Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
08mar2007
The Role of Programming in the Formulation of Ideas, Google video of a Gerald Jay Sussman talk given at Dan Friedman’s 60th birthday. Good one, but SICM is still all glibberish to me.
SYWTWAB 3: The Hero’s Journey—Are You Experienced?, “You also have to allow your hero to develop. A hero starts off uncertain, and will take whatever small victories that she or he can take.”
International Women’s Day is today.
Agarrame, mi vida
Soon the desert will be gone
Soon you will be dancing the fandango.
— Bob Dylan, Romance In Durango
Fennel is a library of C++ components for data storage and processing. Could be useful.
Spreadsheet error rates, they are all wrong. Wow.
Super-Close Google Maps Zooms, this actually scares me a bit.
China’s Nuclear Threat, or How I Learned to Love the Bomb and STFU, by nostalgiphile.
Gebete statt Punk, Peter Nowak über die Räumung des Ungdomshuset.
Everybody said don’t run off like that
Leave something behind for the birds
I said man, whatever, I ain’t nailed down
The wind is bound to take it anyway
— Dan Bern, Learning To Drive
Contraption Structure Bridge, that building looks exactly like what I wanted to build once…
An enemy machine gun post on the dome of St. Paul’s, I didn’t see it when I was there. :-)