Page of Moss - bloglet for Tuesday 27 March 2001

Shocking nonsense. That's lovely. _
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06:05:28 PM, Tuesday 27 March 2001

Bob Marley, Redemption Song. _
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01:10:31 AM, Tuesday 27 March 2001

Now what was I going to say? _
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03:27:43 PM, Monday 26 March 2001

I really like this. _
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11:20:10 PM, Sunday 25 March 2001

Certain people (Ezra Pound comes to mind) show some degree of genius by being, alternately, brilliantly insightful, and horribly, maddeningly wrong. Camille Paglia resembles these people, but on a smaller scale: she says things that are either too obvious to bother stating, or too stupid to bother refuting. _
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04:46:50 AM, Sunday 25 March 2001

Well, I still have some doubts about Salon--it doesn't seem quite good enough to read regularly--but I'll admit they have correctly identified the key question to ask about the Oscars this year, namely (I paraphrase, of course) "Why the hell does Gladiator have a chance of winning anything when it was fundamentally crap?" _
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04:30:44 AM, Sunday 25 March 2001

Kerne! Remember the cardinal rule of avoiding web evil! Avoid textured backgrounds behind text! _
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02:53:31 AM, Sunday 25 March 2001

Oh don't you marry a railroad man,
don't you marry a railroad man,
for a railroad man will kill you when he can
and drink of your blood like wine. _
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01:05:04 AM, Sunday 25 March 2001

Evidently it's best NOT to call bloglet directly through ssh; at least, not with some more configuring. _
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01:04:35 AM, Sunday 25 March 2001

vt102 _
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01:03:53 AM, Sunday 25 March 2001

I'm trying to decide whether it's healthy or unhealthy that I'll frequently drink an entire 64 ounce container of carrot juice in one evening. Because it seems like it can't be neutral. _
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12:55:27 AM, Sunday 25 March 2001

Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday dear Cassie,
Happy birthday to you.

And good luck with the essay, and everything. _
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02:37:31 AM, Saturday 24 March 2001

Argh! The March 19th build of Mozilla, was beautiful--it was clean, it was fast, it finally felt like a real browser--except for one major user interface glitch that was so bad I couldn't use it. The March 21st build fixes that glitch, but it's back to being slow and only semi-reliable. I mean, the future looks promising and all, Mozilla's finally being optimized, there really is hope, sure, but at the present it's very frustrating. _
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09:51:11 PM, Friday 23 March 2001

Or in a youth hostel--everyone's travelling through anyway, so people can't go around expecting only to talk to people they already know, and besides, they've got a fair bit in common just by being there. _
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09:45:31 PM, Friday 23 March 2001

I think one thing I like about the web--which it has in common with other things I like--is that on the web it seems perfectly natural to start conversations with random people you've never seen before. Renaissance faires share this quality. So does St. John's (as, I suspect, do many colleges). BBSes (when they were still around) shared this quality. You can do it out in the real world, too--just start talking to people, without any introductions or anything, and get into a long conversation about something--but it's not considered the most obvious thing to do, it's not just standard operating procedure. There's not enough shared background for it to work without formalities. Shared background counts for a lot with these things. _
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09:41:05 PM, Friday 23 March 2001

No, I would I were who I would have me pretend to be. _
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09:32:56 PM, Friday 23 March 2001

The Skatalites - "Shame and Scandal" _
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10:35:59 PM, Wednesday 21 March 2001

I've started reducing the evil of the way the comment popup is implemented. There wasn't much evil in it, but there were a couple of bits that were annoying me. _
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09:23:03 PM, Wednesday 21 March 2001

Gnucash really is everything a free software project should be. Very nice work. _
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03:01:29 PM, Wednesday 21 March 2001

Have I already linked to this? Hmm...
On second thought, I don't care: it's good enough to link to again. It requires Shockwave, but it's worth it. _
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02:47:15 PM, Wednesday 21 March 2001

You'd think that, wouldn't you? But it's not true at all--sure, there are low-energy-consumption things you can do at a computer for hours at a time, and sitting at a computer doesn't make them any harder, but if you're doing really strenuous mental work it can be really exhausting, despite the lack of any physical labour. It really was astonishing to me how exhausted I was after my first real 8 hour bout of serious programming (not just coding things out, or cleaning things up, but actually programming for a solid block of time). It leaves you tired, and hungry, just like other work. (Oh... and the newly restored non-red background is wonderful.)
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12:46:40 AM, Wednesday 21 March 2001

Can it really be...?
::digs around through papers::
Now where's that dratted list?
Golly! Not only that, but almost two weeks past, and me scarce having noticed. Well then, time for another round:
Happy twelve-days-after-your-birthday to you,
Happy twelve-days-after-your-birthday to you,
Happy twelve-days-after-your-birthday dear Katherine,
Happy twelve-days-after-your-birthday to you.

I hope you quite enjoy being able to... um... vote. (Wow... requiring purity really does shorten the list somewhat... but I'm at least confident that you'll be able to savor voting properly.)
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12:33:33 AM, Wednesday 21 March 2001

There, I think I've fixed the broken link in the last entry.
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12:25:52 AM, Wednesday 21 March 2001

So that's why Johnnies drink so much.
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08:35:54 PM, Tuesday 20 March 2001

Remember, if people are talking in the movie theater, to each other or, even worse, to their damned cellphones, it is okay to tell them to stop. And if they do not stop, remember that it then becomes okay to hit them, again and again.
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08:19:42 PM, Tuesday 20 March 2001

Weblogs: where you can watch an entire generation of people try to figure out what it is and isn't okay to talk about in public.
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02:36:29 AM, Tuesday 20 March 2001

I get to live! (I'd post my score, but I got a higher score for not posting it.)
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07:43:40 PM, Monday 19 March 2001

All right! Someone quoted Hilaire Belloc's wonderful frog poem!
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05:42:23 PM, Monday 19 March 2001

"Sure, people say it's a classic; they say the same thing about The Aeneid. People lie about stuff like that."
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05:29:45 PM, Monday 19 March 2001

Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday dear Bridget,
Happy birthday to you.

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05:23:45 PM, Monday 19 March 2001

Oh my god, that's brilliant!
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02:54:55 PM, Monday 19 March 2001

But if break is over, and people are moving back on campus, that should at least mean that they'll update their bloglets a bit more often. As for this business of who's logged in the most, my only question is how Elise and Wiz got to keep their accounts. Hmmph. (Okay, Elise I suppose makes sense, what with working at the college bookstore and all. Assuming she does still work at the college bookstore. Elise, do you read this? Do you still work at the college bookstore?)
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10:02:05 PM, Sunday 18 March 2001

Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday dear Mirabai,
Happy birthday to you.

Your present from m14m.net is an Exquisite Corpse Server--everyone else should try it out, too.
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12:48:46 AM, Sunday 18 March 2001

What's Kerne doing quoting songs from my Renaissance Faire days? I mean, that's obviously not the context he has in mind, but... well, it's just disorienting is all.
[singing]I'm going to marry Mary so my Mary will take care of me,
We'll all be making merry when I marry Mary Mack[/singing]
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02:21:27 PM, Saturday 17 March 2001

The second palm tree on the right. The usual palm tree.
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08:30:44 PM, Thursday 15 March 2001

Does object oriented program represent more of a Platonic or an Aristotelian view of the world? Does it matter what language you're using? Maybe inheritance of interfaces is Aristotelian, but inheritance of implementations is Platonic.
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02:57:24 PM, Thursday 15 March 2001

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