Kernel #1

 

 

When I was a child I had too many hobbies. I collected stamps, coins, and rocks. I experimented with electronics, and dabbled in amateur radio. I read 85 Hardy Boy novels, and wrote poems.

 

 

In my youth, I became a hippie. Later, I cut my hair, crewed submarines, and built batteries for spacecraft that walked across Mars. I kept piling experience higher and deeper, and became a teacher.

 

As a man, I found love, and the joys of fatherhood. I learned to walk with Corgis. I became an academic, and steered departments of writing, English, music, and visual design.

 

 

I've been Christian, Jew, Buddhist, and atheist. And as I start to feel the infirmities of age, I offer up a prayer:

 

 

"Lord, get me to the Singularity. One life is not enough!"