Everyday True Crime
It's not so much that writing is hard, so much as it is that not-writing is easy; so easy, in fact, that one can spend hours, days, or years not-writing without even noticing the magnitude of the...
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[16:03:37] <alice> I'm back from literally running, metaphorically from figurative demons [16:03:50] <alice> including the celebrity demon-prince Rateirs-Blak [16:05:37] <carol>...
View ArticleAttentional Shunt
#!/usr/bin/env python3 # Copyright © 2015 Zack M. Davis # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy # of this software and associated documentation files (the...
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Ideas Have Expirations
One often-overlooked aspect of the crime of not-writing is that the harm isn't just about the things that deserve to be said that you never get around to saying because you don't put in the time and...
View ArticleI Meant to Do That
I quit my dayjob a few months ago. I said I was taking a sabbatical from my programming career to work on my own projects: there's a lot of math that I've been wanting to learn properly for a long time...
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Some Excuse for a RustConf 2017 Travelogue
(Previously, previously on An Algorithmic Lucidity.) Wow, has it already been a year since last RustConf?—give or take the exact date of the event sliding a bit between years—and give a...
View ArticleLipschitz
—and the moment or more than a moment when the dam breaks, when the damned break and the void inside their skulls is filled (the atmosphere rushing in quickly, but not so quickly that one couldn't...
View ArticleCranberry Bliss!
(Previously.) It's the tenth day of the third November of my life (that I am willing to admit to), and I am determined to wring some sort of high-sounding interpretation out of the cool air and damp...
View Article"Give Anything"
As a freshman on my high school's cross country team, our captain told me that to be a good runner, you needed to love pain. I objected: a great runner could love to race, I said, and endure the pain...
View ArticleBinge-Purge
$ history | grep freeciv 605 freeciv 606 sudo apt-get install freeciv 607 sudo apt-get remove freeciv 652 rm -rf ~/.freeciv/ 706 sudo apt-get install freeciv 722 sudo apt-get remove freeciv 735 rm -rf...
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