??? Since curiosity first cried I’ve sought without end hope, grief-sick I spied th’infinite, soared mong the platonic spheres and reached heaven Alas, a prisoner of my fate, my mortal being

I devoured the grimoires Seibel, Norvig gave, Kane’s nephew, Sussmen pressed deep wisdom’s flame ; SICP, Steele = “great Quux” Into my soul, the Great Work held me slave To John’s heresy, my mortal frame’s still lame.

I saw my symbols shrink to mold arrays And convened with Whitney, Iverson and Hui, Learned types with Haskell, Plan9 th’OS bewrayed, Yet from these peaks glimpse but far more, a sea.

I was at Mohasco when Moore th’angels heard, I saw the miracles in Charlottesville, ; NRAO Hofacker, Brodie kept the embers’ words ; Forth on the Atari, Thinking Forth Yet I wallow lost, creation’s vaster ’n m’ will.

I probed the mighty Bay, wizards d’esprit The warring unicorns and moonshot seats, I witnessed MIT and NYC And know the hollow sorrow of their feats.

I climbed rocks, worked wood, read Slatestarcdoex fane, Gleaned truth with Eastern Europe’s catvatars, Debated AI with EA’s phrophets fain, Yet find we’re all the same, meek kids and tsars.

I suffered under project managers, Hypedriven CEOs’ base/blind buzzword bloat, Shareholders fickle, VCs, shorttermist currs, Yet still burn to transcend this flesh devote.

My mind overflows, while my soul sheds tears My body’s aged, while my heart cries, suckles, Ken sates not, heaven lies beyond wise years, Knowledge won’t sate, heaven’s b’yond wise years, ? Yet I wrestled, grew and lived, ? ? ? ? ; God was the suck.

I PCAd my soul and found That there was difference at the ground, I put my soul through FFT And found my immortality. ; from Leopold Haller

Why do i seek to learn more, knowing i’ll never reach heaven through knowledge (Trasncend the sublime fabric of our reality to perceive the code, structures, abstractions beyond beneath) To grow old and overcome my drive, to thank the world for the journey, to see god was everywhere, the complexity and insight between the struggles