[Pre-noon freewrite]
Today is my day for sewing.  Sewing a sleeping bag liner.  Starts with.  A.
Prototype.  Already discovered a flaw in my design last night.  Now working
around that.  I hope.  It's neat to learn new stitches and techniques.  I
wonder how long sewing's been aroundl how long people have been compiling
tips and tricks.  I'm reading through a big guide to sewing because there's
no one to teach me.  Lost art?

But beyond and above.  I'm thinking that ewing and computer's have some
things in common.  Working with a machine.  Producing a product.  Using
algorithms (instructions) that have been handed down from previous users.
Yet free to experiment a little bit.  Implement a new thing.

Why am I turned off by computers?  I have pondered and pondered this.  Going
around coming up with ideas and not finding the solutions I want.  I suppose
that in the end it's that I'm doing the wrong things with them.  I enjoy
programing.  Learning new tools and using them to do things.  But I spend a
lot of my time simply installing new software and keeping things updated.
Less imagination that way.  They are very maintenence intensive in a way.
You are always doing something in order to do something else.  Either
installing software or learning new tools.  The idea that you shouldn't
"reinvent the wheel" is strong enough that you end up learning how other
people made a wheel over and over again.

When you really want to reinvent the wheel.  Because that's what interests
you.

Writing is more pure.  To write you need a pencil and some papaer.
Backpacking is somewhat the same -- you need gear and food.  After that you
can use the same things over and over.... Well food you have to constantly
purchase... But there's no "upgrade"  food is pretty much food out in the
wilds -- you throw it in a pot with some water and hope it's good tasting
when you take it off your stove.

Reinventing the wheel.  The creative process is inventing things.  The more
you need to learn in order to invent something new, the less inclined you'll
be to get there.  It's not that it's intimidating, it's that it's boring.
Curiousity over how someone else does something is not nearly as great as
curiousity about how you might do something.

I lean out into the wind and feel the rain stroke my hair \ wish you were
here \ Your fingers in my hair \ the wind is cold.

The haiku is a Japanese poetic form.  The school usually teaches that its
primary attributes are a 5-7-5 syllable per line structure and it takes a
theme from nature.  This is not true.  The basic attribute of the haiku is
that it brings disparate images/thoughts/ideas together.  Start with an
image in the first two lines and overlay it with an idea in the third.  Or
start with an idea in the first two lines and overlay it with
an image.

[End Pre-noon freewrite]