Archives 2005
For the beauty junkies in the crowd (Snaps of flowers and the like...)
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Vindaloo.
While I was out I took a few snaps of buildings and flowers. Nothing too exciting, mostly just vibrant end-of-summer colours and a couple of older buildings on the University of Toronto campus. The shots are all on the eye-candy page for those wanting more.
Fall of Proportion to Van der Laan (Finishing off the book (and another) at Starbucks...)
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Design Theory.
Finished off the Padovan book "Proportion" today. Last hundred pages or so went rather faster than the rest of the book. Rough notes follow:
A scam
Written by
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Vindaloo.
Such a scam
He mutters
Walking into Starbucks
The hum
Written by
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Vindaloo.
The pleased
Half-amused hum
Of modern woman
When a door
Opens before her
Probably need to fork mxTextTools (Need the non-recursive rewrite to be part of the SimpleParse distro...)
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Snaking.
I've been waiting a long time for mxTextTools 2.1, and I guess I have to accept that it's not going to move forward and take it under my own (rather over-crowded) wing if SimpleParse is going to move forward.
I'd really rather not, but a patch-set for a multiple-years-old "experimental" release that's only linked from ...
Pause before the last big feature (Stabilising the code for a few weeks)
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Snaking.
Well, today was (almost) the end of the first work-week under the new schedule. I spent the bulk of the day on cleanup and fixes, this is mostly because I'm expecting the next big task to take a few weeks, and I don't want to be backtracking to fix things in the meantime.
That big ...
Further through proportion (Alberti to the fall of proportion...)
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Design Theory.
Doing a bit more reading after work. Basically moving through the Renaissance up to the Baroque. I'm going to have to go back and do some analysis of the various proportional schemes. Wish I had a decent 3D modeller (i.e. one that worked like 3DSMax or AutoCAD), I'd like to produce something similar to the ...
Lonely dreams
Written by
on
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Vindaloo.
Dark
Lonely dreams
Haunt
This
Too large
Bed
Little bits and pieces all day (Cleaning up after construction...)
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Snaking.
Spent the day on Cinemon cleanup and tightening. Nothing dramatic, just little ducts and wires poking through the finish that needed to be poked back in behind the plaster.
I finished the TAL-to-Nevow conversion for the modems page, then made a Content adapter that allows the Content page-fragments to be rendered directly as though they ...
First day of the new schedule (Makes for a very long day, even with a pleasant dinner...)
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Snaking.
I'm trying out a new work schedule this week. Basically I'm working an extra 2 (billable) hours/day and taking both Friday and Saturday to work on the thesis. There's not much else to say about the day, most of it was project management, testing, and minor tweaks/fixes. The last 3.5 hours was taking in an ...
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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.