Blogging on the Bus

01/27/15

Or, more accurately, blogging whil waiting for the bus. So, "Blogging at the Bus Stop"? Well, maybe both, I'll let you know when I get on the bus, Stephan.

Anyways, why the new environment? Well, usually I read in this environment, but I've managed to read two books this month, and also finish my ACM and IEEE literature. I'm not burnt out, mind you. In fact, my goal is to eventually read a book a week. But I know what book I want to read next, I don't own that book, and I've overspent this month.

And so, today, and for the rest of this week, I am lugging my chromebook around with me during my travels, to do various computer-related stuffs sans Internet. This morning, that consisted of javascript writing exploration. The timer ideas I had were clearly... incomplete, to say the least. But it's good to understand that quickly instead of just thinking about it endlessly.

I think maybe I do too much thinking. Like, purely in the head thinking. It seems like it's in the form of properly constructed language, but I know from experience that when I try to write it down, I find that it's mostly abstract sentence fragments loosely connected together.

I don't think there's anything wrong with this in small doses. It's when I let it cascade out of control, which happens all the time, that it's problematic. Thoughts trapped inside my brain are caught in an echo-chamber. The idiomatic kind in that my thoughts can only really reinforce themselves, and the metaphorical kind, in that (I have just now entered the bus, Stephan, and had a wonderful conversation with a person named Andy) my thoughts reverberate in my skull causing a haze of repeated thoughts over new thoughts, like the cacophony of the background chatter in a party.

The bus stop nears....

What I'm trying to say is I need to try to enter a dialog when the brain becomes too loud. A dialog with the keyboard at least demands a clarification and distallation of wandering thought. It gives me a concrete thing to look at and say, "Ah, so that's what I'm getting at."