I'm a Linux user and amateur programmer. At this moment I'm working on setting up a Python environment on my tablet. If anyone's interested, I guess I could document the apps and tutorials I use (for example, Termux and Andronix to simulate Linux in a moblie environment).

Again, let me stress that I'm an amateur coder. Any silly mistakes made are my own.

I'm in a bad mood right now, thanks to Android. See, for me writing is a private activity, and the words "private" and "Android" don't mix.

The one app I tried keeps servind ads. Another accosts me with "join us on Facebook!" As if Facebook had anything to do with artistic endeavor.

We live in a "connected" society, more's the pity. A world where, as long as there's a device nearby, you're not alone. And it's driving me insane.

I'm reminded of the Runa: a people who can't get enough social contact. At least they're wired that way; I doubt that humans are. At least, I ain't.

I am an introvert, by nature and experience. I think living in a metropolis would kill me...but I'm kind of in one already. It's called the Web, for good reason.

Some people's lives are as cold as their lips; they just need to be kissed.

My name is Jorin; it's a Spanish-Hebrew name. I have Asperger's syndrome,  named for Hans Asperger. Names are very important to me.

I first learned Janis Ian's name through Dragonwriter, a book of essays on science-fiction writer Anne McCaffrey.

Janis Ian came from a Jewish, leftist family. During her childhood, said family was under the suspicious eye of the U.S. government, which inspired her album "god and the fbi".

When I learned that she was playing at my local theater, I instantantly told my mom I had to go. Lucky for me, she said yes, and Janis Ian changed my life.

Unlike other singers, Janis writes her own lyrics. You can tell that songs like "Society's Child", "At Seventeen" and "Resist!" are from her own experience.

I may not be female, but her words in "At Seventeen" resound in my heart: Those of us with ravaged faces/Lacking in the social graces/Inventing lovers on the phone/Repenting other lives unknown...

I as perhaps 10 years old when my life was overturned. I lived quietly with my parents and siblings, until strangers came and forced us to live more publicly.

See, my mom was my teacher. I didn't know kids went to school to be taught by unknown adults; home schooling was all I knew.

I was totally unprepared for the chaos that is public school. It drove me mad.

Kids everywhere! All talking a mile a minute, while I could hardly say a word.

I don't recall when I was diagnosed with autism. I was so overwhelmed by the noise, sometimes I'd cut classes just to be alone. No one had to tell me to read; if anything, I'd have to be told to stop reading!

Through books, I met wonderful people like Brian Jacques, Margaret McAllister...and the Dragon Lady herself: Anne McCaffrey of Ireland.

And Anne taught me, through her words, never to give up. To fight for myself. To learn to, in the words of the Bible, love my neighbour as myself.

I'm still working on the whole love thyself bit; Janis Ian's heavenly music helps.