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you know, david foster wallace's method for writing that book i blog about so often makes me realize that just generally tends to be how it is when someone imagines an entire world and then has to write about events in a medium that requires linear time, as the imaginer of an entire world generally tends toward total omniscience over all time and space all at once. i feel the urge to write like that every time i decide to start writing a blog after more than one thing has happened. what order do i put them in? surely not chronological! such blasphemy! i'd never write events in the order they occur!
first: i realized a method to my computing; i tend to have "stable" and "experimental" computers. i use stable computers every day for my usual purposes (e.x.: web-surfing, music, instant messaging, games, &c.), and experimental ones for computing for computing's sake (e.x.: compiling programs, doing fancy ricing stuff, sometimes foregoing a desktop entirely in favor of the tty, distrohopping, &c.). i sort of like this system... i guess? its ok. its some habit ive found myself in rather than one i engineered.
then: one of my peers had the geocaching app installed, and it reminded me that at one point i wanted to do that. so i said ok ok ok let me do that. i will do it To Day! and i installed the app and found i already had an account because i got way too ahead of myself when i first discovered it, and i logged in and it directed me to one at my local library (which is within walking distance) and then i remembered, like, man, i dont really know where anything is! but nonetheless the library is one of the only places i can walk to with no help at all,1 so its nice to find that there is a beginner-friendly cache situated in the parking lot of my local library. so i decided Let's Go and then backed up and went Wait, Hang On, Let's Do This on the Weekend. and thusly my geocaching venture is stalled until then.
i have just checked my calendar. Oh No! i have a party to go to on the 15th! and also, gossip gossip, i was invited to a hangout on the 14th but i dont really want to go but i told them i did because i did until i was invited to a party on the 15th. will i have any time to cache? we shall find out!
1 now that i have Rei, i have all that fancy GPS and Cellular stuff, which surprisingly i have lived w/o entirely until now. but that means i have a map at my disposal while traveling.
p.s.: some names i had for a hypothetical next computer (im not getting ahead of myself! paralizer is brand new! i just like to name things, ok?)
ne+ultra (formatted as neUltra for hostname/address purposes)
Fukai
Arco
Yukikaze (this is what i want to name it the most, but my dad had a laptop named that (the power-source or whatever failed) and he says that name is reserved(??? like with the LAN or within the family or...?) and i dont think hes going to be using it since he has one of those fancy ULTRA-M4 OS X macs that last 5 william years and its already named Kojin (個人) so i should use this one yup yups.) (for context, Yukikaze is the name of the fighter jet and/or the sentient AI embedded into the fighter jet from the manga/anime Battlefairy Yukikaze (戦闘妖精・雪風). rest assured it is not one of those popular animes, which are either about high school or excruciatingly extreme violence.)
first: i realized a method to my computing; i tend to have "stable" and "experimental" computers. i use stable computers every day for my usual purposes (e.x.: web-surfing, music, instant messaging, games, &c.), and experimental ones for computing for computing's sake (e.x.: compiling programs, doing fancy ricing stuff, sometimes foregoing a desktop entirely in favor of the tty, distrohopping, &c.). i sort of like this system... i guess? its ok. its some habit ive found myself in rather than one i engineered.
then: one of my peers had the geocaching app installed, and it reminded me that at one point i wanted to do that. so i said ok ok ok let me do that. i will do it To Day! and i installed the app and found i already had an account because i got way too ahead of myself when i first discovered it, and i logged in and it directed me to one at my local library (which is within walking distance) and then i remembered, like, man, i dont really know where anything is! but nonetheless the library is one of the only places i can walk to with no help at all,1 so its nice to find that there is a beginner-friendly cache situated in the parking lot of my local library. so i decided Let's Go and then backed up and went Wait, Hang On, Let's Do This on the Weekend. and thusly my geocaching venture is stalled until then.
i have just checked my calendar. Oh No! i have a party to go to on the 15th! and also, gossip gossip, i was invited to a hangout on the 14th but i dont really want to go but i told them i did because i did until i was invited to a party on the 15th. will i have any time to cache? we shall find out!
1 now that i have Rei, i have all that fancy GPS and Cellular stuff, which surprisingly i have lived w/o entirely until now. but that means i have a map at my disposal while traveling.
p.s.: some names i had for a hypothetical next computer (im not getting ahead of myself! paralizer is brand new! i just like to name things, ok?)
ne+ultra (formatted as neUltra for hostname/address purposes)
Fukai
Arco
Yukikaze (this is what i want to name it the most, but my dad had a laptop named that (the power-source or whatever failed) and he says that name is reserved(??? like with the LAN or within the family or...?) and i dont think hes going to be using it since he has one of those fancy ULTRA-M4 OS X macs that last 5 william years and its already named Kojin (個人) so i should use this one yup yups.) (for context, Yukikaze is the name of the fighter jet and/or the sentient AI embedded into the fighter jet from the manga/anime Battlefairy Yukikaze (戦闘妖精・雪風). rest assured it is not one of those popular animes, which are either about high school or excruciatingly extreme violence.)
