This is not my first blog. As bad as this one will be, rest assured, the others are worse. One thing that I've been struck with as I read my own blogs as compared to reading the blogs of others is this--my blogs are mad rantings, but the good ones I see have a theme.
So, I began the quest for a theme. I thought "I'll just write about stuff that I like." Of course, then I realized that that's pretty much what is wrong with my other blogs. As I mulled over things that I am interested in and within those interests, the other things that I like/dislike about them, I was also wondering what to call this new 'themed' blog.
I have one called stik.man. The name came from some pictures that my son and I had messed around with and we combined the stick man figure with the internet/computer theme. So, I toyed with some other names, still attempting to find one that fit me as well as having a visual appeal to me.
Throughout this process, I kept having the same recurring realization that there is no consistency in my interests. I love doing things with computers, yet whenever I tell someone that I'm a computer programmer and they say "I wish I knew more about computers," my answer is generally "No you don't." I think that many of us Geek-tards of the modern age yearn for the unplugged analog life, though we can't pry our cold clammy hands off of our keyboards.
So, in the midst of all of this wondering about who I am and why I am not only interested in shell scripting and rss feeds, but also interested in cooking over an open fire and building my own log cabin, it dawned on me. I'm a cave geek. Give me a fire, some berries to paint my cave walls with, and a high-speed connection.
--Og
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