Mind dump

[davidn]

I haven't done a "current state of the whiteboard" post in a while. As I'm about to clear it up a bit, here's a preservation of its contents.



Everything scrawled on there has a meaning and a use. If only I could remember what half of them were.

Comments

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

I always love finding old scraps of paper like that, where I was working something out in my head and just needed some 'scratch space', and it still feels 'familiar' in some way even though it's totally inscrutable after so long. :)

[davidn]

For a very long time, I kept a notepad in my jacket pocket that served this purpose. I still remember the meaning behind most of it even with my awful note-taking style, but there is a line that simply says "FIVE? (1:4 X)" which I have been unable to decipher for many years.

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

Fantastic. :) We're aliens to our own selves, across enough time...

You just reminded me that to this day, my parents don't know what my first (multisyllabic) word was -- I would apparently insist "tenadee", growing more and more frustrated when no-one understood me. (My second word was 'pooka', which they finally interpreted when it expanded to 'compooka', which has been a nickname for 'computer' in my house ever since... they should have been worried then, I suppose. :P)

[kjorteo]

That or you were such a furry even then that you had the power to bend time and space to your will by making furry references to games over a decade before they were actually made. You being you, this is the theory I choose to believe.

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

Kjorteo, please. I think it's obvious that I'm such a furry that I influenced the subconscious name choices of video game developers half a world away, forward in time. :D

[davidn]

To me, a Pooka is an ugly Amiga spectre thing from Knightmare (an initial image search has been fruitless and I don't want to trawl through a billion pages of episode summaries). Still, the Odin Sphere version is much cuter.