Computers

To anyone who is fortunate to be able to use a computer at all,

Look at this page. Pretty bland, right? Pretty stale, few colors, normal titles, everything you find boring in a web page, probably. Now tell me how many mega pixels it contains. A few of you might know that, not too bad of a question. Now tell me exactly how it is that when I type a few words the size, font, color and location are all pinpointed perfectly to a layout. I don't mean how do you do it on Blogger, I mean how do you create a machine that can calculate that type of information. How does it know that when I click on the Youtube widget over there, I'm wanting it to redirect to a completely new website, and generate thousands of other megapixels? How does it know how to generate at all? How does light know what color to shine in the correct order to spell any word at all. For those matters, how does it understand typing? How does a computer register a click? Record sound? Take pictures? Play a constant streaming video in high definition? Seriously, am I the only one who is completely flabbergasted by this incredibly detailed process? Who was the first guy that decided to put shit together and run electric beams into it? Who designed the motherboard? How many of us even know what the motherboard does? All I'm trying to say is that if you're using one of these machines you must be lucky in some sense. What I'm asking is that you don't take this incredible piece of machinery for granted and that when you look at a dumpy little page like mine, you remind yourself of all the things that are actually going into it. so the next time you're waiting for a video to load in 1080HD resolution, cursing silently to this machine, you'll think of the process that it's going through, and the process that some person had to go through just to get that computer to go through that process at all. I just ask that the next time you use a computer, you won't be so damned American about it.

-Chris

The Final First Post

Hello non-existent reader,

Generally, I don't believe in these types of things. Blogs, that is. I briefly ran a video blog on Youtube that was relatively unsuccessful. Recently I've just been filming short films that I post on my shared Youtube account: CommonFolkFilms (just search that in the Youtube search bar). If anyone ever reads this post, you should definitely check out those videos. I created this log for a class, but I think I'm going to try to actively update it, which might be tough. I imagine that I'll have those days where I feel like the whole thing is pointless and it was stupid of me to even try to make someone listen, but for now, for today, I think that this is a good thing for me. And who knows, maybe someone will pretend to give a shit. By the way, thanks for finding this.

-Chris