On Saturday

 First, on Saturday , in the morning, the world is open and wide.  Later as choices pave a particular path the universe of options shrink.

Waking on a Monday, that then became a Saturday-like day is a pleasant childhood  memory. I traveled from being late waking for school to schools out forever, or at least as far as I could imagine.

Waking on a day to have the world open and wide to me, carrying your smile with me. Your sweet smile that Monday awaking to find the day as free.  Maybe it was a Thursday, what ever it was, it was a day when the universe changed with news and your sweet smile. 

On cities

 First, we came together and again with increasing numbers until we were a city. What makes the city is a time and place.  A city is not just a place because in time a city processes the past places into the ruins, good and bad that make it a city. 

From the quarry of one ruin we can mine for blocks to build another future. From the quarry of another ruin we can see the outline of time cut deep into the cellar door.

From the quarry of my present city I ponder prodding processes, as my roof gently weeps. 

On maps

 First, maps can differ in the correspondence they have to a territory. Put another way, some maps are better than other maps. The correspondence a map has is a function of a reader's ability  to receive its  representation of the territory. (Note to self: Let's make a point of increasing out ability to receive representational forms, even the ones that we don't feel very comfortable with.)

Some maps are better for me, and others are better for you. We in our different lives living according to different maps sorting the information received. We rub alone one another in civil ways we appreciate inside and outside our communities.

Some maps are not good for anything more than a message to us that these thoughts were so wrong they ended in ruinous whorls of pain, sorted into concerns and worries after the fact.  Seeing those ruins can take a generation or more to settle out into the maps we keep in our hearts and minds to save us the pain we know they can cause any of us.

Some maps are better, still. The representation of memory accesses in C is not one of them, at least from what I've read. To be frank, C as a language I have a lot of unexplored-ness about. Well, the compiler too.  Just what does the compiler know, apparently more than it should some times as it aggressively does predictive branching, sigh.

Some maps are better, as one can see comparing the efficiency of operations between Roman numerals and Arabic numerals. In the land of ciphering, the Adding to Subtracting: The operations with Arabic numerals are mapped more efficiently from first operands to the last.  It is not the case that one works and the other does not, only one is far more efficient than the other in processing  quantitative narratives. And so the correspondence may initially be the same and result in the same end, but the journey via one representational system compared to another is different.

Pilgrim’s Progress

 First, please know mistakes were made.  Of course that is the origin of many a story, especially those meant to impart knowledge. The thing is that we didn’t know they were ruinous until much later.  And this is a common cause too in many a tale to the traveler. A pilgrim estimate’s of what a trip will involve and the real cost can be much different. 

First, the process is meant to impart some experience for the pilgrim to receive.  And the path is composed of more than just the pilgrim and the land. There are territories and maps, and never is a map the same as territory and yet the path exists still for the pilgrim’s progress.  To understand the mistakes made remember this traveler.

On first

 First is a state of mind that proposes a relation between elements in a universe of elements where some element or set of elements precedes others.

Being first does not necessarily mean it is “better” than non-first elements 

There are states of mind where an understanding of the  the universe is systematically linear. However, imparting understand to others can be better done is a different order.

 First, as to learning, the student that suffers the mistakes they made is best.

Rust

 First, a hug u ginormously (HUG) to the Rust documentation that mentions the compiler as your guide not your adversary to writing safe and smart code.

From https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch03-01-variables-and-mutability.html#variables-and-mutability

This example shows how the compiler helps you find errors in your programs. Even though compiler errors can be frustrating, they only mean your program isn’t safely doing what you want it to do yet; they do not mean that you’re not a good programmer! Experienced Rustaceans still get compiler errors.