In the spirit of attempting to move the first selections of impediment into what I pray is my once-and-for-all internet home (after having hosted my content on slyink, blogger, wordpress, and many other web pages), I wish to commence posting on this new journal with a statement of current purpose*.

My intention is to utilize this online journal as a record of my thoughts in and over time, such that I might finally have an organized collection of salient notions which cross my mind–rather than relying on scraps of paper, random notebooks, files on different drives of different computers, and so on.  An added benefit to this method of organization is that I also may gain an improved understanding of precisely how my thoughts change over time and what sources have tended to consciously influence my thoughts.  The upsides of this which immediately strike me are that I might be able to more coherently explain my ideas and influences, that I might become more aware of my biases as they develop (and hopefully by extension become better able to constructively criticize my thoughts or to respond to constructive criticism), and that I might also be able to more knowledgeably advise or teach others struggling with problems relevant to my past thoughts or readings.  I intend, therefore, to publish my notes, thoughts, and opinions in some regular fashion–but the content itself may seem anything but regular.

I hope also, but do not expect or anticipate, to receive feedback.  Thoughts, corrections, comments, complaints, praise, concerns, or questions are heartily encouraged.

* While I hardly anticipate that the popularity of this one-among-billions-of-blogs shall incur the attention of many, in the rather obscure likelihood that this blog might ever receive any attention, the first post bears a particular statistical likelihood of also being viewed as a compliment to any other post onto which a reader may stumble.