Hello World

Greetings everyone. After some considerable thought and guidance from some of my occupational colleagues (non-musical, that is), I've finally decided to publish a site that can serve as an outlet for my incessantly loquacious tendencies to speak my mind on whatever topic moves me at that particular moment. Hey, it sure beats the habitual and relentless spamming of various articles on politics, society, and art that I have been torturing my friends and acquaintances with for the past, oh, 5 or 6 years. So here it is. And yes, it’s going to get pretty strange at times, so to quote the great Samuel Leroy Jackson in the 1993 Stephen Spielberg film Jurassic Park, “Hold on to yer butts!”

I've decided to title this first post "Hello World", not so much as an unimaginative attempt to be trite and corny, but almost as a pun to a pun. My first, and foremost professional and artistic passion is for music. I am a bassist and have worked in a number of bands and recording endeavors throughout the years since around 1980/81. And one day when I grow up, I hope to become a full-time performer and producer (I was actually accused of wanting to be a “rock start” once . . . can you imagine? Hannibal Lechter, keep your damn faba beans to yourself! I’m gonna be a rock star! AAAAUUGGHH!!) Anyhoo, I digress (there’ll be quite a bit of that). In my normal, boring, non-musical 9-to-5 "gotta pay the bills and be a responsible adult citizen)" life, I am a mid-range computer systems administrator. I have worked in this capacity for one corporation or conglomerate or other (i.e. "the man") for over 10 years now. And although I am a musician first and professional geek second, I have learned a spattering about programming here and there. As far as the geek stuff goes, I don't program, with the exception of the occasional shell script or Perl hack here and there. . . I just deal mostly with the heavy-metal hardware and operating systems.

One thing that I've noticed is that many programmers tend to test output from their programs in a variety of languages by using the phrase "Hello World". I guess that sort of gives the program a sort of "life" of its own and insinuates that it has been "born" or somehoe self-actualized. Corny Sci-Fi crap, if you ask me (not that there’s anything wrong with that). So I figured I'd title my first post as such.

From this point, I think those of you who may not know me well (which may be most of you) have already figured out that I'm one wordy bastard. I apologize. . . but yet not. I've started thinking that rather than myself being guilty of communicating and thinking too much, the average (and I do mean average) citizen in the Untied states (I can't speak for other countries) doesn't communicate or think nearly enough. . . .Which might explain a few things (escpecially now-a-days). But I'm sure we'll delve into and explore that whole realm quite shortly. For now, the following thought occurs to me:

If I ever do take any formal computer programming courses (and I don’t' think I will, for I'd much rather learn to speak Japanese), then I think the test-text for my work, rather than stating "Hello World", will more than likely say something like " I like big butts and I can not lie". Hey, don't judge me. . . you of the female persuasion might form the opinion from reading some of my future posts that I may be a pig at times. To take that old, played out metaphor and run with it a bit, if I am a pig occasionally, then I am a respectful, loving pig in a finely tailored suit who hates mud and doesn't leave the toilet seat up. :)

Enjoy.

-R.k.S.