Government shouldn’t tell us to pray, government should act so we don’t feel compelled to pray.

Something I wrote in a legal pad in January or February, 2001. Found while going through a stack of old papers.

Hello to everyone clicking through from the WWUG message board, Re: FCP Plugins?. Thank you for the kind words Tim B, and yes I am working on several new filters which I hope to have in beta test by the end of the month.

Congratulations to Bruce for taking the top spot on FilePile. (image mirrored here)

heh. Search Google for sound capture and there I am. Number 1! Cool.

From an interview with Tom Stoppard on his creative process, excerpted from Salon’s ongoing Brilliant Careers section:

“He sought to ensure that his insights ‘weren’t simply the average conclusions of a first-year philosophy student,’ he told the Times of London in 1972, ‘which indeed they invariably turned out to be.'”

We saw The Invention of Love on Broadway earlier this year. While I regretfully admit to nearly dozing off during the first act, the play was in fact a workout and massage for the mind. Big ideas were flying around in a dozen directions (bicycles!) but afterwards my head felt expanded and invigorated. I attribute my near-loss of consciousness more to exhaustion, a comfy chair and a dark room than to anything in the play itself.

This article also reminded me that I still haven’t read Arcadia. Maybe I’ll go grab a copy today.

This is the best OS X resource I’ve found so far. The page turned up on Google when I was searching for a way to access different disks from the Unix command line.

Bruce, please don’t read the whole thing before I get a chance.

The webcam machine crashed this afternoon. 31 days, 17 hours and 31 minutes up. When this machine is finally retired, it will be replaced by one running OS X. I doubt 31 days uptime will be anything special after that, OS X just doesn’t seem to crash.

Endurance milestones have a depressing quality coupled to their achievement. Keeping track of time makes life seem shorter, acknowledging the hours and days passing forever into the past. I’m happy the machine ran for a month, taking pictures, running it’s little scripts. It’s weird to think that this marks only the second time it’s been restarted since before September 11th. Is the period between restarts the conscious time of the machine? In the same way dogs have years, was that a “computer day”?

What is left in memory when the power goes out? What are the electrical currents of the day before last? Memory leaks and power surges. The more it is copied, the farther it goes.