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I am a ROBOT

8:26am JST Wednesday 19 September 2007 (day 13692)

Some months ago, Jesse said something like, "the problem with your religion is that no one else can join you."

I was like, "durn tootin'! Who am I to say what another person needs for his/her religion!"

Last night, on page 174 in Mel Ash's book Shaving the inside of your skull, I read a suggestion:

Start Your Own Religion! - - - - - - - - - - - -

This is the advice from Timothy Leary in The Politics of Ecstasy. He says that in order to make your religion work you should "write down and defined your: Goals, Roles, Rituals, Rules, Vocabulary, Values, Space-time Locales, Mythic Context. Develop your own rituals and constumes . . . You will eventually find yourself engaged in a series of sacred moments which feel right to you . . . Unless you form your own religion and devote an increasing amount of your energies to it, you are a robot. Your new religion can be formed only by you. Do not wait for a messiah. Do it yourself. Now."

So, I started my religion! I am no longer a robot. I'm a ROBOT: Rob's Own Brand of Organized Traditions.

So far, I've come up with two hard and fast rules for being a ROBOT:

1. Meditate at least five minutes every morning

2. Give at least $20 every month to an open source programming project

3. Floss and brush teeth every night

4. Learn at least two things every year.

Regarding learning new things, this year I plan to learn SVN, the prefectures of Japan, and the capitals of all the US States.

Yes, that's three things.

SVN

1:46pm JST Wednesday 19 September 2007 (day 13692)

I *think* I know enough about SVN to use a repository that I'm about to let dreamhost set up on my server.

My plan is to have my svn server set up, and have it track changes to (parts of) my website. Generally speaking I don't need to track my entire website because I don't take files off the site; I just add them. It would likely be good to subvert my cgi-bin directory, though.

So the plan is to have subversion keeping track of changes to my future /ROBOT directory on my site, and then make the *working* directory be what's visible via http on my site.

Then I can have a local working copy as well. Make changes on my local machine, then do svn update on my site, and it will pick up the changes from subversion that I made locally.

3:29pm JST

So far, almost so good.

Work slow meeting

8:26pm JST Wednesday 19 September 2007 (day 13692)

Well *that* was a slow meeting, but now I have something to do.