Archives week 39 of 2005
Sept. 26, 2005 - Oct. 2, 2005
Argument for Proportion (First draft of some ramblings...)
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Design Theory.
As you will recall, I have been reading Padovan's "Proportion". Having had a few days to digest the material now I figure it's a good time to write up the arguments as I see them for (and against) using proportional systems in design.
From a perceptual standpoint (the standpoint of our thesis), the primary question ...
I don't hate poker (I just prefer conversation)
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Vindaloo.
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 ...
To PyCon, or not to PyCon? (Priorities?)
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Snaking.
It's weird, but I'm seriously considering skipping PyCon this year. Why? Well, because I need to focus my energies on academic and research interests. It's weird because a month ago I was thinking about proposing multiple talks, tutorials and the like and just assuming I would go.
Maybe go to a design theory conference somewhere ...
And the ugly junkies... (Old VRML99 shot from the holodesk display...)
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Snaking.
Was just wondering if I'd find any screenshots of Holodesk still floating about the net (google images is so cool) and stumbled across this old shot from the VRML99 conference. I looked so wolfmanish back then. There's a screenshot from what looks like a survey of software, I don't recognise the particular content, likely they ...
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
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Vindaloo.
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
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 ...
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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.