A friend once said to me "How many civilians did I kill?"
Actually, that wasn't to me, it was to our game master at the time. And I've since had a bit of a falling out with him so he might not like the term 'friend'. Don't worry, they weren't real civilians. You see, we were staking out an airport in this Cyberpunk campaign and...wait, that wasn't what I was going to talk about.
Ahh, yes: a friend once said to me "Mike, you should really have a blog because you're always finding these nifty little tidbits." Not the exact words, but close. He is of course completely correct; I'm usually collecting random information all the time, and I generally am capable of bringing all of it to bare at any given time on any given project.
Oh yes, projects. I have a lot of them, and I've never been good at finishing them. With ADD, you need to really concentrate and be religious about something to get it done. And that's real ADD, mind you, not the colloquial flavor where we chock all lapses in focus to a medical disorder. I've been working on this, but it is slow going.
An up side to it is that I find a wide range of stuff interesting. Cooking, woodworking, painting, miniatures, drawing, programming, whatever. I can do and have done a lot of things, often to great praise (okay, maybe not even often, but I make good stuff).
What makes it possible is realizing that everything has something to do with everything else. Understanding linguistics helps you name things better in your programs, knowing how the eye perceives makes 3D graphics easier to write, physics and leverage makes your carpentry easier, and chemistry allows you to understand your recipes. Understanding the connectedness of how everything works allows you to store a great deal more information because you can reason from base principles instead of memorizing reams of facts.
So expect posts on a wide range of subjects. These next few days will probably be a mixture of the culinary and the arboreal.
