Author archives: Mike
They Were Meant
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Vindaloo.
They were meant
I am sure
To encourage
Yet how painful
Years later they ring
When nothing is perfect
Perfection as measure
Leaves all wanting
Encouragement
I am sure
That it was meant
Categorising OpenGL-ctypes performance (Category: pretty good)
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Snaking.
Have been playing with profiles (using RunSnakeRun) of some OpenGLContext VRML viewer runs on real-world-ish worlds. There are a few big hotspots in the OpenGL-ctypes layer:
* wrapper.Wrapper.__call__ — as expected, this is very heavy, as it's doing basically the same work as SWIG does statically at run time. May try choosing specialised versions ...
New draft of "Of Design" up (Oh what a creative title...)
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Design Theory.
Got a couple of hours work done on the thesis rewrite this afternoon. Basically cleaning up and finishing the first draft of the section on consistency and subtlety in depth. Also quite a bit of editing/review of the depth section in general. Some day soon I'm going to figure out why OpenOffice refuses to spell ...
Sad when you get to having a process for some things (Lost address book and side trips...)
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Tuxedo.
Went to write a business letter this morning and discovered that Thunderbird had hosed my address book (again). There was a warning, but I've become so used to having it trash the collected and default address books (which I don't use) that I didn't realise the report was about the "contacts" address book.
This is ...
Long term carreer goals (Pleasant little talk at U of T)
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Design Theory.
The Knowledge Media Design Institute is the group that Suzanne and others at the Philosophy department suggested as a good match for my continuing studies. Their lecture series happened to show up on the Toronto Philosophy discussion board, so off I trundled to check out the program.
The talk was by Rodney Hoinkes and Stacey ...
Enjoyable but entirely too long of a day (Conversations galore...)
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Tuxedo,
Vindaloo.
Plan for the day went off as expected, meeting, then Linux Caffe, then UU, then drinks afterward. I've decided I need to buy myself a laptop, not fair to be using Rose's every day all day, and I find I'm developing a bit of an addiction to not sitting in my room all day every ...
Some Distant Spring
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
I wish I could remember
Whether my heart froze
Forgetting some warm summer
Or whether some distant spring
Melted me for just a moment
Leaving memories in the ice
Tweaks to the laptop configuration (And the glories of graph layout)
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Snaking,
Tuxedo.
This was one of those days where I get to the end of the day and wonder where all the time went. There was an hour or two that disappeared in a meeting, and some little bits of billable time here and there, but mostly I spent the day testing and checking and correcting things ...
Of TimeZones and other silliness (There really should be a standard...)
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Snaking.
My eyes were just way too sore to stare at a computer this afternoon, so I napped for a few hours, then headed out to chat with Simon for a few hours more. I drank green tea the whole time, so I got home somewhat wired for sound.
I found and fixed a bug I'd ...
Sticky Electric Ink
Written by
on
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Vindaloo.
They touch too many words
Sticky electric ink stains
Only washing away
In my troubled sleep
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.