I'm doing 9 things
2008 - The Barn Door Opens (with a noisy creak)
18 months ago
Shieldwall is nearly done. A game I would like to play. Does that mean that I should close this item when it’s done? We shall see.
slartibartfart's Life List
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1. Let go of the past
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2. practice meditation
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3. start a small, sustainable business
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4. learn more spanish
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5. lisp
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6. learn scheme
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7. Learn OpenGL
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8. move back to Asia
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9. design a game that I would like to play
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Recent entries
The hard thing to face
2 years ago
...is that you are the one that brought those people into your life. If all you do is to break off with bad friends, you’re just creating an empty space to fill with future bad friends.
The people you have around you are a function of the person that you are. Deal with yourself. Assume that you are the source; creating the friend-situations which are causing grief. Work out why that is happening.
If your answer sounds like “well, I seem to like jerks”, you are missing the point.
If your answer sounds like “I have no self-esteem, mostly because I am a selfish jerk.”, you are getting close.
It is not a pleasant thing to do at first, but it is ultimately liberating. And it is the way that works.
getting there
2 years ago
Between PLT scheme, sicp and the #scheme channel on irc, I am getting there. I have learned things about programming from studying scheme that I have been trying to learn forever. The sicp course is elemental. There are clearly two camps on the virtues of scheme. I am going to go out on a limb and speculate that these two groups are divided along epistemological lines and cannot really understand one another. If you aren’t sure which camp you are in, start working through sicp, and don’t skip any exercises. By the end of Chapter 2, you’ll know.
