Friday, August 3, 02001
I'm guessing about 10% of my visitors will find the Lambda the Ultimate isn't about what they thought it might be about. Sorry, no rainbow flags today, just a bunch of Turing machine tapes flapping in the wind.
Welcome to anyone who's stumbled in from randomWalks.
Posted at 08:24 PM EST [Link]
Tuesday, July 31, 02001
I'm reading Pilgram At Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard now.
The first paragraph of chapter two of this book is amazing. It just blew me away.
Since I couldn't find it anywhere online, I'm entering it here:
When I was six or seven years old, growing up in Pittsburgh, I used to take a precious penny of my own and hide it for someone else to find. It was a curious compulsion; sadly, I've never been seized by it since. For some reason I always "hid" the penny along the same stretch of sidewalk up the street. I would cradle it at the roots of a sycamore, say, or in a hole left by a chipped-off piece of sidewalk. Then I would take a piece of chalk, and starting at either end of the block, draw huge arrows leading up to the penny from both directions. After I learned how to write I labeled the arrows: SURPRISE AHEAD or MONEY THIS WAY. I was greatly excited, during all this arrow-drawing, at the thought of the first passer-by who would receive in this way, regardless of merit, a free gift from the universe. But I never lurked about. I would go straight home and not give the matter another thought, until, some months later, I would be gribbed again by the impulse to hide another penny.
Posted at 11:27 PM EST [Link]
I like the idea of a death penalty for corporate crimes. Doesn't seem fair that you should be able to kill 21 people and only get fined.
Posted at 04:46 PM EST [Link]
Wow, when you've got to sell your private golf course, you know times are tough.
Posted at 12:34 PM EST [Link]
Though my motive my be called into question, I still thought this Nielsen article on avoiding PDF for on-screen reading was interesting.
BTW, There's been some cleanup work done on this site: I filled in some missing Greymatter templates, and fixed some HTML errors in the existing ones so the W3C validator is happy.
I've also setup a very basic stylesheet, and tried to get all the dates to use the long now format.
The next big step is to weed out the bad links I know I have all over the place.
It looks like Link Valet will be useful for this.
Posted at 07:52 AM EST [Link]
