Archive for December, 2006

My Head Confuses Itself With My Mind

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

It’s a sobering day when you realize that you’re not going to storm the gates of the world at the front of a vanguard of heroic compatriots, assured of your victory of vitalism and virtue over the stalled momentum of the progress of the old ways. When you admit that it’s all a big mess, […]

People

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

The vast mass of the average. Their minds little more than a tedious litany of likes and dislikes, and a few tired schemes relating to them.
I suppose one can only divide people up, meaningfully, by the nature, complexity and subtlety of their likes (concrete and abstract), the schemes they invent (versus imitate) to get them, […]

The definition of tragedy

Saturday, December 16th, 2006

The parts of you that you love the most are the parts which everyone else hates.
It’s lonely being so vain. Or lovely?
But the more they don’t care, the more you love them.
It’s misery to be so self-negating.
The only things they want from you were things you promised out of desperation, but couldn’t deliver. And whose […]

The Coming Darkness

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

When I started this web site, I was in the midst of a period of hopeful optimism. An optimism inspired by self-delusion, and not a little indulgent escapism. I was under the influence of false confidence, wherein I found myself able to believe that I had finally learned how to effect real positive change in […]

Tedious Egghead Thoughts

Sunday, December 3rd, 2006

Autonomous process management. That will get you ten results on Google. “Process management” will get you sixty million results. But I’m into something more specific.
All I know about process management is what I know about computer programming. Here is my logic (or rationalization). Software is a process; in fact, that’s another word for a program […]