34 Comments on “I Am SOOOOOOOOOOO Unmotivated To Post Anything Today”

1. Some weeks are like that. My brain takes one look at the screen, harumphs, and goes back to snoring.

2. You have no idea how much hope runs through me upon hearing this from a successful, impactful author. Enough to stop staring at space, though?

   Umm…

   I’ll get back to you on that.

3. Right . .

4. Oh, heavens, yes! There are lots of days when it’s like “Okay, working on this thing or… clean the office? do laundry? cook something?” and almost no matter what the alternative activity is, it wins. ~sigh~

5. Ok, *now* who do you have stunt blogging?

6. Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about… your mother.

7. I’ve no idea what you are talking about. (I’m also a terrible liar) :D

8. exercise!

9. I think your brain is saying, “Outside. I want to be outside. With the blue sky and the green green grass.”

10. Not even after that USA Today opinion piece?

11. Yeah. I just came off a month of that. But it wasn’t always so much not being motivated, but more a combination of that alternating with not wanting to post anything because I knew if I did, it would turn into a rant. But, I must be over feeling guilty about imposing my rants on anyone, because out of the days I’ve been back to posting daily, at least two of those posts are at least slightly on the rantish side. Maybe that just proves I shouldn’t read or listen to the news.

12. Apparently, not eniugh unmotivated . . .

13. Dang spell check . . . That should be enough . . . Just like I’m not unmotivated enough to not reply.

14. Days? Weeks? Months? Years….?

15. Love it! Keplerian Physics made a great location for science fiction…
    http://phys.org/news/2014-04-entire-star-cluster-thrown-galaxy.html

    Entire star cluster thrown out of its galaxy
    3 hours ago

    {Image: This artist’s illustration shows the hypervelocity star cluster HVGC-1 escaping from the supergiant elliptical galaxy M87. HVGC-1 is the first runaway star cluster discovered by astronomers. It is fated to drift through intergalactic space. Credit: David A. Aguilar (CfA)

    The galaxy known as M87 has a fastball that would be the envy of any baseball pitcher. It has thrown an entire star cluster toward us at more than two million miles per hour. The newly discovered cluster, which astronomers named HVGC-1, is now on a fast journey to nowhere. Its fate: to drift through the void between the galaxies for all time.

    “Astronomers have found runaway stars before, but this is the first time we’ve found a runaway star cluster,” says Nelson Caldwell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Caldwell is lead author on the study, which will be published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters and is available online.

    The “HVGC” in HVGC-1 stands for hypervelocity globular cluster. Globular clusters are relics of the early universe. These groupings usually contain thousands of stars crammed into a ball a few dozen light-years across. The Milky Way galaxy is home to about 150 globular clusters. The giant elliptical galaxy M87, in contrast, holds thousands.

    It took a stroke of luck to find HVGC-1. The discovery team has spent years studying the space around M87. They first sorted targets by color to separate stars and galaxies from globular clusters. Then they used the Hectospec instrument on the MMT Telescope in Arizona to examine hundreds of globular clusters in detail.

    A computer automatically analyzed the data and calculated the speed of every cluster. Any oddities were examined by hand. Most of those turned out to be glitches, but HVGC-1 was different. Its surprisingly high velocity was real.

    {image: The runaway star cluster HVGC-1 (circled) in a photo from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. The cluster is zooming toward us at a speed of more than two million miles per hour. Credit: CFHT}

    “We didn’t expect to find anything moving that fast,” says Jay Strader of Michigan State University, a co-author on the study.

    How did HVGC-1 get ejected at such a high speed? Astronomers aren’t sure but say that one scenario depends on M87 having a pair of supermassive black holes at its core. The star cluster wandered too close to those black holes. Many of its outer stars were plucked off, but the dense core of the cluster remained intact. The two black holes then acted like a slingshot, flinging the cluster away at tremendous speed.

    HVGC-1 is moving so fast that it is doomed to escape M87 altogether. In fact, it may have already left the galaxy and be sailing out into intergalactic space.

    {image: The monstrous elliptical galaxy M87 is the home of several trillion stars, a supermassive black hole, and a family of 15,000 globular star clusters. One of those globular clusters, HVGC-1, is escaping the galaxy after being flung outward at tremendous speed. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team}

    Background
    M87, source of the hypervelocity cluster HVGC-1, is a king among galaxies. This supergiant elliptical galaxy weighs as much as 6 trillion Suns, making it one of the most massive galaxies in the nearby universe.

    The discovery of HVGC-1 suggests that the core of M87 holds not one but two supermassive black holes. This must be the result of a long-ago collision between two galaxies, which merged to form a single giant galaxy. The same fate awaits our own Milky Way, which will collide with the Andromeda galaxy in a few billion years to create an ellilptical galaxy that astronomers have dubbed Milkomeda.

    More information: Paper:
    http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.6319
    Journal reference: Astrophysical Journal Letters
    Provided by Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

16. Not even a cat picture? Wow, things must be bad.

    Seriously, though, I’ve had days like that where I’m on auto-pilot and just spend the day hoping nothing too crazy comes down the pipeline.

17. Well, you have gotten a bit beaten up lately. That can take the wind out of anyone’s sails.

18. Greg:

    Beat up about what?

19. I’ve been slowly reading through all the “rebuttal” articles, most of the comments, as well as many of the articles those articles link to, and their comments.

20. This pretty much covers April for me. I’m looking forward to rifling through May for the motivation to write something.

21. I don’t consider that being “beat up,” though. I consider that taking part in (and being part of) a larger discussion. I weathered it fine, in part because I understand that my own point of view is contingent on my own circumstance and that other people with other circumstances will have other points of view.

    So, yeah. My feeling eeeeeerrrrrrggggghhh isn’t about that.

22. Right. For some reason I can’t seem to be able to focus on writing my memoir. If only I found the same motivation I have for blogging for that!

23. (1) Great!
    (2) sorry you’re feeling eerrgghh, regardless of the reasons.

24. well if you don’t have time to post, you do have time for one of Stephen Boyett’s workout videos… then you can post a video of yourself puking.

    they are pretty damn hard.

25. thats what im writing about today friend

26. @John: Yeah, getting beat up is what alot of people are doing to Larry Correia. John is NOT one of them.

27. Hagrid pointed down into the crates.
    “Eurgh!” squealed Lavender Brown, jumping backward.
    “Eurgh” just about summed up the Blast-Ended Skrewts in Harry’s opinion.

28. Dude, let it slide. Think tropical.

29. Mildly bored as well.

    Considering writing a Star Trek fanfic just for kicks.

30. Interesting. You and I are both feeling similarly, except I have 30 10 year olds staring back at me, so I must push on….

31. I wish that on my erghhh days, I could come up with something like the traitor to men blog post.

32. You could always comment on the Star Wars casting. That there is certainly some casting, by jingo. With real cast members and all.

    Or you could fold the washing, like I’m going to instead of editing the thing I am meant to edit.

33. i know how you feel, been on this shit for a week now, sometimes its hard to think of new things to write about, need some inspiration or something.

34. Oh no! Writers block! You need to take some kind of verbal laxative to loosen things up. Try reading a pulp romance novel. Or 3. Or 10.