The First Post

Alright. I feel that the response to my short story was sufficiently positive that I'm going to give this a try. So I'm throwing this up here as a sort-of introduction/explainer-thingy about what I think I'm going to do with this.

The genesis of this blog is actually really simple: for a very long time I have been thinking thoughts about a lot of different things and really haven't felt like nearly enough of those thoughts have the opportunity to be expressed externally. Now, despite my excessive love of the sound of my own voice and my great attachment to the quality of my own ideas, I might've been able to just live with this. Except that, particularly in recent years, I have found myself continually thinking the same thoughts; I'm resisting using words like "convergence" or "brilliant inspiration", because that isn't at all what was going on here. It was more that these thoughts, in that wonderfully endearing passive-aggressive way of theirs, made it quite clear to me that if I did not find a way to get them out of my head, they were going to do their level best to drive me completely batty.

Anyway, that's where this started. Now where is it going to go? As I see it, this is going to be an outlet for what I feel are some of the more important and more accessible ideas banging around in my head. I'm seeing something like the following list which I am literally making up on the spot:

• Topics may include physics, mathematics, design, writing, creativity, philosophy and any combination of those things. This list is absolutely not exhaustive.
• I'm probably going to lean more towards talking about general topics rather than minutiae. What I mean by that is, for example, I'm probably not going to write a post about how much I love Lady GaGa, or Starbucks, or what-have-you unless there's some broader point which I'm using Lady GaGa, or Starbucks to illustrate. That's what Twitter is for*.
• I have no idea how often I'm going to be posting. I feel I can realistically promise every other week, with a personal goal of at least one post every month.
• If we are very, very lucky, I will post samples of my creative writing; but I can definitely promise that why "we" will need to be lucky is going to be the subject of a post in the near future.
• I am going to try my hardest to make my math and physics posts as non-mathy and non-physicsy as possible. Mostly because the things I want to say about math and physics are things of which I want to make sure I have a firm grasp; and the best way to test your own understanding is to try teaching it to others. If I don't feel that these are turning out the way I want them to, they will be the first to be cut from the list of topics.
• As much as it pains me to say it, I am probably not going to use this blog to talk about politics. Partly because it is extremely difficult to extract politics from its own minutiae, partly because a blog is not really conducive to stimulating discussion,--which is what really interest me about politics--and partly because I feel that whatever it is that I want to say about politics can be adapted to serve a different topic.
• This post is probably going to be the rambliest of the lot. I hope. I'm going to try to have plans for subsequent posts.

Anyway, that's the blog. It's begun. Hopefully, it'll be fun.

*By the way, follow me on Twitter: @Boston_Chance.