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Sep. 6th, 2009 03:28 pmThere are times that it would be perhaps nice to be a wee bit more linear than I am.
For example, when driving somewhere new, or even newish? Sometimes it gets boring, so I depart from the approved route. Which, y'know, people have been known to find alarming, irritating, or even just . . . odd. And sometimes I end up somewhere completely else from where I intended to go.
This isn't usually too much of an issue, if I'm driving by myself, except it often means a later-than-planned arrival. Or if I'm driving with someone else who is also a bit non-linear. Which is how Cory Doctorow and I missed the ferry to Martha's Vineyard. And then how come Cory got left on foot in Wood's Hole, when I took the NEXT ferry to Martha's Vineyard. Because, well, he got out of the car and wandered off to look for coffee. (It all turned out fine! See? It works. You just can't get all tense about that kind of stuff.)
But when doing stuff like server and software upgrades? Turns out following the map is a REALLY good idea. It's not that this stuff is a completely unintuitive process, of course, but it's more like a Choose Your Own Adventure than it might ideally be. Thank god for people who know a lot more than I do.
Heh.
For example, when driving somewhere new, or even newish? Sometimes it gets boring, so I depart from the approved route. Which, y'know, people have been known to find alarming, irritating, or even just . . . odd. And sometimes I end up somewhere completely else from where I intended to go.
This isn't usually too much of an issue, if I'm driving by myself, except it often means a later-than-planned arrival. Or if I'm driving with someone else who is also a bit non-linear. Which is how Cory Doctorow and I missed the ferry to Martha's Vineyard. And then how come Cory got left on foot in Wood's Hole, when I took the NEXT ferry to Martha's Vineyard. Because, well, he got out of the car and wandered off to look for coffee. (It all turned out fine! See? It works. You just can't get all tense about that kind of stuff.)
But when doing stuff like server and software upgrades? Turns out following the map is a REALLY good idea. It's not that this stuff is a completely unintuitive process, of course, but it's more like a Choose Your Own Adventure than it might ideally be. Thank god for people who know a lot more than I do.
Heh.
