Hey buddy. We all have good and bad days. Falling into depression is something that can seriously get on you. You should get some rest and think deeply on it. You have to get out of this hole. Its kind of a mind game too. What makes you happy or unhappy? Why do you see bad and not good while good is all around?
I like reading your posts. You're one of my top 10 favourite people I follow. You blog about arts you create on your computer, about daily struggles with vlc, about animals you see in your garden. Things in your daily life. That is what makes your posts so interesting.
Keep up your chin and walk with a smile through the world.
Thanks J
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Thank you. Your ending resonates with something my dad told me many years ago. He said he likes to walk around with a smile on his face; most people think he's happy, and some people wonder what he's up to. :)
Thank you for your kind words about my output as well. From my software background, I tend to see everything in terms of three stages: input, processing, and output. For instance, the build team's input is source code which comes from the developers; their process is to compile the source code into executable code, in a repeatable fashion; and their output goes to the test team, to verify functionality. Right now my input is my experiences, my processing is somewhat broken, and my output is what you see. Just, to make the first sentence of this paragraph a little clearer.
Thank you. It is, and He is. I really find it fascinating that people are interested in the woodchucks in my garden. :) I do write well, though, it's a skill I've developed alongside software, in fact my double major was computer science, and technical communications. I used to say in interviews that this allows me to write code, and documentation as well. :) Now I suppose I can still document my experiences.
I love all those Unicode smiles at the end as well! :D
I feel ya. My processing is broken & I have huge bottlenecks & memory leaks.
Wtb hardware for brain upgrades. Please send RAM, a solid state hard drive & new power source.
Oh if only brain upgrades were so easy.
I used to follow nanotechnology, and pined for an upgrade. The way I envisioned experiencing it: I'd take a pill, which would contain nanomachines which enter my bloodstream, and then travel up to my brain.
Once there, they would convert it, in place, to a more efficient form. Back 20 years ago, Eric Drexler (of The Foresight Institute, and author of "Engines of Creation" and other books about nanotech) had written that a computer the size of a sugar cube would be more powerful than the human brain. So, my skull can contain many sugar cubes, and each interconnection makes it even more powerful, so I'd end up thinking perhaps a million times faster.
I'd sit in a chair, watching the ceiling fan (lived in Florida at the time) slowly reduce in speed, to almost not turning, as my processing was sped up.
Then, of course, there'd be two classes of people: those who sped up, and those who didn't. It would be almost impossible for those two classes to communicate! Who would want to wait a million years to hear the next word? :)
These days, I see my thought experiment as similar to "taking the chip" -- those who do so will be able to buy and sell. The rest of us will need to garden. :)
That's sometimes how I feel even now, only I speed up & blow a fuse & I have to work back to just being delighted to garden... Only that starts the cycle all over again. Basically my chip upgrade feels faulty & it's a lot of work fixing the electrical whenever I blow a fuse.
I don't know, maybe eventually our brain deficiencies will give us super powers. Too optimistic?
Also your reply would make a great premise for a book/movie/short story, etc.
Thanks. Re-reading it, it reminds me a little of Johnny Mnemonic -- which was woefully out-of-date as soon as it came out! Like Short Circuit 2 which @countrylover and I watched last night (and the first one, first!) -- at one point the robot says "I've got 500 megabytes of storage!" LOL.
Both movies were awesome in the re-watching though. I should make a post about them. Lots of stuff I missed as a child.