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OK, I’m quite happy with my current Facebook app, Foresight. I think I solved the main problem it was having, that of delayed reaction, or delayed gratification. If you happen to be a user, try it out sometime, and you’ll see what I’ve done just recently to it. I have an idea, too, for another app in this framework, after something that Pat Perry suggested gave me the inspiration: something specifically for the creation and propagation of Facebook memes (the most famous having been “25 Random Things About Me”). It’s looking to be quite more involved than Foresight, so we’ll see what happens there. Hi ho.
In other news, I keep getting colds that last for like weeks. When I’ve been healthy for 2 days in a row, it seems like, the temperature in NYC changes a drastic degree, and this causes me to catch yet another cold. I’ll be glad when spring comes and I’ll be able to put away the cold meds for another 8 months or so. This last week I cut down on my schedule for the day job because of the most current sickness. Felt a little better Saturday, going off to Philly for the monthly parent trip, but I tried going without meds on Sunday only to feel just miserable, and breaking down and popping a pill or two. So it goes, so it goes.
I’ve thought very little about the AI of late, having concentrating on trying to make money. Both in the day job and trying to promote Foresight. There is one big thing left that I must figure out, there in the AI, I think, and then I’ll have the whole of the prototype designed, ready to put into Lisp. It doesn’t help that the cold meds just zonk me out a lot, especially when combined with a caffeine high (though I must say, that’s not that unpleasant, there). I’ve been trying to relax, from time to time, and sometimes I find myself successful at it. I’m still writing poetry and stuff, too. Just lacking the babe in my life, right now, I suppose. And that’s all I have to say about that.
In which time’s tapping my shoulder, but I turn around and no one’s there. 12:01am comments?
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The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that. The Bible is a thing to be looked through, to see that which is beyond.
spring thinking
in the branches there is the promise of leaves, and of life
for spring is on the lips of winter, even when breath is frozen
snow is just a dreaming, to awake into the rivers’ rush 12:01am comments?
Grinding On
As far as everything goes, I’ve mostly been concentrating on my Facebook app, Foresight. That and the day job, which is beginning to suck the life out of me. Already. I can’t see how anyone can do this for a living, QA. I don’t even know how I’m going to be able to get through these 2 months or so, when I can escape this predicament. My greatest hope here is that I’ll be able to get out of it even before then. It would be awesome if my Facebook app could start drawing in a lot of users and I could live off the ads on it, but right now I am in the red on it. Having paid for some ads myself to promote it this last Wednesday through Saturday... But really — I can’t complain, even if I do, sometimes. 12:01am comments?
eBay Again
I have no time to clean these. They have been soaking in solution for over a year, and now I’m selling them all off in a batch. Scary thing is, I still have like 100 left.
Click the image to go to the auction. 12:01am comments?
February 13, 2009
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Who belongs to the Church? Who is my true brother? We cannot always tell whether or not a man believes in Christ; but we can always ask — Christianity is not a secret society. And if a man says he loves the Lord, why should I not treat him as my brother? If I should happen to welcome one who is only a professing Christian, who has not given his heart to Christ, what harm has it done? I will have offered the love of God to one who rejects it, and I will have given a few hours of my life to an enemy — but our Father holds out His hands all day long to a rebellious people, and our Savior gave His life for me when I was His enemy.
Time and Chance
The race is not to the swift,
Nor the battle to the strong,
Nor bread to the wise,
Nor riches to men of understanding,
Nor favor to men of skill;
But time and chance happen to them all.
[Ecclesiastes 9:11 NKJV]
I saw this wisdom under the sun: that some wrote great software that was virtually free of bugs, and with intelligent features, and lo, not a user who used it was dissatisfied. But they sold only 100 copies, and went out of business in short order. Who is to say what is to be, when a creature like Windows is still on 90% of all machines that run anything, all around the world? Who succeeds, and who is wasted? Verily, time and chance happen even in virtual worlds.
I wax theological just wondering what is to happen with me. Will my AI catch on? (When and if I ever finish it...) Or will it be as the prayer book I wrote, years back, and be noticed by no one? I wrote that Facebook application — is it just waiting to find its audience, or have I wasted my money on the extra hosting I got especially for it? I suppose there is a meaning and purpose for all that happens, but it is still a hard thing not to succeed, when what you dream is nothing like what comes in the waking world.... Oh, well. One is to count it all joy, no?
In which I am through waiting for things to happen: seize today. 12:01am comments?
silent
where there is a silent know
taste the air for secret recipes
none can say where we go
for the prize is in darkness
and none may scry till dawn
what waits for us beyond this
the most silent of the knows 12:01am comments?
Days
The day job pretty much suxx0rs, but here in February, I actually feel like I’ve gotten something done. I’m talking about the Facebook application I’m working on, of course. I have “released” an alpha version of it, after having just played around with things here and there. Presto. Something that does something. Who’da thought? And in other news, there is really the lack thereof, myself trying to relax more. Not much success in it, for I am in front of a computer almost every hour of the day, and that usually leads me to a project of mine in some way, just casually letting my mind drift where it desires. But all in all, things are pretty well, and thank God for any minute of that. Hi ho. 12:01am comments?
