Wherein I ramble for a moment or three...
The workings of the human thought process are an amazingly complex and beautiful thing. Two minds can come to the same conclusion by completely different processes; yet those same two can also — by using the same exact process — come to entirely different end results.
Don't let my curmudgeonly tone fool you into thinking that I'm railing at or belittling anyone. It's just that I don't think like you other humans, at all. I do love my fellow man, but I swear I lose brain cells every time someone asks me to explain what I just said.
Deep down I really and truly detest having to rearrange my thoughts into a manner easy for others to understand — but I do understand the need. The teachers always complained that I didn't show my work. I doubt they would have understood it if I had.
I didn't have any of my epiphanies or follow any of my more interesting mental tangents in anything resembling a 'normal' mental state. I think in a tangential manner with everything arranged within a three-dimensional construct so I can manipulate the data to test for the best course of action. It sounds convoluted and time-consuming — but it seems to work well for me. I get things done, and then store everything I see for use as a future data point in some problem I've set myself to solve.
With that said, let's get started and hope things don't 'esplode' all over us...
The Tinkerer
I'm a tinkerer; I've always been a tinkerer. Most likely, whatever it is that finally does me in will be something I'm tinkering with.
I don't discriminate either — I can probably find a way to tinker with most things. Computers simply offer more bang for the buck in this regard; not only can I tinker with the hardware, I've learned many varied ways to tinker with the software inside that hardware I so lovingly assembled.
I got into computers before the day of the personal computer, serving a glorious stint under the watchful gaze of bank upon bank of spinning magnetic reel. I once refused a job offer in those early days because I erroneously thought no one would buy into the PC market. Time passed and I eventually learned from my mistake. Many OSes have come and gone since then — these days I use Linux depending on what I want to do, and build the tools I need when they don't exist yet.
So what exactly is a Committee of Lunatics?
Each and every one of us has a Committee of Lunatics within us. These are the facets that make us who we are. The voices you hear when no one else is speaking — and sometimes when they are. A very few of us can actually talk back and forth between each facet, using this information to better ourselves and those around us. After all, deep down they are all just parts of the whole.
A long time ago, when asked to write a blurb for an unnamed social media site, I wrote simply this:
Who I am is strangely difficult for me to explain to someone else...
Sometimes, I do not believe that I, myself, know for sure...
A safe description would be the 'odd man out' as it were...
Always striving towards something, yet jaded by the enormity of it all.
I would still be glad to feel justified with merely prattling off some meaningless drivel to explain my presence here — or even content with the thought of being allowed to only 'allude' with hints, and mayhap, a shadowy glimpse of those daemons who drive my particular intellectual thirst that seem so evident to those who have actually met me.
But I digress...
The Committee, Currently in Session
This station broadcasts on two frequencies:
Both are facets of the same committee. Both are Jerry Jackson, Full-Stack Software Engineer, Austin TX. The hat is optional but recommended.
discussion tabled until internal committee decides
on the proper response
— @the Management