MOTD

Message Of The Day

Sat, 30 Aug 2003

04:41 [zork(~/sam)] cat the_burning_man.txt

Pseudo-Mister Bad Fan Watch

We're at Burning Man!!! Yay! Yay!

What day is it again?

Also... Spock Science Monitors have been published. But they probably won't be posted until next week.

Sun, 17 Aug 2003

09:04 [zork(~/robber)] cat redeeming.txt

beings under sentence of death...with a sort of indefinite reprieve...

Today's Redeeming Felicitous Turn Of A Phrase:

"On a far higher plane of literature [than Symonds] stands Walter Pater; but he, though he was influenced by Ruskin, is singularly different from the elder writer, and the difference sheds back a light upon the master's theories. Ruskin, bowed with sorrows though he was, remained unconquerably optimistic, and, so long as he was capable of work, he laboured with even excessive hopefulness at schemes of social regeneration. Pater retires from the dust of conflict into an artistic seclusion. The conclusion of his Studies in the History of the Renaissance is, in the highest degree, significant. Its teaching is that, to beings like men, beings under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve, the love of art for art's sake is the highest form of wisdom. "For art comes to you, proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake." The Oscar Wilde development had not the good will of Pater any more than that of Ruskin; but it logically follows from Pater's principle."

http://www.bartleby.com/224/0317.html

Sun, 10 Aug 2003

06:58 [zork(~/octal)] cat lnx-ppc.txt

If at first you don't succeed, stall for a few months

Well, I've decided to try my hand at getting lnx-bbc working on New World mackertosh again. So, I did a cvs co of head and ran make garchive. That was yesterday. A lot of the packages don't want to download from their websites, for one reason or another. Oh well, it'll download eventually (probably when school starts up again and I can't focus on lnx-bbc).


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