Archives February 2006
Wednesday is the Toronto Philosophy group meeting (Guess that's today now...)
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For those interested in discussing ideas in Philosophy, our little group meets in the Daily Express Cafe @ 6pm Wednesday (it's the cafe in the Hotel about 1/2 block West of St. George Street on Bloor). Generally interesting discussions, worth checking out.
Of course, i forgot that tomorrow is also Pearl's birthday party, so I'll ...
Blocking on system setups (Wasting time trying to work around missing libraries...)
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Snaking.
Have spent way too much of today on non-billable work that's basically just trying to work around not-yet-installed system libraries. Could probably have finished the task if I'd had a working environment. Of course, most of that wasted time is my own fault, should have just accepted that the libraries weren't there yet and moved ...
A Perfect Day
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Vindaloo.
It's beginning to rain
As I walk in the door
Breaking the dense heat
Of a summer's city day
There's smoke in the air
You wanted to see
Whether you could build
A robot from an old TV
Your face covered in soot
Hair pinned up with pens
Bright smile flashing out
As it crawls ...
Newest StarPy Twisted protocols for Asterisk released (Getting ready to use them for a real world project...)
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After a couple or three hours of paying work, sat down to polish the StarPy code to the point where I can use it for writing a real server (also to be paying work). First server should be fairly trivial, it's just a FastAGI instance that attaches to the MySQL CDR database and the provisioning ...
The Heart Behind the Golden Mask
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Vindaloo.
Behind that perfect visage
That the saints and scholars praise
My perverse thoughts do wander
Wondering who I'd find behind
Does that lady fear the darkness
Can she feel it press her eyes
Does she weary of base men
Lauding praise and gilded verse
Upon her outward facing mask
When she would have them love ...
The Dancer's Way
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Vindaloo.
I stare at potentials
Wondering which scuffed tile
Will give way beneath my foot
Whether to move at all
Or whether lack of motion
Will be my undoing
It should be easy this calculus
Simple tabulations and curves
Growth and expansion
Piled on Cartesian lines
Yet I hesitate before moving
Dreaming of hopping across
Not ...
Publish Early, Publish Often (PDF export of early drafts...)
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Design Theory.
Okay, it's obviously way too early to be thinking about publishing drafts of the thesis rewrite, so let's do that. I'm planning to export the document after each day of writing, regardless of how messy the area I'm working on is (normally the last couple of pages). Purpose here is both to make me focus ...
Depth and Frustration (Or my day in rewrites...)
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Design Theory.
Spent the whole day on the section(s) on Depth and Familiarity. Eventually realised that there should be two sections. The one on Depth and Frustration introduces the ideas from Venturi and their (mis)application, then the one on Depth and Familiarity explaining the "class split" in design. Anyway, enough caveats, here's the first section (the second ...
On Snowy Streets
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Vindaloo.
On quiet snowy streets
A friend and I walk home
Trading the minor news of our lives
Since last we sat and talked
Leaving him I wonder
Why my life so seldom
Brings friends together
On snowy streets
The Last Man
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Vindaloo.
It strikes me that
Though they may protest
Were we truly the last men
Alive upon the earth
We might not seem
Quite so horrible
And I imagine
They might perhaps
Reconsider that oath
But culling so hard
Seems a drastic path
I may be wrong
But perhaps
It goes too far
Just to get ...
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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.