Is there anything more amazing in nature than the process of metamorphosis? It’s wondrousness didn’t hit me until I started reading “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” to my son. And even then it took a few months to sink in. The ending is so quick – spoiler alert – just “It was a beautiful butterfly!” and you’re done. Really? That’s it? Shouldn’t it at least fly around for a while, visit its old hangouts or something? A worm pigs out for one week, hides out for two in his self-built home, and voila he’s colorful and fancy and can fly. If that’s not a miracle…
Believe it or not, I’ve been meaning to follow up on my last post, that amazingly bad prediction of handwriting recognition for (what turned out to be) the iPad, for over a year now. Every once in a while the embarrassment hits me, usually when I vanity-Google, but I just haven’t had the urge to write. I’ve been…out of touch.
I’ve lost my footing with social media. Facebook is an endless stream of updates from people I lost contact with long ago for good reason. And on Twitter for some crazy reason I’ve lost the ambition to out-snark the snarkiest snark that ever snarked. Solvable problems for sure, but what’s the purpose here? I haven’t missed them. And the real world is proving to be a pretty awesome place. I’m sure there’s a good nerdy high-tech-expert blog post lurking in my post-social-media experiences, but that would be for another day, if at all.
And what about the blog? This has been my old friend, distant, out of touch, but always missed and never forgotten. Coming back here is returning to form, re-connecting to that which I never really disconnected from. Different, but only in a way that feels good, re-affirming, and mature.
Will I be back again soon? Who knows, but the point is that I’m here now and that’s what’s important.
I’m turning off comments. I’m tired of managing the SPAM (about 3 per month would get through my security-through-obscurity trap, and increasing in frequency lately) and I don’t feel like the comments added enough value to be worth the effort. If you have something to say, by all means please do – via email.
And with that, I steal away again…