G'day folks! I'm a man person around fifty who likes to be fit and healthy and try to pretend I'm as young as Cher would like you to think she is. God bless America and activism. In my life I've seen a giant leap in technological advancement from the FC Holden to the personal computer, and just trying to imagine how NASA got all that computer navigation equipment on the spacething that went to the moon is amazing in itself...given the size of computers then.
I have a four and half year old son whose name is Oliver. He already uses my computer for some simple games. However, he says he wants to be a fireman.
I have always had an interest in the humanities and took on an anthropology course but never completed it. I became pretty interested in the medical sociology units and got sidetracked with an interest in existentialism, which has remained with me ever since. The problem I find with this subject is that in the 21st century we still only have the stodgy existential intellectualism of the 1800's to the 1930's to read. Hesse's Steppenwolf was one of the first of these works to be represented in popular culture and had an influence on the formation of the Rolling Stones. Colin Wilson (see home page) presented a contemporary study of the subject in the early 1960's continuing the theme of the 'outsider' (The Outsider, C. Wilson). I enjoyed watching the movie A Waking Life because it presented the subject from a 21st century perspective in the age of so-called globalisation and corporatisation. I hope you get a chance to see it on video.
I first became interested in computers, or moreso the internet, in the early 1990's, but work commitments kept me from immersing myself in it. Later, in 1995 I sold my small home based business and enrolled at TAFE to do the course. I was due to start in Feburary of that year but got myself hit by a car in January. I spent a few years recovering from leg and other physical injuries, but here I am in 2002 almost finished the first module.