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Ollie does Khaaan!

Ollie does Khaaan!
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White guilt solution.

White guilt solution.
Originally uploaded by Mike Monteiro.

Memorial Coliseum has been saved:

Sam Adams has told the Oregonian he plans to save Memorial Coliseum and put a baseball stadium in Lents. Not only that, but Adams' office says it plans to listen to the public on the redevelopment of the Rose Quarter, now. The city should complete the initial agreement with the Blazers within two weeks. ...

"If it really is saved then I feel like the end of Star Wars when they blew up the death star," says architecture blogger Brian Libby, who has resisted the destruction of the Coliseum since the idea was first floated,

Don Quixote charging the windmills

Don Quixote charging the windmills
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Dylan Rolls

I found this image on my friend Jude's ipod.

Still. Old. Friend.

Still. Old. Friend: which print magazines and newspapers do you still read?

Mine are Paper Magazine, The New Yorker, the New York Times on Saturday & Sunday, Gourmet and Saveur. Adriana also gets Poetry Magazine.

David Jacobs is the MOST Responsive Web 2.0 Friends in the whole NETOSPHERE!

DAvid Jacobs is the MOST REsponsive Web 2.0 Friends in the whole NETOSPHERE!
Originally uploaded by triciawang 王 圣 㨗.

This is still true! Try following me on Typepad to see for yourself.

Meeting Time

Autodidact's review of The Reasoned Schemer:

"I guess this book is OK, but it could really be written in all of about 5 to 10 pages of text with half a page of implementation code - in Haskell.

Main idea: use (potentially) infinite lists to represent (potentially) infinite streams of solutions to a problem. Have 'goals' as procedures that work on (partial) solutions, producing new lists (empty/singleton/plural) of (more complete) solutions for each solution processed. Have a mechanism of combining these solutions streams. Now AND is just a sequential combinator and goal applicator; OR is a sequential combinator for parallel application; OR/i (for interleaving) combines its result streams in an interleaving fashion.

It suffices to have these combinators binary, because any type of COND is anyhow broken down to these binary combinations, as in a typical COND rewrite with IFs - and that's what the book itself does too, in a somewhat complex Scheme macro syntax. Expressed in Haskell, the intent is clear and the meaning is immediately obvious...

I wonder what this poor soul did before Amazon reviews.