Saturday, February 27, 2010
Friday, February 26, 2010
Straight from MC 508 contra Watson 406 -- Keepin' It Real Book club at Queen's
And so one day, in Mac-Corry 508, a mission statement was born – to “keep it real”. To help others, to bring unabashed enthusiasm and personality into class. In short, to let a little air into stagnant, oppressive atmosphere of Watson 406.
This is funny.
When I was in that esteem institution, I was in a fairly snooty "Literary Society." We used to sit in the dark and read Keats.
ahh ... youth.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Link: Smaller Books — Crooked Timber
The length of the average book reflects the economics of the print trade and educated guesses as to what book-buyers will actually pay for, much more than it does the actual intellectual content of the book itself.
Books today are too long.
Authors (or their agents and publishers) seem to feel that that they have to be longer to be sellable.
I don't want to read all that stuff just to get your one point. Write it shorter.
Monday, February 15, 2010
Link: High speed internet access is not ubiquitous -- Geeks Beyond Firewalls: A day in a life of a Syrian techie
While most of the Western Hemisphere starts their PC in the morning to check their mail then move on, we have to start our PC, then our proxy of choice, then our most efficient browser with proxy support (I currently Firefox because Safari & Chrome both use the OS settings instead of their own); because you learn out of experience, that a slow yet reliable connection, is always better than a fast but possibly blocked one. You also keep your emails backed up because you never know when Gmail is going to be the next service to decide you’re not worthy.
via thenextweb.com
something to keep in mind when people talk about the internet.
Sunday, February 07, 2010
Installing #Windows is a nightmare
Arrgg
just decided that since I can't get a refund on this, I might as well install XP that came with computer. Horrid idea.
The partition based installer came with a whole pile of shovel-ware. I had to uninstall them. Then, XP overwrote GRUB. Then, somehow, my ubuntu partition disappeared.
Now just repartitioning and reinstalling karmic.
Luckly, my user data was completely backed up in one form or another.
Monday, February 01, 2010
Reading -- Philip K. Dick: A 'plastic' paradox - latimes.com
During the 1960s, he began to garner acclaim in the genre, winning a Hugo Award for his 1962 alternate history novel "The Man in the High Castle," which imagines a world in which the Axis powers won the World War II. Still, the mainstream had no idea of who he was. "I used to look at his apartment," recalls his daughter Isa, now 42, "see all the books he had there, and wonder if every copy of his books was right there in his apartment. 'Is he really a real author?'
via latimes.com
Man, this is so trippy. I was reading his short stories last night because I was having nightmares about ... you'know, I don't remember.
His stories were kind of freaky. Kafka-esque stuff that my worse nightmares couldn't produce. Went back to sleep like a baby. Better than warm milk.
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