As I get back into writing Lisp code — via Clojure — I am finding a few things that I’m tripping up over on a regular basis. Some of this is pre-conceived notions of behavior, and some is just mental laziness. The one I keep coming back to, over and over, is the subtleties of lexical scoping versus dynamic scoping. Inspired by this post, […]
Categories: programming
Right now, there’s post up on BoingBoing by that caped crusader about why he won’t be buying an iPad. I get that Mr. Doctrow has problems with Apple and the iPhone/iPad approach to the world, but I just find it odd to contemplate the fact that people seem to continually find some need to write articles telling […]
Categories: apple
Tagged: boingboing, corydoctrow, narcissism, random
First, I am not a lawyer. There’s a big kerfuffle going on right now on the Tubes around the search and seizure of equipment from the home of one of the editors of Gizmodo. The digerati and the Twitterverse are aghast that such a breach of “ethics” has happened and are all leaping to the defense of Jason Chen, […]
Categories: apple
So, for the past few months, I’ve been futzing with Clojure, and I’ve finally decided to spend a bit more “quality time” learning it. My decision fortunately coincided with the start of the Clojure 101 course that Ruby Learning is running. So, I signed up. So far, we’re on week one, but it’s providing some structure to […]
Categories: programming
Tagged: clojure, interlisp, lispmachine
One thing you will hear many serious amateurs and all professional photographers tell you is that you invest your money in glass. Specifically, the carefully ground, minutely coated and painfully expensive glass that makes up a modern camera lens. For nearly every situation imaginable, the lens is the deciding factor on the upper limit of the […]
Categories: photography
Tagged: camera, nokia, photography
Next month, I am heading to Europe with my sister to see friends, and fulfill my mom’s wishes of having her ashes spread someone she’d always dreamed of going. Since I wanted to take pictures while I was there, and didn’t want to lug my DSLR around with me, I’ve been in the market for a good point-and-shoot camera. […]
Categories: photography
Tagged: camera, canon, lumix, lx3, panasonic, photography, powershot, s90