This blog should make it obvious that my relationship with computers is complicated. Complex as it may be it boils down to five words, maybe six:

I use them (far) too much.

I’ve spoken, and likely written, previously about an aspirational way of using computers. I liken it to the way computers are used in Buck Rogers or Star Trek. In those pieces of classic sci-fi nobody’s a computer operator. Sure, there are people in control of the systems of the Enterprise or whatever, but nobody is surfing the web or doing code or writing blogs. They go about their business and their adventures and then, if they run into a problem that might benefit from analysis or database consultation, they go to a computer to retrieve a solution. 

Solution retrieved they return to their business with a minimum amount of time at a keyboard or mouse or Vr headset or whatever. 

I think this is an aspirational way of using a computer, one I’d like to emulate, but it’s hard. 

I have a motorized desk that can change from sitting to standing and I decided today that it will spend the rest of its life in the standing position. It’s less comfortable that way. All of the times I feel worst about being at a computer I am sitting, slouched really, at it. Pissing away what is generally the night.

I have a hard time imagining I’d piddle away an idle hour on youtube if I had to stand there at 10pm.

I guess we’ll see.