Finding the Time To Code

[Guest guest]

Hi Phil and Scott,

 

Wow, I'm honored to know suddenly that I have some Linux Certified Bite

Heads on the list, and I never knew that at all. I thought I might be

alone hear in code consciousness, but I can see I am dwarfed.

 

===CODE===

Re code, you can get everything you need to learn and code yourself from

books available from Willman Belle on the web. Find them. They are an

astronomy book place. Might have spelled their name wrong. They ARE on

the web.

 

They sell the NASA/JPL cd which has the latest stuff on it. They also

have Meeus's books etc.

 

Then of course you can just license the Swiss Ephem.

 

 

===TIME===

 

I am honored to the max when someone points out the time put INTO GJ.

 

I have paid in my life big time for what I've put into my work. It

affects my life in all respects because yes I am a workaholic. I don't

do anything else. Saturn exactly conjunct the midheaven, in Saturn dasha.

 

I didn't realize this so clearly as recently. I has very negative

effects on my life in some ways. Yet, I still cannot stop.

 

I'm really honored when PROGRAMMERS think GJ is cool. Wait til you see

the future.

 

The Hare Krishna movement infused me with a missionary spirit. I took

that into software through a zealous approach of rising at about 4 am

every day for the last so many years and working all day until night,

with lots of little breaks or whatever, but it was those first few

hours, called "Brahma Muhurtha", or pre-dawn, every day for years, which

was really the thing. I'm writing this letter write now at 3 AM. Not

that I stayed up, no, I just got up, naturally.

 

So it's this pre-dawn thing I have that really helps. Also, actually

having allowed that mood into me years ago whereby attachment is let go.

I don't have much interest in anything anymore, so my work interests me

still, so I do that.

 

So when you don't really get off on much at all in life anymore, and you

therefore have hardly nowhere to go, hardly nothing to do, and yet you

feel an extremely strong need to serve the positive current of the

spread of Divine Awareness on Earth in your life/with your life, and

you've been heavily trained in Vedic stuff, and you know how to use all

manner of modern equipment from music to cameras to computers, and

you're a white american california boy, in your twenties, and ready to

roar, then you do something like code constantly in an obsessed way with

a view to make Vedic something accessible to more people.

 

Then you wake up at 40 and realize you just gave the prime 21 years of

your life to Krishna, and wonder, where did the time go? Huummph.

 

Hey Ram, what's next?

 

 

 

===KAMAKAZI KINDA KOMITMENT===

 

Don't go here unless you can handle it.

 

And please do NOT ask me about GJ3, especially arrival date.

 

Life is frustrating, we all agree. We all handle this different ways.

For me, I'm essentially an artist actually. I also love logic, code,

math, and so on, but only in relation to art. And I'm a devotee of

Divinity, if that says anything.

 

So in handling recent years of frustration, I buried myself in creating

the ultimate Jyotish program, GJ3. I literally am putting into it, the

VERY BEST I can drum up out of myself.

 

This is not an advertisment, I'm going to give myself a moment off from

worry about audience comprehension, and just say what I want to say.

 

In wee hours and in the dark, I created what I thought was the most

awesome interface possible, and got it fairly complete, and realized it

had a basic flaw, and trashed it. Goodbye to months of work. But the

final thing, the ultimate product, must be as user friendly as possible,

and as standard as possible, so that it's user friendly and

hard-use/hard-work friendly and capable, so if some interface structure

ultimately doesn't serve this, it's got no place except in the trash.

 

That's the kindof ethic GJ3 is under.

 

Furthermore, flexibility and ease. Like dragging and dropping everything

everywhere to seup up connections of various types.

 

The math, improved, everything improved. Speed, amounts of features,

interface, ahhhhhh....

 

I feel like I'm actually doing the main thing I'll ever do, my Swam

Song. This is the hardest thing I've ever done. GJ3. It's pretty much

entirely OO too. I had to learn OOPS as I went...so no wonder I had to

do some serious throwing out of version 1 of version 3 so to speak.

Version 3 when it actually hits will be more correctly called version 6

or so...to be honest, really. It's going through so much of change on

it's own as it develops. I didn't think I was going to do a ground up

rewrite, but it's turning out that way. Which is fine, in fact it's good.

 

I have seen alot of coders working in my life, and I know there's a few

of us who are really prolific in quantity at least AT TIMES. At those

times, we crank out stuff. Somehow I think we get our heads in there,

and we can just fly. It's like some special attribute some coders have.

 

Actually, what I want to say, is that:

 

People are so very uneducated in general to me, and boring, and so is

most of what's available in society, to me. So I would have nothing to

do if it wasn't for service to the Divine.

 

So, I serve the Divine. What to do? Things which communicate to the

uneducated of course, to alleviate the burden of ignorance on Earth.

 

Found computers. Awesome tool. Jyotish is Vedic. Code Jyotish. That's me.

 

Now there is so much to do in Jyotish. Unlimited. Fine, no problem

filling life therefore. One thing handled.

 

Can't serve it enough. Parashara watching. Never good enough, but good

it can be, oh and it is becoming, so fine so fine, so nice, no

excellent, jyotish deserves the best interface, and awesome power and ease.

 

Research is needed, yes, it must become better-fied by the use of

databases, research comparing/crunching code, sample data, .... can

write these things, or a start, get it going, no problemo...will do,

make living too, that's always a good thing.

 

What will it do if Jyotish really spreads? Not much visibly. Does alot

to people internally. Helps to start the process of detachment. It's all

a part of the education of our batch of souls. I'm glad I'm on the

bleading edge of it's spread in the west. Aries likes a fight.

 

Beauty, Grace, Speed, Power, Zap, Do it, Drag, Drop, See Results, Power

Power...GJ3

 

Jyotish has put my consciousness onto a much higher level of awareness.

Combined with the basis I had in KC in Vedic Literature with standard

Gaudiya Vaisnava slant, on top of that, the knowledge of Jyotish found a

stage it could dance on with ease it seems. What slides through my head

in terms of visions of lifes forces is profound and hard to word. I

enjoy being a witness of my head often.

 

As I wish we could speak at the speed of thought, so I wish I could

paint in the air with my hand for all to see my thoughts. I wish we

could share our rainbows with our hands. I cannot show you what I think,

because it's 3 dimensional. I cannot code what is possible, as coding is

so slow, it's like writing a 1000 page book on pages of rock with blood.

 

So I am always frustrated to communicate. It's very frustrating that

even our dear ones cannot know our thoughts as there's no way to do the

bandwidth across that divide. Frustrating.

 

But to make one thing of grace. That is an artists credo. To make one

lasting thing which is ever so fine, to show the grace of God that we

have perceived in all things, to make one little thing, to show that

yes, I felt this too. We can tell from the works of many that they felt

something profound and communicated that. I am drawn to that artistic

approach. I wish software didn't fade away in time with obsolessence of

hardware etc. It's not lasting. Oh well. The impact is.

 

Grace, Beauty, Divinity, Art, Ahhh.

 

Rachmaninoff's 3rd. Like that.

 

Jyotish works, oh yes, but we know a small part, and we are ever so weak

in all respects. It's is rays and waves swirling and grabbing, Da-Sha,

giving, grabbing, moving, the water in all things, it is gravity, snow

flakes have six main sides, cut into two, making 12, water falling,

freezing, pulled in 12 directions. Balls in space, that's all there is

in this area, and we on one, water bacteria, pulled in 12 directions,

with 9 interveners inbetween those star masses and us, altering the

waves as they glide in from the stars, planets tween stars and us you

see, distance matters, and intervention, rays mixing, conjuncts, wars, etc.

 

So physical, nearly boring.

 

What are you?

 

A gravity clutched amoebe of red water with an ego the size of Jupiter.

 

Jyotish is simplly the science of gravity and how much we are all a part

of this whole phenom called the universe, which is really a sector of

the dust cast from the hand of God to create a new grove for his own

pleasures, and time, relative, meaingless, same for size, memory, hmmm,

required to remember anything, and not under our control apparently, so

will anything exist if it's forgotten? Ignorance is a gift too.

Emotional memory is the face of the child. The being created at birth a

result of the literal and figurative past, the present parents, the

society present and past, the karma present and past, and the being

reappears, the prospects of the new being an extension of the emotional

growth of the past.

 

I am swirling, in Your dust thrown, and you have filled my head with

your Beauty, and I try to draw it to say back to you, I see what you are

saying, and I am dinky like you made me, so it's silly, but I'm going to

do it anyway, and at any moment you may take this body-expression-tool

away, and there goes those years of school...so I'm hurrying...isn't

that funny, I'm trying to outrun you as Time, hah, oh well, can't stop

my Aries nature you gave me. So let me have enough time to just do some

more things. Some more beautiful things if possible, before you stop my

ticker. I wish to dance with my brothers and sisters singing your

glories intoxicated in your beauty, which is in all things.

 

What is the point of talking to you? No, I will just see for you. See

here your beauty. In this thing. See here your beauty in this system,

this life, this cloud, this smell, see here yourself everywhere. See

anything and it is you, my Lord, and I am also in that, and also is my

seeing, all that is seen, and the seeing process. All inside you, spread

in many, retained in yourself, playing with yourself in many, raising

spark brothers with whom to play are we?

 

I can struggle, but that is a feeling, not real, as all is well, and

going as it will, a feeling only, a perception of what just happened

hello, that I can take seriously or not, oh what is the use of being

aware of you and all that is, as it's just a big headache of happiness

and endlessness.

 

Better to return to something mundane so as to focus and get something

meaningful done, for you, who are watching, out from inside my monitor.

Hi Krishna.

 

Yes, the mundane is good because it gives us a break from a really

intense friend, who can be a little over bearing and possessive, GOD!!

 

Enough revealing. Time to forget I did this.

 

Hare Rama

 

raghu das

[Guest guest]

Dear Das,

 

I wish to thank you for your generosity and vision. The exposure to your

extremely visual perceptions, and deeply artistic take on them, with your

ability to communicate them, has given me a more universal concept to my own

visual experiences.

 

With gratitude and many thanks,

Patrice

[Guest guest]

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"Das Goravani" <>

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Saturday, March 31, 2001 6:49 AM

[gjlist] Finding the Time To Code

 

 

>

> Hi Phil and Scott,

>

> Wow, I'm honored to know suddenly that I have some Linux Certified Bite

> Heads on the list, and I never knew that at all. I thought I might be

> alone hear in code consciousness, but I can see I am dwarfed.

 

Hi Das,

 

A bite head is a bite head no matter which platform s/he works on. IMHO,

you are hardly dwarfed. Your post was quite moving. Thank you for sharing

the depth and nature of your commitment. Your suggestions on where to find

the information I am seeking is most appreciated.

 

Btw, I for one would never ask another coder about his project's release

date... that's just too much like being management (j/k - apologies to any

software managers on the list).

 

Yours in admiration,

 

Scott