my closest friend?

hahaaaaa

12 March 2010:

Tidy up

Oblique commands from your mother!

13 March 2010: Finish your vegetables

13 March 2010:

Don't stress one thing more than another

14 March 2010:

Destroy
— nothing
— the most important thing

14 March 2010 = Zen.

*sits in the lotus position facing the wall contemplating this new instruction until the words lose their meaning*
(and by doing so for hours, destroying time, which is both nothing and the most important thing)

15 March 2010:

The science is in knowing, the art in perceiving.

16 March 2010:

Water

brb gonna go get some oblique strategy

17 March 2010:

We have three rights: the right to work, the right to pay to work, and the right to suffer the consequences of our work.
We have three obligations: the obligation to work, the obligation to pay to work, and the obligation to suffer the consequences of our work.

18 March 2010:

Ask your body

it refuses to answer

all I get is a "busy" tone

17 March 2010:

We have three rights: the right to work, the right to pay to work, and the right to suffer the consequences of our work.
We have three obligations: the obligation to work, the obligation to pay to work, and the obligation to suffer the consequences of our work.

― Religious Embolism (WmC), 17 March 2010 15:33 (Yesterday)

lol national holiday

18 March 2010:

Ask your body

dear god day after national holiday

my body says "glad you don't drink like that on the regular"

My body only has wants and questions. No answers at all.

19 March 2010:

Overtly resist change