Bibimbap

On being a detective

I'm very much enjoying Doulgas Adam's detective Dirk Gently. Very fun, and funny.

"What was that Sherlock Holmes principle? 'Once you have discounted the impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.' "

"I reject that entirely," said Dirk sharply. "The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbably lacks. How often have you been presented with an apparently rational explanation of something that works in all respects other than one, which is just that it is hopelessly improbably? Your instinct is to say, 'Yes, but he or she simply wouldn't do that.' "

"The impossible merely supposes that there is something we don't know about, and God knows there are enough of those. The improbable, however, runs contrary to something fundamental and human which we do know about. We should therefore be very suspicious of it and all its specious rationality."

- from The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams

Workstation

I'm about to change my workstation, but here it is in all its old glory!

Nethack

I've been playing Nethack for about 5 years. It's a game where the graphics are all typographic characters (you start the game as the @ sign), and you explore a dungeon, trying to find the amulet of yendor (If you haven't caught on, it's pretty nerdy). I've introduced two other friends to the game, and I've played countless hours. And this last week, for the first time, I finally beat it. And so I thought I'd share my final screen shot and my final manifest.

http://alt.org/nethack/userdata/g/glucose/dumplog/1290571478.nh343.txt

You wouldn't believe how happy I am with this.

Programmable chip

I just got this programmable chip, now I just need to think of fun applications for it.

I'm thinking about setting it up with some LEDs sewn into a shirt with a mini-microphone, to make a wearable equalizer visualization.

Quote of the day

"You live, and disgustingly, you are forced to learn concurrently." - Noah Firestone

creativity

This week looks to be a very creative one, hopefully some interesting content of all varieties comes out of it at the end. I'll post whatever comes along.