Slightly more content than before

[alexr_rwx]

The past few days have been pretty strange... I've been up at weird hours, doing odd things, and feeling odd feelings.

On Friday, I went to visit Cimmy, and we hung out with some of her Erskine friends, the most interesting of whom I think is Kelly, who's at the seminary at Erskine and on track to become a Methodist minister. Early Saturday morning and early Sunday morning, I was at Chinese Buddha...

a late-night caprice
early morning I-8-5:
Cimmy visits us.

... she had the urge, at about 0200 hours, Sunday morning, to come over for Chinese food, so she did :) This afternoon, we went to Cheesecake Factory with Tim, Shannon, and Marty, and then later on hung out in the park.

I've been roller-skating a good deal... like to church today. And at Piedmont Park, yesterday, with Marty.

I've been working on learning Emacs, which seems like the right thing to do for coding in LISP and doing AI-type things.

And I translated "Los esclavos" into English -- this was the play we just put on, on Thursday, for my Hispanic Drama Workshop class -- so if you'd like to read that, then haga clic en esa enlace.

Very exciting. It's a really good play, actually, and I think my translation is pretty okay. It's a little one-act. You should read it. Just click right there and read it. Go on. I'll wait. *waits*

Okay, thanks :)

Comments

[sstrickl.livejournal.com]

*grin* Well, I'm not one of the major Emacs afficionados out there, but I have come to recognize some of its strengths. I still wish there was a similar system written in a lexically scoped language such as Common Lisp or Scheme. I understand the old arguments for dynamic scoping, but in a (somewhat) modern system it's just silly. It'd still require basically everything be scrapped, though, so I know why they don't change it.

I think there have been projects about writing an Emacs version with Common Lisp or such under the hood and/or proposals on replacing elisp with CL (and I know there's a common-lisp.el or something like that), but... *sigh* we'll see if anything ever comes of it.

It's a minor nit to pick, but I don't feel like bothering with playing around with Emacs Lisp because of it. I shouldn't be writing this much about it in your journal anyway ;)