Cleaning out boxes...

[katster]

This has to be from the semester from hell, but it's there, and I wanted to note it:

Being different is not a sin. But, from what I've seen through my life, it might as well have been. Excluded by my peers, I have sought solace in weighty tomes of knowledge and the intellectual challenges of my elders. Because of this, I can engage on such weighty challenges as a comparison of Orwell's 1984 to actual Stalinist policy in Russia, but I have absolutely no interest in the latest episode of ER, or why I should get my nose pierced. In an earlier time, a more primitive time, I would have been hailed as an oracle or mystic; however, this is the twentieth century. There is no room for mystics, technology shot them down.

I don't know what I was thinking about at the time, but it seems somewhat important.

As for other things, there's no change.

Comments

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

"In an earlier time, a more primitive time, I would have been hailed as an oracle or mystic; however, this is the twentieth century. There is no room for mystics, technology shot them down."

I beg to differ. There's more room than ever for mystics, seers and keepers of arcane knowledge. Just now-a-days we call them sys-admins, programmers and librarians.

Face it, around 90% of the population has about as much of a clue about the technology that makes their little world work, as someone from that medieval times. They just take it for granted that it does, and that someone understands it all.

Which means of course means that they only really appriciate the cogsenti when the technology fails. It's a lousy job, undervalued and underpaided usually, but somebody's got to keep it all working.

[dwhagar.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't say that they are keepers are arcane knowledge though... I would say, those keepers, are people like kat, not a sysadmin that makes a keeper, it is the keeper that makes the sysadmin. Kat (like my friend Justin) has always known tons of incredibly weird knowledge. However, Justin will never be a sysadmin.

So, I think that while sysadmins can be keepers, keepers are not always sysadmins.