What happened? My drink tasted funny, and when I woke up, my pants were on backwards and my browser pointed here.
My name is Jonathan Blum, and this is my website. You’ve possibly also been date raped. Not by me.
I recently graduated from MIT with a degree in Computer Science and Engineering. While I wouldn’t trade the experience for anything in the world, I have also come to the realization that I do not want modular, well-specified software to be my primary contribution to the world.
I’m currently embarking on a series of adventures through which I hope to
- find out what the hell I want to do with my life, and
- avoid starting any kind of “career” for as long as possible, in keeping with the wisdom of Guy Kawasaki.
This blog will serve as a public record of my adventures, not unlike the dad in Earthbound.
Blog? Didn’t Fox News do a story on those? Isn’t that one of those Myspacebook things that molest children and make hypocritical incumbents lose elections?
I’ve always been annoyed by the vagueness of “blog”. One word has come to encompass a huge range of concepts, from personal journals to grassroots politics to community news sites.
Given that much leeway, I feel pretty confident in declaring fairlylucid a blog. It will include my personal, biased take on news. It will include links (generally with amusing alt-tags) to things that I find interesting, with the hope that you’ll find them interesting too. It will serve as my digital emissary to these great, unwashed Internets.
It will not detail my day in excruciatingly mundane detail. (”Fluffy’s sores are looking worse.”) I’ve got a real, paper journal for that. It will not include masturbatory journeys into self-analysis. Therapy is infinitely more effective. There will also be no cute personality quizzes, because HOW DARE YOUR CGI SCRIPT ACCUSE ME OF BEING ONLY A “73% ULTIMATE” KYLE XY FAN, SLYTHERIN420!?!?!11
I represent a large media conglomerate interested in buying your intellectual property and adding it to our teen-friendly commercialized X-TREME BLOG-O-SPHERE. How can I get in touch with you?
jon AT fairlylucid DOT com. I take Novus!