links for 2006-03-31
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I was hoping. But where’s Julia? And if Bernie Mac doesn’t get some better lines this time, I’m slapping somebody.
Archive for March, 2006
links for 2006-03-24
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A service daemon that monitors one or more GPS units attached to a host computer through serial or USB ports, making all data on the location/course/velocity of the sensors available to be queried on TCP port 2947 of the host computer.
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Smallish distro image designed for embedded style devices.
Hypotheses on Systems and Motion
Disclaimer: I am not a scientist but I play one on the web.
Newton’s First Law of Motion:
An object at rest or traveling in uniform motion will remain at rest or traveling in uniform motion unless acted upon by a net force.
Hypotheses:
- Every object is a system and is also part of a larger system
- All systems change
- All systems are in motion (no system is at rest)
- Systems exhibit the properties of the systems they encompass but not the values
- Scale is not a reliable predictor of value
I would appreciate pointers to materials that support or oppose these, and of course, to existing hypotheses and theories that support or oppose these.
Currently Reading: The Great Gatsby
Still crazy after all these years, old sport. Like many of you I was subjected to The Great Gatsby in high school, long before I could appreciate it, long before I had the vocabulary to understand it. Long before I turned 30.
Or maybe you enjoyed it back then. I don’t know. I didn’t. This time around, though, it was a very different book and I read it because I wanted to. It’s one of those on The List that you always hope you’ll get back around to reading when you have time. And I mention turning 30 because it’s close enough in age to the characters that I feel like I can identify with—at least—the stage of life they’re in. Certainly, I’m not in that world, but I recognize the same hopes, dreams, the desire for escape, and the longing for greatness and meaning.
I’m not a writer and there have already been volumes dedicated to this book so I will refrain from creating a half-review of this masterpiece. I don’t have the skill. Instead I will leave you with this passage which I thought was one of Fitzgerald’s best:
Under the dripping bare lilac trees a large open car was coming up the drive. It stopped. Daisy’s face, tipped sideways beneath a three-cornered lavender hat, looked out at me with a bright ecstatic smile.
“Is this absolutely where you live, my dearest one?”
The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain. I had to follow the sound of it for a moment, up and down, with my ear alone before any words came through. A damp streak of hair lay like a dash of blue paint across her cheek and her hand was wet with glistening drops as I took it to help her from the car.
links for 2006-03-23
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Free access to Nature articles on computing research, sponsored by Microsoft’s 2020 Science project.
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“In the summer of 2005, an international expert group was brought together for a workshop to define and produce a new vision and roadmap of the evolution, challenges and potential of computer science and computing in scientific research in the next fiftee
Listening To: Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Man, when the timing is right it just doesn’t get any better than a little Tears For Fears. The opening guitar riff hooks me as much as the opening to “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.” And now I’m thinking about all my favorite songs and how I must put them in order. Shoot.
