Required Reading
This article is pretty much the best thing I’ve read about computer programming history in quite a long time.
This article is pretty much the best thing I’ve read about computer programming history in quite a long time.
brandon@joey:~$ uptime 15:46:05 up 45 days, 23:39, 1 user, load average 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
The last CD I certifiably smashed was an antiquated, burned copy of Caldera OpenLinux, which — by all means — deserved it. It actually busted into a bunch of really pointy shards and seemed kind of dangerous. Not your normal AOL CD flex-and-rip drill.
I don’t have an absolute candidate for a fresh smashing, but I think this album from The Walkmen is one of the closest things to a sure deal I have on hand now. I think if a steampunk (why I know this term eludes me at the moment) Goth started writing angst-filled retro/emo music, this would be it.
I still remember that anime (any potential new or casual readers may note that me watching anime remains an infrequent exception to a very solidified rule) about steam — oh yes, Steamboy — that had “nothing to do with steam.” Thanks, EZ-E.
The fact that Steamboy has its own website makes me shudder in horror.
The problem with Pandora is that you give it an artist, and it gives you a song by that artist. This makes you happy. Then, it suggests a near-ideal song (like, mine just went from Elliott Smith to Jack Johnson).
You’re pumped up that a database could produce such an artful juxtaposition. You’re calling your friends, waving your hands, swearing it’s the future of music.
Then, while you’re hanging up from your third enthusiastic phone call, the pied piper plays you a song that can only be deemed “anonymously indie” with virtually no relationship to your original guidance.
Now, it returns me to “The Song that Jane Likes” by the very early, creatively-healthy Dave Matthews Band. I like the song, too, but it’s not exactly screaming Elliott Smith. It screams it a little more than “Megamachine,” by Fingers Cut, but, still.
Maybe I should just pick up the Good Will Hunting soundtrack.
I’m getting excited:
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I wonder if I would get expelled for submitting Cluster:
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Cluster I: “Cluster” is now available on the right. Please proofread, laugh, cry, and send changes my way.
One piece of exposition regarding Cluster II (that would be “the second Cluster story,” not the second version of the software): Josh gets the initial ball by fiat because, in my opinion, he created the craziest story arc tangents in Cluster I. We might as well start with the zaniness this time!
Also, note the shiny new Music functionality on the footer of the articles!
Wearing headphones into class on an exam day is a good idea for calmness.
But you know I know better
I’m not going to worry about nothing
Because if birds and the flowers survive I’ll make it okay
I think it’s worse to learn VBA than it is to use VBA. And the only thing worse than learning VBA is being taught VBA, which has generally very little to do with the same thing.
The test went okay. I omitted a solution where I thought one was not possible, but I did a bang-up job telling how to solve the problem. Shouldn’t be a big dock. Nevertheless, things are pretty smooth altogether.
Hopefully, this little VBA learn-in will give me a chance to finish the rough draft of the Cluster I final copy.