Category archives: Vindaloo
Discussions of the spice of life, spices, and/or life.
Why work on details (When your strength is conceptual operations?)
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Had one of those days. Lots of pointless, stupid little details, the kind of thing that should really be getting handed off to someone who enjoys fiddling with everything until they achieve perfection. In the same day I came up with 2 ideas that are both marketable business plans, things that address an immediate widespread ...
Sudden death pool and a nap (Or, what I did yesterday)
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Went over to gram's place for Thanksgiving brunch, then played pool with her and two other residents (Arnie and Alek) for what seemed like hours. Both Arnie and Alek are rather good, get the feeling they'd have cleaned up the table with us a few years ago, as is we were fairly evenly matched (at ...
Another stellar evening! (Life's joys and wonders... and other topics of conversation)
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I was just too tired this morning to get up, wound up sleeping most of the day. Finally dragged my lazy bones out of bed, made a quick trip to the market and cleaned the house for having people over for coffee.
Everyone was late, so I got a chapter or two read before they ...
A most pleasant day (Reading and talking and coffee, oh my!)
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Today was a design theory day, which is to say, a good day. For there really is nothing quite as interesting as spending the day thinking about deep topics. Oh, programming, at its best, can be a pleasant diversion, but it doesn't really challenge the mind in the same way. It's a goal-driven pursuit, rather ...
I don't hate poker (I just prefer conversation)
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Shane (darned poker addict) managed to start up a game during what was supposed to be an evening of coffee and chatting about lives, universes and whatnot. It was okay I suppose, but when you've got that many people playing (well, actually, always) it gets dull. And I won, for the people who were out ...
For the beauty junkies in the crowd (Snaps of flowers and the like...)
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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.
A scam
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Such a scam
He mutters
Walking into Starbucks
The hum
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Vindaloo.
The pleased
Half-amused hum
Of modern woman
When a door
Opens before her
Lonely dreams
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Vindaloo.
Dark
Lonely dreams
Haunt
This
Too large
Bed
Guess I should buy a Research Reader's card ($150/year for a library card seems high...)
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As I was playing over at Wikipedia I realised (again) that I have no primary source access any more (since leaving university). I really do want access to architectural theorists works. I just don't know that I'll have $150/year worth of books I need that I can't trek down to the Toronto Public Research Library ...
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.