Memo to self: caffeine is not free energy. You will have to pay this back in the form of extra sleep TONIGHT. In the meantime, hack well.
Memo to everyone else: Do Not Disturb--am hacking.
04:38:22 PM,
Wednesday 18 October 2000
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A faulty parallelism from my container of Yoplait: "Comments? Save cup, lid and call 1-800-967-5248"
12:51:05 PM,
Wednesday 18 October 2000
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New plan: instead of rushing to get a computer right away, my father will loan me one, while I build my new computer myself so that it will be exactly what I want. And this means that I have an internet connetion, now.
01:42:35 AM,
Wednesday 18 October 2000
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Perl in Latin. No, really.
05:50:51 PM,
Monday 16 October 2000
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Read!
01:58:54 PM,
Thursday 12 October 2000
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In dealing with XML, one makes a distinction between well-formed (meeting the basic requirements of grammatical XML, as it were) and valid (using the particular tags permitted by a given DTD, in the ways specifically allowed by the DTD). In logic, one makes a distinction between valid (meeting the formal requirements of proof, from the given premises) and true (validly proven and from true premises). These three terms aren't all used in the same context, but if they were, I could make the modestly amusing observation that well-formedness:validity::validity:truth. Would this be true? What would it mean for it to be true? Can you give me a use of all three terms in the same context (is a faulty syllogism made from grammatically-stated propositions well-formed?)? What I find interesting in all this is that it deals in a nearly philosophical way with the possibility of making analogies between different fields, without being at all philosophical, and risks several claims that would be going too far in a more serious discussion, without really being too terribly confused (mostly because it's not especially serious). So it makes me wonder if it isn't what early proto-philosophical discourse looked like.
08:29:49 PM,
Tuesday 10 October 2000
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Slightly new format for the bloglet: I've removed it from my .login. No, I'm not cancelling bloglet, I'm just going to add things when I think of interesting things to add, instead of when I'm logging in. Since I tend to log in once or twice a day (in the morning and after lunch) anyway, this probably won't make for a smaller bloglet, but I'm hoping it will be better.
02:59:25 PM,
Tuesday 10 October 2000
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Oy! 174 new messages on the J-list. The one I didn't have a hand in starting.
11:38:41 AM,
Tuesday 10 October 2000
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that database program. no, spreadsheet. that spreadsheet program I installed.
02:37:55 PM,
Sunday 8 October 2000
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Connection to host lost, eh? I HATE that.
03:00:57 AM,
Friday 6 October 2000
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Time to take a nap, and then head off towards BWI.
02:12:14 AM,
Friday 6 October 2000
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Oh, that makes things a bit more exciting. I have no idea what I'm doing when I land.
08:23:14 PM,
Thursday 5 October 2000
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Of course, sometimes the reason telnet can't connect to the host is just that you've typed 'whorfin.scja.edu' instead of 'whorfin.sjca.edu'.
07:58:32 PM,
Thursday 5 October 2000
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But what does *BLAM* mean exactly? It does seem like the right response, but I can't tell just how. Anyhow, my restraint is waning--if the Republicans on the list are going third party on us, I begin to suspect that anything I say for Nader won't really be all that controversial.
04:33:47 PM,
Thursday 5 October 2000
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The bearer of news, anyway.
12:56:36 PM,
Thursday 5 October 2000
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This is taking a while... I'm a bit worried.
07:05:39 PM,
Wednesday 4 October 2000
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Must... fight... urge... to... respond! (People, including myself, have started posting remarks about how dismal the presidential debate was, on JMAMKALL, and I'm finding it very hard to keep myself from coming in with an argument to vote for Nader, which I fear would be the first step on the road to full-scale political debate. Political debate on a mailing list is always, always bad.)
04:57:26 PM,
Wednesday 4 October 2000
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What do market forces do, again?
01:08:59 PM,
Wednesday 4 October 2000
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It seems to have calmed down somewhat.
06:50:19 PM,
Tuesday 3 October 2000
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For any of my fellow whorfin users who'd like a nice console-based spreadsheet, or who'd like to check it out and consider downloading it, I've just installed GNU Oleo in /home/mvc/bin.
01:27:22 PM,
Tuesday 3 October 2000
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What can you really say about something like that, after all?
12:00:42 PM,
Tuesday 3 October 2000
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%!#$*~, with a capital %.
04:23:14 PM,
Monday 2 October 2000
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The terms "anti-choice" and "anti-life" do not describe positions that anybody actually holds.
11:42:41 AM,
Monday 2 October 2000
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Press continue to return.
09:13:49 PM,
Sunday 1 October 2000
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Is it true that philosopher:scientist::scientist:engineer?
06:49:04 PM,
Friday 29 September 2000
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Yes, it's definitely been to long since I read/inhaled a technical specification. So now, it's off to http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210
06:24:53 PM,
Friday 29 September 2000
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Bill
04:00:45 PM,
Friday 29 September 2000
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--What's your theory, doctor?
--Strangulation, by terrifically powerful hands.
--But its peculiar that his left deltoid muscle should be missing.
--It's been torn right out!
--Gentlemen, it wasn't torn... this is cannibalism!
02:14:24 PM,
Friday 29 September 2000
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On a whim, I just posted a very odd, very short story to the Too Fat To Be A Rockstar Forum. You can see it at http://www.keenspace.com/forums/Forum28/HTML/000008.html
If you actually don't know about Too Fat: it's Remi's comic strip, very funny, take a look at it, www.too-fat.com
Really!
Why are you still reading my bloglet? Go look at 2F2BAR!
(and I recommend beginning at the beginning.)
02:07:47 PM,
Friday 29 September 2000
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Cryptonomicon is very good, though after 415 pages I would have hoped to be more than halfway through the book.
12:04:02 PM,
Friday 29 September 2000
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www.advogato.com is good, if you're a hacker/geek sort. Much, much higher signal:noise than Slashdot.
08:26:10 PM,
Thursday 28 September 2000
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But I can't make strawberry cream puffs.
05:05:08 PM,
Thursday 28 September 2000
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Stroke color. Fill color.
04:46:45 PM,
Thursday 28 September 2000
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Hmm. Dunno.
02:03:50 PM,
Thursday 28 September 2000
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jedgar
05:24:23 PM,
Wednesday 27 September 2000
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D'oh! Okay, of course you can do it in X, that's one of the things Enlightenment's good for. It's anti-aliased fonts that are the problem in X.
01:19:52 PM,
Wednesday 27 September 2000
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