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Nov. 22nd, 2004 12:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackofallgeeksAnd now, because I should be doing something productive, a meme I yoinked from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
surichan:
My journal is called _____ because _____.
My subtitle is _____ because _____.
My friends page is called _____ because _____.
My username is ____ because _____.
My default userpic is _____ because_____.
My journal is called 'Terminal_Velocity' because I think I'm clever. A terminal is what people used in the Dark Ages instead of PCs; they talked to a Mainframe, which managed all their processes, and were not much more than input/output periferals. The Terminals contained no real content of their own. Velocity is the change in position through time; this includes both speed and direction, so 100mph North is not the same velocity and 100mph South. Terminal Velocity is the maximum speed that a body will achieve while in freefall. That is, the force of gravity is a uniform 9.8m/s increase every second. It would follow that the higher something was when it fell, the faster it would be when it hit the ground. However, there's a point at which the decelleration due to air resistance equals the accelloration due to gravity. Thus, a static speed is reached, and this is Terminal Velocity.
As I go for deep, layered meaning, each of these, and the collection as a group, has some bearing on how I think of my life, or at least the life I record in this journal.
My Subtitle is 'do_While(True)' because that's it's indicative of my lot in life. In programming, there are three basic types of loop: the For Loop, the While Loop, and the Do-While Loop. A For Loop iterates a given block of code X times, then it's done. A While Loop checks it's condition, then iterates it's block of code as long as that condition is true -- a While Loop my never iterate if it's condition starts out false. A Do-While Loop runs it's block of code, then checks it's condition and re-iterates itself as long as that condition is met -- a Do-While Loop always runs at least once. Any While or Do-While who's condition is simple 'True' will run forever, and this is an infinite loop.
A friend once quoted the line: 'They say life is one damn thing after another, but it's not. It's the same damn thing over and over again.' There tends to be a cyclic nature to my life, and this catches it nicely.
My friends page is called 'The Company You Keep' as reference to an old proverb, 'A man is known by the company he keeps.' You can tell a lot about a person based on the people he chooses to associate with. Sometimes, I really wonder what my company says about me.
My username is JackOfAllGeeks as a play on 'Jack of All Trades.' A Jack of All Trades is "Apprentice to Many, Master of None." Thus is my percieved status in Geekdom; I have some working knowledge of all sorts of geekery, from Computer Geeks, to Gaming Geeks, to Theatre Geeks and Literature Geeks and Band Geeks. know enough to be conversational, but even in my area of expertise I feel a bit lacking -- some would say I underestimate my powress. Regardless, I am a Jack of all Geeks.
My default userpic depicts 'I Geek Therefore I Am' in Matrix-green over white-on-black binary code, because it fits my Geek theme as well as saying a little bit more about me. I'm a computer Geek, and I love binary -- hence the codes. The text is a play on Descartes' "I think therefore I am," and though I think Descartes was philosophically flawed from the get-go, it hints at my philosophic nature.
Edit: 22Nov2004, 10:52.56
surichan:My journal is called _____ because _____.
My subtitle is _____ because _____.
My friends page is called _____ because _____.
My username is ____ because _____.
My default userpic is _____ because_____.
My journal is called 'Terminal_Velocity' because I think I'm clever. A terminal is what people used in the Dark Ages instead of PCs; they talked to a Mainframe, which managed all their processes, and were not much more than input/output periferals. The Terminals contained no real content of their own. Velocity is the change in position through time; this includes both speed and direction, so 100mph North is not the same velocity and 100mph South. Terminal Velocity is the maximum speed that a body will achieve while in freefall. That is, the force of gravity is a uniform 9.8m/s increase every second. It would follow that the higher something was when it fell, the faster it would be when it hit the ground. However, there's a point at which the decelleration due to air resistance equals the accelloration due to gravity. Thus, a static speed is reached, and this is Terminal Velocity.
As I go for deep, layered meaning, each of these, and the collection as a group, has some bearing on how I think of my life, or at least the life I record in this journal.
My Subtitle is 'do_While(True)' because that's it's indicative of my lot in life. In programming, there are three basic types of loop: the For Loop, the While Loop, and the Do-While Loop. A For Loop iterates a given block of code X times, then it's done. A While Loop checks it's condition, then iterates it's block of code as long as that condition is true -- a While Loop my never iterate if it's condition starts out false. A Do-While Loop runs it's block of code, then checks it's condition and re-iterates itself as long as that condition is met -- a Do-While Loop always runs at least once. Any While or Do-While who's condition is simple 'True' will run forever, and this is an infinite loop.
A friend once quoted the line: 'They say life is one damn thing after another, but it's not. It's the same damn thing over and over again.' There tends to be a cyclic nature to my life, and this catches it nicely.
My friends page is called 'The Company You Keep' as reference to an old proverb, 'A man is known by the company he keeps.' You can tell a lot about a person based on the people he chooses to associate with. Sometimes, I really wonder what my company says about me.
My username is JackOfAllGeeks as a play on 'Jack of All Trades.' A Jack of All Trades is "Apprentice to Many, Master of None." Thus is my percieved status in Geekdom; I have some working knowledge of all sorts of geekery, from Computer Geeks, to Gaming Geeks, to Theatre Geeks and Literature Geeks and Band Geeks. know enough to be conversational, but even in my area of expertise I feel a bit lacking -- some would say I underestimate my powress. Regardless, I am a Jack of all Geeks.
My default userpic depicts 'I Geek Therefore I Am' in Matrix-green over white-on-black binary code, because it fits my Geek theme as well as saying a little bit more about me. I'm a computer Geek, and I love binary -- hence the codes. The text is a play on Descartes' "I think therefore I am," and though I think Descartes was philosophically flawed from the get-go, it hints at my philosophic nature.
Edit: 22Nov2004, 10:52.56
