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Sunday, September 29, 2002
Most people who surf wheatdesign.com come here for the bassbook. But, for some reason, this blog archive page from January 2001 is enduringly popular.
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Most people who surf wheatdesign.com come here for the bassbook. But, for some reason, this blog archive page from January 2001 is enduringly popular.
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One Hour Photo is a beautifully shot, inventive, creepy portrayal of obsession. Not a frame is wasted in the entire film. And, of course, in any film where photography plays such an important part, there's plenty of room for meditation on the role that the captured image plays in mediating our experience of the world. It's a stunningly good effort. I'm eager to see it again.
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Tuesday, September 24, 2002
An exhibit of computer generated art at the Whitney. The series is called CodeDoc and it's a bit different in that it forces you to view the source code before you get to see what it does. A very cool idea, I think. I haven't surfed them all yet, but the Levin piece is really very nice (a Flash-like effect but coded very efficently in Java) and funny. Flong's homepage looks worth exploring.
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An exhibit of computer generated art at the Whitney. The series is called CodeDoc and it's a bit different in that it forces you to view the source code before you get to see what it does. A very cool idea, I think. I haven't surfed them all yet, but the Levin piece is really very nice (a Flash-like effect but coded very efficently in Java) and funny. Flong's homepage looks worth exploring.
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Monday, September 23, 2002
Jenv: nice little Java IDE (coded in Java, of course). Haven't messed with it much, though, as I'm very happy with EditPad Pro from JGsoft (took a little while, but now I have syntax highlighting set up on every sort of file I code. It also has a customizable 'tools' menu so you can pass your code through compilers or other external programs. Maybe it's not quite a true IDE, but it's certainly a fine text editor).
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Jenv: nice little Java IDE (coded in Java, of course). Haven't messed with it much, though, as I'm very happy with EditPad Pro from JGsoft (took a little while, but now I have syntax highlighting set up on every sort of file I code. It also has a customizable 'tools' menu so you can pass your code through compilers or other external programs. Maybe it's not quite a true IDE, but it's certainly a fine text editor).
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Sunday, September 22, 2002
Last night: Iris. A touching and very sad portrait of novelist Iris Murdoch and her descent into Alzheimer's. Lots of good Murdoch resources on the web.
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Last night: Iris. A touching and very sad portrait of novelist Iris Murdoch and her descent into Alzheimer's. Lots of good Murdoch resources on the web.
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Saturday, September 21, 2002
Popcult Magazine is a hilarious journal of popular culture. Lots of gems lurking here. See especially the Bottom 5 Archive.
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Popcult Magazine is a hilarious journal of popular culture. Lots of gems lurking here. See especially the Bottom 5 Archive.
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Tuesday, September 17, 2002
I spent an extended weekend flying out to Charleston, South Carolina and then driving back to my hometown (Fayetteville, Arkansas). I made it in about 18 hours over the course of two days. My father-in-law had been visiting family there, and he doesn't fly (due to his health). Gina's brother, Gary, covered driving on the way out. Then I swooped in to cover the return trip. We got seriously lost in Birmingham, Alabama, but, due to the kindness of strangers, found our way back out.
I finished my third J. M. Coetzee novel, Life and Times of Michael K. I didn't care for it as much as the two previous ones (Youth, and Disgrace), though it has its moments. I'm now in the market for a new novel. It's my goal (well, a goal) to keep my nose in one for the remainder of the year, when possible. I'm far enough out of grad school now that I'm starting to enjoy reading for fun again (they try to beat that out of you).
Caught an awsome film version of Samuel Beckett's Play on PBS. It's part of the Beckett On Film project, which PBS is showcasing in it's Stage on Screen series. They also played What Where which was compellingly odd. I'd never seen or read either previously. It was a treat.
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I spent an extended weekend flying out to Charleston, South Carolina and then driving back to my hometown (Fayetteville, Arkansas). I made it in about 18 hours over the course of two days. My father-in-law had been visiting family there, and he doesn't fly (due to his health). Gina's brother, Gary, covered driving on the way out. Then I swooped in to cover the return trip. We got seriously lost in Birmingham, Alabama, but, due to the kindness of strangers, found our way back out.
I finished my third J. M. Coetzee novel, Life and Times of Michael K. I didn't care for it as much as the two previous ones (Youth, and Disgrace), though it has its moments. I'm now in the market for a new novel. It's my goal (well, a goal) to keep my nose in one for the remainder of the year, when possible. I'm far enough out of grad school now that I'm starting to enjoy reading for fun again (they try to beat that out of you).
Caught an awsome film version of Samuel Beckett's Play on PBS. It's part of the Beckett On Film project, which PBS is showcasing in it's Stage on Screen series. They also played What Where which was compellingly odd. I'd never seen or read either previously. It was a treat.
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Monday, September 09, 2002
Vicki decided search for her father's name, Reedie Stone, Jr., on Google and found a page devoted to him. So I guess, though it feels odd to say it, this was my Grandfather (does one say "birth grandfather" to distinguish from "adoptive grand father"?).
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Vicki decided search for her father's name, Reedie Stone, Jr., on Google and found a page devoted to him. So I guess, though it feels odd to say it, this was my Grandfather (does one say "birth grandfather" to distinguish from "adoptive grand father"?).
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Sunday, September 08, 2002
I turned on the television last night and caught about half a minute of Dog Eat Dog. The question to the contestant was "name the largest country in the Americas." Her answer? Asia. No, I'm not kidding. She said, "Asia." When she found out that Canada was the correct answer, her defence was "I don't live there."
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I turned on the television last night and caught about half a minute of Dog Eat Dog. The question to the contestant was "name the largest country in the Americas." Her answer? Asia. No, I'm not kidding. She said, "Asia." When she found out that Canada was the correct answer, her defence was "I don't live there."
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Thursday, September 05, 2002
Two interviews with my favorite living philosopher, Richard Rorty.
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Two interviews with my favorite living philosopher, Richard Rorty.
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Monday, September 02, 2002
My nextdoor neighbors recently received a financial windfall, so they bought a house and have been giving away things they no longer need. Thanks to that, I picked up this cool countertop dishwasher, which is really quite amazing. I used it for the first time last night. I've only had a dishwasher once in my life, and that was during the brief time Gina and I lived in Philly.
The landlord's repair guy came by and fixed my living room air conditioner, so now I can venture out from the bedroom and into the rest of the house. They also fixed my kitchen faucette (I only mentioned it and the air conditioner being broken yesterday) and installed a new sink basin and faucette in the bathroom. Pretty good turn around time, I'd say.
Read a good article in this month's Linux Journal that makes me want to try out the Ice Window Manager. One of the things I liked most about KDE 1 is that it wasn't sluggish at all on a 200 mhz PC. Well, the same can't be said for KDE 2 (and I haven't tried KDE 3 yet). I actively disliked Gnome, but Gnome 2 is really nice and noticably faster than KDE 2 on a 200 mhz machine (Is it just me, or has KDE gotten gaudier and gaudier in the past two versions?). After I get some more hard drive space, I think I'm going to dual boot my laptop (it's 400 Mhz, so I should be able to run whatever window manager/desktop environment I want, but why waste resources if something smaller is also better?).
I admit it: I try to avoid the news. The whole fetish the media has going with car wrecks and natural disasters doesn't amuse me. And I don't feel more "informed" for being abreast of them. Once in a while, I pull my head from the sand and blink in amazement at the lastest events. I caught this article by Charlie Reese that comes close to summing up my own views on the latest pro/anti war debate, inasmuch as I understand it (I was in favor, BTW, of the Afganistan/Taliban effort, but I don't think you can use that as carte blanc to turn on all your other enemies. Are we going to invade China next?).
Caught this cool musical called Contact last night on pbs.
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My nextdoor neighbors recently received a financial windfall, so they bought a house and have been giving away things they no longer need. Thanks to that, I picked up this cool countertop dishwasher, which is really quite amazing. I used it for the first time last night. I've only had a dishwasher once in my life, and that was during the brief time Gina and I lived in Philly.
The landlord's repair guy came by and fixed my living room air conditioner, so now I can venture out from the bedroom and into the rest of the house. They also fixed my kitchen faucette (I only mentioned it and the air conditioner being broken yesterday) and installed a new sink basin and faucette in the bathroom. Pretty good turn around time, I'd say.
Read a good article in this month's Linux Journal that makes me want to try out the Ice Window Manager. One of the things I liked most about KDE 1 is that it wasn't sluggish at all on a 200 mhz PC. Well, the same can't be said for KDE 2 (and I haven't tried KDE 3 yet). I actively disliked Gnome, but Gnome 2 is really nice and noticably faster than KDE 2 on a 200 mhz machine (Is it just me, or has KDE gotten gaudier and gaudier in the past two versions?). After I get some more hard drive space, I think I'm going to dual boot my laptop (it's 400 Mhz, so I should be able to run whatever window manager/desktop environment I want, but why waste resources if something smaller is also better?).
I admit it: I try to avoid the news. The whole fetish the media has going with car wrecks and natural disasters doesn't amuse me. And I don't feel more "informed" for being abreast of them. Once in a while, I pull my head from the sand and blink in amazement at the lastest events. I caught this article by Charlie Reese that comes close to summing up my own views on the latest pro/anti war debate, inasmuch as I understand it (I was in favor, BTW, of the Afganistan/Taliban effort, but I don't think you can use that as carte blanc to turn on all your other enemies. Are we going to invade China next?).
Caught this cool musical called Contact last night on pbs.
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