Saw this photo and was instantly transported to high school Maths class. At the start of the Senior school, I wondered what all those buttons and functions were for and couldn’t wait to find out.
Twenty years later, I can’t remember what they are for but I figure I could read about them and work out what they did. I havent used COS/SIN/TAN since University.
Imagine that tomorrow you walked away from IT. Let’s say you quit you current job, ditched all your technology to become a water skiing instructor on a remote Caribbean island with no electricity and no phones.
Would that be the same feeling as leaving a Cult ? They say that cult members have been “brainwashed” into a view, a group view, a consensus that everyone believes the same thing. And that once that support of the group has been taken away, they feel adrift and unattached to the world around them.
If you quit IT, and had no computers around you - anywhere - would you be attached to world around you ?
I wouldn’t. How would I fill in the hours ? What would I read ? What would I talk about ? Could I sit around doing not much ?
It would be like leaving a cult.
Scary.
Went for a walk for a few miles yesterday. Not only remembered to take my camera, but also remembered to take some pictures of a beautifult English Spring in the Forest.
This photographer in Japan takes a photo of “levitation” every day. I find this obsession is an indulgent fascination. This photo is so disturbing normal but weird at the same time. I love it.
Open Source tool designs and blueprints to allow small business to thrive and contribute to local economies. I found this inspirational and feel disappointed that I can’t, or don’t even know how to contribute.