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Happy new year, friends. I hope that things go well for all of us.
My NYE event this year was a Freak House thing. I seemed to give at least one person the impression that I was not having any fun, because I was very quiet and still for most of it. This was, in fact, not the case. Very rarely am I not having some sort of fun, even when it's not obvious, which is probably most of the time.
I tend to shut down all social processes outside of interested observation when people around me are talking about things I don't know much about. During these times I am afraid that I confuse real life with a TV program. A good TV program, mind. Something interesting on the Discovery channel, OK? Yes.
I look good in black, but will from now on make a conscious decision not to dress in nothing but. I think that makes me stand out too much.
I need to find more green or green-like articles of clothing.
I had a funny dream the night before last that involved tahnan finally conceding that the word omnivore didn't have the same primary meaning that he had been insisting on for quite a while. He wouldn't budge in his convictions until a sufficient number of people came forward with references to the word's primary meaning of "one that has the ability to consume both animal meat and vegetation" versus the meaning that he was defending, "one that does consume both animal meat and vegetation".
(This does not reflect reality, as far as I can tell.)
Picked up he Jan-Feb Brattle schedule from the Diesel today. This lineup looks really good! (I was sub-impressed with the Nov-Dec one.) Lots of 1950s American film noir, to which I feel I have been underexposed. I'll pick out the movies I am planning on seeing and list them here, in the near future.
Relatedly, I have installed Wiki software on my TiBook, and find that I really like it. Even though I am the sole user, thus obviating the world-writable aspect that counts for 51 percent of Wiki's point, the ability to very quickly create densely hyperlinked Web pages, with far less effort than it would take me to create an maintain a collection of static text or HTML files, lets me perform brain-dumps in a joyous fashion. These dumps are then actually navigable and extensible later on, which is something that on-paper notebook-scribbling can't offer. I think I will use Wiki as a true brain-extension for a long time to come.
The only feature it's missing, in my opinion, is a way to add artwork easily. You can drop in URL-fetchable images easily enough, but I mean that I want to doodle a doodle onto a Wiki page as easily as I can in a notebook. And here, of course, is yet another project idea. Hold on a sec while I make a page about it.
The Wiki software is Use Mod, by the way, the same program that the Freedom Tracker uses.
WRT Freedom Tracker: I read a couple of chapters of "The Wiki Way" last night and got some good ideas for meta-information I should add to the website, in order to encourage participation and exorcise newbie-fear against Wiki's unusual philosophies. (For example: note that all information is backed up, and there's an on-line, easy-to-use diff and version-control system, so you shouldn't be paranoid about people maliciously erasing your edits.) I shall do this shortly, and then proceed with the soft-launch, with wider announcements a week or so later. yep Very exciting.
Over the last week I have been developing what might be my first dot-com idea. Which is to say, I have an idea for a web application that sounds great on paper and that nobody else has done yet and would take more capital to launch than I am comfortable spending on a hobby project.
That said, it might be really cool, and I could spend the money if I can really convince myself of the project's worthiness. Mmh. For the time being I'll just cram my ideas as they are now into the Wiki, because I can.
Wiki wiki wiki.
My NYE event this year was a Freak House thing. I seemed to give at least one person the impression that I was not having any fun, because I was very quiet and still for most of it. This was, in fact, not the case. Very rarely am I not having some sort of fun, even when it's not obvious, which is probably most of the time.
I tend to shut down all social processes outside of interested observation when people around me are talking about things I don't know much about. During these times I am afraid that I confuse real life with a TV program. A good TV program, mind. Something interesting on the Discovery channel, OK? Yes.
I look good in black, but will from now on make a conscious decision not to dress in nothing but. I think that makes me stand out too much.
I need to find more green or green-like articles of clothing.
I had a funny dream the night before last that involved tahnan finally conceding that the word omnivore didn't have the same primary meaning that he had been insisting on for quite a while. He wouldn't budge in his convictions until a sufficient number of people came forward with references to the word's primary meaning of "one that has the ability to consume both animal meat and vegetation" versus the meaning that he was defending, "one that does consume both animal meat and vegetation".
(This does not reflect reality, as far as I can tell.)
Picked up he Jan-Feb Brattle schedule from the Diesel today. This lineup looks really good! (I was sub-impressed with the Nov-Dec one.) Lots of 1950s American film noir, to which I feel I have been underexposed. I'll pick out the movies I am planning on seeing and list them here, in the near future.
Relatedly, I have installed Wiki software on my TiBook, and find that I really like it. Even though I am the sole user, thus obviating the world-writable aspect that counts for 51 percent of Wiki's point, the ability to very quickly create densely hyperlinked Web pages, with far less effort than it would take me to create an maintain a collection of static text or HTML files, lets me perform brain-dumps in a joyous fashion. These dumps are then actually navigable and extensible later on, which is something that on-paper notebook-scribbling can't offer. I think I will use Wiki as a true brain-extension for a long time to come.
The only feature it's missing, in my opinion, is a way to add artwork easily. You can drop in URL-fetchable images easily enough, but I mean that I want to doodle a doodle onto a Wiki page as easily as I can in a notebook. And here, of course, is yet another project idea. Hold on a sec while I make a page about it.
The Wiki software is Use Mod, by the way, the same program that the Freedom Tracker uses.
WRT Freedom Tracker: I read a couple of chapters of "The Wiki Way" last night and got some good ideas for meta-information I should add to the website, in order to encourage participation and exorcise newbie-fear against Wiki's unusual philosophies. (For example: note that all information is backed up, and there's an on-line, easy-to-use diff and version-control system, so you shouldn't be paranoid about people maliciously erasing your edits.) I shall do this shortly, and then proceed with the soft-launch, with wider announcements a week or so later. yep Very exciting.
Over the last week I have been developing what might be my first dot-com idea. Which is to say, I have an idea for a web application that sounds great on paper and that nobody else has done yet and would take more capital to launch than I am comfortable spending on a hobby project.
That said, it might be really cool, and I could spend the money if I can really convince myself of the project's worthiness. Mmh. For the time being I'll just cram my ideas as they are now into the Wiki, because I can.
Wiki wiki wiki.