See also Metropolitan Code & Data

flyover blues is coming soon. Expect interesting Chicago things, the triumphant synthesis of the work of S. R. Ranganathan and Vannevar Bush, third-rate Edward Tufte knockoffs, or many parentheses.

In the meantime, the following links are for my own edification. This format is deliberately difficult to read. Chaitin on Lisp — Semantic Obsolescence — Sending XHTML as text/html Considered Harmful — Eddies in the Space-Time Continuum — Unicode Normalization Form C — Norvig & Pitman on Lisp Style [ps] — Big O — Robot Exclusion Protocol — Tuomo Valkonen — we hates software — prototype OO in Elisp (why not CL, damn it?) — sucksless — sweetcode (R.I.P.) — VAXen, my children... — Resurrection — Dave Fischer's Computer — Silva Rhetoricae — Fire the Bastards! (I didn't finish The Recognitions) — RFC 1097 TELNET SUBLIMINAL-MESSAGE Option — RFC 748 TELNET RANDOMLY-LOSE Option — RFC 1122 Requirements for Internet Hosts, Page 75 — people do not walk up the escalator, as Seeberger and God intended

Hardware of personal interest: Poqet PC — IBM P70 — TRS-80 Pocket Computer — Field Tester and Thermolater (self-link. I apologize for the color commentary. I was very young.)

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe: A Racal Norsk on fire in the basement at the University of Oslo. A Symbolics 3600 dropped on the floor while moving the comp.sci. department. Lisp classes given without any course credits. All those moments will be lost in time, like Teco in line noise. Time to go. — c.l.l