Links

I just posted a few links that are important to me from my various vocations and avocations. These are websites that I often visit, though never as often as I would like. It's nice to have goals, but sometimes goals can drive you crazy if you aren't good at making them reasonable. The links are also posted in the body of the blog as a message. That's because I was trying to figure out the HTML for the links list. Long stupid and meaningless story.

Anyway, I'm in the market for a new computer. I'm working on a borrowed computer here, and it sucks. You can't have the kind of fun that computers are meant for. The fun of customizing and arranging, making it your own, a little capsule of you. I really miss that, and I'm going to put a new computer on an already-overloaded credit card because I miss that sense of pure control, that infinitely-customizeable tool for doing millions of useless and trivial things that a computer is to me. I would like to think that something valuable and useful might come from this thing, but who am I really kidding? I've said the same thing about multiple careers, multiple schemes? At what point do we really get to assign value to something that doesn't make money? At what point can we say that this or that endeavor really has some value other than monetary? How do we argue past the pure materialistic principle? This is an important notion, and I will come back to this. I really want to think more about how this kind of pure materialistic pragmatism - if I can call it that - can poison a life.

Back to some other thinking for now.