About Me

Reviving the other half of my brain. No more math! Enough 1s and 0s! Binary is sooo last decade!

Q. What is this blog about?
A. My question exactly! It's all over the place isn't it? Is it a tech blog? Political? programming, dating, Jesus for dummies, language, knowledge management, event announcements. It's basically the diarrhea of blog categories.

In fact, one of the reasons I have this blog is an outlet. I am curious to a fault, and have found that successful curious creatives have the discipline to blunt inquisitive tributaries that spring from you involuntarily.

I am hoping the blog will allow this: unscrew skullcap, decant head.

Q. So what do you do for a living?
A. My question exactly! Well since 1997 I've been a nine-to-five cubicle codemonkey. I took some time off to soul search as well as volunteer for Election2004.

I used to love software, programming, problem solving, the internet and how it could enable people to learn. In effort to struggle through my procrastination and job search resistance, I did a free association journal entry, wrote what it was I feared about job searching as fast as I could, closed journal and left. Later when I returned and read it, what I'd written shocked me: it said "Software Dev job = endless cubicle solitude, aka death".

So I've solved one mystery: it's not the job hunting I dread, it's the thought of having a job. Moreso, it's the thought of spending 9-5 on something that's just more software to be used by other software when life outside the office just keeps happening no matter how many times you press the pause button - we're at war! Our country is divided! I'm in my thirties - should travel the globe or just grab the next guy I see and start a family?

11/02/2004: There is a positive update to this: I just attended BloggerCon III and have revived the excitement about technology and blogging. The stress in my brain has been supplanted with a calm florish of ideas.

Q. Why would you write about politics?
A. Well like many people I've recently hopscotched the line from non-voter, who only scans headlines and funny pages, to revenous political news glutton.

The other line I've cross stitched is the red-blue America. I was a red state kid in a blue state house (think Alex P. Keaton), am now a blue state adult in redNation. I also was a secular kid with all Catholic playmates ("Alison, aren't you going to C.C.D. today?" Me: huh?) I'm constantly amazed at how misunderstood both sides are.