Shared Experiences
Shared experiences bring us together.
This is some (possibly obvious) introspection involving the Appalachian Trail, the moon landing and the Beatles.
Life! Carpe diem! Carpe viam! Carpe vitam!
I am listening to Jack Kerouac’s On the Road - Wikipedia. What a rant! What a stream-of-consciousness-grab-life-by-the-horns-drink-until-it-kills-you peaan to not missing a single moment or experience in life !
Figure 1: “Upward and Onward” by George Jones is licenced under CC SA 4.0
Hope springs eternal.
- The sun is always shining.
- The flowers are always blooming.
- There are no bugs.
- The trail is always flat.
- There are no rocks.
- It never rains.
- It’s never too cold.
- It’s never too hot.
- There’s never overcrowding.
- Your gear always works.
- Your physical conditioning is always good.
Figure 1: “Sun on lake” by George Jones is licenced under CC SA 4.0
New Cars
Cars have changed. Back in the day you could “pop the clutch” to start a car by letting it roll down hill, putting it in first gear with your foot on the (manual) clutch, let the clutch out (“popping the clutch”) and often the car would start. Handy if you had a car with a dead battery at the top of a hill.
Cars are full of electronics now, and that can be good, and it can be very bad…
"I close my eyes, only for a moment, but the moment's gone"
When you’re on a world tour following COVID lock-downs, nominated for 3 Grammys, scheduled to play at the Grammy’s this year … and your drummer dies….
It will be done when it's done
Steve Wilhite died last week. Yes, he created GIF, but that was just a side project among mountains of mostly single-handed coding projects that were a large part of what kept CompuServe going for years in the face of AOL and the Web.
…many times when asked about a delivery date Steve would answer “it will be done when it is done.”
I laughed when I read that. It was so Steve. It would have been said authoritatively, matter of factly, and any poor project manager involved would have to take that as the final word, because Steve was right … and consistently delivered.
Figure 1: “CompuServe Languages and Tools Group c.a. 2019” by George Jones is licenced under CC SA 4.0
To self host or not to self host, that is the question?
Shelving the self hosting for a while. Just gonna push the static blog up to my 20 year old Hurricane Electric shell account. URL redirection is a marvelous thing. This is not your fathers CNAME record.
Peace be with you
I’ve been listening to the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, the stoic Roman emperor. The stoic philosopher Epictetus, who was an older contemporary of Marcus Aurelius said
Never say about anything, I have lost it,
but only I have given it back.
It might lower my blood pressure if I could get my mind around that.
The lesson of history
I think the lesson of history is that we don’t learn from the lessons of history.
Present Duties
This is framed quote that’s been hanging on my family’s walls since sometime in the late 19th or early 20th century. It’s way more positive than the other things I was thinking of posting in these dark times…
Figure 1: “Present Duties” by William Penn paraphrasing Jesus is in fact not copyrightable, Charles Scribners’s Sons claims c.a. 1897 notwithstanding.