Jay McGavren’s Journal

A computer can mimic the style of a classical composer by analyzing sheet music. I bet GUIs could be (partially) generated for command-line tools. You just analyze how people mapped a CLI tool’s functions to a GUI wrapper (say, Git vs. GitX), then apply the rules you learn to other CLI tools.

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory.

-Cicero

30 minutes on a crappy $80 pneumatic stair-stepper, and I didn’t even notice the time ’cause I was also on my laptop (on the counter). Did nothing more than break a mild sweat, but I feel great, like my body’s been purged of a poison.

1:16 PM me: Then yeah, the switch to HandlesEvents is better.
loganbarnett: Last thingie.
me: coo…
loganbarnett: Our Jemini talk was accepted at RubyConf (:
1:17 PM me: Are you SERIOUS????!!!
YeSsssss!

Another attempt at time lapse, this time with a movie and the ffmpeg script Ray Niemeir pointed me to a few months back. (Finally getting around to it.)

clouds.MPG

lightning.MPG

This current life is headed in a promising direction overall, so thank you. If you’re keeping a playlist for me, I’d like to add the following items…

1. Manga artist
2. John Cleese (not any comedian, this one in particular)
3. Barn swallow (the swooping looks fun)

Robert Frost once defined poetry as that which cannot be translated. No wonder anime and manga arrive in the US with the poetry removed.

@bm5k a,b,c,d,e=” bottles of beer”,”on the wall”,” Take 1 down pass it around “,a+b,d+c;(1..99).map{|i|”#{i}”+d+” #{i}”+e+”#{i-1}”+d} #songsincode

Resulted in:

99 bottles of beeron the wall 99 bottles of beeron the wall Take 1 down pass it around 98 bottles of beeron the wall
99 bottles of beeron the wall 99 bottles of beeron the wall Take 1 down pass it around 98 bottles of beeron the wall
98 bottles of beeron the wall 98 bottles of beeron the wall Take 1 down pass it around 97 bottles of beeron the wall

Which resulted in:

beer.mp3