Based partially on Steve Yegge’s advice that you should learn your tools, along with an interest in doing some kind of coding even while being busy with school, I’ve been working my way through the emacs manual and the emacs-lisp-intro, which latter is highly recommended.
(As an aside, one thing I’ve been working on has been [...]
In honor of getting subversion up and running on my website, and in honor of sort-of publishing my first code, I wend ahead and set up websvn. With syntax highlighting! (Thanks to mihasya) So, if you’re ever curious about what I’ve been coding recently you can check out svn.quodlibetor.com and view logs, etc.
And, of course, [...]
2:00am, finals week, what would be a good use of my time? Oh, yeah, how about writing a little bash script to keep my external hard drive from constantly spinning down? Observe:
#!/bin/bash
while [ true ]
do
touch /media/BigEx/.keephdactive
sleep 4m
done
Wow, right?
Yeah, it’s been kind of bothering me for months, nothing [...]
I haven’t been publishing for a little while now, mostly because I’m crazy busy with schol but also partly because I just have a bunch of things I really want to finish but don’t. I don’t want to go on to the next ones until I’ve finished something in my backlog, but I basically never [...]
Tagged philosophy, politicsI recently wrote this in response to a comment on this video. What do i get myself into:
Sure Hamblettamaud,
postmodernism introduced this idea of a person as a “social construction,” all those other words and phrases are basically ways of saying the same thing. (Philosophers would shoot me for saying that.) Before the postmodern period–in the [...]
Recently read an omnibus (pluribus?) edition of Richard Brautigan’s “Revenge of the lawn”, “The Abortion: An historical Romance”, and “So the wind won’t blow it all away”. And, since I have not been publishing for awhile, and since I have reasonably strong opinions on these books, I felt that I would write about them and [...]
Tagged fiction, reviewThis is a thing I did not know:
Courtesy of Russell’s Teapot’s Know Your Bible series. Great stuff, eminently quotable.
And, just in case you were wondering. No, they don’t lie: that is what the bible says.
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Tagged religionHe kneels above her back with sweat beading on his elbows and knots in his palms. Silhouettes in a well-lit room, the world flickers and whirls around them. Conversation goes as it does, in ebbs and flows of insight and sympathy. Touching on deep muscles and cold winters, past and memories and not those things [...]
She said “You live your life too much like a bad movie”
She said “You don’t know what love is”
She said “You try too hard”
She said.
I said “Life is what love is, and what’s the point if you don’t try?”
I come back to her again, after years of silence. You get lost in the moment. You [...]
So there’s this post over at Cognitive Daily, a post which i would have titled something more like how i titled this post. But that’s OK, they’re cognitive psychologists not marketers. God knows we need more people like them. I’m going to give a brief summary of what they’re reporting on before i get to [...]
Tagged morality