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A 3 Minute Cleansing Run

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Josh Kim
on October 4, 2008
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Needed to clear my mind. So I ran around a couple blocks in this 49 degree Fahrenheit weather.

It’s 2:35 AM. What the heck am I doing?

Oh, that’s right, I’m coding. Or at least, trying to wrap my head around all facets of the business development project that is HanMeta.

I guess it is more or less a project update, powered by the blood rushing through my body after a very very quick run through the neighborhood (which, by the way, I shouldn’t be doing because my legs are currently on fire, but that story is for a health-related post).

Refinement of the software development process I’ve created is nearly complete. I’m sure I’m going to have to pick up things as I go along, but at least at this point, I can start on the making of something useful. This isn’t to say that what I’ve done up until this point (in this project and, in a larger scope, in this life) wasn’t towards something useful. Nay, it can only point to how much more awesome stuff I want to do from this point on. The foundations are important, but its significance truly shines through the fulfillment of the final goal.

Before I get a little too poetic, I’m learning more and more about the tools I need on the road to completion. I understand how to use git in a day-to-day setting. I know what programming/framework/database language I’ll be using. I’ve picked what server architecture I want to use to serve my projects. “I know, I know, I know.”

So far in the totality, I’ve learned that it’s very little about what you know in comparison to what you do with that knowledge. What good is a line on a resume… What good is four years at a school… What good is sitting through a sermon… if there is no actual test of what you know to be True.

It’s really about eating my own words. The stuff that I know and preach are being tested every waking moment these days… and I have to keep sticking to my guns.

What I know, what I believe, in life, people, work… Gotta bust it out with clarity and celerity.

Here’s to a less insane weekend? Maybe an even more insane one? Oof.

Man, this post could have been so good, but I feel kinda tired. Do I blow away a sleep cycle for this? sigh. Passion requires love. Love requires passion.

Time to Start

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Josh Kim
on July 23, 2008
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Sitting in front of my computer. 8 PM. I have the next 4 hours to rock out on any projects I would like.

Eyes hurting. Wrists burning. Ankles twitching. Whatever.

I really haven’t done a project in a while. It’s interesting to start up again.

Too many things swirl up in my mind. The biz hat. The dev hat. Do I have to wear both? I guess for a little while, I’m going to try and develop this thing on my own. It’ll be a good experience to see how much I know and how much more I don’t.

I have a large amount of past diagrams and outlines I’ve created, just for this moment. Months and months of planning. Just planning. No code. Just diagrams on napkins and dreams in my mind.

My skills in JavaScript is lacking, but I’ve already decided on jQuery as the library of choice. My skills in Ruby is lacking, but I’ve already decided on Rails as the choice (and even though I hear lovely things about Merb).

Stressing the Intro

I remember in high school, I was told to start with the body of the intro-body-conclusion style essays… That it helps somehow in the formation of the essay.

I could never do it that way. I had to just start. Start from the intro. Just start busting it out. Then an impromptu list would begin to form, out of thin air. I’d start formulating the arguments and throwing down the supporting points.

In that same way, I have to just start.

What’s really making me afraid is I’ve never written a book in this manner before. The fear is that I’ll be going down the wrong path.

No, I don’t want to hear about Rails not scaling. It’s not that at all. It’s the fact that this initial plan might somewhere along the line hamper the projects growth. The fact that, if I don’t position my first step correctly, I’ll sprain my ankle and miss out on the season to come.

But to run… even that marathon… I guess each step is a risk. All of life is a risk.

So suck it up. And be awesome instead.

Goals for tonight?

Start coding. Even one line will do. Just one. And then we’ll see where it goes from here.

Chances are, I’ll end up throwing that single line away anyway. Don’t think too much about the source management tool you’ll end up using, the bug tracking system you’ll end up working with, the browser incompatibility you’ll have to deal with…

Take a holistic approach. This is sometimes a problem of mine, and it applies for anything as big as this. I think that’s the way with a lot of people.

Sidenote: I have to understand that some of my weaknesses and downfalls are presented in the whole human race. I need to stop thinking that my problems are so much more important than others.

One line. Time to get cracking. Oh, that one line, and maybe a couple posts or something.

OH, and by the way

Published
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Josh Kim
on January 11, 2008
in Apple
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I hate running. I cannot stand it any more. I can’t believe for a couple weeks I was wanting to train for a marathon. I guess I realized that this really isn’t my thing at all… Even if I had a friend, since I have such an aversion to this form of weight loss, I don’t quite see how he or she is going to help in that endeavor. I even bought the shoes, darn you.

Maybe outside running won’t be as bad… but that’ll have to wait until the weather gets better. I do really miss playing outside.

Alas, I need a way to keep off the pounds while the weather is still a bit chilly. Freaking racquetball would be amazing, but the courts are ever always so filled to capacity.

And so, I must return to my:

[FANFARE]

DDR Routine.

I had recently accumulated about… I don’t know 10GB worth of songs. Now it’s time to put them to good use.

Really, I want an updated Mac Mini so I can just have that be plugged into my TV at all times, for all my media needs.

Why does everything I talk about these days go towards Apple? I know! It’s because there’s something in the air.