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Higher math

1 unsolvable novel problem + 1 hour on the treadmill = 1 breakthrough

I need to remember the results of this equation.

February 5, 2006 By

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  • anonymous
    February 4, 2006 at 9:26 am

    now all you need is a keyboard built into the treadmill. i’m surprised someone hasn’t thought of it yet… or a dvd player built in. I like a big screen.

  • rootnibot
    February 4, 2006 at 10:23 am

    It’s showers for me. Whenever I’m really stuck at writing, I take a shower, and then the problem works itself out. Then I just need to remember things until I can get to the computer. Back when I had a gym, the exercise bike used to work pretty well too.

    Congrats on showing the problem that you’re the boss.

  • pnsm
    February 4, 2006 at 2:35 pm

    Yup. I do some of my best coding/design work in the kitchen and bathroom. (=

  • jactitation
    February 5, 2006 at 12:27 am

    Yay! Thanks also for reminding me it’s time to head to the gym for me, too.

  • dirtylibrarian
    February 5, 2006 at 12:40 am

    I’m so amazed you can stay on that thing for an hour.

    Are you reading/listening to something?

  • thisisnotanlj
    February 5, 2006 at 2:14 am

    listening. steve made a workout mix a while ago that features a lot of dead kennedys. totally couldn’t make it without that.

  • nevikmoore
    February 5, 2006 at 1:23 pm

    Sure beats 1 unsolvable drawing problem + 2 hours blogging instead = 3 years unfinished work.

    Congrats!

  • bgliterary
    February 5, 2006 at 9:54 pm

    Hmm, that actually seems like a fairly equitable trade-off…sweat off a pound or two and make a big leap forward on the novel. A complete no-loss proposition.

    Now, how many extra hours would it take on the treadmill for an entirely new book? ;^)

  • thisisnotanlj
    February 6, 2006 at 3:38 am

    welp, after i finish my revisions, i guess we’ll find out…

  • dirtylibrarian
    February 7, 2006 at 4:29 pm

    One of these days I’m gonna have to get me one of them em pee three players.

  • anonymous
    February 9, 2006 at 1:10 am

    I’m getting stuck here also and some idiot next to me feels like she’s my personal editor. Nah, she’s doing a pretty messed up job at it. j/k
    yeah well, this idiot just said she has a “name” i disagree.
    -Nayely

    oh my god, she’s even correcting what i’m writing here. what a bitch!

    this is the “idiot”. my name is claudia, and i’m no idiot. if i was an idiot, do you think i’d be correcting her story, no huh?

    dumb! she’s just giving her stupid comments about. (The bitch swears i listen to her, hehe)

    I gotta end this she’s trying to start and argument over this comment.

  • anonymous
    February 17, 2006 at 2:29 pm

    Yahoo! Thank you for proving my girlfriend wrong!!
    She kept telling me that working out will give me muscles and not brains… and that I shouldnt spend so much time in the gym….
    I should show my girl this. She loves you, and now, she’ll let me go to the gym for an extended peroid of time. And maybe she’ll join me.
    Yay~

    -Girl Anachronism