braaaains

Most of the time, learning new stuff is fun and exciting. But then there are the times that it goes so slowly, and it feels like my brain isn't letting anything in (or if it lets something in then it goes right back out again), and then I feel stupid even though I know I'm not. Maybe it's just a problem of impatience- I want to do cool and complicated things right now, but in order to do cool and complicated things, you have to know how to do simple and relatively boring things first. I find myself wishing I hadn't dropped the beginning programming class I took when I was in PSEO, but... then it actually went much too slowly and I got bored, and I was 16 and couldn't think ahead to how I might build on it to do things I was actually interested in. There were also far too many boring filmstrips and lectures about the history of old mainframes (Yes, it's the ENIAC, again... can we do stuff now?) Mostly I wanted to be able to converse more intelligently with older computer nerds I was befriending. That's an interesting form of peer pressure... Learn to code! All the nerd kids are doing it!
MAX isn't really coding, but it's close. It's an interesting reminder of how I learn the most quickly, and that I do usually genuinely enjoy troubleshooting, so long as I feel like I'm making some kind of progress.

who says offices aren't exciting?

We've had that copier at least two years, and I was never aware of paper-jam doors Z1 and Z2, cleverly hidden inside the Primary "Z" component.

My stars.