About

I'm into health, music, and software.

My compulsion with health is simple. My diagnosis with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus at age 7 imparted a certain premature-maturity on me.

I responded as best I could by studying biology and chemistry in elementary school.

As a teenager, I was invited and joined the board of directors of my local American Diabetes Association chapter.

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

Health

Jade

Healthcare is self-care, at least in the United States.

I've discovered that, from Shorthairs to Weimaraners to Vizslas, pointers have a way of moving me. Like a nomad, I'm always on the run. From what, I'm not exactly sure. The rolling stone gathers no moss.

But before I was on the run, my teenage adulation of Breaking Away ended with a spectacular bike crash. Slow jogging long distances has taught me that the race is not always to the swift.

I've spent a lifetime learning from my childhood diabetes diagnosis by building a protocol of feasting, fasting, and exercise.

My life's purpose is to ameliorate diabetes for myself and others.

Why ameliorate? Well, consider the definition:

ameliorate
make something bad better or more tolerable

Of course, I can't actually cure diabetes, but the path to remission is clear and the milestones are clearer yet. Many of those milestones emerged recently:

The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself.

Music

Drums

For me, drums made jazz approachable when I was too young and didn't possess the fine motor control skills to master the feel (exteroception). I'm still learning.

Live, acoustic, trio fusion is where I find peace. Some call it third stream which curiously pre-dates fusion.

I planned to be a classical musician, but I gave up my music scholarship when I dropped out of music school to study computer science instead. My parents said that The Corporation would pay the rent until I realized that my gig money paid the mortgage. I spent years gigging so my time learning music was well-spent.

The beauty of jazz as an art form is that it depends on the artist, the listener, and the artist-listener. Jazz is the greatest triumph of listening as art. Take a bassist like Ron Carter, a drummer like Bryan Blade, a guitarist like Pat Metheny, and a pianist like Marcin Wasilewski, then listen carefully to their transcendent sound.

Purposeless play which is an affirmation of life – simply a way of waking up to the very life we're living.

Software

Studio

Software started as a personal science for me as an adolescent - peeking and poking at personal computers.

Decades later I practice software as experiments in art and intuitive philosophy, like my heroes.

I've been fortunate to work across the entire spectrum of software from microcomputing to macrocomputing.

My work has spanned:

But nothing has influenced my work more than open source's 3 P's: Postgres, ProxMox, and Python.

It is software that gives form and purpose to a programmable machine, much as a sculptor shapes clay. Leonardo called music shaping the invisible, and his phrase is even more apt as a description of software.

What code and jazz share beyond four-letter-words is that both result from ephemeral, liminal, modal consciousness and context beyond language. Indeed, in terms of language, one is compulsively logical while the other is impulsively emotional.