January 2009
40 posts
meditation on asking for information
Requirement: person A to transfer information X to person B, at B’s request
Critical path:
1. B specifies information X with specification Y, well enough for A to understand Y and therefore X
2. A proceeds to understand Y well enough to satisfy X
3. A is able to provide X
4. A is motivated to provide X
5. A does provide X
6. B accepts X
7. B verifies X against Y and optionally...
found exercise
I’ve found it fun to supplement my exercise sessions (Shorinji Kempo, running, learning to skate) with a much more freeform, fragmented and frequent style of exercise: ‘found exercise’.
Found exercise refers to taking pre-existing actions, activities, objects, etc. that come across your path, and bending them slightly towards the goal of exercise. There is no opportunity for a...
Obama's People →
Get informed. The best reason for optimism in politics we’ve had in a LONG time. Let’s hope this one goes well. It’s not as if the stakes could be any higher.
“Oh you mean why all this. You’ll find out, I don’t think that either...”
– 20, Hopscotch, Julio Cortázar
“In the broadest and most useful sense, the functional distinction between...”
– from the Cross Fit journal, via Nathan
the codex of alchemical engineering →
a flash game that trains your parallel programming skills. Very nifty. An initially steep learning curve until your familiar with the symbols and moves, but then it progresses very satisfyingly. Watching the machines work is satisfying.
Many drum rhythms are easier to describe...
For a long time I had been using a snare flam to...
Just some experimenting with different hihat...
Happy New Year
As the little corner of society I find myself in pauses momentarily from its manic rush in order to rush manically in a slightly different manner for a short calendar-worshipful period, everyone feels that a new time is beginning, in which we can forget the silliness of the old year and replace it with some new silliness better suited to a new year.
Sounds good to me! It’ll be nice to see...