Page of Moss - bloglet for Monday 12 November 2001

The Chomskybot--it's like the Kant Generator, only for Chomsky. Brilliant work.
(via MetaFilter) _
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06:02:47 PM, Monday 12 November 2001

Is there a word for the lasting high you get after a fit of laughter? _
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05:55:33 PM, Monday 12 November 2001

A conversation I just had with one of my coworkers:
--Dan!
--Yeah?
--Lunch?
--Soon!
--Good!

That's a full conversation leading to a decision in five words. Context was useful for it, but is hardly necessary for understanding the gist of it. I think that's pretty impressive. _
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03:55:18 PM, Monday 12 November 2001

Now that's just mean. _
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03:42:39 PM, Monday 12 November 2001

(It's even more annoying with file upload forms, but I don't have to deal with those terribly often.) _
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03:20:14 PM, Monday 12 November 2001

I hate hate hate the way that the only indicator of download progress in IE is the little blue bar in the status bar, with no file size, no percentage, and no estimated download time. _
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03:19:19 PM, Monday 12 November 2001

[Deleted to preserve humility] _
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02:54:57 PM, Monday 12 November 2001

The Cheetah template engine looks like it might make my Python weblogging project a whole lot easier. _
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12:09:18 PM, Monday 12 November 2001

You know, I'd never thought about the point at which bread ceases to be bread and becomes toast before, but now that it's been brought to my attention, I'm quite sure that it's going to be bothering me for the rest of the day. _
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11:56:46 AM, Monday 12 November 2001

"All software sucks, some software just sucks less." _
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12:21:21 AM, Sunday 11 November 2001

If I were going to live somewhere for the weather, it would be England or Ireland. Really. There are things I like about the weather here in California, but the things I really love about the geography here are not in the sky, but the land, and the sea. _
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11:33:26 PM, Saturday 10 November 2001

Possibly the worst failing of text only media is their inability to convey lack of emotion. _
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08:21:01 PM, Friday 9 November 2001

ifile is an intelligent email filtering program. That means it watches how you sort your email, and then tries to sort incoming mail the same way automatically. If it puts something in the wrong place, you move it to the right place, and it sees that it was wrong and learns from that. I'm intruiged by this--I suspect it could be very interesting. I may take a look at it. _
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08:01:34 PM, Friday 9 November 2001

'Almost' means 'not'. _
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07:42:23 PM, Friday 9 November 2001

Essence Abuse. _
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04:30:04 PM, Friday 9 November 2001

Yet again, I can't seem to stop myself getting into a discussion about evolution. _
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03:59:24 PM, Friday 9 November 2001

Well, I may not be a big fan of their overall purpose, and we can whip them at croquet, but I gotta admit--those Naval Academy kids seem to have done something right this time. This is just cool. _
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03:11:26 PM, Friday 9 November 2001

The Brunching Shuttlecocks | Untitled Part 9 - Ha!

(Okay, I was mostly just testing out my blog this bookmarklet there--but it was pretty funny.) _
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03:05:23 PM, Friday 9 November 2001

So I finally made myself a 'blog this' bookmarklet, and a php script to support it. Now, when I see something I want to blog, I can just click on it and it'll take me to my add-bloglet page with a url already filled in. Just like what those wacky Blogger people have. Any m14m.net-hosted blogledytes who'd like this, sign up below. (And Kerne, if you'd like to offer this to teasmoke.net people, just ask.) _
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03:04:14 PM, Friday 9 November 2001

Gamera is friend to all children! _
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01:51:12 PM, Friday 9 November 2001

The first time I read Andrew's remark that 'Now I must do the whole "eating food" thing', I took the quotes around "eating food" as I believe they were intended: as a simple use/mention distinction. Now, though, it reads to me like some post-ironic twentynothing hipster talking about how he's going to go "eat" some "food". _
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01:29:34 PM, Friday 9 November 2001

Ladies and Gentlemen, the most disturbing eBay auction ever. _
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01:08:14 PM, Friday 9 November 2001

Some poor sick bastard has asked Slashdot for advice on how to become a UNIX administrator... and a lot of people are actually giving him advice on how to do it. So now I'm torn. On the one hand, I've got a friend who might find this advice useful in his efforts to enter the world of sysadminery. But on the other hand, isn't that something like giving an alcoholic a bottle of whiskey? Or giving a suicidal person a blowtorch and a firm boot to the head?

(I mean, he actually says "I really want to be a UNIX admin"! That's just wrong!) _
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12:48:22 PM, Friday 9 November 2001

Oh man... Joshua Davis (of Praystation and Once Upon A Forest, two of the prettiest things ever done with Flash) is doing a Photoshop Tennis match today. (I'm not familiar with Joe Kral, the other player, but his site certainly looks encouraging). As an added bonus, Dean Allen of Textism is doing the commentary. Starts at noon (pacific time). _
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12:33:16 PM, Friday 9 November 2001

As Kerne tells us, Cecily now has a bloglet! Huzzah! And so far it's off to a very encouraging start. _
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12:19:49 AM, Friday 9 November 2001

To all current St. John's students who read this bloglet: CHECK OUT LECTURE TAPES FROM THE COLLEGE LIBRARY! The library has tapes of most of the lectures that have been given at St. John's. It kicks ass. You can listen to all this great stuff. But people hardly ever take advantage of it. It's a disgrace.

You just go looking in the catalog, pick out a few you find interesting, and give the numbers to the person at the library desk, who then gets the tapes for you. It's easy.

Some personal favorites: "How Does One Heal A Soul?" (about psychiatry, of course), "Everything Aristotle Has Said Is Wrong" (about modernity, the program, and other things), "Shakespeare's Language and the Language of Shakespeare's Time" (about why the wonderfulness of Shakespeare has little to do with his meaning), and Jacob Klein's lecture on Plato's Ion (can't remember the title). Anyone else care to recommend some favorites? _
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12:16:34 AM, Friday 9 November 2001

The difference between Healdsburg and yogurt? Of course. Heh. _
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11:20:41 PM, Thursday 8 November 2001

Back in California one year--consider 55 degrees cold. _
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09:03:44 PM, Thursday 8 November 2001

I find that, a lot of the time, when web designers say "standards compliant", they actually mean "renders things the same way IE does". _
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01:40:10 PM, Thursday 8 November 2001

First set of tests passes. I now have an "Entry" class defined. It's not much, but it's something. _
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03:05:03 AM, Thursday 8 November 2001

First set of failed UnitTests built. _
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02:44:51 AM, Thursday 8 November 2001

I'm sitting here staring at a stack of cards specifying the features I want for my new weblogging program. They're stacked in the order I'll be developing them. Each one has a priority (1 to 3, 1 being most important) and a risk (1 to 3, 1 being hardest).

Feature                       Pri.  Risk
Store and Publish              1     1
Editable Config File           1     2
User Authentication            1     2
Editable Render Template       1     3
Command-Line Interface         1     3
---at this point, I will have a usable program---
Graphical User Interface       2     1
Commenting                     2     1
Multi-User Blog                2     1
Multiple Blogs                 2     1
GUI for Config                 2     1
Web User Interface             2     2
GUI for Editing Old Entries    2     3
Web UI for Edit Old Entries    2     3
---at this point, I will be happy distributing my program---
Non-Weblog Page Management     3     2
Entries in Editable Text File  3     2
Publish Page through FTP       3     2

And so, that's where the project stands. I'm about to embark on card one right now. Really. This time for sure. _
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11:08:57 PM, Wednesday 7 November 2001

It's all I can do to take responsibility for myself. Oh... or do you mean set up the commenting script? Okay, yeah, we can do that. _
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08:43:51 PM, Wednesday 7 November 2001

Allow me to explain: I decided to see if I could do an entire bloglet page of nothing but quotes. I picked them because they sounded nice, because they were appropriate to how I was feeling, because I wanted to see who would recognize them, because I liked the sound of them, or just because I happened to have thought of them when looking for another quote. I did blog one non-quote entry before I realized that this was what I was doing, so I let the quotes overflow onto this page. I encourage you all to go back and see which ones you can identify--points will be awarded. I was no more than five quotes into the page before I started feeling the difficulty of restraining myself from posting non-quotes. This is interesting. _
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04:30:18 PM, Wednesday 7 November 2001

That was harrowing. Thank God it's over. _
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04:22:58 PM, Wednesday 7 November 2001

"This fellow isn't insane. We are only doing philosophy." _
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04:22:34 PM, Wednesday 7 November 2001

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