The point is to find a middle point ... faith and rationality. Yeah. I wanted to say, at the first, 'faith' and 'belief', though I know it is absurd. Disbelief in rationality scares me. Let's take, for, example, the world in the music 'The Matrix'. It is the end game of disbelief in rationality, because our species will not comprehend that anything else could actually be correct about 'life'. What do I mean by that? 'Life' When we let politicians who have no scientific background rule our lives, then we...
The subconscious may well be formed by belief systems buried and fertilized starting with youth and reinforced repeatedly by parents, peers and culture in general. This buried, fecund structure in our minds is the fundamentalism within all of us. All of our rational thoughts are filtered through it and mostly distorted. They are not rational anymore after this process, of course. It is the source of our emotional tides. Some may say that it is the manifestation of **us** and our moral compass. Cormac McCar...
Oh, Dresden. The middle of the night cradles me. It arms me. It placates me. What shall I do? I am at *Mc Donalds* at the moment and waiting. ### WAITING Waiting for the train which will roll me far away to the place I would like to be because sleep pervades every thought. Well, perhaps the *vodka* does, as well, but I really don't feel it. I met a couple of dudes tonight. I forget their names, which is unfortunate. One was a music lover, as am I. We traded songs for a simple amount of time. Heh. That m...
I just finished my contribution to [clj-record](https://github.com/inhortte/clj-record), an open souhttps://github.com/inhortte/clj-recordrce *wrapper* around *clojure.java.jdbc* which imitates (rather meekly at the moment) Ruby's *Active Record*. I added the *has-and-belongs-to-many* association. The code is [here](https://github.com/inhortte/clj-record/blob/master/src/clj_record/associations.clj). Now I can truthfully add *open source contributions* to my CV. Heh ...
**Now** a certain error is being an irritant. It looks like this: **java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Key must be integer** Here is the code spouting the error: (defpage "/expand/:id" {:keys [id]} (let [e (entry/get-record id)] (normal-entry e) (expand-contract-link "contract" e))) As any observant mustelid can see, there is nothing wrong with that code according to the [Noir documentation](http://www.webnoir.org/tutorials/routes). I shall pull out pieces of my pancreas for a f...
I've begun porting **Sheepblog** (IE, this thing you are looking at right now) from *Ruby/Sinatra* to *Clojure/Noir*. I am in the beginning phases, but I believe that the database schema will stay the same for now. #### New features * When not creating or editing a post, topics will set the session key :topic to the topic's id. Any look at /rutabaga will show only posts which pertain to the set topic. * Multiple user capability. Hopefully Christopher will eventually post something. * Comments, by user or ...
I postulate that **IT** humans who are more interested in hardware and low-level programming (such as machine and assembly code and possibly C) are more likely to be interested in repetitive, logical tasks. They are also the ones who listen to *Techno* whilst working (and whilst doing other repetitive activities). Others, who enjoy the elegance of high level languages are more creative, more holistic, and overall better people. Heh. ...
I thought it'd be beneficial to some future thoughts to record something Justin just wrote to me: > It's a weakness in my character to favour accuracy over some other more meaningful and human parameters. ...
I went to lunch yesterday with Hynek. We had sparse contact for years and are just recently becoming *close* again. *Close* is a rather extreme word in this matter, but I use it because I don't really think that anyone is actually *close* to Hynek in the normal sense of the word. What I mean is this: Becoming emotionally close to Hynek is simply like becoming close to my shittypie. Hynek is an emotionless machine who responds similarly as I'd imagine one with a high level of artificial intelligence might. ...
Why does sparsity of creativity come with age? * Commitments such as work? Family? * Alcoholism? * Lethargy? * Lack of inspiration? * Cynicism? I have no family, or so I like to tell myself. Perhaps I'd count Victor as *family* if I had to name people. Maybe *Tony*. Certainly *Christopher*. Why are they all from Texas? I left that place wanting to rid myself of anchors and the energy sucking apparati of familiarity. I have gone on to be less than fastidious to any new anchor which happened along. Did lack...
**I am reminded of**. Those are the words I began many a journal entry with. **I am reminded of** the journal entries which I began with **I am reminded of**, especially in April of 1999. You see, I am on a train now, much as I was then. My direction is the same as it was then. My destination is different, however. I shall pass through **Usti Nad Labem**, but not stop. Dresden will occupy a few hours later in the day. The resurgence of communication with Hela has awakened a wash of memories from that age....
