{"id":45,"date":"2004-08-24T11:33:08","date_gmt":"2004-08-24T18:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp\/?p=45"},"modified":"2004-08-24T11:33:08","modified_gmt":"2004-08-24T18:33:08","slug":"post-vaca-overload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2004\/08\/24\/post-vaca-overload\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-Vaca Overload"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just returned this morning from a nice little summer break, filled with some absolutely fruitless striper\/bluefish fishing along with some kayaking, hiking, etc. As an aside, if anyone knows what the stripers are hitting down at Popham beach<\/a>, feel free to drop me a line – I tried mackerel, deceiver, sand eel, and random bait fish patterns – zippo. Got shut out both days, as did a few friends. But good excuse to hang by the water in any case, so good times.<\/p>\n

But the problem with being out for 3 days is the few hundred emails that pile up, and given my increasing addiction to blogs, a few hundred of those as well. Then there’s the regular news and announcements – which are fortunately slow given the summer doldrums – but all in all, makes for a lot of catch up.<\/p>\n

That in turn means that for the first day I get back – at a minimum – I suffer from what Neal Stephenson describes here<\/a>, “continuous partial attention.” Unfortunately, Stephenson’s preferred mechanism for addressing this concern – i.e. to radically limit incoming information streams, be they email, business proposals or the like – simply isn’t an option. <\/p>\n

As a result, I’m always on the prowl for software that can make me more productive. No luck yet getting Dashboard<\/a> to run on my test box – haven’t sorted through all the masked dependencies in Gentoo as yet – but that’s the sort of thing that might help. Not a total solution of course – as I still have to sort though information – but anything that’ll help me sort it, I’m for. <\/p>\n

In the meantime, if I’m a bit slow with the email – have faith, I’ll get to you ASAP \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just returned this morning from a nice little summer break, filled with some absolutely fruitless striper\/bluefish fishing along with some kayaking, hiking, etc. As an aside, if anyone knows what the stripers are hitting down at Popham beach, feel free to drop me a line – I tried mackerel, deceiver, sand eel, and random bait<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[35,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fishing","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}