Fluttering Back To The 20s

(June 29, 2013)

I’ve been running Youtube clips sourced from whatever is playing on the stereo as the background to my hallway weather monitor  for quite some time now, and I kinda like it.  Except when having guests over being slightly er puzzled about what’s running on the screen when the band Sex Worker is playing, for instance.  … Continue reading Fluttering Back To The 20s

1995: New Writing 4

(June 28, 2013)

This is an anthology of (mainly) British writing (edited by A. S. Byatt and Alan Hollinghurst) that I bought at a sale in 1995, and didn’t read.  For obvious reasons.  I mean, it’s an anthology of (mainly) British writing.  Give me a break! This isn’t a “best of” anthology, or anything.  Apparently the editors just … Continue reading 1995: New Writing 4

My New Tea Blog

(June 27, 2013)

I bought some fancee tea yesterday. It said “golden” on the label, so I assumed it would be the normal black tea, only slightly paler. But look: It’s yellow!  Or “golden”. Truth in advertising.  Very disappointing. It tasted quite nice, though.

Evolution

(June 26, 2013)

See how cleverly this butterfly, er, moth, er, something has evolved to camouflage itself in the cracks on my floors. It’s just amazing.

1995: Bingo!

(June 24, 2013)

Ketil Bjørnstad is a musician and an author, and this book is about a musician who’s also an author.  And then there’s a Hardy Boys plot about terrorism and the Steiner School. The bits about being a musician are better than the terrorism bit.  There’s a sort of vigorous charm in the writing, and there … Continue reading 1995: Bingo!

eww… improvements

(June 19, 2013)

I’ve spent a bit of time making shr faster, and making eww render forms prettier. The latter entailed implementing all the widgets myself instead of trying to shoe-horn widget.el into eww. shr is still slow, but it’s 4x faster now rendering typical Wikipedia pages than it was a few days ago.   I find comparing … Continue reading eww… improvements

eww

(June 16, 2013)

A couple of years ago I wrote an HTML rendering library for Emacs so that I could read blogs in Gnus. And because I thought that Emacs should have a built-in method to display HTML. I mean, it was only about 20 years over-due. Simple HTML Renderer (or shr, as the cool kids call it) … Continue reading eww

1995: Longer Views

(June 15, 2013)

I had read most of Susan Sontag’s non-fiction, and then I didn’t read her novel, so it makes sense that I would read all of Samuel Delany’s fiction, but then not read his essay collection “Longer Views”.  Don’t you think? It demonstrates the mirror image stage in specifying the signifiers signified by m/othering the other. … Continue reading 1995: Longer Views

Soot Happens

(June 13, 2013)

The Teensiest Script

(June 12, 2013)

For decades I’ve wanted to be able to open an xterm and run a command in there as if I had just entered the command manually on the command line. That is, when the command exits, I don’t want the xterm to exit, and I want “arrow up” to show me the command that was … Continue reading The Teensiest Script

1995: The Volcano Lover

(June 3, 2013)

I read virtually everything of Susan Sontag’s while in my 20s, and felt very clever indeed.  I seem to recall buying this book on one of my first trips to London, in 1995.  What was the name of the bookstore…  Blue Moon?  No.  Silver Moon.  I bought a bunch of Angela Carter books there, too. … Continue reading 1995: The Volcano Lover

I Can Haz Rose Garden?

(June 1, 2013)

Another winter over. Unfortunately, I kinda forgot to wrap the rose bushes in December, so there was a mass die-off. The green bit is a weed. More weed.  The dry dead thing over there is Heidi Klum.  Ba-dish.  Yeah, that’s the name of the rose.  And it’s dead.  Boo-hoo. Anyway, I’m giving it another go, … Continue reading I Can Haz Rose Garden?