A mostly Lisp weblog by John Wiseman
This week I stumbled across some old lemonodor entries that I apparently forgot to post. I'll be running them this week, but don't be confused: I wrote these months ago. May 2008 Paige talking about Imagewiki. Photo by Rich Gibson . Happy beginning of summer, lemonodor readers! Lately I've been working with Anselm Hook and Paige Saez and others on a project called Imagewiki . Imagewiki is sort of…
But it's best if you just go to lemonodor.tumblr.com .
Montezuma, my port of Lucene to Common Lisp, has a new home at Google's code hosting. Yes, this means it now has a publicly accessible source code repository. If you want commit access, email me . Also if my Mac mini reboots and I forget to restart trac, you'll still be able to access the project pages. Woo!
While this weblog bas been taking a small break, the Lemonodor Auxiliary tumble blog has been pretty busy lately.
Moorabbin Airport, Australia. A memorial service for est has been scheduled for Sunday, June 15, at Cellspace in San Francisco. RSVP with Ruchira .
“Unmarked 737 at ‘ Gold Coast ’ Terminal/Las Vegas, NV/Distance ~1 mile/10:44 pm” “ A geographer by training, a conspiracy theorist by instinct and an investigative reporter by avocation ”, and “ radical geographer, muckraking author and outlaw artist ”, Trevor Paglen will be talking at Machine Project in LA tonight. He's been one of my biggest…
JoAnne and I had dinner at uWink last night. uWink is Nolan Bushnell 's new high-tech restaurant concept, where every diner has their own touch screen for ordering food and playing games. The concept may not be so bad, if your goals include minimizing (almost removing) interaction with waitstaff and adding opportunities to interact with other diners, but wow right now this is a terrible…
Photo by Jacob Appelbaum. Over the last 13 years Eric did his best to teach me about the manly mysteries of sideburns and other mojo, the female predilection for butt dances, vomit-inducing parabolic trajectories and recent work in unification grammars. He was a supporter of and mentor to lemonodor, and me. He knew we would miss him and he was right. I guarantee I'll be removing my pants in…
From Lederm ller's Amusement Microscopique tant pour l'Esprit, que pour les Yeux; Contenant Cinquante Estampes [..] Dessin es d'apr s Nature et Enlumin es, avec leurs Explications , 1766. The Daily Cross Hatch has an interview with Scott McCloud and Douglas Rushkoff , plus video and audio from their panel at the NYC Comic Con [via Boing Boing ]. How do [you] see pop-culture s recent flirtation…
Terje Norderhaug is doing some cool stuff. His Swank client for MCL “turns MCL into an IDE for other Common LISP environments.” Put another way, you can (for example) run the ClozureCL compiler and environment from within MCL, developing and executing code simultaneously on MCL and ClozureCL. Forms in Fred or an MCL Listener can be evaluated on ClozureCL. The MCL Apropos Dialog, Trace…
Lemonodor.tumblr.com has the rest of the ephemera that I can't cram into this page here. Prefilled with 5 pages of stuff for your enjoyment, hardly any boring text. Like Jorn Barger's Robot Wisdom auxiliary , except his auxiliary contains the longer stuff, mine is the short stuff.
Edward Hopper, Rooms by the Sea , 1951. I learned from Will Fitzgerald that OpenDMAP has been released. OpenDMAP is an ontology-driven, rule-based concept analysis and information extraction system. Unlike traditional parsers, OpenDMAP does not have a lexicon that maps from words to all the possible meanings of these words. Rather, each concept is associated with phrasal patterns that are used to…
Conrad Barski has posted a sneak peak at his upcoming Lisp textbook/comic: “ Land of Lisp ”.
Johann Korndoerfer's perfectstorm is a “real time strategy game study written in common lisp using OpenGL for graphics display and cairo for texture generation.” It's nice to see something written in Lisp that doesn't look terrible, and almost wouldn't surprise me if I saw it on my XBox 360.
Game Boy damaged in the first Gulf War. CRACL met in LA on Sunday, though I was unfortunately not able to make it. Apparently 70 people showed up to the Boston Lisp meeting ( pictures ).