Category archives: Vindaloo
Discussions of the spice of life, spices, and/or life.
Sebeok's Introduction to Semiotics (Subway reading...)
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Design Theory,
Vindaloo.
Kind of freaky reading this book. The overlap with everything else is so large that at one point I almost put the book down with a "well, you know, if they'd thought about the implications of Kant this all would have been obvious, why didn't they just read Kant"... a few pages later the author ...
Tricky those plasterers (They spring their presence on you at the last moment...)
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Vindaloo.
This evening the plasterer finally showed up (only 7 days late) to let me know that they're starting work on the apartment tomorrow... which is to say the day I'm having people over (finally, after skipping it last week in anticipation of the apartment not yet having recovered from their work).
So, it'll be a ...
Pleasant little party (Spend most of the evening talking about philosophy, psychology and academia...)
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Vindaloo.
Nousha's party was well attended and lively. Rose brought along someone she'd met (Meagan), who is a U of T student studying Buddhism. We spent 3 or 4 hours discussing Kant, Hume and Freud as well as strategies and approaches to academic excellence.
Shane is reviewing and planning working on OpenGL-ctypes. I'm planning on taking ...
Day in review (What was cool about the day...)
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Vindaloo.
I guess the number one cool thing is that grams is fine. There's little pain from the surgery and she was in good spirits. The hospital has been dramatically remodelled since the last time I was there (to be checked for carpel tunnel syndrome years ago). Very pleasant foyer area. I wonder if anyone has ...
Gentle hush of tickets falling (Moving toward launch as winter settles...)
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Snaking,
Vindaloo.
Spent the entire day on the VoIP project, mostly on the Emergency Services (9-1-1) support. A bit of time toward the end on the proposal for the new business.
Dad's home from the hospital. Grams is still in surgery. I'm planning on dropping in to see her tomorrow afternoon.
Health problems suck more (Distracting...)
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Vindaloo.
Dad's in to the hospital tomorrow, grams got taken in this evening with a broken hip (Rose is down visiting her now). Didn't really get into the UU meeting as a result. Still, discussing projects with Bryan got done, so the functional part of the evening was a success.
My back continues to be tightly ...
Pinning Ragged Edges
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Vindaloo.
Listlessly you
Drag the metal sliver
Over the jagged wound
Sharp point
Teasing out
Broken lines of nerves
Caress them slowly
Relish the intensity
That borders pleasure
With ragged edges
Business plan writing today (Hopefully they get started on the walls!)
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Vindaloo.
I'm off to D'Arcy's to work on the business plan for the new project. I've helped edit a business plan before, but never written one. Should be fun.
Shane met a professor from Ryerson's architecture department. How is it that I spend days looking for someone with whom to chat about philosophy and architecture and ...
His Lacquered Head
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Vindaloo.
He stalks the glowing circle
Seduces maids and hardened spinsters
With one burnished face
Masters an angry mob
Intent upon his death
With another
Battles evil
Fights cruel fates' clinging threads
But behind the painted temples
He sits alone in silent craft
Wishing just once it were not a sham
That the crowd might love ...
Yay! The walls are getting fixed! (Finally...)
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Vindaloo.
We finally are going to get the walls fixed. The plaster in the living room has broken right open (about 4 feet wide), there's lots of other places where the plaster is "bubbling", and the stuff in the bathroom is just rotting away. Anyway, that means the next 3 days we're going to have work-people ...
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.