Archives July 11, 2005
Academics shouldn't blog? (Though I try to avoid blogosphere auto-wanking...)
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Vindaloo.
I know, I know, who reads this blog for meta-comments about blogging? No one, yet I can't help it...
There's an article on Ars which includes this little quote:
Ultimately, I think the answer to this dilemma is pretty clear: graduate students simply should not blog, and if they do blog they should never do ...
More finishing and polishing (LivePages get a little closer to real-world usability...)
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Snaking.
Day was filled with reversion of some changes on Friday, and then moving forward to get the LivePages looking and working more like the Zope TAL Template wrappers. Quite a bit of housekeeping in there as well. Toward the end of the day I modified the trigger LivePage so that as you enter trigger values ...
Muscles Sliding Under Skin
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Vindaloo.
It's really just muscles sliding under skin
Maybe a well-placed bit of fat
Lush roundness to smooth the curves
Yet it pulls the eye off course
Perfect geometry as line folds into shadow
Folds again into still-hidden geometries
You want to sketch, to freeze that moment
Capture the mind in the transition forever
But then ...
Days of curry and defeat (And slumber)
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Had a rather pleasant evening hanging around and chatting with Lara on Saturday. However, went rather late, so I was not in particularly good form come Sunday afternoon for the game with grams. She managed to edge me out and win the tournament 3 games to 2. She snookered me twice on the black! Evil ...
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Mike C. Fletcher, the VRPlumber, is a philosopher of design turned computer programmer based in Toronto, Canada. He works primarily in the Python programming language, and maintains a large number of Open Source software packages. You can reach him at: mcfletch@vrplumber.com.