cut n paste 11 September 2008
There’s a lot of cutting and pasting going on on this laptop at the moment. I am totally rejigging the sequence of the first four chapters and it’s confusing stuff. On the one hand it’s brilliant to be able to do such things at the touch of a button but I am always wracked with doubt as to whether I have properly copied everything and worried that I’ll delete something important and not miss it till the book is printed, and then also it’s hard to tell if the new sequence is right when it’s all put together. I have trouble using the actual laptop for that last bit. I need to print out ye olde paper version and hold it in my hands and go through it. There was a moment yesterday when I almost reached for the scissors and glue to do the whole job physically, but I am also amending within sections as I go, so laptop it is…though there’s always that big red pen for deletions and a pencil to write in new bits…hmmm
Still waiting for the world to end courtesy of the physicists at CERN. I think all they’re doing at the moment is whooshing protons, and so on, around the loop – I don’t think they have actually ‘blown anything up’ yet? I read that rather than make a deadly* black hole they’ll get a cure for cancer and suchlike, and if that’s true it means I have misunderstood what they’re up to, I think. Good if they can do all that, though, and I’ll not complain. *By the way, ‘deadly’ means brilliant too in Ireland.
