return balance;

Looking for a hobby - chess boxing seems diversified enough of an extracurricular investment of time.

I spend my days holed up in a digital attic, evenings lost in the biomass.

Codeacademy is a wonderful set of training wheels for aspiring computer programmers. I told a friend I was learning Java, he responded by saying "No you are learning Javascript - there is a difference, and don't you ever make that mistake again".

springy

Great week - kalimoxto last night, basqueing in the warm weather with a Spaniard, Greek, Dave and Ann.
Started reading Gödel,  Escher,  Bach again; tried to talk about it... which didn't go that well. Going to have to focus on forging through its difficult concepts. Computational theory of mind: scares a lot of people.

memories like hyperlinks; in the age post-forgetting;

Processing

Instead of taking a class in strategic marketing I got a job in it. It makes a little more sense, but the literature isn't as good.
To correct that problem I've started reading Snowcrash again. The author, Neal Stephenson*, is smart - but it must have been hard for him to envisage the growth of big data and mobile. I think those are the two most transitive technologies at the moment (or at least my moment). We spend more and more time on our devices, and that time, that money, that human interaction is heavily quantified and repackaged at profit.

Here - have my hypercard.

* - Stephenson is apparently being paid by Jeff Bezos to develop a manned sub-orbital launch system. That's the coolest job ever.