I'm a minimalist

Written 30-May-02, with a bit added on 31-May-02

I'm a minimalist

If you don't believe me, well...  You're just dumb. Take a look at this page: It's plain text.  
Nothing else.  No fancy graphics.  My home page is a basic table with a picture of me, and one 
other picture, which points out that my web page is HTML 3.2 compliant.  I think that means that 
Netscrape and Internet Exploder 3.0 could read the pages correctly.

If that wasn't enough to convince you, the fact that the background for my Windows desktop is 
blank should say something.  Or the fact that "explorer" and "mstask" are the only two programs 
to load on bootup.  Or the fact that there is neither a splash screen nor an entry sound when 
Windows boots up.

I'm a minimalist in other places in life, too, as I dislike things that are overspiced.  
Unfortunately, my palate seems to be a bit more sensitive to spices than other people's.  
Although not with hot food...  Mmm...

Okay, so I'm just being random.  You read this far, didn't you?

Anyway, minimalism is good, on the basis that a lot of extra stuff adds a whole lot of clutter 
without actually adding any functionality.  Why would I spend time getting the perfect 
background for my desktop?  I'll ignore it most of the time, and if I'm not ignoring it, it's 
covered up anyway, as there isn't all that much time when I'm staring at the desktop.  So why 
spend time making it look funky?

The same way with food.  Why use excessive amounts of spices when the food can sing for itself?

Now if only I could be a minimalist with my stuff.

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I'm an American.