Monthly Archives: August 2012

“The Future Won’t Look Like This […]”: a snippet of commentary

The A.V. Club has a list of 11 unintentionally ridiculous depictions of virtual reality, which the commentors find intriguing primarily for what is not included (e.g. Unix-girl in Jurassic Park, which then inspired a spirited defense, etc.), and I’d add Hackers, … Continue reading

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“Primer” meets “The Prestige” … in the Bermuda Triangle

That’s “Triangle” (2009), which I played in the background while [1] S was at work (sorry … I wasn’t trying to be the deadbeat), [2] I was doing a little cleaning, [3] a cat insisted upon sitting on my lap … Continue reading

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Web Projects #3: Framework Choice

I spent my time in Hungary and Romania, and later in Belgium. It was no surprise when, years later, a friend gave me a box set of Django Reinhardt’s early recordings. It’s 2012 and I’m looking forward to Tarantino’s latest/next, … Continue reading

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Names are hard. Or not. (aka: TL;DR)

When I worked at the Journal of Asian Studies and re-developed their books and book reviews database as a Django application what took me the longest—perhaps discounting procrastination—was not the actual coding or testing, both of which went rather quickly … Continue reading

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Web Projects #2: Language Choice

When I began my web apps back in 2007 I was adamant about a few things but quite flexible regarding others. I cared about the integrity of my data: I would not be using MySQL, and SQLite was for testing, … Continue reading

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Various and Sundry, the First

A new month, new … obligations? Tasks? Goals? January 1st ‘the goal,’ such as it was, was to do a drawing-per-day. That lasted until February 4th. One or two days in there I may have ‘missed’ my scheduled sketch, done … Continue reading

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