Programmer goes off!
August 6th, 2005
I dig this rambling here: dirtSimple.org: The Multiple Self. The writer is on the right track, and I can respect his use of system administrator lingo, although it does seem to be reaching for something. The entire issue with writing about the self-image and the self and the truth that they are inseperably the same creates an entire third thing that one starts worrying about. Namely how do I fit that concept into my daily life?
My conception of the purest existence has always been the concept of living life without inhibitions. In otherwords, never having to stop oneself from doing something such as: eating a candybar, driving too fast, getting caught in the web, editing one’s thoughts and statements. I have heard this described as flow in some circles or just being in others.
Now, I think a most interesting question then becomes how do I do something I’ve never done before. For example, how do you learn how to program Fortran in the year 2005. Well, you just do it. In the case of a programming language so often hurled about as painful, etc., one really has to disregard a whole lot of negativity. Then one can jump into it. There are rather clean implementations now (the most accessible probably being ‘F’ which removes support for deprecated constructs completely). One can then start fresh.
Yet another question becomes one of relationship with others. This is perhaps the most difficult question, but I believe, although I can’t yet resolve many of my own inner conflicts, that this too can be solved from within.
So one ramble gets another, the circle is complete for now. Oh, one little food note: Ethiopian Kitfo is a sort of a warmed steak tartar, very simple and insanely good. I haven’t ventured to make it, but I had it last night at Meals by Genet, 1053 S Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90019, (323) 938-9304.