Writing
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PMOG design
A while back I did some design for Justin Hall’s Passively Multiplayer Online Game which I was very pleased with.
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‘A Whore’s Profession’ by David Mamet
Notes on this collection of essays. Most of the notes are about acting and directing.
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‘Literary Theory: An Introduction’ by Terry Eagleton
My notes on this book.
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Carrying on
Trying to decide whether to carry on at LISPA next year. So many good arguments for and against.
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Finishing with animals
Real quick, as I must dash to college shortly. First, LISPA has an open day this coming Monday so,…
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Two NYRB notes
The UN, European vs US 20th century war casualties, and Bush’s speechwriters.
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Larval masks and animals
We spent a week using larval masks and are now imitating animals, gradually making them human.
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LRB notes
Three passages from past London Reviews of Books. Empson on Christianity, Pythagorean rules, and the screams of children from old English schools.
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Optimism and creativity
I’ve been wondering whether being optimistic helps creativity. I compare Modernism, 1960s Californian music, and 1970s New York music.
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Try now, judge later
Thinking that I need to try and evade my tendency to be negative, cynical, sarcastic, etc in order to do as well as I can.
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The 57 steps
The end of term two, and our project was “the 57 steps” which, eventually, went well.
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Times Online’s bizarre CSS revisited
More on the Times’ loony new CSS implementation.
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Move the music
LISPA hasn’t been all frustrations this term, so here are some good things.
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Times Online’s bizarre CSS
The new Times Online design has some very, very strange CSS.
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The Haddock Directory is now closed
The Haddock Directory is closing after nearly a decade of daily links.
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A laudable idea
Annoyed at Boing Boing’s link to the BBC’s consultation about on-demand programming, and an idea about classical music.
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Standing stock still
The first half of the second term has left me bemused, as everyone else happily interprets colour and paintings.
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Five things you don’t know about me
Matt Webb prompted me to write about five things most people don’t know about me.
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My year in email
Looking at statistics generated by Eudora for my email usage.
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My top tunes of 2006
A CD’s worth of my favourite music of 2006.
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End of the first term
I feel like I owe an end of term post about the acting classes, which finished just over a week ago, so, a quick summary.
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Some of Leslie’s ambitions
An email Leslie Harpold wrote in response to the question “What do you really want to do which is completely removed from your job?”
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Leslie Harpold
Leslie has died and we’re all going to miss her so much.
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The fundamental journey
Our large group presentation went surprisingly well. We’ve also been spending a lot of time in neutral masks working on representing a long journey.
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Quick Twitter
I made a page that only displays the most recent posts from my Twitter friends, and you can use the code if you like.