Summer time.
It's summertime, and I'm on summer-time. Newton said that time moves in an inscrutable forward direction, and it's up to us to measure it clicking away. Liebniz, however, said that time is a fluid entity, and our measurement of it defines its rate. I'm inclined to believe in the latter definition. For instance, my time here at Explo happens whether I want it to or not. I turn around, I look down and look up, I check my watch and I can practically see the hand flying around. Anna in St. Paul tells me, however, that the days are moseying right along, time moving like sap on a Maple. Are we experiencing the same time? Is it like the inside and outside of a record, moving slower and faster and at the same rate, all at the same time? It makes sense, Minnesota being at the center of the record, and the coasts moving faster, but all at the same time. Maybe that's what's going on....

P.S. I may have made up that stuff about Newton and Leibniz

More Summer Pictures are up.
I'll post some backstory later, but I wanted to let y'all know.

Man oh man, read the news in Spanish, and look at what you get:

I'm scared. I'm very scared.

Hi all,
There's a new (small) set of pictures from my summer job up.
Go see.

This is a hoot. Apparently, this company did a survey of the music to which IT professionals listen, and it fell into categories based on what kind of computer work they were doing. My favorite is the top item; it says lots and lots to me. Also interesting is that I fall somewhere between Linux and Database Admin, which is interesting because I'm a Linux guy whose current job involves database administration. Aaah, it's so nice to see that I fit into the stereotypes. MMmmm, stereotypes. Of course, this survey was done of like 200 students in the UK, so it should be taken with a grain of salt. But what would you be doing reading this without your bag of salt?

• Job: Microsoft-certified professionals

  
  Favoured genre: Mainstream pop
  Top three bands:
  Britney Spears
  Dido
  Beyonce

  
  
  
• Job: Security

  
  Favoured genre: 60s "Alt" Rock
  Top three bands:
  Grateful Dead
  The Doors
  Hendrix

  
  
  
• Job: Linux

  
  Favoured genre: Electro
  Top three bands:
  The Orb
  Underworld
  Kraftwerk

  
  
  
• Job: Developers

  
  Favoured genre: Heavy Metal
  Megadeth
  Iron Maiden
  Slipknot

  
  
  
• Job: Database administrators

  
  Favoured genre: Indie
  The Smiths
  Haven
  Suede

  
  
  
• Job: Project manager

  
  Favoured genre: Rock
  Pink Floyd
  Queen
  Rolling Stones

  
  
  
• Job: CIO/IT director

  
  Favoured genre: Classical
  Mozart
  Handel
  Vivaldi

  
  

So.
Well well well. It's been a while, fair internet. And readers. Friends. Family.
Time stretches out like the rays of sun over water at night in Trinidad.
(do you like the simile?)
Here's another: I work like a king, eat like a dog.
Family motto notwithstanding.
(ask an Anderson, Learned, Greer).
This is a life full of excitement.
(how could you be around 700 high schoolers and not feel energized?)
So much tension, planned and programmed release.
Like bursts of machine gun fire: intense, premeditated.
Music keeps me going.
Ask me for a mix, and ye shall receive.
It's the new Donald.
Tired, happy, warm, content.