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Losing ThoughtApril 21, 2003
Of a particularly aggravating nature is the inability to recollect the brilliant idea for a post you had the night before as you fell asleep.
I could use one of these. Even one of these would do for my purposes.
When's Movable Type's neural interface due out, again?
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no way dude. PDAs are the biggest hype-oriented product of the millennium.
every single person i know –whether teacher, programmer, designer, project manager, director, senior staff, student, etc– who has a PDA end up going back to pen and paper after a few months. why? because PDAs are toys. after the novelty runs out, there's no real need for them.
sure it's great for synching with your notes and schedule, but how many of us are going to spend a lot of time making schedule reminders and notes? not many. and how many of us will actually use the device to input information? no one… why? compared to pen and paper, the input methods for PDAs suck.
dont get sucked into the PDA hype. save your money and buy me free booze. :0)
Oh, I know all too well. I have a dusty Palm III and an even older Windows CE 1.0 handheld that gather dust. WiFi might just be the saving grace, but other than that the intrinsic value is pretty limited.
I have to admit though, I really am morbidly fascinated by the Fossil watch. Palm OS 4.1 on my wrist might actually prove useful… then again it might be a waste of $200US. Hard to say… hard to say.
(Free as in beer, or free as in speech? ;)
Exactly Haze. The biggest problems remain battery life, and limited input. The new laser projection keyboards and wi-fi will hopefully address some of the short comings, but frankly it's going to take another 2-3 years before I'll buy another one.
Is it so much to ask for a pda as thin as a credit card, as tactile as a piece of paper, and so durable and flexible I can roll it up? Er… well one can dream.
Who gives a damn about remembering stuff?! Go for the snazzy, geeked-out watch! When you're waiting for the bus you can click a button and talk into it and stuff! How mysterious!
I betcha it can tell you the temperature of the sun! Bitchin'!
(Sorry about the MIA blog entry… If I see it at the diner or at the library I'll tell it to head on home – where it is missed dearly.)
one major problem with PDAs (and this is a more socio-psychological view) is that it's too small. the smaller it becomes, the better it is to carry; but consequently, the worse it becomes to read or type. most ppl, like me, are idiots. when we write, our attention span lasts for maybe half a second and then it's gone. imagine typing an email where u could only see the last word youve typed. can you remember the last paragraph you just wrote? how about the last sentence?
paper doesnt have this problem, neither do laptops. so inputting information into a PDA is horrible, but reading is alright. wireless, laser keyboards arent going to help because there's no tactile feel. as well, u have to situate the pda like a laptop in order to input information… why not just get a laptop then? it sounds cool, but business ppl dont want flash, they want function ;0)
PDAs are too small to do big things, and too big to do small things. IMHO, i see compaq's computer tablet (frikken touchpanel the size of an LCD) maybe breaking ground. sure, it's $2000CAD, but business geeks who can afford it should love it. (btw, my opinions on PDAs relate to business or school use… ppl carrying around PDAs to movie theatres or restaurants be damned for all i care)
and buy me pitcher of creme ale and i'll gladly tell u which *free* booze i'm referring to ;0) LOL


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And now.....drumroll please....IT IS FINISHED!!!!
Uh, no! Not book #3. I wish! But my hair! LOL Well, after ten long years of wearing microbraids, I've finally laid them to rest for good. I took out the braids for the last time last Wednesday (and Thursday, and Friday), and got myself one of them cute li'l ol' hair styles with long sleek black hair and wispy bangs. :-) I was hoping to be able to put up a pic, but as usual, I haven't had time. :-( But I'll get one up soon as possible.
I've been slowly going through small changes since I relocated. I'm feeling real good. So maybe it's like I'm feeling good and looking to do things to treat myself. Yeah, that's it. LOL But I'm not going to lie. For some reason, changing hair styles can wreck your mind. Because you see a style, but you don't know if it's going to look on you. But lucky for me, I seemed to have made a good choice. Good thing I decided against the beach blonde highlights and the burgundy rinse. So let me tell you, a sistah is feeling good right about now.
Now off to sleep so I can wake up a write another chapter before work. :-)
Monday, June 30, 2008
2 comments:
- princessdominique Sun Jul 13, 09:15:00 AM EDT
Can't wait to see a picture!!!!
- Cherlyn Michaels Wed Jul 16, 04:12:00 AM EDT
Hey Dom. This weekend, I'm going to try to change the main blog picture and get one up with the new hair. LOL


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"While hopelessness has been associated with a higher risk of fatal and nonfatal coronary heart disease, very few studies have examined hopelessness after a cardiac event," Dunn said. "We found interventions focused on the prevention and treatment of hopelessness symptoms may potentially contribute to improved recovery of heart patients."
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Ute and I drove up to Lake County this past weekend to retrieve our lovely goats. We went up a day early to spend some time with our friend Tina in Santa Rosa and to give the Disgruntled Farmhand some space because frankly, we don't want to find out what happens when you push a person past disgruntled. I'm sure it's ugly.
What a gorgeous weekend it was with the sun beaming full glory and not a cloud in the sky to diminish its radiance. We took a lovely afternoon stroll through the Luther Burbank Gardens in downtown Santa Rosa. Spring was in the air with all of Burbank's assortment of flowers and veggies in full bloom. For those of you not in the know, Mr. Burbank was the creator of many a splendid varieties of plants, including the ubiquitous Russet Burbank potato of french fry fame. I would hold this against dear Luther, since his potato has probably been the main force in driving out a vast number of potato varieties. But how was he to know that when deep fried, his bulbous starchy creation would become the closest thing to heaven for anyone under the age of 18, while simultaneously being a major contributing factor to our current obesity crisis in the U.S.? Who could have predicted that the Russet Burbank would become the equilvilant to a nutritional hydrogen bomb, as the repercussions would only begin to reverberate in a distant future (Burbank died in 1926)? But I forgive Luther for all of his blind transgressions solely for the invention of the plumcot, a glorious fruit with all the tastiness of an apricot combined with the crisper, juicier texture of the plum. Let's face it, where the Divine fell short, Luther Burbank took over.
Next we headed off to Sebastapool's Rose and Thorn. Trust me when I tell you that you've never been to a shop quite like this one. The store itself is loaded with more tchotchkes than a Hindu temple, but the main attraction is the animal yard where over 50 chickens and several dwarf goats, all named after famous movie stars, roam the grounds. It's an enticing stop for a picnic replete with country charm; they've got tables and everything. They even offer up the property for getting hitched, as long as you don't mind some feathery, furry bridesmaids and groomsmen clucking and bleating throughout the proceedings. Here's some of the exotic farm friends:
We left Santa Rosa early Sunday, but not before Tina sent us off with a mini library of gardening and homesteading books from the collection of Celeste West, a radical librarian who edited the desktop published Revolting Librarians and wrote a handful of books on lesbian polyfidelity. Since the gardening books I inherited are such gems and Celeste such an interesting character, I think I will save description for a later post. Stay tuned.
When we arrived at Oops Ranch for our girls, we were greeted by Mary Jane, who could pass as the twin of the mean lunch lady, Alice, on Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, except for the fact that Mary Jane is a NICE lady. She regaled us with entertaining, albeit troublesome, tales of Ethel and Lucy's exploits. Apparently, Ethel reigned queen over the young does, always getting to eat first and teaching the youngins' all kinds of mischievous tricks, such as how to jump through the nine inch space near the top of the gate. Yes, that's my naughty, naughty goat. Meanwhile, Lucy slogged through her stay with the rest of the herd somewhere near the bottom of the totem pole. She lost a bit of weight with all the competition, while Ethel has clearly packed on some pounds. But Lucy got her job done with incredible efficiency, breeding with the buck several times the day after we dropped her off! She's my good girl.
While getting the lowdown on the girls' vacation, Mary Jane's husband Mel sauntered over to try and convince us that we needed a mini cow. Though a tempting offer from this gentleman who has probably done more than his fair share of time in a Santa Claus suit, we had to pass it up given that this doe-eyed boy might grow to 300 pounds. If you have at least an acre, you might want to think about taking him in (I can provide contact info). He looks a little wild in this pic, but he's really a sweetie.
He was terribly difficult to resist. But even more of a lure was his jealous pal Buddy who began to make the most obnoxious choking noises in a ploy to get a scratch around the ears. Poor thing. He sounded like he got one of his treat biscuits trapped in his throat and was trying to push it out through his nose. I had no idea the lengths a donkey would go to for a bit of attention. It was kind of charming, if not a little frightening.
All of us girls made it home safe and sound. To our utter amazement, we returned to a brand new/old set of stairs in the backyard made with recycled cinder blocks, a car so clean you could eat off the floor, and a spotless house. We love our Disgruntled Farmhand and suspect that maybe he's not THAT disgruntled after all.


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A few days ago some sites made some hay over the fact that the Nokia Lumia 610 (and any other 256MB devices) can't run certain apps or games. Some of the big titles thrown out include Tango Video Calls, Skype and and Angry Birds which at first blush appears to be bad news. Insert fragmentation commentary, yadda yadda.
While certainly true, the situation is far from permanent or dire. In short, neither app has been updated for 256MB devices as requested by Microsoft. There's no real reason why Angry Birds can't be optimized for 256MB devices, nor presumably Tango Video Calls. Heck, Angry Birds has barely been updated at all on Windows Phone.
That's about to change though as Rovio is working on a 256MB optimized version for the Luma 610 and any other low-end Windows Phones. Heidi Lemmetyinen, Editor-in-Chief, Nokia Conversations, responded in comments on Nokia's Blog with the following (translated):
"The Rovio team is currently being Angry Birds Lumia 610 for the optimized version. Yet it is not therefore available to the public but we've known about this. We will notify you, of course as soon as possible."
So bump in the road? Yes. Permanent fiasco? Hardly. We expect Angry Birds and the remaining 5% of apps and games to be updated over the coming weeks as the Lumia 610 and other 256MB start to come online. Let's not forget: Nokia and Rovio have forged a partnership to fast-track Angry Birds Space and their other titles to Windows Phone, so making their previous title compatible with the 610 shouldn't be a surprise.
Sorry folks, nothing to see here. Time to move along.
Be sure to check our demo of Skype on the Lumia 610 and our unboxing video for more info.
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The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft
Dell, 1997 - Fiction - 360 pages
Explore the marvelous complexity of Lovecraft's writing—including his use of literary allusions, biographical details, and obscure references in this rich, in-depth exploration of great horror fiction from the acknowledged master of the weird, including the stories "Herbert West—Reanimator", "Pickman's Model", "The Call of Cthulhu", "The Thing on the Doorstep", "The Horror at Red Hook" and more.
Did Lovecraft believe in ghosts or paranormal phenomena? In what story does the narrator fear riding the Boston T?
A pathfinder in the literary territory of the macabre, H.P. Lovecraft is one of America's giants of the horror genre. Now, in this second volume of annotated tales, Lovecraft scholars S. T. Joshi and Peter Cannon provide another rare opportunity to look into the mind of a genius. Their extensive notes lift the veil between real events in the writer's life—such as the death of his father—and the words that spill out onto the page in magnificent grotesquerie. Mansions, universities, laboratories, and dank New England boneyards appear also as the haunts where Lovecraft's characters confront the fabulous and fantastic, or—like the narrator in "Herbert West—Reanimator"—dig up fresh corpses.
Richly illustrated and scrupulously researched, this extraordinary work adds exciting levels of meaning to Lovecraft's chilling tales . . . and increases our wonder at the magic that transforms life into a great writer's art.
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I've had this book for a couple of years and I always go back to read a story I haven't gotten to yet. Some of my favorite Lovecraft tales are included -- The Rats In The Walls, The Dunwich Horror, and the Colour Out of Space. Read full review
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We had all seen the first version of the game on TV, but none of us have played it before. When I opened the game we found a lot of colorful game pieces.
We followed the directions, and washed the mouthpieces we had chosen to use. My friend the nurse made sure we kept things sanitary. She had just gotten over a cold, and joked that if we did not prepare the game properly, we would have to call it "How to Catch a Cold" game. They are top rack dishwasher safe, which seems like a great way to clean them before and after playing.
I have a very small mouth. As hard as I tried I could not get the mouthpiece in my mouth, that is when I realized that there were TWO sizes, large and small. I had been trying to use the large adult size, but luckily the smaller child size fit.
I have to admit when you are wearing the mouthpieces you look pretty ridiculous. (though that that is part of the fun of it) My daughter would not let me take a picture of her wearing it, and my son hid behind the box. My friend's son was brave and allowed me to use him as the model in my photos.
In the game you go around the table, and roll a die with arrows on it. Depending on how it lands, it will show you who you are challenging You the pick up a Throwdown card, and follow the directions it tells you to do. The instructions say you can not pass on a Throwdown. Some of the challenges are very difficult, so I made the executive decision to allow passing, so my players would stay in the game.
We noticed that this game is for ages 8 and up. Some of the cards may be too hard for younger players. On one of the cards you had to sing a song with the mouthpiece in. The teens we played with were ages 16, 17 and 18, and not one of them knew who Frank Sinatra, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, and Neil Diamond on the were. I even sang the songs associated with them without the guard, still clueless. They did redeem themselves with knowing PRINCE, and Elvis Presley though.. (I'm a 80's kid, who loves Prince)
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With a little luck, you planned your Thanksgiving dinner for about 15 minutes ago.
After a frantic back-and-forth first game between the Texans and Lions, the Cowboys and Redskins are the tryptophan coma portion of the day.
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By every measure, the Pentagon is the largest institutional user of petroleum products and energy in general. Yet the Pentagon has a blanket exemption in all international climate agreements.
The Feb. 17, 2007, Energy Bulletin detailed the oil consumption just for the Pentagon's aircraft, ships, ground vehicles and facilities that made it the single-largest oil consumer in the world.
Even according to rankings in the 2006 CIA World Factbook, only 35 countries (out of 210 in the world) consume more oil per day than the Pentagon.
This information is not readily available … because military emissions abroad are exempt from national reporting requirements under U.S. law and the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change" …
Bryan Farrell in his new book, "The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of Militarism," says that "the greatest single assault on the environment, on all of us around the globe, comes from one agency … the Armed Forces of the United States."
Just how did the Pentagon come to be exempt from climate agreements? At the time of the Kyoto Accords negotiations, the U.S. demanded as a provision of signing that all of its military operations worldwide and all operations it participates in with the U.N. and/or NATO be completely exempted from measurement or reductions.
After securing this gigantic concession, the Bush administration then refused to sign the accords.
Although the U.S. had already received these assurances in the negotiations, the U.S. Congress passed an explicit provision guaranteeing U.S. military exemption. Inter Press Service reported on May 21, 1998: "U.S. law makers, in the latest blow to international efforts to halt global warming, today exempted U.S. military operations from the Kyoto agreement which lays out binding commitments to reduce 'greenhouse gas' emissions. The House of Representatives passed an amendment to next year's military authorization bill that 'prohibits the restriction of armed forces under the Kyoto Protocol.'"
According to environmental journalist Johanna Peace … "The military accounts for a full 80 percent of the federal government's energy demand."
As I pointed out out last week:
Professor Michael Klare noted in 2007:
Sixteen gallons of oil. That's how much the average American soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan consumes on a daily basis — either directly, through the use of Humvees, tanks, trucks, and helicopters, or indirectly, by calling in air strikes. Multiply this figure by 162,000 soldiers in Iraq, 24,000 in Afghanistan, and 30,000 in the surrounding region (including sailors aboard U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf) and you arrive at approximately 3.5 million gallons of oil: the daily petroleum tab for U.S. combat operations in the Middle East war zone.
And in 2008, Oil Change International released a report showing that:
- The [Iraq] war is responsible for at least 141 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MMTCO2e) since March 2003. To put this in perspective, CO2 released by the war to date equals the emissions from putting 25 million more cars on the road in the US this year.
- Between March 2003 and October 2007 the US military in Iraq purchased more than 4 billion gallons of fuel from the Defense Energy Support Center, the agency responsible for procuring and supplying petroleum products to the Department of Defense. Burning these fuels has directly produced nearly 39 million metric tons of CO2 Just transporting 4 billion gallons of fuel to the military in Iraq consumed at least as much fuel as was delivered nearly doubling overall fuel-related emissions.
- Emissions from the Iraq War to date are nearly two and a half times greater than what would be avoided between 2009 and 2016 were California to implement the auto emission regulations it has proposed (but that the Bush Administration struck down).
- If the war were ranked as a country in terms of annual emissions, it would emit more CO2 each year than 139 of the world's nations do, more than 60% of all countries on the planet…
Of course, the escalation of the war in Afghanistan will lead to a huge surge in greenhouse gas emissions as well.
The fact that the U.S. military is one of the world's largest sources of C02 is an open secret that no one is addressing. If C02 causes warming and the military is one of the largest producers of C02, then any talk of climate change which does not include the military is nothing but hot air.


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Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning still is getting used to the idea that his arm never will be as strong as it was before his four neck surgeries, but he's already throwing better this offseason than he did in last season's playoff loss to the Baltimore Ravens.
"We worked out at Duke in March or April, and I definitely felt like he had more zip on the ball," Broncos wide receiver Eric Decker said Wednesday, via The Denver Post. "I think he's come back stronger."
Decker's observation from the Duke workout jibes with that of Demaryius Thomas.
More importantly, Manning feels the difference himself.
"I feel much more comfortable than I was last year," Manning recently told Pete Prisco of CBSSports.com. "I am stronger than I was last year. I am throwing the ball better now in May of 2013 than I did in May of 2012 -- significantly better. I got better throughout the season."
With a unique injury history among NFL players and now the oldest starting quarterback in the league, Manning realizes he can't outrun the barrage of questions about his health. Armed with Thomas, Decker and now Wes Welker, Manning will have to answer by shattering John Elway's single-season franchise passing records for a second consecutive season.
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Editor's Note: Morgan Liddick will return to his regular Tuesday slot next week.
So Summit County's wizards of welfare are spending $72,000 of your money to determine just how much more of your money has to be spent to subsidize our local corporate moguls. I thank them, because the upcoming "Affordable Housing Survey" offers a perfect opportunity to illustrate the distortions that occur when government interferes in a market.
First, a prediction: the survey will determine that much more taxpayer money must be spent on housing for the low-income workers at the base of our county's economy. There will be a number of statistics involving our housing mix, the changing nature of the workforce, projections of future economic activity and other smoke. But the bottom line will be that more is necessary.
To understand how subsidized housing illustrates the problems created by government interference in a market, some background is necessary. In his brilliant 1776 opus "Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations," Adam Smith explained that when left to themselves, markets allocate resources better than any person, including government officials, could. Often referred to as the "invisible hand," Smith's market forces are ubiquitous, impersonal and exquisitely responsive. They immediately detect changes in the overall economic system and promote the best and highest use of resources, including financial and human capital. Smith's successor David Ricardo used these ideas to create his theory of "comparative advantage" to analyze both national and international commerce.
Modern history is very clear about markets: they work better than any other system we know. They function with great efficiency because they are elegantly simple. Every economy in the world, from Silverthorne to Smolensk, Breckenridge to Mbabane is a creation of humans, and if they are left to themselves to pursue their own ends, overall prosperity is increased as competition quickly determines the wisest use of limited resources.
Government intervention in markets – providing "affordable" housing, for example – introduces distortions and inefficiencies into this process. The economic noise created by subsidies, mandates, regulations and the spreading about of money taken from the politically unpopular masks important information. Frequently, it's not the person with the better mousetrap that reaps the benefit, it's the one with the better lobbyist or political flavor.
Here's how it works: Snowzilla Corporation (not its real name) wants to keep its one-day lift ticket price below $100, while insuring that the front-office boys continue to receive their million-dollar annual bonuses. They do this by tapping into a huge pool of labor that will work for low wages and a ski pass. However, when these workers arrive they discover that the cost of living in Summit County is not such as can be supported on their salary. They become the "working poor," and are held out as an example of the need for public funds for … you name the service. It's a neat trick: in the twinkling of an eye, corporate parsimony and politicized "compassion" is transformed into a substantial taxpayer-funded corporate subsidy. Because that's what "affordable housing" is: low wages made possible by taxpayer dollars.
A market approach would gradually sell off Summit County's "affordable housing" and take no steps to mandate or build more. Over time, a market from which the fog of government intervention lifted would offer much clearer information about the value of things in our corner of the world: a liftie's eight-hour day; a hamburger; a one-bedroom apartment. Perhaps Snowzilla would have to re-examine its priorities.
What is most important? Fat bonuses for the front office? Good employees, and the customer satisfaction they can create? If either of these head the list, big Corporate Wazoos might decide to jack up the price of a lift ticket until the pips squeak. But skiing and riding depend on discretionary income, so if one wants more of either, price increases are probably not the best idea. See how a free market can bring clarity to decision-making?
But inhabitants of the corporate stratosphere don't really like making those sorts of choices, and why should they? As long as there are political tools willing to defray corporate expenses with public money, the gravy train will continue to roll. Market information will be distorted, visitors will buy tickets that do not cover the costs of service, local employees will not receive a living wage, the wallets of corporate types will engorge … and local taxpayers will be required to foot the bill for it all. Seventy-two thousand dollars won't even be the beginning.
But it should be the end.
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In its primordial conception, Bratislava'sHackinUniversity (BHU) is a Temporary Autonomous Zone (TAZ). The fact that BHU is a TAZ implies that BHU appears and disappears in time and space in a seemingly unpredictable way. More concretely : BHU is like a freeparty, pirate island or a good orgy – it (re)emerges in a sudden burst of inspiration&elan vital, (re)accomplishes its objectives and (re)vanishes without a trace.
There are two main objectives of BHU :
to familiarize the wider public to philosophy & methods inherent to activity called 'hacking'
to find out WTF these « philosophy & methods inherent to activity called 'hacking' » truly are
It may seem surprising, on the first sight, that the members of BHU aim to familiarize the wilder public (i.e. objective 1) with a topic which they themselves are just trying to clarify (i.e. objective 2). This is, nonetheless consistent with the basic maxime of BHU which is : We Learn by Teaching.
As of 2010, BHU is considered to be one of few work groups of first slovak hackerspace ProgressBar. During the BHU's introductory session, these topics were specified as principal subdomains of BHU's interest :
hacking of physical systems ( lockpicking, electromagnetic gadgetry, transistor overloading etc)
hacking of artificial systems ( phreakin, crackin, robohackin )
hacking of hearts & minds ( facial expressions, neorhetorics, rhytm&tones )
hacking of brains (Brain-Computer Interfaces, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Psychedelics)
hacking of suprapersonal systems (Social&cultural engineering, Psychowarfare, Linguistic evolution)
hacking of eco-systems ( genetics, ecology, economy )
As we have already stated, ultimate objective of BHU is to destillate a unique philosophy of hacking which is implicitely contained in activities related to 6 disciplines listed hereby. But before entering into technical problems of these subdomains, it is preferable to dedicate some time to deontological & moral aspects of the hacking activity, since as we all see more and more clearly - especially after the wikileaks affair - , the impact of hacking upon a man, nature and society cannot be underestimated.
Therefore, BHU's Christmas session will be dedicated to the subject without knowledge of which one cannot be not a successful hacker, nor a realized human being. That subject is, of course, Ethics...


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Friday, October 12, 2007
Chess Club Poseur
First, the argument: people who spend all their time writing code know more about code than people who spend all their time writing about code. Obviously, that's a reasonable statement. And generally speaking it's true - with the caveat that somebody who writes bad code all day every day may in fact know very much less than somebody who writes about good code.
The question in the title, however, makes it impossible not to take the issue personally. It's kind of like asking, "Are People Who Disagree With Me Douchebags?" If people can't agree with you without criticizing themselves, you don't have a discussion - you have a fight. This kind of thing is what makes online communities messy and lame. Everybody who works in open source needs communities to be healthy and cool. You should always avoid questions which can easily devolve into name-calling, for the simple reason that questions which can devolve into name-calling often do.
But that's not the crazy part. That's the part where I have to say I think his phrasing was ill-considered, due to its potential for fostering dissent. That's the part where reasonable people could disagree. But there's another part which reasonable people could never even imagine saying. That part is flat-out insane. The crazy part is the idea of a technology poseur. Charles Nutter, as lead on the JRuby project, works for Sun. In Sun's Silicon Valley culture, I guess the idea of a tech poseur makes perfect sense - tech is everything in Silicon Valley, and corporate fakes are everywhere - but if you live ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD, the idea of somebody pretending to be a nerd so they will seem cool kind of operates in a counter-intuitive manner.
Honestly, dude, what were you thinking? That's like, I'm going to pretend I know how to play chess, so I can get chicks. Let's interrogate this chess club poseur to see if he's really down.
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The window title is hilarious. No, not the post title. I mean the page title that blogger thoughtfully assembles for you: "Giles Bowkett: Chess Club Poseur."
You have just motivated me to fix this problem on my own blog. More than a few people laughed when I had a post with a window title of "raganwald: You Suck."
- AnonymousOctober 12, 2007 at 10:49:00 PM PDT
Us insular geekbots don't like it when you hold up a mirror. It makes it very difficult to deceive ourselves into believing things like "technical poseurs will get all the chicks" and blaming authors for all our ills.ReplyDelete
Very nice post :) Although a few facts should probably come out:ReplyDelete
- I don't live in Silicon Valley...I work from home in Minnesota. I'm a dead-of-winter, roaring-fire, chestnuts-roasting kind of basement hacker. I just love sitting in a warm house on a cold night hacking away.
- The title of that post was intentionally inflammatory, and it generated a lot of good discussion both in comments and offline. I'm feeling the pain of trying to write a book *and* continue to hack earnestly on a project I love...and when I say pain I mean it in every sense of the word.
And honestly, the question I posed was sincere. If I'm wrong I'd love to be proven so. But it does worry me that the next generation of programmers and hackers could potentially be trained by folks who don't actually write code for a living. Maybe that's a good thing, but for me it's rather worrisome.
Sadly I think that's already happening. There are a few great programs, but a lot of universities, people are already taught by people who don't actually code. That's one of the great things about being self-taught, in the beginning you're taught by a novice but by the end you're taught by an actual hacker.ReplyDelete
Glad you see the humor in it, by the way. :-)
Two other things about the original post. The first is that setting time aside from hacking probably does make you less of a programmer than you could be; but that doesn't necessarily make you less of a programmer than some other person. Michael Jordan could take decades away from basketball and still outplay me in his 70s when the time came. He'd be rusty by his own standards, but those standards are so much higher than mine that it wouldn't matter.
The other thing, I took a huge break from programming and it absolutely made me a better programmer. I learnt to do so many other things that when I came back to programming I had a much broader perspective on it.
Anyway, personally, I would say, if you don't want to write a book, don't write a book. You're not going to write a good book unless you enjoy the process. Ola Bini just wrote a book on JRuby anyway.
I nearly pissed myself when I saw that.
Donal Knuth hasn't used email in 17 years. Discussion over.