Completely bogged down by Linux studies this week. Started at shell syntax because that's the lingua franca. Shell syntax manipulates processes and pipes which are the mechanical substrate - so figuring out the semantics from a character on the screen, to the underlying memory operation led to a study of how shells work in general. Inadvertently, that required a recap of how computers work in general, particularly the graphics stack. I'm drowning, but, if I wasn't, I wouldn't be learning anything then, would I?
Addendum. This workflow is an example of the pattern, that barking up the supply-chain, beginning with the superficial interest of peeps, will usually lead to more important stuff. (1) Computer game technology advancement in the 90s was interesting, superficially because it left less and less to the imagination of the player-user, but on an epoch scale because it demonstrated in stark form the improvements in our ability to mechanically compute conciousness. (2) Hipster food, music, fashion, travel, cars, gadgets, and other epicureanisms may seem to purely be ways for one peep to take money (time) from another, but barking up the supply-chain from the presentation layer, one finds a myriad questions about the structure of the consciousness, and the methods by which one conscious structure is deemed more or less valuable. A flavour grown and a flavour machined, once indistinguishable, come to the same fate.
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