what about me?

boom! source

See MonkMojo interview Ken Wilbur.

MonkMojo is brilliant.

We humans . . . lie at the heart of a great web of space and time whose threads are connected according to laws that dwell in our minds.

Over on this blog, I pointed out a bug in some code. Stupid blogger won’t let me format a better version, so I’ll post it here:

try:
    import readline
except ImportError:
    pass
else:
    import rlcompleter
    import os.path
    import atexit

    class irlcompleter(rlcompleter.Completer):
        def complete(self, text, state):
            if text == "":
                readline.insert_text('\t')
                return None
            else:
                return rlcompleter.Completer.complete(self,text,state)

    readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete")
    readline.set_completer(irlcompleter().complete)

    # Restore our command-line history, and save it when Python exits.
    history_file = os.path.expanduser("~/.pyhistory")
    if os.path.exists(history_file):
        readline.read_history_file(history_file)
        def save_hist():
            import readline
            readline.write_history_file(history_file)
        atexit.register(save_hist)

    # Clean up the namespace.
    del readline
    del os.path
    del atexit

Yes. Don’t take my word for it; listen as Naomi Klein explains why.

Sometimes, apparently. Is it bragging when the Jerusalem Post reports how Olmert bullies Bush and Rice into voting against a UN resolution she helped write?

http://www.ifamericansknew.org looks interesting. Reddit pointed me there — but it won’t load. Failed to connect. ADM DOS attack?

Or both?

[T]he single biggest predictor of likely aptitude for programming is a deep comfort with meaninglessness.


From: Ted Zlatanov
To: gnu.emacs.help
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:27:00 -0600
Subject: Re: Emacs, oldsters, newbiness

On Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:22:47 +0100 Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:

TN> harden the facility — when is culture just
TN> overgrown moss? does the stone monkey
TN> even remember five centuries lost?

I can assure you that the stone monkey (in fact, *any* stone monkey) does not remember anything.

TN> is wisdom the hand that clamps down,
TN> does not soften?

Wisdom is your own mistakes giving you a reach-around, so yes.

HTH
Ted


Dance, monkey. Dance.