I didn't like my old "about me," and instead of trying to tackle that
subject again, I think it better to change the question to "why
here?"
In 1964 Susan Sontag wrote the essay "Against Interpretation [1]." In
it she writes:
|Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result
|is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience.
And shortly after that...
|What is important now is to recover our senses. We must learn to
|see more, to hear more, to feel more
I spend so much time in the world of plain text to give me rest from
this dulling of the senses. The command line allows me to get the
information I need and the notes and other writing I want to do done
in the deepest, least distracted manner, and then lets me get back
the quickest to what I want to see, hear, and feel, such as being
embedded in the more-than-human world outside, making things with my
hands, and playing with my daughter.
SDF is where I began the process of learning about the command line,
and I am grateful for that. I started out using the web client and
then putty out of a Windows box, but in time I came to install Linux
on my computers, including now jail breaking used Chromebooks, as
their specs are plenty good for the kind of computing -- and
soul-craft [2] -- I am doing.
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[1] It is amazing that Sontag's essay is now 60 years old. It
stillfeels contemporary, as well as fresh. I can't say the same
for the rest of the essays in the collection of the same name, but
where there are differences, they tend to serve as interesting
historylessons. Over any time frame, some things change, and some
things stay the same.
[2] Nod to Matthew B. Crawford's book "Shop Class as Soulcraft."
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