Fundamental to every great system, perfect overclock, midnight blog post, whatever it may be you indulge in while on a personal computer – focuses on the chair you’re sitting in.
I’m about to upgrade from a run of the mill wal-mart special to a leather high back blah blah something or other.. hmm.. maybe i should go open that box up.
FINALLY!
Aging systems demand aging solutions. Im too young for that shit. Let’s modernize. Forced integration is best. Especially when it sheds light on so many problems.
Hawleywood 5, Cats 0
Having spanned the course of several thousand hours – or several weeks – whatever suits you best.. it has been a while since me and the old blog got down with each other – as it were.
Well – tonight marks a new personal geek directive to actually post the little things i think during the day. The little thoughts i say to the geek up there… “we’re gonna blog that bit of… X Y or Z”.. that never happen.
Well tonight i tell ya.. things are gonna change. A new light is going to appear. A new way to play the game. A new way to…. X Y or Z.
When does IT start and when does IT end? IT never started and IT shall never end.
What is all this commotion then? Is IT your tea, sir? Is IT your bread?
No to you kind sir – IT’s all in your head.
As a sobering reminder of the true clarity and focus at hand – what was once an initiative to maintain a ‘1 version behind the current release’ safety net – is now a practice which systematically demands and expects the ability to maintain the most current trends.
Gone are the days of staying 1 or 2 versions behind and right here and now are the times we decide – upgrade! Upscale! Convert!
This is never a bad thing; Embracing change is great. What we share as a common denominator is our sporadic endeavours which are fruitful in promise yet aren’t always as easy as the paper reads. (Or is it?)
What is attained is a sense of consistency and what is learned is a sense of control.
However you put it – these variables have led to success. I strive for it and idolize it. Let’s put it in a light and let it grow.
Wait… it’s everywhere…
So here’s the deal. For the past ten years i’d been creating and working in the web and web media industry on all levels whether it be as an Interactive Content Coordinator for CORUS Entertainment or as a Production Artist for Iron Leaf or for doing literally hundreds of projects for various business’s all over the fricken place, for the past 10 years – but wait, but wait — that’s not the whole of it… the deal is for 10 years i’d been doing this stuff to pay the bills – to keep the heat on – to feed the kids and keep a roof over the head.. ups and downs as it goes, we all know. To my ultimate surmise a feeling inside me was pulling -saying “this isn’t all of it” – the pride in working for oneself is only ever over-fraught when one is faced with the fact that perhaps it is hard.
Hard.. there’s a term you have to accept in life.. MOVING ONWARD >> I came across a job ad for an IT position in a company which i held an utmost regard for.
What’s next? I applied. Got the call. Got the job. Got knee deep in an immediately overwhelming experience which dawned new discoveries and old ones re-hashed; Learning knows no life-cycle.
So here i sit, 2 days away from 1 year later. And it’s no april fool’s. It’s dawned upon me a better understanding of how my brain works. How other peoples brains works. How we interact with the system. How there is no standard in delivering technology in the REAL WORLD. How you can discover over and over again better ways of conditioning not only yourself – but everything you immerse yourself in.
It’s about stepping back and appreciating the toll! And knowing that this is just the foundation for that which is truly potent and usable. Riddles eh… hmm. I think you’re right Brad.
I’d like to meet an IT guy that works 9-5 every day – goes home – doesn’t turn on a computer – doesn’t read a PC mag while taking a dump – doesn’t need to update outside of business hours – doesn’t need to stay late – doesn’t need to work early - just puts his 80 in and calls it a paycheque. One who goes home and doesn’t possess any morsel of geekness about him – one that isn’t ADHD? Yeeeah RIGHT JONES!
The truth is – a network isn’t a machine. It simply can’t be turned off when it’s quitting time. The needs of progressive development cannot be met with contentment, by any means – nor shall the duties of the geeks be overlooked by the geeks themselves. In the real world there is one person who reamains awake at night dreaming of a more seamless VPN or one who stares forward to the Terminal Gateway services which we’ll start utilizing. There is dedicated heartbeat to this network – ha pun INTENDED.
Back to this ‘not a machine’. It’s not ‘a’ machine – it’s ‘the’ machine. The machine which creates a solid foundation of function in the entire organizational schema. Well – thats my dream anyway.
The best thing about it all? Its not putting in massive hours and getting paid – no way jose – its walking around – observing how people *eventually* come to know the system as rock-solid and without flaws. Know your starting point – and you’ll appreciate your end point!
A little bit of of heart burn is aquired from just the right amount of bacon, ham, pizza sauce and cheese. It’s the ever anticipated moment of relapse
when we are graced with the ability to retrace err.. retaste our foodsteps (puns INTENDED). What a geek.