lazy weekend

I was meant to do a lot of work this weekend, namely building tcbs, initial tasks, loading and switching to them. Instead I ended up playing games, watching movies and eating a lot of chocolate ice cream. Next weekend I'm in london for the wedding celebration of a friend.

Anyway it sounds very lame, but the one thing I actually did do was thinking while playing. It's not really thinking, but when you come across a problem you don't know how to solve yet, it really helps to do absolutely irrelevant things for a few hours. It shouldn't be something that requires too much concentration, but it should still have you involved so that you get rid of stress, like cooking, or playing games. While you're doing something, under the hood you give yourself time to think of a solution, and suddenly something pops up in your head. And that thing is usually a shortcut that would greatly ease your work compared to the useless progress you would have done if you actually continued to work straight after you stumbled upon the problem. What's even worse, is you've spent that time working rather then clearing up your mind. So the conclusion is, sometimes playing games or reading the papers (even for a few hours) is legitimately acceptable and part of engineering. I've also seen this on an article on some IBM website written by a hacker.