Stardate: 20181130.14h48
Location: SBUX
Input device: Sonim XP5700 connected to MS Bluetooth Keyboard.
Audio: Brainwave @ Morning Coffee
Visual: Xmas tree, shopping intersection, busy with foot and
auto traffic.
Energy: 90%
Mental State: 80%
Emotional State: Peeved. Still not there yet...first cup of
coffee.
The phlogospehere...it's taking me back to when I had my
first web page...well at least creating something that would
be online. I created one way back when and I guess I slowly
ceased development with the advent of web 2.0 and all of the
social media stuff. My site stayed around for a bit, but it
did not really get many updates or anything. I did play
around with some of the "newer" technologies, like putting a
blog on my server with moveabletype or messing around with
phpbb, xoops, etc. All of this stuff seemed a bit much for
what I needed and it became more work and less content with
all of the maintenance and spam. Plus, it seemed as if
personal web pages were going away and people's attention
were focused on social media sites. Also, life in the
analog was ramping up...I had spawned 2 child processes and
had to attend to them since they were very, very resource
intensive, espcially in those days. So publishing web
content took a back seat.
Now I am back to content creation...not that I have anything
great to say, but it gives me an outlet that has been
minimally existent over the years. The technological medium
of the expression is not so important, as long as the
contents inside my head is translated into common language,
processed, and expressed. This provides some order to the
chaos and prevents the manifestation of unnessesary
inauspicious emotions, sideways anger, stress, and
frustruation from being expressed at or in the vincinity of
the child, parent, (and federated? ) processes.
I have always enjoyed writing, especially if the conditions
are ideal. I have kept journals, probably since the dawn of
my need for self identity, self expression, self
understanding of my experience of this existence and its
inhabitants. Writing has been a good outlet for me for
expressing that which cannot be contained. As well as other
trivial nonsense. Vocalization and sociability? Thats a
different story...for another time.
With the phlogosphere,, I have enjoyed the undistracted
experience of your written thoughts and ideas through this
medium. You have my full attention, literally. In this age
of distraction, of social media, targeted advertising,
multiple computing devices, multiple display configurations,
multiplexed screen sessions, virtual machines, virtual
desktops, cloud computing, etc., I found it appropriate to
drop this experience of consuming the phlogosphere and
gopherspace in general, down to single-user mode...and give
full undivided attention, akin to that of a Friday night
binge watch of the second season of Stranger Things on
Netflix on the couch in my family room. Single monitor,
single console displayed at full screen, single attached
keyboard, complete undivided attention, I assure you!
THat last paragraph was quite wordy, was it not? So be it.
