March, 2010
We must destroy in order to rebuild.
“It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life.”
~ Barthold Georg Niebuhr
As a child, one of my favorite hobbies was breaking things. I’d get home from school and for the 3 hours I had until my mother would arrive home I’d be sneaking around the house with a screwdriver, voiding warranties on electronics. I was the nerdy, pint-size manifestation of Ferris Bueller rushing to repair the family VCR before the folks got home.
This quasi-destructive curiosity got me in trouble more times than not but what I gained by breaking everything that seemed the least bit interesting was far more valuable than what I lost out on as a result of getting punished. There are very few things that give me more satisfaction than learning how to (re)build something out of a pile of seemingly random parts.
It is as a result of those nights spent sneaking through my father’s tool-shed in search of tools for an old computer autopsy that I find myself, 24 years old still breaking things just to rebuild them. As an experiment in design/web-development I decided to build my own wordpress theme. It felt good getting under the hood, digging through all the code and getting my hands dirty.
That said, if anything seems broken or if the blog causes your computer to blow up, please email me and let me know.
If I Have To Go, I Want To Dye Blue.
If I have to go, I want to dye blue., originally uploaded by caniba.
