# Welcome: Journal This journal gathers dated reflections on technology, books, music, art, nature, memory, family, loss, recovery, and the intellectual paths connecting them. The entries below are arranged from most recent to earliest so the journal can be read backward through the developing corpus or entered at any individual point. ## Entries — newest first - **August 21, 2026 — [[journal/2026-08-21 - Cyber Terrorism Is Terrorism|Cyber Terrorism Is Terrorism]]** — A first-person and institutional account of a sustained cyberattack as an assault on informational, relational, and personal continuity, linked to the reconstructed handwritten-notebook archive and the technical scope of the recovery effort. - **August 15, 2026 — [[journal/2026-08-15 - Bidirectional Ontology and Semantic Elasticity|Bidirectional Ontology and Semantic Elasticity]]** — An examination of how a living ontology can both emerge from a body of writing and increasingly govern it, balancing semantic flexibility against consistency and drift. - **August 15, 2025 — [[journal/2025-08-15 Navigating Uncharted Territory|The Art Is Long: Navigating Uncharted Territory]]** — A reading of software archives, GNUstep, Vespucci, and Riccardo Mottola’s work as records of inheritance, reconstruction, portability, and the survival of useful forms across time. - **June 14, 2025 — [[journal/2025-06-14 - Nature's Designs - Terrapene carolina, the Eastern Box Turtle|Nature’s Designs — Terrapene carolina, the Eastern Box Turtle]]** — An exploration of the Eastern box turtle’s shell as a biological archive of tessellation, ornament, symbolic geometry, and design possibility. - **April 28, 2025 — [[journal/2025-04-28 - Noticing Is the Art - Batocera wallacei Beetle Designs|Noticing Is the Art — Batocera wallacei Beetle Designs]]** — A meditation on pattern recognition and the liberation of visual forms from nature, using a beetle’s markings as a source for biomorphic art and design. - **March 4, 2025 — [[journal/2025-03-04 - Favorite Books - A People's History of the United States|Favorite Books — A People’s History of the United States]]** — A personal account of encountering Howard Zinn through the intellectual and anti-authoritarian energy of Good Will Hunting, and of history as a call to participation rather than passive study. - **January 23, 2025 — [[journal/2025-01-23 - Favorite Music - Fade Into You|Favorite Music — Fade Into You]]** — A reflection on Mazzy Star’s song as a vessel for memory, longing, love, impermanence, and the desire to preserve what is fading. - **January 8, 2025 — [[journal/2025-01-08 - Rebuilding the Library of the Lost|Rebuilding the Library of the Lost]]** — The reconstruction of a lost personal library and the intellectual scaffolding, family history, photographs, code, and memory bound up with it. - **January 7, 2025 — [[journal/2025-01-07 - Vanishing Point|Vanishing Point]]** — A personal field note moving through Westworld, simulation, spectacle, trauma, engineered reality, and the difficulty of distinguishing the game from the system containing it. - **August 21, 2024 — [[journal/2024-08-21 - Patterns, Programs, and Wolfram at a Messy Desk|Patterns, Programs, and Wolfram at a Messy Desk]]** — A return to Stephen Wolfram, rule-space exploration, computational irreducibility, formal systems, and the long accumulation of tools that makes later discovery possible. - **June 15, 2022 — [[journal/2022-06-15 - Untitled|Untitled]]** — A poem of total subtraction written in reflection on an earlier loss, ending at the point where even the language required for farewell has been taken. - **March 2, 2022 — [[journal/2022-03-02 - We Are Sims Now - Ghosts in the Machine|We Are Sims Now — Ghosts in the Machine]]** — A family preserved inside The Sims becomes a meditation on digital memory, grief, erasure, continuity, and the reality carried by virtual places. - **July 15, 2015 — [[journal/2015-07-15 - The Blogs and Feeds I Follow|The Blogs and Feeds I Follow]]** — A map of RSS feeds, laboratories, writers, institutions, and personal blogs used to construct a deliberately interdisciplinary intellectual environment outside algorithmic curation. - **July 12, 2013 — [[journal/2013-07-12 - My Dear Daughters - One Day When You Look Back|My Dear Daughters — One Day When You Look Back]]** — A poem and reflection on daughters, memory, separation, time, impermanence, and a parent’s hope that love will remain legible across the years. - **November 27, 2010 — [[journal/2010-11-27 - Hollywood, Humanity, and the Faces of Poverty|Hollywood, Humanity, and the Faces of Poverty]]** — A confrontation with the coexistence of glamour and cruelty in Hollywood, centered on the dignity of a person living in poverty and the violence of public contempt. - **May 1, 2003 — [[journal/2003-05-01 - Favorite Books - The Web of Life|Favorite Books — The Web of Life]]** — A recollection of Fritjof Capra’s living-systems framework and its relationship to cybernetics, emergence, biological organization, regenerative medicine, and technological possibility. - **January 8, 2001 — [[journal/2001-01-08 - Favorite Books - The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy|Favorite Books — The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy]]** — A portrait of nonlinear self-education through a vast reference work that joined cultural context, encyclopedic curiosity, and everyday intellectual exploration. - **March 8, 1999 — [[journal/1999-03-08 - Favorite Books - The Tao of Physics|Favorite Books — The Tao of Physics]]** — A personal encounter with Capra’s bridge between modern physics and Eastern mysticism, joining scientific curiosity with a longstanding search for spiritual and conceptual unity. - **January 23, 1998 — [[journal/1998-01-23 - Favorite Books - The Society of Mind|Favorite Books — The Society of Mind]]** — A reflection on Marvin Minsky’s model of intelligence as a society of smaller agents and its resonance with distributed systems, emergence, collaboration, and early experiments with mind and machinery. - **January 8, 1998 — [[journal/1998-01-08 - Favorite Books - Gödel, Escher, Bach|Favorite Books — Gödel, Escher, Bach]]** — An account of discovering in Hofstadter’s strange loops, recursion, art, music, and formal systems a vocabulary for an already interdisciplinary way of thinking. - **December 20, 1994 — [[journal/1994-12-20 - Bryant Was Here - A Personal Intersection with History|Bryant Was Here — A Personal Intersection with History]]** — A remembrance of NeXT computers, early web infrastructure, the Triad Center, technological possibility, and a personal point of contact with the emerging networked world. - **June 1, 1993 — [[journal/1993-06-01 - The Clues to the Great Mystery Are All Around Us|The Clues to the Great Mystery Are All Around Us]]** — A short meditation on science and spirituality as complementary approaches to recurring patterns across atoms, organisms, landscapes, and galaxies. - **July 8, 1988 — [[journal/1988-07-08 - Favorite Books - The Mind's I|Favorite Books — The Mind’s I]]** — A formative encounter with Hofstadter and Dennett’s explorations of consciousness, identity, recursion, thought experiments, and the emergent architecture of the self.