Do you see what I see?
“Quid prodest?” asks the Roman poet Martial, because, as popular as he was in his time, there was no copyright to bring him profit from his writings. It would be more than 1,000 years before such a thing as copyright … Continue reading →
The goal is to be able to drag an icon from a background window without immediately raising that window and obscuring the drop target window when using the click-to-focus mode. This is a barebones description of what needs to happen. … Continue reading →
I wrote this nearly a decade ago before I got really busy with other things. I was still somewhat involved with the GNOME project at the time, and “Nautilus” was the name of the file manager then, before they renamed … Continue reading →
Suppose there is a multiverse. If you need to, specify some rules for it. The “Sliders” multiverse is one. The “unrealized realities” of “Farscape” are another. How much variation from who you are in this universe are you prepared to … Continue reading →
This should be an easy project. Someone try it and tell me if it works. Phase 1: Get a projector and a webcam. Aim them at suitable surface. If the webcam captures more than the projection, crop that out. Project … Continue reading →
There is a reasonableness parabola. It goes something like: reasonableness = knowledge^2 – |complexity| Now, reasonableness and complexity are taken as values on the ordinate, and knowledge is on the abscissa. The zero of the abscissa is taken not as … Continue reading →
Socrates was a dick. Euthyphro’s father killed one of his slaves by exposure. Euthyphro intends to charge his father with murder even though Athenian law does not allow him to bring these charges. Socrates takes the conversation into a lengthy … Continue reading →
I hear we are regularly visited by aliens . . . from outer space. That’s what the hubbub in Arizona is all about – some spillover from Area 51. See, everyone just thinks it’s about Mexicans, but really it’s about … Continue reading →
I don’t believe in a god because I don’t know of any that exist outside of the nebulous shared ideas of so many people. Even granting that that exists in much the same way as any government exists, it doesn’t … Continue reading →
This was written some time ago. There’s some overlap with a Google+ post I wrote maybe around the same time. I haven’t reread it recently, so it may have mistakes or gaps. I’ll now describe what should have been happening … Continue reading →