“Focus” is a funny thing. The Isolator was meant to end the need to focus, but how much progress have we really made?
When dealing with this initial work, it's easy to get caught up in low-level revision—that is, grammar and poor word choice and despicable flow. A Kindle stops all that nonsense.
Just yesterday, I went down to the Dane County Clerk's Office with my fianceé (now wife, hooray!) and we applied for our marriage license. It's a remarkably easy process. I had more trouble getting a residential parking permit.
The ability to duplicate large—if not near-infinite—amount of text is unfounded in human history, and it allows the flow of information to be expounded at an exponential rate.
I know I've dreamed of having my own language. It's the perfect sort of code, this untraceable, private dialect. But most of the mechanisms that drive successful language are obscure, magical things to me.
While the subject is truly the core of a sentence—without words for you or myself, or that tree, how would I tell you that we should go climb it?—the verb makes what we say come alive, in a sense. Any language is dead without it. Life is dead without it.
Content management systems have always been a bit of a conundrum to me. Sometimes, I want a custom solution that isn't bootstrapped off of an existing free template, but I don't want to spend months diving into massive API documentation.
My name is Joel Hans, and I had some Drank.