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This article explains it nicely.

It's nice to have validation sometimes.

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I monitor a lot of technical blogs, to keep up with current events in Linux. Occasionally something really profound comes out. I especially like this paragraph from one of the AbiWord hackers.

the full article is here It is supposed to be an infrastructure that we as a society can build on. In no small part, it should be an enabler. It is supposed to do the hard things that we can't do individually, but are collectively achievable. Sometimes we need to do the right thing, even if the right thing isn't the cost-effective thing. To this end, government should sometimes be a check against the "free" market and sometimes a carrot that leads the market to the ends society desires.

So I was talking with IWS, and teasing him that I was more mature than he is. He comes back with this: (Maturity), it seems like a great excuse for being a slave to ritual, work, and perceived obligations. Bob is 32 years old. He's over-worked, under-paid, and an absolute killjoy. Bob is very mature for his age. Makes me think of Bill Hicks' "It's Just a Ride"

I was speechless, and suitably humbled.

And then he sent me a pointer. And I will reproduce the whole thing here, 'cause it's very, very cool. The world is like a ride at an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it, you think it's real, because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round and it has thrills and chills and it's very brightly colored and it's very loud. And it's fun, for a while.

Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question: 'Is this real? Or is this just a ride?' And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and they say 'Hey! Don't worry, don't be afraid - ever - because... this is just a ride.' And we kill those people.

'Shut him up! We have a lot invested in this ride! Shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry; look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real.'

It's just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that - ever notice that? - and we let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter, because... it's just a ride, and we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort. No worry. No job. No savings and money. Just a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy bigger guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one.

Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, into a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defense each year and, instead, spend it feeding, clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would do many times over - not one human being excluded - and we can explore space together, both inner and outer, forever. In peace.

I miss Bill Hicks. He was so angry, and so hopeful at the same time.

Or in my case, a "Rock Widower". At any rate. I can now see the attraction in being a groupie. You get to hear albums WAY before they get released to the public.

After meaning to post pics up of our trip to BurningMan and San Francisco since we got back from the trip in early September, Liz went ahead and just posted em. See 'em here

Liz and I met while she was working the counter at the bakery next door to my work.

The WeLL is offering a 2 month membership for $2. I know there are those of you who want to join, go do it now.

I don't know if I would have been able to survive in San Francisco without it. I found two apartments with craigslist, as well as a ton of other stuff. Plus I found loads of entertaining postings on it.

JWZ is one of the few people in the world who know a lot about computers and the internet, and "Content" He missed out on Linux, but that's OK, we love him anyway. He runs a nightclub now in the SOMA neighbourhood of SF. It's a v. cool place, and he REALLY tries to hype local musicians, and music he likes. It's not much of the music I like (More like the music Gorester likes) but anyone who's willing to go out on a limb like he did deserves many kudos.

The preceding paragraph is entirely beside the point, which is about the music industry, a subject I'm very interested in for many reasons, two of the biggest are my girlfriend and my room-mate. The record industry is in a fucked up state right now, and nothing displays that more humourously than this quote that JWZ heard Sister Machine Gun say on his stage