Watching hundreds of thousands of logs fly by for some shred deployed infrastructure in a relatively small web app always makes me kind of queasy. The mindboggling amount of bits rocketing around the internet every millisecond is.. I don't even know how to qualify it. It's something like a religious experience?

It's both nauseating and awe-inspiring. Both "how can this possibly all continue to work?!" and "holy shit... we've managed to make this all work...?!"

It all feels terrifyingly fragile. Yet at the same time, it doesn't even hold a weak candle to the necessarily-still-hanging-together complexity of the "information system" of the natural world, and _that_ seems to keep working. We're just piggyibacking an itty-bitty bit of manmade junk sprinkled on top of the logical substrate of the universe.

I'm blathering... If you've ever watched logs flying by your screen in the right state of mind maybe you know what I mean. (not to mention that the "text logs" themselves are a "simple" narrative abstraction over a horrifically complex system that underpins them. Eeek! It's downright Lovecraftian)