Humanity

As a software artist I am a beast with two heads. I am an artist by compulsion and I am a software designer/engineer both by choice and sheer determination to understand technology. Most people tend to address one head or the other, depending upon whether they meet me first as an artist or as an engineer. Some colleagues grasp the nature of my hybrid approach and they are a pleasure to work with. Some never grasp it at all.

For a few weeks now my left brain has been absorbed in the details of implementing a client's web site. Being wedded to a tight deadline and having already done all the loose, creative design stuff, I'm now focused almost exclusively on solving the challenges of writing computer code in what is still a new territory for me. It's a great way to get to know the nitty-gritty details of how to build a modern, 'AJAX driven' web application.

I've temporarily suspended my humanity.

In case anyone has noticed that I've been rather uncommunicative lately (i.e. I haven't blogged for almost two weeks) it's because I've gone away. To Geekland.

My Girlfriend has certainly noticed. She's basically given up on me. Once in a while, through the haze of variables and conditional statements that fill my inner eye, I notice that she's in my office.

"How long have you been home?" I'll say.