Out of the Blue

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  • Assume all functions and variables are self-documenting….

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    code reference: Charles Stross\’s Diary if( inPortland && haveTime( TODAY + 1 ) ) { go( powells ); see( charles_stross ); feel( EMOTE_HAPPINESS ); } else if( haveBook( halting_state ) ) { feel( EMOTE_SADNESS ); read( halting_state ); feel( EMOTE_HAPPINESS ); } else { feel( EMOTE_DEPRESSION ); } *sigh*

  • An entirely affable, unthreatening sort of loom

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    A few excerpts from a very interesting article/interview with Alan Moore on comics, sexuality and life: … The restaurant has rather low, vaulted ceilings and Alan Moore is very tall; he seems to loom in the confined space. It is, however, an entirely affable, unthreatening sort of loom…. … [Gebbie had] sat in comics conventions…

  • DRM Dominos

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    And just as I\’ve always predicted, DRM schemes are falling apart left and right. In April, Apple\’s iTunes became the first to offer DRM-less mp3s from a major label (EMI). They offered those clean mp3s at higher quality, for $1.29 per song instead of their traditional $0.99. Amazon announced in May their new DRM-less mp3…

  • Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

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    Oliver Sacks has a new book coming out on October 16th. I want to read it. It is titled Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (amazon). It is a set of case studies in the vein of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, focused around music. When Sacks is asked in…

  • woot

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    woot

  • Charles Stross tour

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    Charles Stross, author of Accelerando and Glasshouse, is one of the most interesting people writing science fiction today. If you are familiar with and interested in concepts such as the singularity, post-humans, AI and economics 2.0, you should read Charles Stross. He is going on a book signing tour in the NW of the United…

  • What should I wear?

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    I usually just put on the top shirt and pair of shorts in my drawer. It isn\’t uncommon for the shirt I pull out to look just like the one I just threw in the laundry bag (in other words, to be the same color; there are no differences in cut from shirt to shirt…

  • Photo Sarah

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    Two-fold purpose, here. First, to show off a pretty picture of Sarah. Second, to demonstrate the power of Photoshop in editing photos, I made a tiny web page: Phone Sarah – before and after

  • Dandelion Pantheon

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    We went to Seaside, Oregon for the Fourth of July fireworks display, and a surprising number of my pictures turned out well. I felt in the mood to string words together in a pretty manner, so I wrote interesting descriptions. It ended up taking a somewhat absurdist turn somewhere in there, but I like it.…

  • Correction

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    Okay. I admit that it was silly of me to claim that it would be difficult to one-up myself. I just did.