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You are viewing the most recent 10 entries 2015-Nov-04 (Wednesday)2012-Jun-11 (Monday): Petzold autograph
Finally getting around to posting this. Back in February the programming author Charles Petzold cleaned out his attic and gave away some old books, and I got one:
I'm reading his 1999 book Code right now -- a borrowed copy, but I like it enough that I'll probably buy my own sometime. A lot of it of course is stuff I already know, but he is a brilliant explainer. Tags: books, pics, quotes, turing machines 2012-Apr-30 (Monday): Frank Conroy on piano playing and the wall This essay on mistakes has some stuff about playing the piano that inspired me to type in a favorite passage from one of my favorite novels, Frank Conroy's Body and Soul. Claude, the main character, is a young pianist, and Fredericks is his teacher.
Current Location: United States, MI, Farmington Hills Current Mood: Good enough 2012-Apr-10 (Tuesday): Rest in peace Jack Tramiel I made a Commodore 64 play "Taps": Tags: c64, music, turing machines, video 2011-Apr-05 (Tuesday): So it begins ... I have trouble remembering which is the year and which is the month on credit card expiration dates, but I just got my first credit card (well, since the 90s or 2000) whose 2-digit expiration year is not also a valid month!
Current Music: ELP, "Take a Pebble" 2009-Mar-02 (Monday): Rhymes with "Trains" George Reisman on Keynesianism (Capitalism, 1996, p. 867):
Tags: politics, quotes 2009-Jan-21 (Wednesday)2008-Nov-25 (Tuesday): Best Neal Stephenson Evar! I finished Anathem a few weeks ago, and as I suspected it's my favorite Neal Stephenson book. There was nothing I didn't like about it. Well, I suppose there was one thing. ( (Mild) spoilers below the fold ...Collapse )Tags: books 2008-Nov-19 (Wednesday)2008-Nov-16 (Sunday): Tittled Have you ever wondered why those meter readers so seldom got shocks from the pounce desk? Two words: athletes. Being superglued to the middle joint of my own widdershins ring finger (yes I know -- direction not orientation) I traced the shape of my umbilical f-hole, skeptimible as I am of its say in the tone-color of my digestive sounds. The mother-of-toilet-seat binding is easy on my nighs, tho'. Mia fratino bakis panon. ( Read more...Collapse )Current Music: Esperanza Spalding |
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