Thanks (and happy birthday) to Michelle at Potato Benevolence for (re?)introducing me to Charles Hinton , mysterious theorist of fourth-dimensionality in the late 19th century. Aside from his forays into gunpowder-charged pitching machines (a proto-Survival Research Laboratories experiment retired after a few accidents) and bigamy , his obsession with extra spatial dimensions influenced Edwin Abbott’s better known Flatland and was celebrated by Borges , who also mentioned him in “The Secret Miracle.” It’s easy to see a connection back to Llull and Bruno in his gnostic quest for knowledge of hidden spaces. He also constructed a series of cubes designed to help train one to envision a four-dimensional hypercube (or tesseract) by envisioning the various three-dimensional views of the hypercube in a mental superimposition.
Many people are probably wondering how much electricity does a liquid cooled PC AKA water cooled PC uses. When one looks at a liquid cooled PC, there are actually only two parts that require a power supply. The water pump and the fan on the radiator. Therefore, in order to figure out how much electricity
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Liquid cooled PC – Energy consumption
We’ve gotta do it right Within this system Gonna take over But within this system Chicago, “It Better End Soon,” as quoted by Lester Bangs It seems I’m late to the party over The Life of the Mind , discussing the problems of maintaining an intellectual life while pursuing an academic career in the humanities. The usual reactions seem to be either vehement, righteous agreement or scoffing at the author’s naivete that anyone could think that academia is anything other than a risky grind. The Life of the Mind Aside from the tremendous sympathy I have for those who are in unfortunate spots, this part of the discussion is largely redundant, as well as irrelevant
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The Structure of University Education
I always get asked the same question at XS Cargo when I purchase an item from them. Seeing how other stores deal with the warranty, I am quite wary of purchasing extended warranty from XS Cargo. Therefore, I decided to send them an email asking them about how their extended warranty works. This is the question
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Purchasing extended warranty from XSCargo
This is the second part of an occasional series as I work through this monster of a book, which to me seems far more dense than Blumenberg’s earlier The Legitimacy of the Modern World . (In the intervening years, he seems to have read many, many more books.) Blumenberg started the book by placing humanity in an antagonism with its environment, and the problem caused when, as I mentioned in the first part, one can no longer just run away from the hostile things in the world . Myth then emerges as, he plainly states, a way of engaging with and shaping that which is beyond us
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Hans Blumenberg: Work on Myth, ch. 1
Quoted without comment from Agha and Malley’s Three Men in a Boat , published in 2003, other than that this section has stayed with me in the years since it was published and still seems applicable: Sharon sees the roadmap as a nuisance, Arafat as a diversion; Abu Mazen alone views it as worthwhile, but then again principally as a potential way out of the current mess. None of the three sees it for what it purports to be: a plan designed to reach a final settlement within three years. Not one of them truly believes in the logic of its gradualist, staged approach to peacemaking, which amounts to Oslo under a different name.
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Something about Israel and Palestine
March 13, 2010 I purchased a Samsung SGH-I607 cell phone aka BlackJack for $112 CDN, and it does have some quirks. With the default Windows Mobile 5 installation, ringtones of any size can be added and used easily. Unfortunately, Windows Mobile 6 is supposedly better. Therefore, I installed Windows Mobile 6 from http://www.samsung.com/us/support/detail/supportPrdDetail.do?menu=SP01&prd_ia_cd=&prd_mdl_cd=&prd_mdl_name=SGH-I607. Furthermore, I downloaded and installed
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Samsung SGH-I607 Cell phone Purchase
There is no mention of I Want to Go Home in this book. 1 Tantrum ____________________ 1 As much as I love Feiffer’s drawing, The Great Comic Book Heroes , and Little Murders , there has always seemed to be an emptiness in his writing, or maybe not an emptiness but a pointlessness, the same pointlessness found in Philip Roth or William Gaddis. Feiffer’s self-anointed position is that of truthteller, the man who excoriates hypocrisy and reveals the unconscious anxieties of society
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Jules Feiffer: Backing Into Forward, A Memoir
I have sort of an unwritten rule to avoid talking too much about beginnings of books, because I think people focus on them as an excuse for short attention spans. I’ll easily sacrifice the first sentence or the first chapter of a book in exchange for a solid structure and a real thematic coherence, but the trend today seems to be to favor the details over the whole, and what details are more likely to be appreciated than beginnings
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Barbara Comyns: The Vet’s Daughter
February, 25, 2010 My notebook’s battery is down to 25% capacity. Therefore, I decided to purchase a replacement. Looking at the notebooks manufacturer’s website, the price of a replacement notebook battery makes purchasing a brand new notebook instead more attractive. Therefore, I decided to look at third-party vendors.
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Purchasing from www.westcoastpower.net
She was no more disturbed by other people as such, than the marble statue is by the flies that crawl on it; however, as possible harbingers of undesirable events and wielders of unfavorable influence in her own life, she accorded other people supreme importance. She would say: “Other people rule my life,” and it was true.
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From Paul Bowles: The Sheltering Sky
Looking over the notebooks from Dell, I realize that only one has the ability to remove the video card easily. The Alienware models 15 inch and up are the only ones with a manual that shows how to replace the video card. Hopefully, this will change in the future, but currently, it seems that if one
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Laptops with upgradable video card
I wanted to purchase a Netbook but realized that not all are created equal. For example, the one shown below from OCZ allows for easy installation or removal of a harddrive and/or RAM. A complete list of OCZ DIY netbooks can be seen at http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/diy_notebooks/ Dell, on the other hand, requires one to pretty much
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Comparison of Netbooks Feb 2010
March 2, 2010 I have received my oversize 500 thread count White Down comforter and solid 205 thread count duvet cover set. Since this is my first purchase from http://www.overstock.com, I do not know what to expect. Furthermore, never owning a down comforter, I do not know what to expect of the comforter either. Nevertheless, the
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Purchasing from Overstock.com
We have been here before, albeit in different forms. Almost without exception, Coetzee’s work from Elizabeth Costello on has been concerned with the role of authors and authorship, not only of fiction but of memoirs and essays. He has repeatedly presented fictional characters giving speeches, opinions, or recollections that have repeatedly been confused as the opinions of the real Coetzee.
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J.M. Coetzee: Summertime
Connecting to a SQLite3 database and entering one record works fine, but that is where it ends. Trying to enter two or more records does nothing. using $db = new SQLite3(‘/database.data’); allows me to only insert one record. Using $db = new PDO(“sqlite:/database.data”); allows me to insert more than one record. Therefore, if one is
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PHP5, Apache2, Windows 7 and SQLite issues
Paul Raymont reacted to Michael Hofmann’s incredibly nasty attack on Stefan Zweig by resolving to read more Zweig. I don’t particularly want to defend Zweig, but going after his suicide note was really a bit much: Zweig left a suicide note which, like most of what he wrote, is so smooth and mannerly and somehow machined – actually more like an Oscar acceptance speech than a suicide note – that one feels the irritable rise of boredom halfway through it, and the sense that he doesn’t mean it, his heart isn’t in it (not even in his suicide).
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Stefan Zweig
I have started developing a Calendar using PHP5. This calendar requires PHP5 due from the fact that it is object oriented. The database will be a flat file database. Future implementations will have MySQL and/or SQLite support. Since the Calendar function is not installed by default in non-Windows distributions, I created one.
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PHP5 Programming timeline
Building a program using PHP, I am seeing some of the limitations that it has. Being used to Java programming, I am used to creating class constructors, get and set methods, and the famous method (function) overloading. Unfortunately, PHP5 does not allow method (function) overloading. For example, the code shown below will not work in PHP.
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PHP5 OOP limitations
Installing both PHP5 and Apache 2.2.14 on Windows 7 is pretty straightforward. Connecting to them from another computer is a challenge. I tried to connect to my server using both the IP address with the default port and port 8080, but they did not work. Therefore, I had to search for a solution. PHP5 version 5.3.1
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Install PHP5 and Apache 2.2 Server on Windows 7