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WEDDING_PARTY
April 7, 2020
April 20, 2022
This morning I took a break from my usual
routine of anxiety dreams and sex dreams,
and stumbled into some sort of programmer's joke:
I was casually skimming an
article on the cover of some The form factor of
computer industry publication, this publication was
while talking to some other much like the old
programmers, but there was some InfoWeek that I used I used to read
funny barrier in the way of to look at it in the
understanding the article-- occasionally in the library at IBM
there were a few code examples late-80s/early-90s. Almaden which
in it and such, but it was narrows the
talking about a wedding party While I was talking time period
or something... to someone about for me down to
it I glanced at the a few years.
I finally picked up on what title and was
was going on: there was some confused to realize Circa Gulf
sort of programming language I didn't know the War I of
named "Wedding Party" that publication name-- the Bush I
the author was just assuming my unconscious was regime.
I knew about already. reminding me that
that InfoWeek is a
I think there were some phenomena of a
weak play-on-words riffing by-gone age.
off of the name "Wedding
Party" that just served to It was some longer
confuse-- why is this guy and (even) blander
telling me about a wedding name, like:
in the middle of this
programming discussion? "informationsociety"
I scribbled a note to myself in
the margin "As opposed to 'Go'." Sorting through these sorts
of details and associations
I woke up thinking that "Wedding is one of the things that
Party" might have been intended makes recounting dreams
to suggest massively parallel difficult: you risk boring
concurrent synchronization, like the audience with
the social games at a wedding explanations of trivia.
party. It's difficult to tell what
*matters* in a dream--
associations with details of
It might also be a comment my life decades ago might be
on the desperation for new significant, or just more
names to use in the random neural firings.
incessant parade of new
languages, the underground
parking garage of babel.
DINOSAUR_WARS
REPTILLIAN_MONOTHEISM
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