Introducing Me 


Comments about beginning blogging, my web publishing experience, music background, and outlook on life.  

Finally, after sweating it out for days, reading blogs, looking at blogging software, I'm taking the plunge. First, iBlog with no feedback, then perhaps Blogspot. But, hey, I've been web publishing since 1995. Yep, put my first HTML document on the web in Fall of 1994. That was an exciting day! First person on my campus to do this.

You can see my current accumulated work on the web. I'm a believer in technology. I see technological innovation as just another part of nature, in fact, one of the more interesting parts, considering our apparent determination to destroy the received ecological system. I can't prove it, but it feels as if the human race is taking a quantum communication leap through the internet. Blogging is just one of those fascinating but unpredictable things that has emerged. Yes, Virginia, there is an emergent aspect to our world.

So I am comfortable with and admiring of technology. So what else? Yeah, well, music, although my tastes have evolved, too, from up-to-date to out-of date. I use to could go into any pub or bar (up until about 1976) and play almost any request that someone would make. But I lost keeping track of pop music about 1983. Of course, opera, the symphony, musicals, jazz, ragtime, blues are never out-of-date. And that's not to say that I don't listen to Eminem or Cold Play or Rufus Wainwright, or 80 Dimes occasionally, only that I listen very lightly. When you've been listening to music for 60 years, it can be hard to catch your attention.

So what else. I don't need no drugs to have a mind-altering experience. Not that I never took any. But aside from all the wonderful natural highs that there are around, I like that way of looking at things that I once discovered back in 1981. If you look straight into your experience, whatever it happens to be, you can see endless possibility. Faith begins here. And Freedom. And new paths, too. I've been down so many. Sure, we live in a world of natural law. But my experience tells me that we get to set the initial conditions for the law to apply. That's the way I'm looking at things these days.

And I'm appalled and revolted by the war in Iraq, horrified by natural catastrophes, and disgusted with both the Republicans and the Democrats (the lesser of two evils, if only for the hidden complicity in these revolting events). But I'm blaming the citizens of this country for the war and the political manipulation I see, and I include myself, obviously. So I make it a policy not to rant about this or that person too much. In fact, I am going to try to keep the rant factor low in this blog. Oh, I can do it. Wave my hands, project spit, get red and bulge at the temples and neck. But, nah. I don't think so. Ditto for smart-assed insults and hurled invectives. Ditto for repeating the same thing in several ways (in the same piece).

Blogging looks like fun. Let's see what happens.  

Posted: Fri - October 21, 2005 at 11:09 PM          

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