In the beginning, there was a little body, with a lot of needs.

This is the beginning of my little blog. I am the father of a small boy of 14 weeks age at this writing. My wife gets up each morning and she goes to work. She is gone from the house for twelve hours and then she is home. Meanwhile, the baby awakes and lives his growing ways and I must facilitate and care for him.

This is such a different experience for me. What with the mindset of caring, the many items from a list of things one must infer from the boy's mood and bearing, I find that I shape my thoughts differently.

My schooling pointed in the direction of technology. I spent lots of time in front of dreary machinery managing implications and inferring the way ahead in software. In some ways I wanted to continue that work, but the industry did not require me. Someday I will blog about what I think of the industry I come from, but that is not today.

Babies do not resemble technological instruments with respect to environment. Technology can only reflect the culture and group rationalizations built into the path of inception of that technology. Technology can look great coming out of one sector, and then it can change into a foul-spirited bomb in the next. The software packages that inform the Space Shuttle (something that, while dated and a bit dreary technologically, still caries many of the high-hopes for human endeavor) may result in the birth of a space weapon that manages massacres here on Earth.

Babies don't have that kind of tolerance mis-direction or misuse--though I will not address the extremes of experience that doubtless leave an imprint over time. They absorb lots of garbage, but there is still a chance that everything might come out right and any baby can still grow up to bring forth great works even when they start with slim chances. A child may be hurt grievously during upbringing, yet go onto fulfill a higher purpose without any of that baggage to hinder him.

Technology can _only_ absorb from the intentions and motives of its direct environment, but babies attain to something beyond even their most loving parents' view. There is a price to pay for the "fault-tolerance" of babies regarding their environment. This same tolerance to unhealthy or nonconstructive environments also produces people whose daily wish it is to thrive amongst the toxic environs of this world without a care for making a change, without a thought of how it might go differently.

Probably this outcome haunts most conscientious parents the most. As a new parent myself, I only keep my nose to the grindstone and keep the diapers coming and keep the bottles the right temperature and tilted only just so...

Cheers.