Assembly Language
So if you couldn't tell I'm actually a computer programmer by day. By night I'm a bit of a drag mother, who loves board games, mysticism, mystic artistic expression and to engage in philosophical and religious study. (Yes I am all over the place.) But ... computer programmer.
Primitive Obsession
I just learned this expression... I was complaining about the code using only basic datatypes and my boss agreed that it looked like "primitive obsession". My reaction: What??? there's a term for that???
Equivalent of a Computer Science Degree
Okay so I make no attempt to hide that I have no Computer Science degree. I am actually Law LL.B graduate. But why should a company hire me as their next developer when they have potential opportunities to hire someone who studied it at university? Well if this is the only criteria they can compare on then they shouldn't. Hopefully my years of experience as a developer where I regularly push myself to learn new technology should really be what stands me in good stead, but often that is hard to prove.
Stand-up Comedy Course
So the weird thing is I have actually written and delivered a course on stand-up comedy for drag queens and I use stand up for when I am doing drag. So why am I doing a course on it? Well, this really was my opportunity to check for gaps in my knowledge. I figure if someone is well received on Udemy for delivering a course then it must have some good content and I can use that to add any little extras to my stand-up course.
SRE
What is SRE?
These are just my notes about Systems Reliability Engineering. This is something I have chosen to study as part of my work for a company called BankBI. By all means read it if you will, but I'm not really writing for readability. This is just a notes-drop from various courses.
Couch to 5k
I didn't really want to post about this until it was showing some signs of success. But I began to work through Zombie Run 5k. I found it hard, to say the least. I began to cause knee injury and cause some muscular issues. But that's not stopping me. I have given myself space to recover, while maintaining a regular brisk walk daily for 30 minutes and I am about to get back into the saddle. It's been going on and off for months now. But having only done walking for a couple of weeks I am ready to go back to running again. However in doing so, I must recognise that my body is very unfit, I have high blood pressure and I need to take the course at a slower speed than most people because I need to achieve more changes in my body than most people do.
Singing Course
So anyone that knows me. I sing... a lot. But my singing is mostly average. I find I often get moisture in the lungs, probably from being overweight and the impact this has on the heart. So I have to deal with a few issues. I hope to use this article to record my work as I go and keep me aware of whatever the last thing I was doing when I come back to the course. I find blogging helps me keep focused somehow and I like to be open with people about myself so I might as well publish the results.
Human Computers
I have always been fascinated by the novel and the universe of Dune by Frank Herbert. One of the concepts in his novel is that a long time ago AI rose up, enslaved mankind and mankind freed himself. So it is based in a time where computers are banned. Interestingly enough human computers exist called "Mentats". These are people expertly trained to do calculations.