natowelch

child-free
car-free
debt-free
god-free

loyal to a fault
lazy to a tee

self sufficient
self contained
self effacing
self catalyzing

amaterialist
not the hottest hedonist
friends first


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I reserve the right to have folks I don't like (or that don't like me) on my "friends" list. Being on my friends list doesn't make you my friend, it means I want to read your journal. In corollary, not being on my friends list does not mean you aren't my friend. Don't ask to be "unfriended", and don't ask me to unfriend anyone else. Also note that I have no control over those I am a "friend of", as being on someone else's friends list may simply mean that they also, just want to read my journal. I thoroughly reject the spoon-fed semantics suggested by Livejournal's architects in favor the actual (quite) useful functionality they offer. Finding other uses for technologies aside from that originally intended by the authors is called hacking. I like that.

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I think it's time I gave the old blog a new look. Special thanks to Anne Franklin, for the banner photos. They rotate - if you refresh the page, you'll get a brand new thing of beauty!

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We are most certainly alone in the universe.

Because if I were an alien civilization bent on conquering the Earth, I wouldn't bring a fleet of interstellar warships. Have you seen the price of gas lately?

First, I'd plant archaeological remains of my advanced technology on Earth. Then, as humans began to discover, adopt, and deploy my technology, I'd send but a single vessel.

It would contain a patent law firm.

Given that the wealth of human civilization is clearly in decline, due in no small part to patents, I think we can safely assume that our new alien overlords are not interstellar patent trolls. Otherwise, SETI would have decoded their Ceast and Desist letters years ago.

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I have been approved for my new place in Bellingham, starting after Burning Man. Woot.

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I have put down a deposit on a place I like in Bellingham for September. It's small, cheap, and yet has a bathtub, a balcony, and an excellent location within walking distance of downtown, the freeway, and many grocery stores. I may hang out in Portland through July, though. I still haven't heard about my Burning Man ticket, though.

We're in the xmas tree business again, I hear, as this year's inventory is starting to shape up.

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What I want to learn more of is python.
What I need to learn more of is javascript.
What I've been learning more of is CSS.

It's kind of frustrating.

Meanwhile, the next version of HTDB, my web applications framework, is getting a lot of attention. Even design.

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I just deleted my Facehook account. Aaaahhhhhh....

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In the interest of living closer to my dear Jams, I have decided that I'm going to move to Bellingham, WA, at the end of June.

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The universe is not meaningless. It appears lifeless, but that overlooks the fact that we are life, and we are in it.

We constantly concern ourselves, in English, with finding meaning. But what we have to understand is that meaning isn't just something we find. It's something we DO. And only living things mean things. Only people communicate.

So if your life feels meaningless, it's not because the universe has no meaning to offer you. It's not even that you're looking in the wrong place.

It's because you're //looking//.

To find meaning: //speak//.

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Uncertainty is the first sign of competence.