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In this article, I'd like to put an end to the misconception that programmers are like "know it all robots", while giving you insight into one aspect of my personality and emotions. Yes, programmers have emotions too!

I wrote the following poem recently to my younger brother to encourage him to not sacrifice his spiritual and musical aspirations, in the face of financial realities. By the way, his band's name is Flipside.

By the way, any of you from state of Louisiana will probably appreciate my
reference to "crawfish". For the rest of you, go a search on "boiled crawfish" at google.com and find out what you've been missing!

Disclaimer: If you have no interest in the philosophical, then perhaps you may want to skip this article and move on to the next or previous in the series for more practical information. And please do not think programmers are only two (2) dimensional either. I also have a serious business side to my personality of course.

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Peaceful easy feeling where the sun sets slowly over friends and their dreams I've known and new ones I beckon to encounter at sunrise.

Diametrically polarized in a world of mean green concrete with a double-yellow stripe leading no where but forever sought.

Young men turn their backs on that God innate bond as peoples reckon the face of power is not a mask of the powerful.

To swallow ourselves in what was given but not explained.

Love to all that cherish the beauty of the mystery, as my soul yearns for the serene acceptance.

Flying a kite on a Sunday afternoon with you Bro. Maybe even boil some
crawfish.

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Here follows an explanation of what I meant by each verse:

Peaceful easy feeling where the sun sets slowly over friends and their dreams I've known and new ones I beckon to encounter at sunrise.
This means a world we start in as children. More deeply the equal
appreciation and love of all dreams, and the continium of the universe that
comes from a never ending daily event. The metaphor of a long afternoon and anticipation on next day.

Diametrically polarized in a world of mean green concrete with a double-yellow stripe leading no where but forever sought.
In contrast to the world we live in as adults.

Young men turn their backs on that God innate bond as peoples reckon the face of power is not a mask of the powerful.
And the focal point of transistion is where we think the powerful are not us.

To swallow ourselves in what was given but not explained.
Result is to be swallowed by our misinterpretations of what can not be
totally understood.

Love to all that cherish the beauty of the mystery, as my soul yearns for the serene acceptance.
Love to all and suggesting that love for all comes from cherishing the
gift of life, while acknowledging I am uncomfortable without complete
understanding.

Flying a kite on a Sunday afternoon with you Bro. Maybe even boil some crawfish.
Serenity is lonely, but shared it might be "friends and their dreams".
Might is emphasized. This is more of a question and always will be...

                                           Shelby Moore III
                                           CEO 3Dize, Inc.
                                           Lead programmer of Cool Page and Art-o-matic