notes on Tuesday night
Sep. 7th, 2004 09:33 pm- Paul Graham is one hoopy frood. Not only does he write books about Lisp and essays about programming, he's put out a lovely essay on the topic of essay-ing, surprise and being observant, and the development of weird situations in society like comb-overs and highschool and English departments. Here's an excerpt:
Yes, this was on /., but a lot of you don't read /., and a lot of you who do wouldn't follow a link from it to read an essay about essays by a guy who normally writes about Lisp. But I've read the article, and it's excellent... and I recommend that you read it too. So there!
- Earlier on tonight, Mike and I got our compilers project working, with nearly six hours to spare. *jubilation*
- Everybody likes the new gym at Tech. Everybody. It's lovely, and I'm pleasantly sore :)
- Congrambolations to Tim
neuroticmonk on his 100 days of uptime! We're from the band Limozeen!
For example, everyone I've talked to while writing this essay felt the same about English classes-- that the whole process seemed pointless. But none of us had the balls at the time to hypothesize that it was, in fact, all a mistake. We all thought there was just something we weren't getting.
Yes, this was on /., but a lot of you don't read /., and a lot of you who do wouldn't follow a link from it to read an essay about essays by a guy who normally writes about Lisp. But I've read the article, and it's excellent... and I recommend that you read it too. So there!
- Earlier on tonight, Mike and I got our compilers project working, with nearly six hours to spare. *jubilation*
- Everybody likes the new gym at Tech. Everybody. It's lovely, and I'm pleasantly sore :)
- Congrambolations to Tim
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