OddThinking

I have decided to abandon screen, and am returning to having to re-login each day.

I am filing this under “I am doing Linux wrong, but I don’t know where.”

An idea for a science history project you are welcome to do instead of me.

A whinge about my server host.

Here is a short, fictionalised, autobiographical play I wrote, in which unit-tests cause more technical debt than the code.

Further study into placebos leads to some surprising findings.

One of the many reasons I have been quiet recently is I am working on a personal project – an amateur stop-motion video. The final product will appear to be a large group of my friends playing music in an orchestra. The raw material I have is dozens of sets of still photos of my friends pretending to play instruments in front of a green-screen. Each set has about 10 photos of the person playing the instrument.

I am working on an interesting challenge, and I thought that I might benefit if I wrote it out as a blog article to force me to think it through.

Tying together the Nonblocking Log Handler story.

Here’s an idea for a Hangman variation, that I am calling Fuzzy Hangman.

So, you think you are pretty good at Hangman? You think you have what it takes?

Well, I am here to tell you the truth.

It’s a corporate Christmas party, around 1999. The dot com crash hasn’t happened yet, the party-organisers have a considerable budget, 200-300 guests, and an idea of a good time strongly influenced by the company’s sales and marketing teams – people who have a tendency to differ from my idea of a good time.

I consider how to maximise my happiness in this situation.