For those whom I've not yet told: I moved house last week ( Read more... )

A number of things relating to Lisp archaeology.

Last night, I dug up a simulator for CADR Lisp Machines. I'm impressed. The simulator (or maybe the LM itself?) is a little buggy, but it's pretty much there. Zetalisp is an interesting dialect, and ZWEI (part of the worst collection of acroynyms I can think of) is definitely a recognizable Emacs ( Read more... )

It seems that the previous residents of my house (well, the one I'm living in at any rate) left without telling anyone at all ( Read more... )

So, CVS blows goats. We knew this. We didn't know, however, that it also ( screws up your history. )

`A good brand of bad brandy.'

Are Japanese poems about marriage called hitch-haikus?

I've just seen The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. Before I start dissecting, let me say that I rather enjoyed the film. But dissecting is what I do, so here goes.

If I had to sum up my criticism of the film in a word, it'd be `bloodless'. Literally: there's an impressively big battle scene towards the end, and there's no blood!; Peter sticks ( Read more... )

I have a server I want to communicate with, over a Unix-domain socket. The server speaks something which used to be a simple textual command-response protocol, but now has all sorts of strange asynchronous notifications, background jobs and other weirdness.

( Deliberations hidden. )

I'm in the (long) process of rewatching Stargate SG-1 with lark_ascending. While my general impression of the series as being awesomely wonderful is unchanged, there are some annoying bugs I've noticed in the process.

( Unfortunately, reading on would spoil the series for those who haven't even started yet. Mentioning no names. )

For anyone who doesn't know, I'm currently in Gaithersburg, MD (kinda near Washington, DC), where I've been attending the NIST Hallowe'en Hash Bash.

( Cryptographic musings herein may be dull and/or incomprehensible. )