Author archives: Mike
Sometimes the solution needs time to gestate (Sometimes you induce labour...)
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Snaking.
Had another one of those moments, you know the ones; you are starting to run out of tickets in the project and realise that 2 or 3 of them are actually the same basic problem that you've been avoiding for a few months because it doesn't seem to have an elegant solution.
You back off ...
A bit of paying work (Since I don't seem to be getting anything done on the Open Source stuff)
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Finally discovered the reason the silly togl ebuild doesn't work: the makefile doesn't actually install anything, so it creates an empty package... so useful. I got to that point and just said to heck with togl.
Decided instead to take a nap and then get some paying work done. Discovered one of those nasty bugs ...
For Someone Else
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Vindaloo.
Sure I'm perfect
For someone else
Just not right for you
Why do women say that
I wonder yet again
It's enough to make a cynic
Were I not already one
So maybe I'm not perfect
Or maybe you are just
Too polite to ask
I am not perfect
But maybe I could pass
For ...
Dark Hair Shorn
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Vindaloo.
Militant girl full of fire and conviction
She angrily decries the male oppressor
Who would despoil her darker hair
(Though she demands a smooth-shorn chin)
It is years later that I see her
Older, holding some mid-level job
She seems more fashionable
Groomed and outfitted in slick half-suits
That let on she's a woman
While ...
Lasting Scents
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Vindaloo.
What an unforgettable scent
To come to mind so easily
A long decade on
Surely you could sell it
If it were scent itself
That made it last so long
Truth forces me to tell
It is not the smell that I recall
But hair from wence it came
Midnight Clocks
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Vindaloo.
Here there is no champagne
No streamers not left over
From parties thrown
On happier days
Crowds of shining happy faces
Have not appeared on cue
Because of this dratted bug
So lil' sis' and I drink orange juice
Laced with day-old ginger ale
Watch silly movies on the box
Drift in and out of ...
Togl really is a PITA (ebuilding works... sort-of...)
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Decided this evening I'd try to get Togl working under OpenGL-ctypes. First annoyance was discovering that the project page claims the project is GPL-licensed (the license text in the project file is basically a BSD license). Anyway, built an ebuild for the project, having to create a diff for the amd64 processor, but otherwise no ...
Best Intentions
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Vindaloo.
Well, so much for that plan. Pretty much k-o'd by the end of dinner. Fever is still pretty low, but the muscle aches and stiffness have begun already. Going to drink some fluids and head to bed early.
Goodbye cruel world :) .
I hate the flu.
[Update] Fever is still there, but the aches ...
Intention Matters (Not necessarily in appreciating design, but in designing-as-intention it is central...)
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Design Theory.
Spent the afternoon out of the house in the hope of avoiding catching whatever flu Rosey has come down with. However, had to return to get any real work done, so by tomorrow I'll likely be out of commission for a day or two.
Was a pleasant afternoon, though honestly I'd rather have spent it ...
My Pages
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Vindaloo.
Was I just a teacher to her
Sometimes I must wonder
Remembering the calls
Where I was just a reference
Some large musty book upon a shelf
Brought down to answer questions
Maybe check the bindings
Apply a bit of gaffer's tape
Slip me back into the dust
What pages do I have
What questions ...
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.