rumination
Wednesday, August 7th, 2002 04:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chanaleh
At work, I just started in on a project (for which my time has been earmarked for the rest of August) that mostly entails opening up PDFs of anywhere from 25 to 200 MB, making certain minor changes as needed, and resaving them. The saving process takes approximately 5 minutes per 100 MB of file (60 seconds per 20 MB? 3 seconds per MB? You get the idea). And no, it can't save in the background, it takes up the entire attention of the computer, so all I can do is sit there and wait for it. (With the larger files, I can go make some tea and come back, but when it's only going to be 90 seconds or so, it seems most efficient to just sit tight.)
What this means is that I have lots of spare brain cycles to sit and think about things. Interesting things, big-picture things, life-the-universe-and-everything things. Which, in turn, is encouraging me to want to plough more of those thoughts into LJ (how prescient of me to have initiated this just last week).
Except that, as I was saying, the moments I could best spend typing into LJ are the very moments when the computer is busy saving my monster files across the network... >:-)
What this means is that I have lots of spare brain cycles to sit and think about things. Interesting things, big-picture things, life-the-universe-and-everything things. Which, in turn, is encouraging me to want to plough more of those thoughts into LJ (how prescient of me to have initiated this just last week).
Except that, as I was saying, the moments I could best spend typing into LJ are the very moments when the computer is busy saving my monster files across the network... >:-)