all the words get in the way

[DeMoore]

"I... knew just what to say,
now I found out today
that all the words get in the way"*

Remember the IRQ (Interrupt Request)?  Allow me to refresh your memory.  When you installed your AdLib card (or, if you had the cash, your l33t [l33t was a decade from being  valid term, substitude $$$] SoundBlaster hardware) you had to reconcile the IRQs between the various cards attached to your motherboard.  Sometimes it made sense to move them several IRQs apart; sometimes you could even share an IRQ between peripherals you were sure would not be running at the same time.  Out the other side of the tunnel you'd solved a puzzle that, while not necessarily comprehended, was expedited nonetheless.

I am not a Mac user but I do appreciate the Mac experience.  The Mac presents one's computing experience as an extension of the human corpus, an extra joint at the end of one's chosen proboscis.  I am positive this represents the next step in human/machine interaction. I am equally positive that it is the withering of the human psyche.  When I was a child (can you fathom that far?  Think Guns and Roses as new and novel and you'll be in the correct psychocosm) I found all things lit and luminescent as magical, worth my time, my effort, my future.  I peered into the previous and saw the electrical engineers toying with (electromagnetic) drums and tubes and wished I could grasp, through my more contemporary efforts, their understanding of the core of what powers what I enjoy.  As much as I wanted to use, I wanted equally, even more so, to understand.

Is this alien?  Where is the desire to understand in those that have followed?  Perhaps I am an old curmudgeon, unrecognizing of the systems that the new comprehend.  Somehow, I think not.  I think the new, the current, the examples for the future exist in an environment of use, not of exploration (dare we hope, creation).  Have we sanitized creation to the point where its glossy finish bears no appeal with regards to digging below its surface?  Does the fear of degrading its secondhand value repel such inquiries?

You, the current current, ignore the above.  It is directed at the past, those who would languish (I cannot exclude myself) in the constructs of the old.  For the current, bend an ear, lift the fucking white bud (you are a pawn, stop using acceptance to deny it) from your ear.  Find the roots of what you enjoy.  Find the soil beneath that.  Find the raw, the signal, the one, the zero, the alloy and the rust.  Find the current and the voltage and the amperage.  Burn it into your skulls (just behind the ocular nerve cluster, if you get a choice) and never let those who would paint over it with layers of paint, chrome, interface, marketing and love for the love for the norm for the love for the norm for the love obscure the truth from your nerves.  Love yourself.  LOVE THE BOMB. 

-Deacon DeMoore

(I do hope I get a little hate from this, the last response was alarmingly positive)

[LMNO]

I didn't understand a word of it, actually.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

I think the words got in the way of any meaning that I could find...

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

(I do hope I get a little hate from this, the last response was alarmingly positive)

So you want us to hate you or what you wrote?  'Cause truthfully, I am able to go either way if necessary!

[Payne]

tl;dr

[AFK]

So is this like an Ode to the Tandy or something? 

[Kai]

James Joyce?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

(or, if you had the cash, your l33t [l33t was a decade from being  valid term, substitude $$$] SoundBlaster hardware)

They didn't have Soundblaster cards in the early 70's, which would have been about decade before l33t was a "valid" (???) term. I am pretty sure the first Soundblaster card entered the market in 1989, and "l33t" and variations thereof were being used online and in print in the early '80's. It was certainly a well-recognized term by the time 2600 was being printed, and I think their first issue was in 1984.

[DeMoore]

wow, I was quite drunk last night.  feel free to ignore.

[Triple Zero]

wow, I was quite drunk last night.  feel free to ignore.

sure enough. but please feel free to next time type up any brilliant drunken rantings in notepad or something, save them, and post them the next day if you think it's still worth it

it's a technique employed quite successfully by several people on this board.

[P3nT4gR4m]

I didn't understand a word of it, actually.

*bollox bollox bollox* ... ignore ... *bollox bollox bollox* ...

I think I understood one of them

[Requia ☣]

Maybe he's trying to start a Mac based flame war?

[rong]

i really dug it, man.  keep drinking