Human Struggles
From a letter to an old friend:”Most important human struggles nowadays … interesting thought challenge. I have been getting back into “programming” (lite, very lite) on the back of these courses that I need to Read More …
Month: August 2006
Coursework
After another trip to the library, I am DROWNING in material for my two new courses on database systems (dbs) and business process modeling (bpm). I am surprised to see however how little the field Read More …
Latin Jazz
In the English Garden today to listen to Latin Jazz. A few moments of groove. Earlier, we all jammed @home … somehow it did not work as it sometimes does. C was irritated, CS seemed Read More …
2D and 3D
C and I were discussing last night: what does it do to 3D art to have it first mediated through 2D art? C thinks eye-hand-coordination during 2D might be necessary to get to a greater Read More …
Lightbulbs
Found two excellent IT jokes on the extraordinarily entertaining site of James S. Huggins, a writer and speaker from Dallas: The Microsoft joke really tells it all about the company. The Internet joke really tells Read More …
How Gross is Grass?
Today: Interesting news about Günter Gra … 60 years after the end of WWII, the self-declared conscience of German literature confesses to have been a member of the “Waffen-SS” in the last months of the Read More …
LambdaMOO
Community, again. OK, ok, I found the LambdaMOO community – 122 people logged in there with me. Silence around me (private conversations, if any – or telepathy?). A great web interface (http://lambdamoo.info/) The mother of Read More …