> However, I have changed fields towards computing, working > at the blurry line which separates hardware (like wires, > components, and controllers), enhanced with funny things > like FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays; which are > configurable hardware, if you will), and pure software > (starting at obscure boot loaders, loading a not so obscure > boot loader, loading and starting an operating systems > kernel and it's associated user land).
Huh. Kind of reminds me of a biological body, and then an increasingly complex idea of a self that starts with the thought "I", and somehow becomes (not unlike html..) a huge mess requiring priests, therapists, alcohol, war, etc. to maybe sorta kinda not really manage... so that said "I" is essentially a boot loader of all the rest sometimes a-bit-too-honestly-for-most referred to as "mental illness"... :-)