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WEDDING_PARTY


                                                April  7, 2020         
                                                April 20, 2022
                                                                       
This morning I took a break from my usual                              
routine of anxiety dreams and sex dreams,                              
and stumbled into some sort of programmer's joke:                      
                                                                       
                                                                       
   I was casually skimming an                                          
   article on the cover of some         The form factor of             
   computer industry publication,       this publication was           
   while talking to some other          much like the old              
   programmers, but there was some      InfoWeek that I used    I used to read
   funny barrier in the way of          to look at              it in the
   understanding the article--          occasionally in the     library at IBM
   there were a few code examples       late-80s/early-90s.     Almaden which
   in it and such, but it was                                   narrows the
   talking about a wedding party        While I was talking     time period
   or something...                      to someone about        for me down to
                                        it I glanced at the     a few years.
   I finally picked up on what          title and was                  
   was going on: there was some         confused to realize        Circa Gulf
   sort of programming language         I didn't know the          War I of
   named "Wedding Party" that           publication name--         the Bush I
   the author was just assuming         my unconscious was         regime.
   I knew about already.                reminding me that              
                                        that InfoWeek is a             
     I think there were some            phenomena of a                 
     weak play-on-words riffing         by-gone age.                   
     off of the name "Wedding                                          
     Party" that just served to           It was some longer           
     confuse-- why is this guy            and (even) blander           
     telling me about a wedding           name, like:                  
     in the middle of this                                             
     programming discussion?              "informationsociety"         
                                                                       
   I scribbled a note to myself in                                     
   the margin "As opposed to 'Go'."               Sorting through these sorts
                                                  of details and associations
   I woke up thinking that "Wedding               is one of the things that
   Party" might have been intended                makes recounting dreams
   to suggest massively parallel                  difficult: you risk boring
   concurrent synchronization, like               the audience with    
   the social games at a wedding                  explanations of trivia.
   party.                                         It's difficult to tell what
                                                  *matters* in a dream--
                                                  associations with details of
   It might also be a comment                     my life decades ago might be
   on the desperation for new                     significant, or just more
   names to use in the                            random neural firings.
   incessant parade of new                                             
   languages, the underground                                          
   parking garage of babel.                                            
                                                                       
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