Friday, February 28, 2003
drawing is wacked. It has several aspects, that seem to develop independently of each other, your rendering accuracy, which is largely a manual skill and depends on how much you practice and how recently, plus some learned behaviors that seem to stick, your design creativity, which has to do with your visual sensibilities, color balance and so on, which doesn't seem to change much, perhaps a steady beat upwards with work, and your visual distance, which is your ability to look at things with 'new eyes' and see them for what they are, rather than what you *recognize* them to be. The last seems to be my only real skill or area of speciality, which is unfortunate because the other two would come in really handy right about now.
Monday, February 17, 2003
ugh, tax return was not large. I guess I should report more income, or something.
LISP is an eminently interesting language. I've been reading lots of it (as one would suspect) and I haven't had much occasion to before.
go to lisp.org for some introductory information.
the obligatory slashdot discussion about lisp.
an interesting insight and term in the last,
"The reason why it's not hyped is because Lisp HAD a hype in its history whose decline happened to the same time (and was mostly induced by) the AI winter."
very true, lisp is a great language, but it gets the reputation of 'deadness' because of it's association with AI. which is 'in the past'.
The 'AI winter', a nifty way to describe the terrible drought, doubt, and despair over the heads of the AI community....
LISP is an eminently interesting language. I've been reading lots of it (as one would suspect) and I haven't had much occasion to before.
go to lisp.org for some introductory information.
the obligatory slashdot discussion about lisp.
an interesting insight and term in the last,
"The reason why it's not hyped is because Lisp HAD a hype in its history whose decline happened to the same time (and was mostly induced by) the AI winter."
very true, lisp is a great language, but it gets the reputation of 'deadness' because of it's association with AI. which is 'in the past'.
The 'AI winter', a nifty way to describe the terrible drought, doubt, and despair over the heads of the AI community....
Friday, February 14, 2003
filing taxes online is an unusually mixed emotion.
I'm both happy to be efficient, and creeped out by the implications. Both annoyed by my responsibility to the government, and happy to be using the internet, which seems like a freedom enhancing thing to me.
It's like talking to your oppressor over PGP or something, a mixing of metaphors and associations that isn't quite unpleasant, but not good either. coffee that's just been poured over ice cubes, and it's both hot and cold.
but, I also get a tax return soon :-)
I'm both happy to be efficient, and creeped out by the implications. Both annoyed by my responsibility to the government, and happy to be using the internet, which seems like a freedom enhancing thing to me.
It's like talking to your oppressor over PGP or something, a mixing of metaphors and associations that isn't quite unpleasant, but not good either. coffee that's just been poured over ice cubes, and it's both hot and cold.
but, I also get a tax return soon :-)
Thursday, February 13, 2003
Monday, February 10, 2003
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