March 3, 2004
QUEEN AMIDALA SHAREHOLDER steps up to the podium and clears her throat. AMIDALA I call for a vote of no-confidence in Chancellor Michael Eisner. Approximately 43 percent of the audience rises to its feet and cheers. I’m reading a neat book called Atlantis Destroyed by Rodney Castleden. It’s essentially a search for the historical Atlantis, canvassing historical civilizations for reasonable candidates. It’s a solid, rigorously fact-based book, though sometimes to a fault; Castleden’s style tends towards […]
Tuesday, March 2, 2004
I played hookie from Monday Group last night; ’twas psychically exhausted. Don’t know exactly why, either. I haven’t been particularly busy lately. Perhaps it’s my upcoming laser eye surgery on Friday. But instead I laughed ’till I coughed at selected episodes of The Critic. The entire show is available on DVD for a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of USD $50. I had forgotten how hilarious this show is. The humor zips […]
Monday, March 1, 2004
Huh. This looks…oddly…familiar. In other news…. There are certain books that either you read at a certain point in your childhood and becomes a sparkling treasure you hide in your heart which shapes the rest of your life, or you read it later in life and completely forget it within six months. It seems to me that The Broothers Lionheart falls squarely into this category. And, since my childhood is […]
Saturday, February 28, 2004
Sorry for the lack of updates recently; work’s been amazingly busy lately. Life news: I’ve made an appointment for laser surgery on my eyes this Friday.
Friday, February 27, 2004
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Wednesday, February 25, 2004
I suspect/think the average bizguy has a lot more in common with the average hacker than we might think. Both enjoy figuring out and playing with rules systems. The problem is the direction we take it in. Hackers like to figure out rules systems and play with them, andmanipulate them to achieve elegant solutions. For hackers, the groove is in elegance. It becomes part of our nature (sometimes to a fault), like […]
Tuesday, February 24, 2004
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how great art is made. When I was young, I thought great art was made by Artists (not artists; Artists). Artists spent their days wandering around in verdant woodlands or flower-filled meadows, possibly while pressing their nose into a leatherbound volume of Sartre. They might possibly talk to passing animals. Then, suddenly, Inspiration would strike, and they would […]
Monday, February 23, 2004
Warning: Today’s entry is a boring retread of my weekend. Shadrone writes that he doesn’t eat as well as he’d like, since he’s so busy. I was reading recently of an overweight programmer determined to lose weight, and his solution was to cook up a lot of stir-fry every Sunday, then dump it all into individual containers and take two to work every day. Makes a lot of sense. I’m think of doing […]
Thursday, February 19, 2004
Okay, everyone, gather around! It’s story time. The simulator where I work has to recognize NavAids, which (from what I understand) are basically transmitters tucked into the ground at various points around the globe. When flying, the plane monitors the distance to each of these NavAids, and because it knows the actual location of those NavAids, it can triangulate with them to find out where the plane actually is. Except that […]
February 18, 2004
So. AWANA. Describing AWANA is kind of like describing the stock market. What approach do you take? Brokers? The trading floor? Shareholders? Conceptually, AWANA is a church-oriented club where boys and girls can come, play games, and learn about the Bible. Organizationally, AWANA is a weekly hour-and-a-half club meeting that’s divided into three main periods: Game Time, Handbook Time, and Council Time. The kids play […]