Pure Thought
Performing music is profoundly unlike writing essays or writing code. In writing code, there is effectively only pure thought. The quality of one’s code, when developed by oneself, is only a function of one’s ability to conceive of code. This ability itself stems from a large number of factors: expertise, innate ability for organization and [...]
The Reading List: A Proposal
For a long time now, there’s been a list of books I’ve kept in my head and occasionally on paper: a list consisting of those books that truly are classics in their fields, those books that take away the purpose for other books to even exist, books that so perfectly instruct and systematize a field [...]
Democracy
Democracy’s utter lack of ability to function properly is only made up for by one of its trait: it does generally give the people what they want. The problem is that what the people want is not what they should be given.
Bands And Myspace
Like everyone else on Myspace, I constantly get friend requests from bands and musicians I don’t know and who would never become actual friends with me. My first reaction to this annoyance was to add the following words to my profile: Note that I do not add bands I haven’t met. This did not work, [...]
Bedwetters
As a boy, I had a problem with wetting my bed. I suspect that many nerd types — for want of a better word — were bedwetters as well. Unfortunately, the experience is so associated with shame that one seldom talks about it and there are no real numbers one has with which to gauge [...]
Foster
We foster to create an atmosphere of tolerance and respect, not a company full of yes men. (See article on Google found at MSN and at Slashdot) I love the boys at Google, but, god, can’t someone teach them the meaning and proper usage of the word “foster”? It’s a transitive verb and ellipsing its [...]