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<title>Doug Suiter's Thinking In Ink RSS Blog Feed</title><link>http://www.thinkinginink.net/index.html</link><description>Thinking In Ink RSS</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:creator>doug@bigspace.tv</dc:creator><dc:rights>Copyright 2009 Douglas Suiter</dc:rights><dc:date>2010-06-15T15:26:21+10:00</dc:date><admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.realmacsoftware.com/" />
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<lastBuildDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:20:15 +1000</lastBuildDate><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/ThinkingInInk" /><feedburner:info xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" uri="thinkinginink" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><item><title /><dc:creator>doug@bigspace.tv</dc:creator><category>None</category><dc:date>2010-06-15T15:26:21+10:00</dc:date><link>http://www.thinkinginink.net/files/7d6cd38b7cd2db5fab75c5e237376a39-35.html#unique-entry-id-35</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thinkinginink.net/files/7d6cd38b7cd2db5fab75c5e237376a39-35.html#unique-entry-id-35</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I saw a book once that said &ldquo;Laugh a minute&rdquo; and I thought - but hang on I&rsquo;m quite a slow reader.     I saw a book once on a cofee table that said on the cover &ldquo;Unputdownable&rdquo;.    Aparently not.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title /><dc:creator>doug@bigspace.tv</dc:creator><category>None</category><dc:date>2010-06-15T15:22:33+10:00</dc:date><link>http://www.thinkinginink.net/files/cb363a03d8b122026ba9cf58cedfd911-34.html#unique-entry-id-34</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thinkinginink.net/files/cb363a03d8b122026ba9cf58cedfd911-34.html#unique-entry-id-34</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[i am probably not going to get far and if I do i am probably not goint to last long and if I do I&rsquo;m probably not going to be remembered and if I am I won&rsquo;t be around to appreciate it so lets just start at the bottom people - a little expectation management.


There are things that I wasn&rsquo;t taught.    And i resent not being taught these things but I&rsquo;m not one to sit around and mope - I&rsquo;m guess one to get up on stage and mope standing up - I am making a concerted effort to try to understand these things as a grown man.  ...  It&rsquo;s like that song &ldquo;Love is all around&rdquo;.  

...When you realise bullshit is all around you see with a new clarity that the world is potent and beautiful and promsing and bursting with fresh promise and life every single day and the only thing wrong with it is that its full of absolute cunts.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Australian small breast ban featured on Free Talk Live</title><dc:creator>doug@bigspace.tv</dc:creator><category>libertarianism</category><category>free talk live</category><category>sex</category><category>Pornography</category><category>freedom</category><dc:date>2010-02-01T14:05:04+11:00</dc:date><link>http://www.thinkinginink.net/files/ftlbreastban.html#unique-entry-id-33</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thinkinginink.net/files/ftlbreastban.html#unique-entry-id-33</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The ever brilliant FREE TALK LIVE had a little something to say about the Australian ban on small breasted women in porn.


I&rsquo;ve posted the section in it&rsquo;s entirety (29mins) below.  


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You can subscribe to Free Talk Live via iTunes here.  

...They made at least one bloody good point - the logic behind this could just as easily apply on a ban against &lsquo;brazilians&rsquo;.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Fools Gold:  Glittering Generalities &amp; Clean Feeds</title><dc:creator>doug@bigspace.tv</dc:creator><category>clean feed, censorship, glittering generalities</category><dc:date>2010-01-03T01:14:49+11:00</dc:date><link>http://www.thinkinginink.net/files/cleanfeed.html#unique-entry-id-28</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thinkinginink.net/files/cleanfeed.html#unique-entry-id-28</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I&rsquo;ll spare you any conspiracy theories that the clean feed is a con job to give the government greater power - but I will say that once censorship of the internet is in place it is an inevitability that it will be abused by the first politician who can use it to his or her advantage.


...It is assumed that its OK to trade away my freedom to access what I want to on the internet - to put that decision in the hands of other grown men and women whose politics and values I do not necessarily agree with - all so that parents do not have to do their due diligence to regulate what their children do and don&rsquo;t see on the internet.  


...What you are teaching your child is that they do not have to regulate themselves - that others will do it for them - and that government censorship is OK if you agree with what is being censored.   

...Having thought long and hard about this Clean Feed internet filter proposal, I have come up with a whole range of reasons why its not for me, despite the fact that you want to make it for me by forcing my internet provider to filter my internet before i get a chance to take responsibility for myself.


...But if you feel you ought to pre-emptively prevent the possession of those images, and that I ought to hand over regulation of the most purely democratic forum in history to a government elected by a majority, then you are up for a fight.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Um...why does my driver's license expire?</title><dc:creator>doug@bigspace.tv</dc:creator><category>libertarianism</category><category>rTA</category><category>government</category><category>tax</category><category>driver's license</category><category>legislation last</category><dc:date>2009-11-21T09:32:31+11:00</dc:date><link>http://www.thinkinginink.net/files/why_does_my_drivers_license_expire.html#unique-entry-id-17</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thinkinginink.net/files/why_does_my_drivers_license_expire.html#unique-entry-id-17</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[My perfectly good Driver's License which has a picture that looks like me and my current address on it, which was perfectly good  yesterday...today is not valid anymore.  


...But after that, its not been about qualifications or safety at all - because all I do is hand the money over and in return the RTA give me a new plastic card - no questions asked - every time.  


...Its one thing to argue about what you get for your money when you are taxed, but when it is nothing....literally NOTHING...and we still line up and pay...isn't it something that no-one seems to have challeneged that fact?  

...Since I never get re-tested, my picture on my passport gets updated far less frequently and my address can theoretically change at any time, could you please explain to me why my driver's license should expire at all. 

...I know the reply says &ldquo;Licensing fees charged in NSW are reflective of the cost of developing, delivering and maintaining the driver licensing system.&rdquo;  but in the very next breath it says &ldquo;The revenue collected by the RTA may be used to fund road safety and construction initiatives which are of benefit to the wider community&rdquo;.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>If Australians can be 'A Resilient People', then Asians can be bad drivers.</title><dc:creator>doug@bigspace.tv</dc:creator><category>bullshit</category><category>Politics</category><category>racism</category><category>nationalism</category><category>generalizations</category><dc:date>2009-11-13T11:13:18+11:00</dc:date><link>http://www.thinkinginink.net/files/positivegeneralizations.html#unique-entry-id-16</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thinkinginink.net/files/positivegeneralizations.html#unique-entry-id-16</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[When these positive generalizations gush from the mouths of interest groups and politicians and then wash up on television, radio and in the newspapers I can't help but look around and see if anyone is balking the way I am.  

...But those who identify as part of a 'working family' let the warm self-stroking non-sense wash over them as they nod in agreement...and no one seems to call anyone on it.


...But you can't have a conversation over whether 'single mothers deserve better' because the fact is you could find some who actually deserve worse. 


...Swap out the words "Sluts" with "Nice People", "Bad with Money", "Attractive", "Saints", "Evil","Generous" or any other value based term (positive or negative) you can come up with and the problem is the same.  


...And that's my point:  We are so quick to admonish a negative stereotype but a positive one is spoken by many commentators and politicians openly with - not shame - but with actual pride.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Apple is about as anti-competitive as KFC</title><dc:creator>doug@bigspace.tv</dc:creator><category>apple</category><category>apple computer</category><category>legislation last</category><category>libertarianism</category><dc:date>2009-11-11T08:16:25+11:00</dc:date><link>http://www.thinkinginink.net/files/appleandkfc.html#unique-entry-id-15</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thinkinginink.net/files/appleandkfc.html#unique-entry-id-15</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Or have you ever bought a bottle of wine and then tried to walk into a restaurant only to have them say "You can't bring that in here, we are a licensed establishment and you can't bring your own".


...What exactly is the problem with Apple Inc. wanting to do whatever the hell they want with their OS and letting people decide whether or not they are going to buy it with whatever restrictive conditions it is sold with?


...You get to choose whether or not you want to buy and use the iPhone, the iMac, the iPod and OSX - at the level of quality that they offer - with all the restrictions that come with it.


...I consider the fact that Apple can control what exactly is in my Laptop and design the software environment accordingly to be a massive advantage in both the initial design of the Mac environment and in subsequent trouble shooting of anything that does go wrong.


...Apple computers would not be apple computers if their OS ran on just any machine because they would not have the hardware profits as a foundation on which to concentrate on other innovations.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Running As Slow As I Can</title><dc:creator>doug@bigspace.tv</dc:creator><category>Writing</category><category>screenwriting</category><category>productivity</category><category>fitness</category><dc:date>2009-10-28T14:52:15+11:00</dc:date><link>http://www.thinkinginink.net/files/running_slow.html#unique-entry-id-14</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thinkinginink.net/files/running_slow.html#unique-entry-id-14</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[	A few weeks back i was jogging and my then flatmate who worked in he caf&eacute; in the local park where I jogged said "Hey - i saw you running today."  

...	She has done a lot of running in her time and in a couple of weeks was going to do a half marathon so when she offered a peice of advice to me I listened.  

...	She said "Yeah if you want to jog over a distance you really ought to try running as slow as you can".


...Now that my goal is to run as slow as I can (that's running - not walking) I actually cover more ground.


	So this morning, about 6 weeks later after I have ben practicing this running as slow as I can thing it occurs to me that maybe I can do the same thing with my life in general...
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Writing About Hating Writing</title><dc:creator>doug@bigspace.tv</dc:creator><category>Writing</category><category>screenwriting</category><category>filmmking</category><category>productivity</category><dc:date>2009-07-28T18:44:46+10:00</dc:date><link>http://www.thinkinginink.net/files/Writing_About_Hating_Writing.html#unique-entry-id-10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thinkinginink.net/files/Writing_About_Hating_Writing.html#unique-entry-id-10</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I have some time off in Europe and I&rsquo;m using the time to get some short film scripts out so that when I get back to Australia I have something I can direct and produce.


...So after I had shown Myles the script, and after I had shown him another short that I wrote a little earlier, he had a lot of praise which is always nice, and any criticism was criticism that i had already identified myself.  

...Maybe if I bang out a few thoughts here it will help me to make sense of the writing and learn to stop worrying and love the process - or at least not lose all hope when I&rsquo;m in the middle of it!


...I have no idea what is going to be on page 13 of my next script, but if I&rsquo;m confident my fingers will tell me and that means I have a good reason to keep going.


...If a conversation doesn&rsquo;t move forward and progress sentence by sentence, idea by idea,  then its a conversation I don&rsquo;t want to be wasting my time having.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Trance of Productivity - Part 3</title><dc:creator>doug@bigspace.tv</dc:creator><category>productivity</category><category>goals</category><category>procrastination</category><category>focus</category><dc:date>2009-07-26T19:39:00+10:00</dc:date><link>http://www.thinkinginink.net/files/The_Trance_of_Productivity_Part3.html#unique-entry-id-9</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thinkinginink.net/files/The_Trance_of_Productivity_Part3.html#unique-entry-id-9</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[So I&rsquo;m running with the train analogy today in what is the last part of my three part article of The Trance of Productivity which basically says: Always know what you&rsquo;re doing NOW...and always know what you&rsquo;re doing NEXT.


...But then there are things that don&rsquo;t even fit into the ten minute catagory - in fact, they are so small it seems stupid to even write them down so the temptation is to just do them right then and there...and the danger is that these little things derail your train.  


...In these moments it helps to think about it like this:  what you are doing is putting the train on hold, doing the quick digression and then getting back on the train.  

...Be aware that you don&rsquo;t have to answer it, but if you choose to - Just before you pick it up - think about what you are doing NOW, because it has just become your NEXT.  

...You shouldn&rsquo;t even be looking at that list unless you are writing in it, or referring to it for your NEXT thing to do after the thing you are about to do NOW.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Trance of Productivity - Part 2</title><dc:creator>doug@bigspace.tv</dc:creator><category>productivity</category><category>goals</category><category>procrastination</category><category>focus</category><dc:date>2009-07-24T21:31:47+10:00</dc:date><link>http://www.thinkinginink.net/files/The_Trance_of_Productivity_Part2.html#unique-entry-id-8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thinkinginink.net/files/The_Trance_of_Productivity_Part2.html#unique-entry-id-8</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The best part (and the reason I call it a trance) is that when you click into the loop of doing something, and deciding on what is next the process takes on an almost self perpetuating quality and you&rsquo;re not even trying to focus - your just hooked into it and it cycles along until before you know it you&rsquo;re done.


...Well, yesterday I woke up, cleaned my house, restrung my guitar, made a list of stuff I&rsquo;d like to complete, practiced guitar for an hour, bought a guitar e-book by the wonderful Desi Serna which I have been meaning to buy for ages,  started planning for my flight and accommodation for when I travel back to Australia, completed the restructuring of my hard drives after having a drive die on me, completed my Final Cut Pro instructional website which I&rsquo;ve been meaning to do for the last 3 weeks since the hard drive disaster, began the ugly process of arranging my tax, cooked some pasta, recorded a podcast, created a new forum for the release of the new Final Cut Studio, gave away 2 prizes in the podcast which sponsors had offered weeks ago and Matched an editor to a job through the Final Cut Pro Talent Registry.  


...A huge benefit of consciously deciding what you are going to do next is that you would never consciously decide to do something like, say... troll through your friends facebook photos for the next 2 hours.  

...Here&rsquo;s the trick (its the same as always):  If you do decide to check your facebook page, have something in mind that you are going to do after that, and have it mind before you login to your account.


...I don&rsquo;t want to overcomplicate this, but once you&rsquo;ve got the hang of knowing what you&rsquo;re doing now and knowing what you&rsquo;re doing next, you might realize that life is more than little tasks.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Trance of Productivity</title><dc:creator>doug@bigspace.tv</dc:creator><category>productivity</category><category>goals</category><category>procrastination</category><category>focus</category><dc:date>2009-07-23T10:13:04+10:00</dc:date><link>http://www.thinkinginink.net/files/The_Trance_of_Productivity.html#unique-entry-id-7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thinkinginink.net/files/The_Trance_of_Productivity.html#unique-entry-id-7</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I invented it a few years ago accidentally and if your the sort of person that can just easily get down to work and do what needs to be done then chances are your going to laugh at this.  

...Sure, I made up the above steps but not before years and years of simply not being able to finish a goddam cleaning session without ending up going through a bunch of old photos that I stumbled across in the process or stopping to check my emails or to put on a coffee or whatever other million things defocussed me from what I was intending to to.


But as fundamental as being able to stick to the task of cleaning up sounds its one of those things that I struggled with for years without knowing why but all the while feeling the frustration of having realized that I had wasted an entire day on not quite cleaning up a mess.


The most astonishing thing to me is that not only do things get done in the way...but they get done very, very quickly.  15 minutes of clean up trance is a LOT of cleaning up.


...I am wasting time and getting distracted and I am wondering if this CLEAN UP TRANCE thing, which has worked so damned well (as stupid as it is) can be ported over into other areas of my life.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Breaking Up With Libertarianism</title><dc:creator>doug@bigspace.tv</dc:creator><category>libertarianism</category><category>Politics</category><dc:date>2009-07-06T06:42:02+10:00</dc:date><link>http://www.thinkinginink.net/files/BreakingUpWithLibertarianism.html#unique-entry-id-3</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thinkinginink.net/files/BreakingUpWithLibertarianism.html#unique-entry-id-3</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I need to to doing two things at once at any give time - and that&rsquo;s whay I loved the podcasts - I could be say, painting a house (I have never done that) and listing to an audiobook.  ...  Anyway...the thing was I got into podcasts because they were something my temperament allowed me to really immerse myself in, in a way that other people get into THE WEST WING or LOST or whatever.


...It is a lot easier to just get taxed, accept either the left or right points of view and see government as a necessary evil and your own particular form of government (Representative Democracy - I&rsquo;m an Australian Citizen) as the best possible option with all its drawbacks.  

...Is it at all effective for me to isolate myself from the process that I disagree with on principle, and then try to protest with my meek, unproduced, uncredited voice of all ideals and no experience?   

...And just like breaking up with someone you have loved, there is the excitement of moving forward even if you don&rsquo;t know exactly how or where to.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>One</title><dc:creator>doug@bigspace.tv</dc:creator><category>Personal</category><category>introduction</category><dc:date>2009-07-06T00:55:06+10:00</dc:date><link>http://www.thinkinginink.net/files/Introduction.html#unique-entry-id-0</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thinkinginink.net/files/Introduction.html#unique-entry-id-0</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Writing is so valuable and yet you have to get through the first however many minutes before anything actually happens...before your brain clicks into it.  

...So if I spend my day doing things 5 minutes here and 5 minutes there I&rsquo;m really going to have a very fruitless day.  

...Oddly though, once you do something that you commit to by grinding through the first 15 minutes and your mind &lsquo;clicks in&rsquo;, you can accomplish a LOT in a relatively short time.  

...When you think in your mind, you drift down a beach with a current and eventually realize that you have drifted far from where your beach towel is and you never even realized it and you have no sense of how you got there.  

...I have a lot of little things in my life and I&rsquo;d like to do a bit of a stock-take.  ]]></content:encoded></item></channel>
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