May 9, 2008
D'oh!
Every Simpsons couch gag evar!
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Convergence
My friend writes about visiting Mokpo, Eun Hye's home town. Pics.
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May 8, 2008
Mirrorblade
I seek my version of Maxwell’s equations on electromagnetism. I won’t even go as far as thinking I can get my version of the equations of General Relativity. Maybe Special. We won’t even get into Newton. Perhaps the more analogous thing to what I seek are the original functions that define the language Lisp, which I use. I have them hanging up on my wall, actually, written in the form of M-expressions (instead of the S-expressions that Lisp currently uses). And now, I work with the code to see if magic might come from my fingertips. That some fundamental sets of universal scribbling will make sense in a larger part of these things of the world. One might hope. One might hope such great things.
In other news, I haven’t heard from Eun Hye apart from two messages she left. She doesn’t say anything in either, but the username in Skype says it was her, and the one left on my phone was just as strange, just some background TV. Oh, well. Maybe we’ll have the fortune of connecting again soon. I think she’s still in New Zealand, because I think if she were in Korea again, that she would tell me that she had her old phone number back and to call her. I hope she’s doing OK. In the final analysis, I’m really not that worried about things here. There was that time right after Rome where she didn’t contact me for a month, and that ended fine. I have a supreme sense that we are meant to be, and that’s all there is to it. Hi ho.
I’ve more than broken even with my investing. Last year, I got into Starbucks (SBUX), buying a bunch of shares, but I was little informed on the matter, just guessing, and guessing badly. I got out of it late last year, and got into Apple (AAPL). I have had several chances to get into Apple, and I finally decided that this time was not going to pass me by. And finally, when AAPL finally hit over 183, I made back all the money I lost on buying SBUX. Hoorah. I sold about 2/5 of it, therefore, at just a little more than 184, so I’ve actually made a little money. And it went up again the day after, so I made a little more. I’d really rather like to keep money in it, but we’ll see about how finances go. Might have to live on it. And so it goes.
In which I fear no fire.
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May 7, 2008
Thinking of Getting One...
...for my good friend Keith (who is black): #000000 POWER!
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Freaky
Stitched-Together Pencils Evolve Into Beastly Sculptures
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May 6, 2008
Spring in New York
Just a glorious day.
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May 5, 2008
Inevitable
Applesoft BASIC Interpreter in Javascript
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Not Bad
Homer Simpson rendered entirely in CSS
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May 4, 2008
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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessing of heaven.
– G. C. Lichtenberg
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May 3, 2008
Movie Day
Top 23 whose books are better than their movies
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In the Theme of Iron Man
Top 5 Inspired Superhero Casting — we'll see about Tony Stark
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May 2, 2008
Strawberry Fields
I live 4 blocks from this, and I thought I'd pay a visit.
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May 1, 2008
bare metal
i have hit the bare metal of existence
the raw taste of iron upon the teeth
the brunt of fate shouldering me on
splayed me out upon the outer wires
and i am naked against the night sky
breathlessly breathing the inky dark
exhaling half my soul, in which i swim
stretched out of my mind and frozen
cracked open to expose the emptiness
the metal groaning in pains of birth
a new eye perfectly mirroring stillness
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April 30, 2008
Science!
Top ten greatest experiments
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What We Do with the Time
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus
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April 29, 2008
The Pit
A couple three days ago, I let myself give into despair. The problem which I was trying to solve was too large; it was intractable. I stayed up and let my heart sink, and I slept and slept and I didn’t want to wake, to face only the pain of failure. But then, in the midst of my preparations for hara-kiri, I thought of something. Google solved the problem of search, which was a big problem, too, simply by relying on a property intrinsic to the system in question, notably, linkage. There was a property in the system I was trying to solve: consequence, or meaning. And now I think I might be onto something; we’ll see. As I dig out from the pit of despair, all I can say is, wish me luck.... And in other news, Eun Hye is in New Zealand. Don’t know much beyond that. And thus goes my life. Hi ho.
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April 28, 2008
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The Lord's Prayer in leet
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You Know These
They do it with.... — I like the AI references
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April 27, 2008
Puts It All in Perspective
The "hill of beans" theory holds here.
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April 25, 2008
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A loving Personality dominates the Bible, walking among the trees of the garden and breathing fragrance over every scene. Always a living Person is present, speaking, pleading, loving, working, and manifesting himself whenever and wherever his people have the receptivity necessary to receive the manifestation.
– A. W. Tozer
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