A few short thoughts about… Hah! Nope. Couldn’t do it.
A huge jumbled ramble (Nearly fourty minutes worth) about training children.
[Strangely Baseline Intro, ends at 3:10]
Welcome back to the Paul Spooner Podcast!
Today I want to talk about something a little more personal. Children! Specifically, my children. (more…)
Living on the ocean. Why we don’t do it, and why we might want to start.
[Same Old Intro]
So, for a while I’ve been thinking about how we live on the land, but the ocean is practically empty. So why don’t we just live there?
And obviously there’s some reasons for this. (more…)
After publishing his own personal programming history, Ziggy asked if I might like to write my own. Since I don’t do a lot of writing, was referred to in the article, and mostly since he asked me to do so, I decided to go ahead and see what I could remember.
The first action similar to “computer programming” that I can remember is assisting my dad (a career computer programmer and information systems developer) in programming runs of EPROM integrated controllers for trackballs that he was developing as a side business. It wasn’t actually programming at all: my job was to plug in a chip, press the “up” arrow twice in a terminal emulator and run the command from history to erase it, press the “up” arrow twice more and run the command to write the firmware to the chip, unplug the chip, drop it in a chip tube, and repeat. I feel like I probably did hundreds of them (in fact, it was probably only dozens), and I loved every minute of the monotony, just because it got me closer to “working” on a computer.
A couple topics, about communication of all things!
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I find it interesting how some people (and I don’t know if this is just “some people” or “almost all people except for me”) put things on the internet that they are intending only for their own private use. Like, someone will start a blog, and use it just to write things that they intend to keep to themselves. (more…)
This episode is devoted to religion, philosophy, the meaning of life, the purpose of pain, and how you probably shouldn’t be listening to me ramble so much. Learning and Sloppy Language
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[Marginally Musical Intro]
I sometimes feel I’m protected from bad things. Or maybe I’ve just accepted things that other people think are bad? So I don’t need to experience them? This is getting really, meta, out there kind of, uh, philosophical religious, but… well here it goes! (more…)
Wherin I talk about my feelings.
Nested Feelings specifically.
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Do you ever get that feeling of an overhanging mass? Kind of like being underneath something? But it’s not claustrophobia. A combination of claustrophobia and acrophobia I guess. But it’s not necessarily fear! It’s more a thrill, an anticipation, a kind of joy! It’s this… (more…)
This is even more of a ramble than usual…
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[Marginally Musical Intro]
That’s right folks, it’s the Paul Spooner Podcast!
The other day I was thinking about how different countries base their laws off of the “standard” population and not necessarily off of the whole population. For example, we pride ourselves in America (In A Marrrca!) we pride ourselves of being inclusive of minorities. We include minorities in the political process, we want to make everyone feel included…
But that’s not really true! We DO have to make our laws to serve someone, and generally those laws are made to serve the majority. (more…)