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montsamu musings: April 2010
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Media, modernity, and microcode from your average farmer-turned-programmer. PRE-ORDER BULL SPEC #1. Places to write in RTP: Observation Park at RDU. Observation Park at RDU Airport is a pretty nice place to write because:. No WiFi (no distractions). Large steel birds which should be flightless nonetheless soar and land with grace. Air Traffic Control Chatter on the speakers. There are details on small aircraft to read, like flight range, capacity, fuel consumption, etc. Links to this post.
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montsamu musings: August 2006
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Media, modernity, and microcode from your average farmer-turned-programmer. PRE-ORDER BULL SPEC #1. Well, fingerpicking work was severely hampered when I completely jacked up my thumb playing basketball. I got through another go-round of "Carousel" and the piano version of "This Old Road", and some more piano covers. Links to this post. Where do people find the time. Links to this post. Putting yourself out there. Well, I used Writely. To put a few songs worth of lyrics. To edit several pages and get eve...
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montsamu musings: Places to write in RTP: Observation Park at RDU.
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Media, modernity, and microcode from your average farmer-turned-programmer. PRE-ORDER BULL SPEC #1. Places to write in RTP: Observation Park at RDU. Observation Park at RDU Airport is a pretty nice place to write because:. No WiFi (no distractions). Large steel birds which should be flightless nonetheless soar and land with grace. Air Traffic Control Chatter on the speakers. There are details on small aircraft to read, like flight range, capacity, fuel consumption, etc. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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montsamu musings: The tools for the commons are ready.
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Media, modernity, and microcode from your average farmer-turned-programmer. PRE-ORDER BULL SPEC #1. The tools for the commons are ready. When getting ready to launch BULL SPEC. There were a lot of questions about the tools available to use in producing the e-books and audiobooks. Could I afford top end audio recording software, professional desktop publishing software, vector graphic software, and so on; were the open source versions really ready? The open source tools are more than ready. The tools for ...
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montsamu musings: February 2007
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Media, modernity, and microcode from your average farmer-turned-programmer. PRE-ORDER BULL SPEC #1. Whew I haven't played the guitar this much since October. I played until my fingers hurt. Then I played a few more songs. Were the receptive audience, although both settled in for a nap by the end. I'm getting closer to putting closing the books on a new song called. Sometimes a sparrow's ignorance. Can be confused for divine providence. Knowing how far can keep you from taking flight at all. Is (1) used e...
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montsamu musings: November 2009
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Media, modernity, and microcode from your average farmer-turned-programmer. PRE-ORDER BULL SPEC #1. A story's trip through the Clarkesworld submissions queue. On a dream-like what if? Hope, tempered with since they are so responsive, at least Ill be able to submit it somewhere else when they reject me, but still: what if? I finally submitted a ruthlessly-pared-down-from-5000-to-under-4000-words story (the paring down alone took a month to get to a place which made me somewhat happy) to Clarkesworld.
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montsamu musings: October 2006
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Media, modernity, and microcode from your average farmer-turned-programmer. PRE-ORDER BULL SPEC #1. A long practice session with the old horn, really starting to get the range, endurance, and tone control back. Most of the rest of it (fingering, reading music) is like riding a bike, and it's fairly silly how much I still remember from the old days. Some guitar work, too. Links to this post. Dusting off the trumpet. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The man in the mirror.
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montsamu musings: September 2009
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Media, modernity, and microcode from your average farmer-turned-programmer. PRE-ORDER BULL SPEC #1. As I ruminated on perhaps learning a lesson about which side projects are appropriate for a software engineer and father of two in a house without a soundproof music room, I realized that I have not properly learned one of the lessons I naïvely thought learned long ago, about getting work done to have in the end more - and more quality - time for non-work pursuits. In order to in the result have more.
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montsamu musings: Whew.
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Media, modernity, and microcode from your average farmer-turned-programmer. PRE-ORDER BULL SPEC #1. Well, the past couple of months have been mostly family, friends, work, and Bull Spec. But here's something which is just enough that I'd like to note it here:. My story, "The Man in the Mirror", is now up at Fifty-Two Stitches Dark Flash Fiction. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The man in the mirror. A Day in the Life: Digital Digressions. There was an error in this gadget.
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montsamu musings: January 2007
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Media, modernity, and microcode from your average farmer-turned-programmer. PRE-ORDER BULL SPEC #1. Erlang fizzbuzzery: Project Euler Problem 1. Another excercise in solving a simple problem using multiple programming idioms in the same language, Erlang. This time the simple problem is Problem 1. To check for termination and matching numbers, (2) a simple loop using Erlangs. Syntax, and (3) a few solutions using some of the functions of the. Module, one using Erlangs. Links to this post.