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Just use a programming language.
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Every configuration file introduces a morass of unknown syntax, unknown semantics, poor debuggability, poor documentation, poor maintainability, insufficient abstraction, and insufficient generalization.
But there are multiple alternatives to the configuration file, and they might work better. Compilation options move configuration from runtime to compile time. 'Librification' is a more general version of compilation flags. Runtime 'configuration programs' are a more general version of run-time configuration files.
What is a configuration file? Conceptually, it's an argument to a generalized service, which yields a specific program useful to you. For example:
apache : Configuration -> HttpServer
Apache isn't an HTTP server; it's a function that yields HTTP servers. Let's say we own a website that sells magic beans. The configuration file might sit at /etc/apache2/magicbeans.conf and have content like
Listen 80
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/magicbeans
ServerName www.magicbeans.com
When we want to launch our site, we would then run something like apachectl -f /etc/apache2/magicbeans.conf. Apache would start, read the configuration file, see that it's meant to serve files from /var/www/magicbeans when it receives requests for resources at http://www.magicbeans.com/.
The Apache project chose to represent the Configuration argument as a set of files, the apache function is represented as a start-up phase which is given the path to those files to parse and compile, and the yielded HttpServer is represented as the main phase of the program, which the start-up phase transitions to.
But in computing, we have many ways to represent functions and arguments, and this 'start-up configuration file' scheme is just one of them. I will outline the alternatives and suggest that they can be simpler and more powerful.
1. Compile-time configuration
Apache also has many compile-time options. These are set using a script called ./configure. These options overlap with the options that can be set using configuration files at run-time.
In this scheme, the Configuration is represented as arguments to a ./configure command, the function is the make command, and the yielded HttpServer is the compiled binary.
Theoretically, it should be possible to move all apache .conf files to the compile phase, so they are passed to the build system, which yields a binary which starts up immediately in the 'main phase' as an HTTP server. Rather than running apachectl -f /etc/apache2/magicbeans.conf at run-time, we would run ./configure -f /etc/apache2/magicbeans.conf -o magicbeans.exe && make && ./magicbeans.
One advantage of moving from run-time to compile-time configuration is simplicity: where the distinction between multiple configuration phases was a bit arbitrary, you now have just a single configuration phase.
Another advantage is that the run-time binary does not have to carry around baggage for its configuration. Where the apache binary on every application server used to carry around logic for parsing configuration files, compiling configuration files, loading and unloading modules, etc., you now just have a single magicbeans binary which does exactly what you want and no more.
This also means that configuring your application server is easier. Where you once had to ensure the presence of all your necessary .conf files on every application server, and that you restart Apache every time these change, you only have to ensure that the magicbeans binary is present.
This shift from run-time to compile-time configuration also has a benefit similar to static typing. It's better to catch errors in your configuration files at compile time than wait until you're deploying.
We could go further. If you squint, your static files under /var/www are more configuration files. The file /var/www/index.htm is a configuration rule that says 'when you get a request for /index.htm or for /, serve this content'. This rule could be bundled into your binary at compile time, too. With all these configuration options, the question is how 'static' you want things to be — bundling your static content into the binary makes it more static, in the sense that you can no longer hot-swap that file without restarting the application.
So why does Apache lean towards run-time configuration files? I suspect it's historical. In times past, our application servers were multi-user UNIX systems running many different websites, where separation of users' configuration was critical, and 'graceful' restarting of Apache was frequent. Nowadays, we run servers dedicated to single applications, where these concerns are less important.
2. Librification
Apache is better viewed not as a program but as a library. The file apache2.conf is its API.
This view reveals another approach to configuration. Instead of Apache being a program which reads your configuration file and then transmutes into your end-user program, Apache could be a function that you call in your end-user program.
What I am suggesting is that you would instead write /etc/mywebserver.c as
#include <apache2.h>
int main(void)
Apache2Config* conf = apache2_defaults();
Apache2VHost* vhost1 = apache2_vhost();
vhost1->address = "*";
vhost1->port = "80";
vhost1->document_root = "/www/example1";
vhost1->server_name = "www.example.com";
apache2_add_vhost(conf, vhost1);
return apache2(conf);
and then use gcc to compile it, link it against Apache, and run it. Or rather, your /etc/init.d/apache2 compiles the configuration when you start the service.
Substitute for Apache whatever service you wish to use, and substitute for C whatever language is used to implement that service. If using a Haskell web server library, you could instead write:
module MyWebServer where
import HttpServer
main = http [defaultVHost { address = "*", port = "80", documentRoot = "/www/example1" }]
I'm talking about 'compiled languages', but of course the same applies to 'interpreted languages' (which just bundle the 'compile' step into the execution phase).
3. Configuration program
3.1. Prolog
Gerrit Code Review takes a really interesting approach to configuration. After a change request is submitted for review, Gerrit needs to know whether that change is allowed to be merged. Does the change need to be reviewed? Does the change require tests to pass? How many +1s does the change require? Can someone review+ their own change? Does a -1 cancel out a +1, or count as a veto? Do the rules differ depending on what branch you are merging to? Do some users have privileged rights?
One way they could have allowed users to configure this is to try to split up all these questions into orthogonal parameters which administrators can provide values for. For example:
… and so on. They didn't take this approach. Instead, they took a far simpler and more powerful approach. User-provided configuration is provided as a Prolog file, rules.pl. In this file, the user effectively defines a function from 'facts about the change' to a boolean that says whether it is submittable. Those facts, such as 'this change is authored by James' or 'Richard says +1', are provided by Gerrit to the Prolog program whenever it needs to know whether a change is submittable.
So far, that's the same as if they were to have taken the 'configuration program' approach, with the user providing a callback in their program. But since this is Prolog,
- You already know the syntax. You don't have to learn the syntax rules for every new program you have to configure. And how many projects bother giving you a syntax definition for their config files? Next to none. There isn't even a syntax definition for Apache config files. If you're lucky, the program uses this month's structured data syntax: XML, JSON, YAML, TOML, … all of which are obviously isomorphic.
- No programs bloated with parsers. That little program that uses XML for its configuration file probably spends 99% of its program size on a bundled XML parser. The UNIX philosophy is that each program should do one thing, and do it well. The job of Apache is to parse HTTP requests, not configuration files.
- More obvious semantics. Or at least, more easily defined, and more guessable. You don't have to use trial and error to figure out what the scope of that variable is. You know the scoping rules for the programming language you're using.
- Debuggability. If you want to find out if your addition to that configuration is being read by the program, just set a breakpoint.
- Tooling. It's a lot easier to use a standard documentation generator for your API than to write custom documentation for your ad hoc configuration file format.
- Manageable configuration. The latest fashion in 'devops' is to use Puppet with fragile search-and-replace rules and templates to ensure the configuration files on your application servers are correct. Why? Just use a real programming language to construct the configuration data, compile the exact program you want, and put it on the application server.
- Compositionality. Want to run two different MySQL instances? No problem: write two programs and run them. By the way, those files under /etc/mysql are global variables. I won't repeat the sermons on global variables that you've heard already.
- Abstraction. The power of a general-purpose programming language. If you want to define 1,000 near-identical virtual hosts, use a loop. If you want the program to behave differently on Debian, use an if/else. The thing is, all configuration file languages suffer from expressiveness creep through the lifetime of the project until they become a terrible, ad hoc, inconsistent programming language of their own. It might start off as a key-value syntax. Then someone wants to use the same value for several values, so variables are introduced. Then someone wants to change a variable, so a notion of assignment is introduced. Then someone wants to split the configuration file over several files, so a notion of importation is introduced. Then someone notices that variables defined in imported files clobber those in the parent file, so some kind of variable scope and shadowing is introduced. Then someone wants a value to depend on which version of the software is being run, so a branching construct is introduced, and a boolean expression language over versions. Then people want to branch based on more general properties of the environment, so the expression language is expanded.
- Generalized APIs. This is the most important advantage in my opinion, since this one really can't be captured by a configuration file at all. Instead of giving me a million-and-one configuration options for URL rewriting with the limited power of regular expressions, just let me provide a function of type String -> String and be done with it. Instead of implementing lots of cute ways for me to define a predicate over filepaths, just let me provide a function of type String -> Bool, and be done with it. Configuration files are chock-a-block with configuration options which should just be replaced with higher-order functions.
Programs that have seen the light
- Vagrant. The Vagrantfile used to configure it is just Ruby.
- XMonad. The xmonad.hs file is just Haskell.
- Shake. The build system is a Haskell library, not a program.
- MirageOS. Mirage takes this idea to its logical conclusion, removing not just configuration and associated files, but the entire surrounding operating system.
- … know of more? Let me know!
Logback.xml config — conditionals in XML, ugh

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So here is this great website, hosted by Aquia, with absolutely no content. We have been having monthly meet-ups averaging about 3 people, which is a great start. I want to do more with this site, but haven't really been good at doing recaps of the meet-ups because we've had a pretty open forum. One day when I get a job in an actual Drupal shop, I'll be able to add more content. Until then, you, our fine viewer, will get random (random == boozey) updates. Thanks for your patience.
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Drupal webminars in spanish
Hey Markie! Can you please share the link of the drupal webcast in spanish? (The ones that are done by the guy that is in L.A.)
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Tom Hanks and a down to earth dog named Hooch (good boy) are paired up in a buddy cop comedy where they have to track down the criminal who murdered Hooch's owner...and get some tail along the way.
K.C. Taylor (Nav Jodha) helps break down the classic buddy cop cheese and some middle level Hanks of 1989's Turner & Hooch.


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So, I have had a couple crazy days and my ParkView update isn't going to happen till later today (sorry!), but I didn't want to keep you all waiting any longer to hear who won our fabulous Bliss and Tell Giveaway!
MichelleM, random.org says you are our winner!! Congratulations. Unfortunately your profile doesn't have an email address attached so I can't reach out to you. If I don't hear from MichelleM in 1 week I will redraw for a new winner.


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Fargo tv series
Me, Myself and Irene (2000)
Liar Liar (1997)
Nothing better than a good old school comedy, these new movies are mostly junk.
Life On Mars
My Cousin Vinny (1992) - Marisa Tomei
The movie industry knew how to make a good movie in the 80's & 90's , not so much nowadays though!
Game of thrones 1-2 seasons
Game of Thrones, all of season 8 in one day


text: This past weekend I participated again in the 48hour 'from scratch' game development competition known as Ludum Dare. It was the 15th such event run since early 2000. This time around the theme that won the voting rounds was Caverns. I created a Flash game for the competition called Angry Caverns which you can play here in your browser.


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Food Review: Cornerstone @ Bishan Park (Pet Friendly Restaurant)
Hey all!
I have seen myself visiting Bishan Park almost once per month lately even though I reside in the west side of Singapore. Great food in lush sceneries is what draws me to the Bishan Park. What's more, some of the restaurants here are pet friendly which is a major plus for me.
Today, I am featuring Cornerstone restaurant at Bishan Park. If you have a friend legged friend, you would be seated outdoors at the porch area of the restaurant with a shelfter and sufficient ventilation/fan to keep yourself cool.
I have actually visited Cornerstone restaurant multiple times, and this was taken more than a year back with my best pal – Happy.
Japanese stew pork bun (2 buns) $8
Japanese stew pork slices with mixed green salad in a bun
This was quite medicore given the fact that you are paying $4 for each bun. However, if you are just looking for small bites, why not try the spam fries from this restaurant? I heard spam fries are popular now!
Mussel pot (seasonal) $18
Australian blue mussels in white wine cream sauce, served with focaccia toast
This was highly recommended by my friend because of the rich white wine broth that this dish serves. I specially love the buttery toast that was served with this mussel pot. This is definitely a must-order dish for every visit I had to Cornerstone.
Grilled cod fish (120g) $22
Cod fish dressed with homemade Japanese tare, grilled to perfection
Country style smoked BBQ pork ribs ½ rack $19
Slow smoked baby back pork ribs with homemade BBQ sauce(with fries and mixed green salad)
This is my brother's favourite pork ribs to date. He can be quite picky when it comes to pork ribs but this sure does not disappoint him! The sauce is smoky and the ribs are tender and juicy. I am not so much of the fries that was served with this pork ribs though but of course, the focal point here goes to the ribs.
Flaming BOMB Alaska $15
Baked meringue coated with chocolate and strawberry gelato
This is a very interesting dessert, considering that not many restaurants serves flaming Alaska in Singapore. The one I have tried and has left a significant impression in my head was from Hong Kong a few years back. So how does this fare? Well, I was quite disappointed that the flame was extinguished within seconds, leaving some part of the meringue being burnt as seen above.
Nevertheless, I enjoyed the meringue that coats the geleto. This is definitely a fun dessert to eat.
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Does a smile count when there's dirt in the fingernails?
Does it count when it's see-through?
Does it count when you can't have it?
Is it good when it's filthy or should we keep it clean?
November 15, 2012
Does a smile count when there's dirt in the fingernails?
Does it count when it's see-through?
Does it count when you can't have it?
Is it good when it's filthy or should we keep it clean?
November 15, 2012
I've chosen Patrick Morrison and Glen Baxter to exhibit with me for various reasons, most importantly the fact that their work genuinely entrances me. To that add the fact that they both currently work on paper, as I do, and this intrigued me because I am very much in love with paper.
I had always known Patrick Morrison's work as very bright and vibrant. His paintings were almost moving on the canvas – very much alive with impossible colors, thick and beautifully contrasting each other, almost wrestling each other. I had heard rumors of something new brewing in his studio, and when I went to visit him earlier this year I walked into an explosively different world. His new series has a rough and haunting air to it that immediately involves one emotionally and makes one an accomplice to that world. His dark, monochromatic black and gray scenes reminded me of the underbelly of an anonymous city, or dreams lurking at the back of one's head. Painted in acrylic and oil on paper, these paintings are gracefully sloppy, with dark, translucent layers dripping over the scenery — sometimes revealing hints of red or yellow glowing underneath. Patrick's studio walls were covered with these works, and then he pulled back his studio rug and pulled more works from underneath. I thought this very appropriate for an Irish man.
I had been a fan of Glen Baxter's work since the age of fifteen. I've had old exhibition invites of his taped to my fridge, his posters on my wall, photocopies of his drawings framed and hanging in my bathroom. There is so much wrong with this world, aesthetically speaking (not that it's perfect in other ways, either), but Baxter's work has always helped level that out for me a little. His work feels right in the marrow of my bones. Very far removed from Patrick's dark, dreamlike paintings on paper or my own oil pastels, Glen Baxter inhabits his world with cartoon-like cowboys fiercely enmeshed in adventures with modern art. That, or far weirder scenarios involving explorers, vintage school kids, detectives and a variety of props — cacti, for instance, or bizarre contraptions that people wear on their heads. "Weird" is a very important adjective, the operative one in describing Baxter's work. And since that word also encapsulates a quality very dear to my heart, I fell for his work. Glen Baxter is the master of weird.
I couldn't be more thrilled with the company I am dragging along to my exhibition, and I am very thankful to them for agreeing to let me do so.
October 3, 2011
All my work whether literary or visual is probably attached to America by an umbilical cord.
I can blame this partially on various influences that hit me in my early teens, amongst them: "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", the Delta blues, Robert Crumb's sketchbooks, Tom Waits, Bukowski, Steinbeck and John Register paintings. These artists thoroughly cared for me growing up and baby-sat me through a modern-day culture that didn't do anything for me. I was by no means, ONLY influenced by American culture – I love Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas, Rimbaud, and Dostoevsky and Dickens, etc. – but I'm always drawn back to this simultaneously idyllic and dark universe, whether that's a long gone age of pies cooling in windows, or the vast array of losers that crawl its streets, bars and strip malls. Even the banal life-styles stored safely in between the top and the bottom of this country interest me – maybe because I refuse to believe that there isn't something unbearably weird hidden within the fat layers of what is "normal".
There is so much space in this country, so many cultures and so many crevices for impossible things to be happening, and maybe because I am European all those minute details seem like Disneyland to me. I'm fascinated with Jesus and the Devil, and the raging battle that they are having all across the middle of the country. I love the small ghost towns in the South, I like the wastelands, the abandoned buildings, the bizarre signs and individuals living their lives in ways I've never encountered.
I think the temptation to be good is a dilemma that exists in some of those towns, pawnshops, living rooms and churches. Whatever that struggle is.
I'm not dictating what my drawings mean, but for me personally, there is no doubt that the DNA of my work comes from some weird American true story.
Mercedes Helnwein
October 12, 2010
This is my new exhibition.
I'm going to say a few quick profound things about it which you can either read or skip, but people ask all the time what things mean, so this is my attempt to counter-act the impending questions.
I'll begin by stating the obvious: I am using a title that John Steinbeck gave to a book he wrote, which was published in 1952, and which is a work of art that I admire ridiculously and helplessly. Steinbeck in turn got it from the Bible.
But I don't necessarily mean to make a direct reference to the Bible or even to Steinbeck's book – although traces of it I know have lodged themselves deep into my anatomy, as they should. Rather, I'm making a reference to the quiet and startling drama those words are heavy with in my opinion.
They give me the idea of something fatally misplaced by a few inches. Transparently wrong, but maybe in such a gentle way that it can go unnoticed by millions of onlookers.
The imagery in this show is kind of hinged on that idea. The work was mostly finished when I put the title on it, but as always, the right title explains a lot of things to myself about my work.
I think it's safe to presume that "East of Eden" is a good match. There's probably someone out there who disagrees, but as R. Crumb said the other night, "You can't please everyone."
Below is all the info for you to get to the exhibition. I hope you will make it. You are excused if there is a major body of water in the way.
All the best,
September 29, 2009
"Whistling Past the Graveyard" is an American idiom, and means pretty much just that: whistling while walking past a graveyard. Faking a cheerful front. Trying to smother some fear.
For some reason this idiom made sense in relation to my new body of work. It just seemed to fit. Judging by their expressions I'd say there's probably something the girls in these drawings would rather not talk about – something they'd prefer to sit on. And they're keeping it in, but it's kind of leaking out of their faces.
I don't know what that something is, since I can't read their minds. These girls take on their own life as soon as I start to put them down on paper and they stare back at me. They don't really feel that they owe me any explanations.
In any case, I realize there's a lot of toys going on in this series and with that comes a sense of something innocent, frivolous and child-like. I do thinkthere is something innocent there, but as I said, I still have a hunch that the general train of thoughts in the girls' heads are going in the opposite direction.
When I start a drawing I don't go about it intellectually. That is to say, I don't sit down and wonder, "Well, first of all what am I trying to say with this? What is my message?" I don't map anything out with a pie chart. Fine art is far too visual a process to include much rational thought (and maybe I speak for myself here). In fact, sometimes I feel it's beyond visual – like some organic process in a phantom organ behind my liver.
So I can guess at what's happening in these drawings, just like anybody else, and if you're interested in my personal guess I can expound on it. But it's just a guess. I'm less interested in narrating and more interested in presenting an image that will crank up other people's imagination and hopefully send it somewhere really weird. And the titles I attach should only expedite that.
I hope that helps scratch the itch.
30 Aug. – 20 Sep. 2008
August 30, 2008
It's 1:09 am on a Sunday, and life seems like it needs to be forced through with a jack-hammer. When the cookie crumbles that way, you'd better be ready. You need to be made of heavy metal just to live through the atrocities, the technicalities, the banalities and the phone-company service representatives of a normal day.
Well, it's late. I guess sometimes you've just got to listen to Chuck Berry and let all the assholes of the world keep themselves company for a while.
April 5, 2007
An Essay on the String Quartet No.1 in E Minor composed by Ali Helnwein
Ali Helnwein's quartet is a journey through a set of ineffable moods – classical and honoring all traditions of classical structure but made for a new millennium. It is excellent proof that classical music has no reason to play dead. And neither does modern classical music have to exist purely of dissonant and intellectual sounds that you need a college degree to listen to. "Modern art" of whatever shape, form or size should not be concerned with being an erudite celebration of things that only a few people can feel snug about because they're holding a martini glass and made some sense out of some metal stick protruding from the wall of a gallery. Art has only one purpose: to move. To move on all levels. You should never walk away from a true piece of art and be left the same – un-dented, un-changed, with nothing new floating about in your head.
Moderm classical music, just like any category of art, still has the power to blow your mind and splatter it against the wall behind you. I think Ali Helnwein is one of the few composers who knows this to be true.
You might be sitting somewhere in the sweltering heat of midday Los Angeles – maybe in traffic, under billboards and advertisements that remind you that this is the era of cheap subsititutes – blunt, cynical, clumsy. But you are also sitting in a town whose underground sometimes produces genuine products of a new romantic movement. . .
March 22, 2006
…Did you ever realize that? Real life is often referred to as a drag, and you're constantly forced to complain to your friends about the shit you stumble over every day. And that shit, I might add, is usually not even worth the English language you waste on it. However, in your nightmares you're too busy running down mysterious tunnels with some kind of shapeless evil at your heels to be talking about it. Sometimes it's a pity, waking up, sweat-drenched, realizing that all that physical activity will have absolutely no effect on your body. All night you've been MacGyver – you've just barely escaped death about thirty times in two hours – and yet here you are at 4am in your sheets with nothing to show for.
October 21, 2005
Just a lot of jumping from dream to dream without introductions or epilogues. Long corridors of schools rolling out into the distance, in true Alice in Wonderland style. Being late for math classes. Teachers that I never knew, shaking their fingers at me. Chalkboards, grades and detention.And then the shower starts up in the bathroom. The early-rising roommate. Math classes evaporate and I'm in charge of my own destiny again – just like that. Time to turn around and try sleeping without dreams.
Back in real life, it's that time of the month again. Not that one. The one where you sit down and brainstorm about rent. You think it's the 31st, and judging you have another whole day, you decide not to worry too much about it. Then, that afternoon, you of course realize it's the first. But at that point you're fucked anyway, so why start worrying? It's amazing, how stress-free you can live, dangling at the end of the food-chain. How easy it is to keep yourself well clothed without money. How easy to be hungry without being pregnant, happy and sad without causes, and industrial without a clue of what you're doing.
Sep 7, 2005
Everything that is so painstakingly important in other places seems to brake there, and you're left more or less with just yourself. And although you might feel slightly naked for the first few hours or days, wanting to know where to put your hands, what to worry about, whom to exchange arrogant glances with, you can't really help but feel some kind of massive, benevolent relief.
June 12, 2005
It's too easy to look back and point your finger. I could do that any time of any day and I could make it sound very slick and pretty. But lately, I'm finding cynicism a little too easy to master. It gets boring. Doesn't take much to get out the stainless steel machete and cut something apart.
There's no need to applaud yourself after you've been witty in tearing something down– we can all do that. There's more of a challenge in being a hopeless romantic. An idealist. To be able to smile slowly so that you can feel the sugar in the corners of your lips. I'm finding myself past my teenage years. The acidity is draining out somewhere.
Maybe I'm getting old. Maybe I'm starting to want babies and settle down on a farm or something. But I don't feel any older than maybe four. Of course, that doesn't mean I don't want the farm, because I do want the farm.
Anyway, I'm possibly derailing from the subject right now. What this all boils down to, as far as I can figure it out, is I think I just don't have the adolescent middle finger anymore. It's too goddamn easy at this point to be an asshole, and it has been revealed as nothing more than a mediocre way of making the time go by. It's more enticing to make shit creek an ideal. Don't you think?
P.S. That doesn't mean I can't ever pick up that machete again, when circumstance begs for it.
December 10, 2004
…Sometimes it seems easier to take a spoon and dig out the heart of a live moose than confronting an empty page and having to fill it up with words. But then again, I guess sometimes it's a whole lot easier filling up an empty page than digging out the heart of a live moose with a spoon.
May 8, 2004
Fernando Pessoa makes the word "ineffable" completely useless. He can describe everything that the best of the best couldn't lay a word down for. I've had thoughts before that were restricted to thoughts simply because of the intangible qualities that constituted it. But when I open Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet, there'll usually be a paragraph that lays that private thought out just about as clear as any reflection you've ever seen in a freshly cut mirror. It's kind of shocking how perfectly insane his craftsmanship of human words are. And that's always the trouble with translated work – you're left with the unsettling thought that there is an even more perfect expression of what you just read, and the only way you can get to it, is of course, to learn an alien language.
January 17, 2004
It's funny being told one day that your heartbeat goes double as fast as it apparently should. It's such an abstract piece of information. I don't even think about my heart – let alone ever lend a thought to the speed of its pumping – and suddenly, I'm in possession of this bizarre fact. 120 beats per minute. I guess it's cute to know. However, there's usually a downside to interesting physical abnormalities, and in this case it is that I'm forced to survive off of herbal and fruit teas. I doubt there's anything quite as sad as wishing one could take that English Breakfast teabag out of the cupboard and pour hot water and milk over it. Problems grow such strange proportions if you only let them.
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Sotheby's has announced a new record sale of $558,000 for three Louis XIII L'Odyssée D'un Roi limited edition decanters. The three specially crafted decanters are the result of more than a century of fine craftsmanship and the combined efforts of three prestigious French luxury houses: Hermès, Puiforcat and Saint-Louis.
Prior to being exhibited at the auction – the objets-d'art were paraded on a whirlwind tour that saw it visit various cities around the globe. Last month, the auction house hosted the Americas edition of the same cognac as it exceeded the previous record price set for a Louis XIII decanter. Later that same month, the Asia edition exceeded its own previous auction record in Hong Kong. The final decanter, the Europe edition, was sold on November 16 at Sotheby's London for the staggering sum of $235,000.
Proceeds from the sale of the three tailor-made coupes all go towards The Film Foundation that was founded by late director Martin Scorsese. Created in 1990, the foundation aims to restore and preserve the traditions and history of cinema. "Sotheby's was honoured to participate in the raising of funds for The Film Foundation through this unique series of auctions, each in our major sales locations" said Jamie Ritchie, Worldwide Head of Sotheby's Wine.


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AlphaSonic has listened to hardstyle since 2003. In 2009 he tried playing a vinyl for the first time and after only a year after he proved himself worthy when he played in front of a crowd in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia.
After this he has made a huge influence on the Slovenian hardstyle scene at such venues as Sound of Nature, Braindamage, Touch;Taste;Feel and Meet Us and now he's ready to go international.
A year latter he played at almost every major club in Slovenia and lets not forget the appearance on the US radio Hardstation.FM. He was also in the "Support your local DJ competition" and came to the finals. His number of fans has increased and so have his bookings. You will see him at almost all mayor hardstyle events.
AlphaSonic plays with dedication and delivers a powerful music experience to the crowd which will late be forgotten. He's an entertainer who understands how to make the audience dance. No doubt will AlphaSonic become one of Europe's leading hardstyle DJ's in the future.
Since 2010 he's also a member of the Slovenian Hardstyle Community DJ Team and the head admin of the Slovenian Hardstyle Community Forum.
Party history:
Chehs B-day, Ljubljana - 26.6.
Sound Of Nature (open air), Sežana - 31.7.
Meet Us - Merge Of Generations, Vrhnika - 21.8.
Touch;Taste;Feel, Ljubljana - 24.9.
Braindamage Oktoberfest, Vrhnika - 15.10.
Hard To Say Goodbye, Vrhnika - 31.12.
Infection Of The Hardest Vol.2, Vrhnika - 29.1.
EXTREME Shuffle Meetup 2, Kranj - 11.2.
Hardstation.FM - 23.2.
This is madness, Mr.Madness B-day Bash - 25.2.
Ultimate: Harder Than Ever, Maribor - 12.3.
EXTREME Shuffle Meetup 3, Kranj - 7.5.
Support Your Local DJ Finals, Ljubljana - 10.6.
Alles Kapot Im Natur, Vrhnika - 18.6.
Open End After Party THE MIGHTY MOU5E, Ljubljana - 24.6.
Floating hard beats - Ladja Burja, Portorož - 16.7.
Sounds Of Nature 2011, Sežana - 23.7.
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It wasn't until she took a tour of the library that she was inspired to write this book. The tour guide opened a book and said some of them still smelled like smoke. A bit perplexed she probed and asked more about the smell. This is how she learned of devastating fire that almost demolished the building in 1986. She always hoped someone would tell this story, and unknowingly years later she would be the one to tell it. The book is also also kind of a paean to libraries everywhere – what they mean to her, and why every library is a vital institution.
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Gregory Porter is a Grammy Award winning jazz vocalist. The route he took to get there is really unique. He was a offensive lineman at San Diego State. Then, during his junior year, an injury ended his football career. During that time he could sing, but he wasn't a singer. That changed when his mom, literally from her deathbed, told him to start singing.
In 2010, he moved to New York with his brother and recorded his debut record "Water." Whereas most young jazz singers start their careers recording standards, Porter recorded an album of mostly originals.
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Susan Orlean has been a journalist for over 30 years, writing for publications like The Rolling Stone and Vogue. In 1992 she was made a staff writer at The New Yorker and has been contributing ever since. She has also written eight books. One of them, The Orchid Thief, was the basis of Adaptation, Charlie Kaufman's 2002 film starring Nicholas Cage and Meryl Streep.
Susan talks to Jesse about how some of her best pieces start as one thing and end up as another, especially once she begins talking to living, breathing human beings. She did just that in her 1994 piece about disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding, which she wrote by talking to locals in Harding's hometown of Clackamas, Oregon. She also shares about her experiences interviewing celebrities, including the valuable lesson she learned when profiling Tom Hanks for Rolling Stone.
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Jack Black always seems to be on the verge of breaking into song. Whether he's a slacker substitute teacher in School of Rock, an earnest funeral director in Bernie, or a snobby record store clerk in High Fidelity, music has a way of seeping into his performances. Maybe that's because Black's portrayals often possess an unbridled joy that's difficult to capture with spoken dialogue.
Although he's known for his comedic strengths and has often played the "shlubby loser", Black has showed that he's capable of much more. For Peter Jackson's King Kong, he played a 1930s filmmaker intent on creating an epic narrative, no matter how far into the heart of darkness he has to travel. In Noah Baumbach's Margot at the Wedding, he was a disappointing groom prone to occasional bursts of anger. Most recently, he played the titular character in Richard Linklater's Bernie, a film based on the true story of a kind, gentle mortician accused of murder in a small Texas town. It's the subtlety of performances like these mixed with the intensity of a man who also headlines the rock band Tenacious D that truly make Black a unique performer.
Guest host Susan Orlean gets to the bottom of Black's career, from his early days performing one-man shows in his living room to working with some of the biggest names in show business. They'll talk about some of his early childhood performances, dissecting musical tastes, a new HBO pilot, and why seeing him on Broadway wouldn't be entirely out of the question.
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Bun B was half of UGK and still is one of the South's greatest hip-hop lyricists. Alongside partner Pimp C, he spent two decades rhyming and recording classic hip-hop and helped establish Texas as a force to be reckoned with in the national hip-hop scene. Pimp C died six years ago this month, but Bun has continued to record and release music as a solo artist. His newest album, Trill Og the Epilogue, was released in November.
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Bestselling nonfiction author and The New Yorker staff writer Susan Orlean talks to us about the fascinating life of the iconic screen star, Rin Tin Tin.
Rin Tin Tin went from being an abandoned puppy in a bombed-out dog kennel to being one of the best-recognized and best-loved dogs in recent history. His owner Lee Duncan devoted his life to showing the world the fantastic stunts his dog could do, including jumping 12-foot fences and climbing trees. Rin Tin Tin became "The Wonder Dog" and a star of the silver (and later, television) screen.
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Erin's home is many things - bright, happy, homey, welcoming... and the perfect representation of "style mutt-hood." I'm coining that phrase now.
What Erin loves feels new while still feeling totally nostalgic. And I don't mean new as in "just purchased" or "this month's West Elm 'it piece.'" I mean it feels new - interesting, different, nuanced in a way we haven't seen, but still familiar. Am I making sense? Stay with me...
I can only guess that it is because of where Erin draws her inspiration. It's not Pinterest boards - though I will never detract from the inspiration a curated Pinterest board can bring.
It's her own inner compass.
In her office, those vintage elements are clear.
And why fix what ain't broke, right? Erin, please keep on doin' you and stockpiling that stunning art, finding those perfect vintage rugs, and buying all the vintage furniture - chairs in particular.
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Hello and Welcome to Project Thanx!
A passage from George Eliot...
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.
Might there be a friend in your life who you feel safe with, who "with a breath of kindness" lets go of the clutter and sees what's going on?
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PrecisionAg® is pleased to announce the return of its PrecisionAg Vision Conference, October 10-12, 2017. Based on overwhelmingly positive response among attendees at last year's inaugural event, this year's conference will again take place in Phoenix, AZ. Conference organizer Meister Media Worldwide has enhanced the event this year to galvanize dialogue and foster greater collaboration among precision agriculture's most central stakeholders: large growing operations and service providers in row crops and specialty/permanent crops around the world.
New for 2017, the PrecisionAg Vision Conference will offer solutions-based education. Delegates will join their senior-level peers in working through challenging problems to discover cross-functional solutions that apply to everyone in the precision agriculture industry. The takeaway will be practical lessons learned from and for growers, service providers, and colleagues working in like production systems around the world. "In addition to identifying practical solutions, the goal is for delegates to establish a grounded network that fosters communication and endures long after the conference ends," said Paul Schrimpf, Executive Editor of Meister Media Worldwide's Agribusiness Group.
Also new this year, the event will offer a pre-conference tour of Arizona's agricultural technology and the University of Arizona Robotics System.
With a unique focus on both digital farming software and platforms and in-field precision tools, the 2017 PrecisionAg Vision Conference promises to take a deeper dive into what precision agriculture will look like two to three seasons out, without losing sight of the bigger picture. Paired with unsurpassed networking, this conference is a must-attend premier event in the precision agriculture space. For more information and to register, visit PrecisionAgVision.com.


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How can you make the next day better?
On May 3rd, NextDayBetter is kicking off their global speaker series for 2014 in New York City. The series is themed "Defining Breakthroughs: Unlocking Human and Community Potential" and will feature inspiring speakers who will share how to make real, visible change for communities in the Philippines and beyond.
"The global Filipino Diaspora is a hub and inspiration for world-changing ideas that pushes humanity forward," says CEO and Co-Founder Ryan Letada.
"This global speaker and action series is designed to celebrate and amplify the impact of these ideas."
Featured change makers include:
- Geena Rocero- Transgender Model, Advocate, and Founder of Gender Proud
- Nicole Ponseca- Founder of Maharlika + Jeepney NYC
- Rob Baker- White House Presidential Innovation Fellow and Ushahidi
- Matt Grasser- CEO of LDLN
- Maria Ressa- Founder of Rappler
- Leah Villanueva- Teach for the Philippines Fellow
- Lourdes Tiago- Airforce Veteran and Team Rubicon
This event is not only going to satiate your hunger for change, but will feature great food and drinks as well. Living up to its claim for creative innovation, NextDayBetter will even showcase a Tech Demo in which hackers will present smart technologies focused on disaster response and resiliency rebuilding.
Seats are limited so register now here.
If you can't make it to NYC and/or are thirsting for more inspiration, don't you fret because NextDayBetter will also be hitting up Los Angeles, Toronto, San Francisco, and London during the upcoming months. To learn more about NextDayBetter and the speaker series, you can visit their website.
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(I started writing this this afternoon, and it's turned into a huge random braindump. Oops.)
Once again listening to THE SPOILS by Zola Jesus, while I wait for Baron Mordant to post me the new Mordant Music. With the autumn's biggest bumblebee hanging around the top of my netbook in some confusion.
Feels like the year's winding down, doesn't it? I find myself unaccountably bored with culture, temporarily. Feels like not enough people are doing enough stuff. I think maybe I mean print and net culture: I'm finding terrific music still. Like this wonderful album. Hoping Nika untangles herself from higher education sooner rather than later, perversely, so I get more of this sound.
I trolled through Print-On-Demand (POD) magazine service MagCloud the other day, bought Mal Jones' POTBOILER there, which I'm looking forward to, and a couple of other things on spec. I should have bought a copy of APEX SF, and probably will another time, but (perverse, yes) I didn't like the cover. (And you're all bored of me talking about covers.)
MagCloud should be a huge resource for someone like me, and it's no real fault of MagCloud's that it's not yet. It's about the awareness and uptake.
For instance, here's two MagCloud-related links for your RSS reader: Recent Issues and Featured Issues.
I keep peering at it and thinking, what can I do with that? Without, of course, becoming a publisher, and having to disburse money to other people, creating for myself a nightmare of inefficiency and lost time. (The most valuable resource any writer has is time.) That said: I keep wondering. What can a one-writer magazine look like? What does a magazine do? You associate "magazine" with disposability: but on the other hand, I'm a hoarder, and magazines will live on a nearby shelf or stack for years in my office. Perhaps it's simply a modular presentation. Perhaps it's a tract. These things need considering.
8×11 pages are big, and take work to fill. A 20-page MagCloud mag would come out at USD $4 before you added your mark-up, and it'd cost around USD $1.40 to mail it out to me, currently. That'd make a fascinating Dogme MagCloud, wouldn't it? 20pp, $1 markup for a total $5 object, so that's a hair under six and a half Yanqui dolla to get it to my door.
But: with MagCloud and other POD operations, it's dead cheap (to the point of almost being costless) to experiment, and the single biggest headache of publishing — physical distribution — is solved for you.
(That is the fascinating problem Newspaper Club presents: they'll ship your pallet of newspapers to you, but getting rid of them is entirely your problem. Which makes them either a hyperlocal object or the subject of much envelope-stuffing. Which is a pain. I kind of love the work their blog is doing to reduce expectations, a sort of "no, really, we're far more rubbish than we look.")
The worst thing that can happen is that people think your magazine looks shit and so don't order it. And you've lost nothing. And those people might be wrong anyway. MagCloud is the enabler for niche publishing, after all. Someone there is publishing a quarterly magazine all about the history of the Mafia in America. At least two people are serialising odd-looking novels.
Here's a possibility to turn around in your head: print isn't dying, so much as it's becoming much less interesting and useful. Buying a magazine that's two-thirds ads is not interesting, nor it is often terribly useful. Buying a magazine that's two months behind the internet is neither interesting nor useful. Buying a magazine that is simply shitfuck ugly is neither interesting nor useful. Buying a magazine so bereft of content that it doesn't outlive a single sitting on the bog is neither interesting nor useful. Right there, I've tagged a lot of magazines on your local newsagent's shelf. But that does not eliminate all magazines.
If the magazine is dying, but there is yet this lovely and efficient service that lets you make your own magazines, perhaps the onus is there to rethink what the magazine does and can do. I mean, think about that for a minute: your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to re-invent the magazine.
Maybe this line of thought spears off a little into Papernet territory. Asking questions like "what work does the paper do" and "how do we talk to the paper?" Which sounds wanky, but if you're to rethink things, start from the ground up. One of the best things about the Field Notes notebooks is that the outside edge of the inside back cover has a ruler printed on it. I've found myself using those rulers more than once, at home and outside. How are people going to operate your magazine? Do you print dotted lines down the inside edges of pages, to show where people should cut them out for remote operation? Create spaces for people to write their own notes on the pages? Interrogate the whole idea of the magazine.
And — and here's a thing — how about, just for the hell of it, you think about making material you can't find on the internet? Sold on the internet, unfolded in the physical world. Just as a stance, as a point for consideration, why not unplug the work and enjoy the physical magazine as a thing that isn't networked and doesn't require electricity to read. Because… because, sometimes, it doesn't hurt to fetishise the physical every now and then, for one thing, but because…
The other day, writer Melissa Gira Grant was hanging around in a coffee shop in New York, and twittered that she was there. And if you went to visit her, she'd spend five minutes reading to you from her diary — on the condition that you recorded none of it on the net. No twitter, no flickr, no blogging, no nothing. The exchange for her time was to keep the experience physical, not digital.
Which I think is an interesting point. And a magazine is something that I, in any case, take away from the computer to read.
This went waaaaay off track somewhere, and I'm not sure where, so I'm just going to press Publish and to hell with it…


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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate. - Orson Welles
With the electoral primaries long gone, but not forgotten, many Americans are now left with a dilemma. According to various polls both parties' candidates have a serious likability problem, but there is a big, not only ideological, difference between them. While Donald J. Trump (Rep) has won the popular vote, but did not get the support of many prominent Republicans; the Democratic Party chairwoman allegedly orchestrated diversion of votes from a very popular democratic candidate, Bernie Sanders, to the party's darling Hilary R. Clinton, an act that left millions of Bernie's supporters angry and disappointed.
Things change with the flow of time, but not always for the better. The Republican Party is no longer the party of Ronald Reagan and the Democratic Party no longer that the one of John F. Kennedy. The conservative ideas range from constitutionalist libertarian to the globalist Neocon while the democratic vision ranges from globalist to the extreme left, almost Marxist. Neither party can claim that there is an ideological unity of any kind and yet, each party has to produce a nominee for the presidential elections. Interestingly enough, despite controversy, Mrs Clinton received her party's total support. Her party decided she is the one and united behind her. Mr Trump, on the other hand, received the nomination, but wasn't even endorsed by many prominent Republicans, or worse, was openly rejected by such party members as the the presidential Bush family. What a shame!
What does this mean for the voters? Mrs Clinton came with many scandals, ongoing FBI investigation, lies, visible health problems, and very deep pockets. She is a globalist ensuring the continuation of president Obama's policies. Donald Trump, on the other hand, is a wealthy businessman with no political experience, but a very sharp tongue and hot temper. He not only rejected donations from lobbyists, but also promised a complete reversal of the official GOP party line. Politicians do not like his ideas and most of them reject Trump. Is this important? Should undecided voters even care where the money comes from or whether a candidate has political experience?
Many people in America feel that something must change. Growing national debt, stagnating economy, erratic immigration policy, unprotected Southern border, threat of terrorism, and shrinking middle class, are the same problems that were addressed by the presidential candidates of 2007. Not much has changed over the last seven and half years, except the fact that national debt exploded exponentially and more people are on food stamps than ever before. Financial insecurity, weak marketplace and "affordable healthcare" killed many businesses and forever changed the face of small town America. Social unrest and racial conflict unseen in America since the 1960s are signs of a society on the verge of collapse.
Change is needed badly in a nation that ignores its own security, but obsesses with political correctness, pronouns and gender neutral bathrooms.
So, will it be Trump or Clinton? Or maybe one of the independently running candidates like the former New Mexico governor Garry Johnson - a freakish big government idiot posing as libertarian; the Transhumanist - writer and philosopher Zoltan Istvan; or the the "other woman" - the Green Party presidential front runner Dr. Jill Stein? And while some Americans may have already heard of Gary Johnson in 2011 presidential elections, who knew that there was a Green Party in America or that a Transhumanist will ever attempt to run for the presidency?
For many decades American elections looked like popularity contests. People wanted the guy who would show up on TV in their living rooms to be at least likeable. Right now many people cannot imagine getting stuck for four years with either Trump or Clinton. There is still enough time for the candidates to change this, or at least, to convince voters that they are the best for the job. Watch and listen carefully because at the end, you are the one who will have to decide.
By Dominique Allmon
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Welcome and today I have a clean and simple Christmas card to share. I created this card with a stamp set from Stampin' Up! You can either get this set in a bundle with the wonderful Sleigh Ride edgelit dies that I have made a number of cards from and have full video tutorials for on my YouTube channel.
Or you can purchase the stamp set on its own and the French version that I have used is currently on Sale for just 14,25€, which is super value for money as you get 13 clear rubber images in the set.
Stampin' Up! is currently having a super Year End sale - lots of bargains to snap up with up to 60% off some items. Be sure to check out the goodies available for some crafty Christmas presents ;)
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I hereby request that the following planning application is called in for determination by the Secretary of State:
West Berkshire Council application 11/00218/COMIND
Erection of a Class A1 retail store with associated car parking, landscaping, servicing and access arrangements.
Land at the Berkshire Retail Park, Pincents Lane, Calcot, Reading.
IKEA Properties Investments Ltd.
The application is for a 39,612 square metre IKEA store with associated 1,179 space multi-storey car park. The site is close to Junction 12 of the M4 motorway.
Grounds for request:
- The store would attract customers from within a radius of about 50 miles, threatening the viability of numerous town centre shopping areas.
- The nature of goods sold in the store would mean that almost all customers would travel to the store by private car. This means that the proposal is not a sustainable one.
- The site of the proposed store is just inside the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the 22.5 metre height of the blue coloured store would affect views into the AONB from nearby public footpaths, public open space and the M4 motorway.
- Although it is proposed to extend one bus service to the store, the site is otherwise difficult to reach by public transport. This means that most of the 400 employees would travel to work using privater cars, reducing sustainability further.
- The large amount of traffic that would be generated would cause congestion on the M4 motorway and on roads leading from nearby Reading, in addition to local roads.
- The proposed store is not of high quality design, as
required by the NPPF.
-- Kind Regards, Alan Macro Member for Theale West Berkshire Council Follow me on Twitter: @alanmacro Join me on Facebook: Alan Macro Read my Blog: http://alanmacro.blogspot.com/


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Post-Analysis after an Analysis of Variance
A significant result in an analysis of variance (ANOVA) in Excel tells you that an effect is lurking somewhere in the data. Post-analysis tests tell you where. Two types of tests are possible — either planned or unplanned.
Assume that the Between Groups variable has only two levels. For this reason, had a significant effect resulted, no further test would be necessary. The Within Groups variable, however, is significant. Ordinarily, the test would proceed. In this case, however, the interaction between the variables necessitates a different path.
With the interaction, post-analysis tests can proceed in either (or both) of two ways. You can examine the effects of each level of the A variable on the levels of the B variable, or you can examine the effects of each level of the B variable on the levels of the A variable. Statisticians refer to these as simple main effects.
For example, the first way examines the means for the three fonts in a book and the means for the three fonts in the e-reader. The second way examines the means for the book versus the mean for the e-reader with Haettenschweiler font, with Arial, and with Callibri.
Statistics texts provide complicated formulas for calculating these analyses. Excel makes them easy. To analyze the three fonts in the book, do a repeated measures ANOVA for Subjects 1 through 4. To analyze the three fonts in the e-reader, do a repeated measures ANOVA for Subjects 5 through 8.
For the analysis of the book versus the e-reader in the Haettenschweiler font, that's a single-factor ANOVA for the Haettenschweiler data. To do this, you'd have to rearrange the numbers into two columns. Of course, you'd go through a similar procedure for each of the other fonts.