I am hopelessly confused about people who aren't me.
[1]Acapnotic notified the Guild of Thinkers of an [2]internet web site
that enables one to construct Picasso-style art with pre-made shapes
and tools for coloring, sizing, etc. (It uses Flash). I couldn't get
the stupid thing to work properly; I could create a picture, but I
couldn't give it a title or type in an email address to send it to.
You may have better luck than me; others using my platform have.
I managed to at least screen capture my image.
* [3]The Pretty Girl, by Radix.
The [4]female whom I usually speak of in this blog made some pictures
as well, of course, being such an amazing artist. Here they are!
* [5]I Have a Secret
* [6]Unblind Love
* [7]Mr. Armstrong Receives a Surprise (That's me!!)
* [8]Gemini Lucus (hint, it's a cat)
A round of applause for Jen!
Someone named Nathan (aka "Blued", on IRC) and I had a debate on the
nature of emotion, brain chemistry, and other such things, after I
offhandedly commented about anger being bad. He disagreed, but after
compromises on both of our parts (It was a most excellent debate), we
came to the conclusion that "being angry is bad", in order to
side-step the issue of whether "anger" (and other such things) has an
intrinsic good or bad value.
On a more depressing note, I have been feeling bad about not being on
the forefront of technological development. I used to have a vague
disrespect for programmers who weren't doing interesting things; just
getting by without advancing the state of software technology.
Obviously, economics gets in the way of that, but I can't help but
wish I was working on [9]virtual worlds or [10]next-generation
communication software. My contributions to [11]Twisted have been
trivial and common lately: bug fixes and doing releases. Hopefully
soon I'll automate more of the release process, so I will have less of
an excuse for not doing more interesting things.
Enough rambling about that! By the way, I'm still working on those
blog entries about [12]moral relativism and [13]FreeMind. Maybe
they'll be posted before 2005. Have fun, kids! And remember: Confusion
precedes euphoria!
References
1. http://livejournal.com/~acapnotic/
2. http://www.mrpicassohead.com/
3. http://twistedmatrix.com/users/radix/picasso/radix_pretty-girl.png
4. http://saph.deviantart.com/
5. http://twistedmatrix.com/users/radix/picasso/saph_I-have-a-secret.png
6. http://twistedmatrix.com/users/radix/picasso/saph_unblind-love.png
7. http://twistedmatrix.com/users/radix/picasso/saph_mr-armstrong-receives-a-surprise.png
8. http://twistedmatrix.com/users/radix/picasso/saph_gemini-lucus.png
9. http://radix.twistedmatrix.com/Think/Virtual%20Worlds/
10. http://divmod.org/
11. http://twistedmatrix.com/
12. http://radix.twistedmatrix.com/Think/Moral%20Relativism/
13. http://freemind.sf.net/
