The Player's Litany
The Crystal Wind is the Storm, and the Storm is Data, and the Data is Life.
--The Players Litany from 'The Long Run' by Daniel Keys Moran
I find that I am somewhat addicted to data, information, knowledge, and wisdom. Especially when it is of a high quality. I don't watch much TV, or even movies (on DVD) anymore, largely because all my free time is spent reading online. I love ideas, especially elegant ones, in any form. (This does carry over to TV sometimes. See, for example, Joss Whedon, and Battlestar Galactica (of which I recently bought Season One on DVD and am attempting to watch)). I find that I have less and less patience for dross. BoingBoing and Lifehacker have occasional gems, but overall waste too much of my time compared to the s/n ration of Tim Bray and Mark Pilgrim. Gray's Anatomy, while it used to be remarkably witty, is annoying me more and more lately. Heroes has my attention. LOST is dangerously close to losing it. Part of the reason that I love Linux (in general, and Debian in specific) is that it is fairly consistently elegant, at every level, despite being sometimes clunky and cranky and behind the curve. Windows and Microsoft, while sometimes surprising me with their ideas, make me want to throw things, especially if I have to go beyond scratching the surface -- it's ugly in there. Perl and PHP can express some amazing stuff despite their warts, but Lisp always strikes me as beautiful (I really should learn it...).
All this to say, the older I get, the pickier I am with my attention and time. I have too much that I want to and have to do, and never enough time to do it. And I spend too much time being a consumer; I want to become a producer.
(I thought about making all those references into links, but I don't have the time right now. :-)
--The Players Litany from 'The Long Run' by Daniel Keys Moran
I find that I am somewhat addicted to data, information, knowledge, and wisdom. Especially when it is of a high quality. I don't watch much TV, or even movies (on DVD) anymore, largely because all my free time is spent reading online. I love ideas, especially elegant ones, in any form. (This does carry over to TV sometimes. See, for example, Joss Whedon, and Battlestar Galactica (of which I recently bought Season One on DVD and am attempting to watch)). I find that I have less and less patience for dross. BoingBoing and Lifehacker have occasional gems, but overall waste too much of my time compared to the s/n ration of Tim Bray and Mark Pilgrim. Gray's Anatomy, while it used to be remarkably witty, is annoying me more and more lately. Heroes has my attention. LOST is dangerously close to losing it. Part of the reason that I love Linux (in general, and Debian in specific) is that it is fairly consistently elegant, at every level, despite being sometimes clunky and cranky and behind the curve. Windows and Microsoft, while sometimes surprising me with their ideas, make me want to throw things, especially if I have to go beyond scratching the surface -- it's ugly in there. Perl and PHP can express some amazing stuff despite their warts, but Lisp always strikes me as beautiful (I really should learn it...).
All this to say, the older I get, the pickier I am with my attention and time. I have too much that I want to and have to do, and never enough time to do it. And I spend too much time being a consumer; I want to become a producer.
(I thought about making all those references into links, but I don't have the time right now. :-)