post-weekend update

- So Lloyd was dropped safely at the airport earlier tonight... but we had a lovely, lovely extended weekend with him around. We sang, danced, went to the park and played on the playground with the crew, threw disc with Marty samarin, ate lots of Chinese and Thai food, hit Goth Night with Mel delamancha and Natalie nato, popped by for Lisa pyrona's birthday get-together, and were generally the exciting socialites that we are... or at least, while we weren't discussing whether an intuitive notion of "goodness" gets you anywhere philosophically, teaching and learning methods, medieval conceptions of God (complete with temporal-ness and speaking parts) and how this compares to an implied allegorical nature of the pagan gods that show up from time to time in literature from around then, and the Turing test. Yay :) Mr. Ryan, even though you don't read LJ, thanks muchly for coming by. Da!!

- spork is going to need to transparently do rpc -- some (heuristically chosen) functions will just magically be run on other machines on th' network, and you'll never know, aside from that your programs will run really fast. And be totally functional. On a semirelated note, either I've bought into what this fellow Paul Graham is saying and forgot about it, or maybe his position happens to mesh with my intuitions about different programming styles really well -- his spiel about OO and why he's not too into it for his new language is quite good... I'm only mildly indignant about using Java for research work... at least research work is being done :) (the main issue with Java is that it's clunky and suitful and not LISP (edit: it is also not C))

- Sometimes, particular people rub me the wrong way. Also, sometimes people don't notice this. Apparently my "angry" mood is not outwardly visible.

- That last bit is almost certainly not about you. Go 'bout your business!

- Time for sleep, I think. Being social for many days on end is tiring.