This is the picture that broke my drawing. In college I took a single drawing class, and did somewhat well. Always wanted to take this a bit further. I took up drawing again, a couple years ago. A local artist hosted sessions in his studio where I could draw against a live model. My drawing [...]
Not much on my weblog in the past year. The past year has been about personal change. At the work-level, went from working at a dull company with a dull product (kept alive only by a couple extreme efforts on my part). Served the purpose I needed. Allowed me a decade at home to raise [...]
It is fun, having intelligent children. Was trying to remember a phrase. I have an odd memory. I cannot remember a person’s name, told to me moments ago, but came recall an interesting notion from decades back. There was a quote. Something like “Confuse the idiots”, but deliciously subtle. I could not recall the exact [...]
I am trying to tie together a whole lot of threads into a coherent whole. This is going to be rough (very very rough), in the first iterations, under I can better sort things out. Of late, I have been wandering around, trying random things, trying to get socially reconnected. But I am odd. What [...]
Finished reading Freeman Dyson’s book Disturbing the Universe a few weeks back. Gained a couple unexpected insights – one about nuclear power and one about the Physics of Richard Feynman. Before going to university I read quite a few books about science and Physics, but the local city library had very little about (then) recent [...]
Been spending a lot of time with doctors, hospitals, getting tests – and it is all good news. During my last bout with pneumonia, had to find a new doctor. Got very lucky. My doctor in turn gave an excellent recommendation for a knee doctor. Lots of tests, including a visit to a cardiologist (there [...]
A list of programming languages is not very informative, so I compiled this list. (Right. Like this page really has a serious purpose.) 1973 – First program in Fortran 1974 – First program in Basic 1978 – First program in Pascal 1979 – First program in Lisp 1983 – First program in Modula-2 1984 – [...]
First time I heard of the Burning Man event it sounded pretty cool – a scrappy creative exercise outside the usual bounds. At the time I was wrapped up in the tail end of a bad marriage, and had young kids to tend. Attending was just not practical. A few days back, saw an announcement [...]