rix ramblings

RIX RAMBLINGS

pointing at things worth keeping

I'm Rick — a technologist, Gulf War veteran, father, and grandfather, thinking out loud about time, memory, machines, and music.

That band of segments in the channel art is a life's context window. Most of what passes through a life goes dim. A few things stay lit. I spent decades building things before I saw the pattern in my own work: I keep pointing at the parts worth keeping and handing them forward — to my kids, my grandkids, and now to you.

Nothing here comes from a book or a classroom. It's what living taught me, offered so it costs you less than it cost me.

This channel is for the curious — people who want to understand more of the world, who look at more than one source, and who distill their own opinions. I'll bring mine. You decide what goes in your window.

essay · no. 1

Our Life Context Window

Why the days fly by faster as we get older — a life read as a context window that fills, divides, compresses, and finally hands off.

companion · the receipts

The Science Behind the Window

The essay is opinion. This is what the published literature says about it — the support, and honestly, the places the metaphor bends.

the film · youtube

Watch the essay

The essay as a short film — narrated, scored, and clicked. 2 minutes 43 seconds. ↗

Standing on the Hills — Silent Scars album cover: a soldier walking toward sunlit hills

music · my virtual band

Silent Scars

Veteran-founded, built on human words and hard-earned hope — the words are mine, lived first; the music is composed and performed with AI, credited honestly. First single “Standing on the Hills” — one song, two versions — released September 18, 2026. The scars are silent. The music is not. ↗