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Well, now that at least some of the dust has settled, I figure I may as well weigh in on the LeBron James fiasco/shenanigans/debacle/whatever-the-hell-you-wanna-call-it. We all know the basics: LeBron had the opportunity to sign for more money with Cleveland, his hometown, and the only team he has ever played for, but decided to join forces with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh in Miami to form a super team henceforth know on this blog as Miami's Dwyane Wade and Friends. As he put it, he is taking his ego.. err talents to South Beach. Here's my take on the madness leading up to LeBron's scurrying away from Cleveland, and the ensuing chaos.
The Decision
This was where LeBron went horribly wrong. I don't particularly agree with the decision itself because it seems to me that it would be beneath him as one of the potentially greatest players ever to go hitch his wagon to Dwyane Wade's. Wade already has a ring anyway, and no matter how many they win together, Wade will always have that one more. But I can ignore all that, or at least I could if that was all there was to ignore. I get that he wanted to play with his buddies and try and win some easy rings and all that, but this was like taking your girlfriend on Jerry Springer to tell her you were sleeping with her sister, mother, and aunt and expected her to chill out and just remember the good times, even be grateful that you were with her for as long as you were. Who wants to be embarrassed and dumped in public by an attention whore? I don't blame the people of Cleveland for hating this guy's guts now. I won't get into the allegations that he mailed in some playoff games over the last couple of years – at least not yet – but I find it strange that he never made it back to the NBA Finals even though his team continued to get better and better. We all knew there was no way he could leave Cleveland if they won it all, so maybe winning it all hasn't exactly been as high a priority the last couple of seasons as getting out of Ohio and teaming up with Wade and Bosh…. or his team just choked, he had a wack coach, and his elbow was bothering him. I suppose that either is plausible.
LeBron vs. Kobe vs. Jordan
It became apparent during the NBA Finals that Kobe "6-for-24″ Bryant was nowhere near Jordan's level. Actually, it was apparent to most of us for some time, but that pretty much sealed the deal. We always had high hopes for LeBron though. He has a tremendous skill set that has been compared to Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan. However, after his flame-out in this year's playoffs, Bill Simmons went on to write a brilliant piece on LeBron that summed up what we all had tried to ignore for too long. LeBron is not the second coming of Jordan, he is better compared to Dr J when you really look at it. As Simmons wrote:
Doc's Philly teams kept self-combusting at the worst possible times. The '77 Sixers took a 2-0 lead in the Finals, then blew four straight. They lost do-or-die playoff games by two points (1978) and three points (1979). In 1980, everyone remembers Magic (only a rookie) playing five positions, notching a 42-15-7 and improbably winning Los Angeles the title; nobody ever wonders why Philly, playing at home against a team missing the 1980 MVP (Kareem), laid such an unforgivable egg. In 1981, the Sixers blew a 3-1 series lead to Boston in the Eastern Conference finals, losing the last three games by five points total. (And by the way, they led in the final minute of all three games.) By the time Philly blew the 1982 Finals, the consensus on Doc was this: phenomenal player, loved by all, an ambassador for the game, one of the best ever … doesn't quite have it.
Then Moses showed up, Philly finally won a title, and people everywhere forgot they had felt that way.
Back to LeBron: I think we know what we have. He's Doc 2.0 with a little Magic and a healthy dose of Bo sprinkled in.
In all honesty, this is the biggest realization we all got from this whole ordeal. LeBron is not who thought he was, what we thought he could be, or what we wanted him to be. He just isn't. He won't be the legend we thought he could be, the savior of Cleveland Sports that we hoped he would be, or the competitor he probably ought to be. Jordan won his first championship in his seventh season, in LeBron's seventh season he got booted out of the playoffs even though he was on the winningest team of the past two seasons and had a better team than the one he made it to the Finals with a few years earlier. Then he said F it and bounced. When it comes to sports hate, Kobe Bryant as at the top of my list. I can't stand the guy, but right now I like Kobe more than LeBron because at least Kobe is more of a competitor. It doesn't matter if you want to be or not, if you are among the best in the league you are going to be in Jordan's shadow. Kobe is trying like hell to get out from under that shadow, and I can at least respect that. LeBron seems comfortable there, as long as he is a "global icon"… whatever the #!$^ that is.
Sour Grapes
Of course, things continued to get creepier when Dan Gilbert, the owner of the Cavaliers, lashed out at LeBron in an open letter that read like a bitter ex-girlfriend trying to do voodoo on her former lover. In the letter, Gilbert called LeBron the "self-declared former King" as if he had nothing to do with pushing the whole "King James", "We are all witnesses" crap on us for the past few years. He even went on to say that LeBron tanked a few games. This is all the very definition of the phrase "Sour Grapes". In Aesop's fable, the Fox couldn't reach the grapes so he convinced himself they were no good anyway, and that's exactly what Gilbert is doing. He couldn't keep "King" LeBron in Cleveland and so LeBron is now a cowardly, narcissistic, quitter. Of course, then for good measure he tries to throw the hex at LeBron like some kind of jilted witchdoctor by saying that LeBron will take the "curse" with him when he leaves Cleveland. Furthermore, if he was so convinced that LeBron was quitting on the team, why fire Mike Brown? The only reason that makes sense is that he was trying to appease a player he despised in order to keep him around, but it's not like LeBron was helping find a new coach. But look, I get it. Dan Gilbert is the owner of the team and the fans who pay to see that team are pissed off and heartbroken that their guy just left. He has a responsibility to those fans to empathize with them, and a responsibility as a business owner to try to keep their business, so he is gonna say what he needs to in order to fire them up and get them to keep coming to games. I just believe he could have done it without coming off like such an idiot.
The KG Rule
There's one real reason I partially don't fault LeBron for leaving Cleveland, and that reason is Kevin Garnett. KG toiled away in mediocrity for years in Minnesota, only sniffing the Finals once. He was loyal to a fault and to the point that most basketball fans wanted him to get traded to a half-way decent team. We couldn't bare to watch him wither away without a championship, or at least playing in the Finals once. Even Ewing, Barkley and Malone got to experience the NBA Finals, and KG was at least on their level. I feel like if a potentially great player has spent more than five years on a crappy team, then we should let him walk away without judgement and without branding him a cowardly, disloyal, selfish jerk. I will call this "The KG Rule". When he was traded to Boston and won the whole thing in his first season as a Celtic, we were all happy for him and even had to wonder how many more he could have won and how much different his legacy could have been if he had played on a legit contender his whole career, or at least a few years sooner. Who can blame LeBron for not wanting to toil away in Cleveland to the point that people are begging him to request a trade? The only snag here is that LeBron's ceiling is higher than KG's, and he hasn't been on mediocre teams his whole career. So while I want to apply The KG Rule to him, I can't really do it in good conscience… the shoe just doesn't quite fit.
Wade's Team
Now LeBron is in Miami, teamed up with another alpha-dog who already has a championship to speak of. Who do you think is the leader here? The guy who has already been with the team for seven seasons and won a title or the new guy who is still chasing one? This is Wade's team by all accounts, no matter how anyone sugar-coats it, and now LeBron can play second banana to Wade and not take all the criticism when they lose. The problem here is that he won't even get half the love when they win. Bosh will get some credit as the only one of the three who plays in the paint, and Wade is undeniably the leader here, so LeBron is gonna have to get used to being Prince James.
Cleveland Now
So where does this leave Cleveland? They still have capable players in Mo Williams and Antawn Jamison. They have a potentially solid player JJ Hickson waiting in the wings for more playing time. They recently traded for point guard Ramon Sessions and dumped the problematic Delonte West in the process. Plus they received a gang of draft picks when LeBron decided to split. They have a decent future ahead of them. They are obviously not an elite team by any means, but not all is lost. They will still have to fight for a playoff spot, but I think they could still make it to the post-season. I certainly hope so, and who wouldn't watch a Cleveland-Miami first round series and secretly(?) root for the Cavaliers?
Balance of Power
Plenty of fans, writers, and other random observers have already given Miami the trophy for the next few years. I am not one of them. The Lakers blew it against Detroit a few years back with Kobe, Shaq, Malone, and Payton after everyone handed it to them. Injuries can strike anyone at any time – just ask Dirk, Ginobili, Garnett, and a slew of others who missed crucial playoff games in the past. But more than those things, other teams are getting better as well. The Lakers signed Matt Barnes and Steve Blake, an upgrade at point guard over Jordan Farmar, and are still the reigning champs. And don't think that Kobe isn't working out as you are reading this so that he can erase that 6-for-24 performance as well as Miami's title aspirations. The Mavericks have choked in the playoffs the last few years, but have also reloaded with Tyson Chandler and Dominique Jones, and it would be sweet for them to get back at Miami. The Spurs added Spanish League MVP Tiago Splitter along with draft pick James Anderson. And that's just the West. What about Orlando who is still a threat, and Chicago who just added Boozer? Any of these teams could beat Miami next season and after, and personally, I hope they all do.
To sum things up, I don't think LeBron was wrong to leave Cleveland. I think he was stupid to leave. Five championships in Miami won't mean as much for his "brand" as one in Cleveland would. And there is no guarantee he will win any at this point. He jumped ship but it was the way he did it, by basically taking a crap on his former team and city on live TV, that made it so reprehensible. The sad thing is that despite his childish, selfish, easy-way-out attitude, he is likely to win a championship or two, maybe more if he's lucky. But I won't be rooting for him.


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Agents of SWING is a FATE-powered Spy-Fi adventure game in which you take on the part of secret agents, working throughout the world in the 1960s and 70s to avert catastrophe, punish evildoers and stop the two superpowers from annihilating each other.
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The GM's guide provides the secret background and more in depth detail about the setting of The Camelot Cosmos including organisations, history, artefacts, persons of import, the realms and a quest/mission generator and guide.
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Reference sheets for the GM in Agents of SWING along with tracking sheets for goons, villains and henchmen.
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Create unique characters (up to 6400) used in the font library.
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Custom Creep Bars v3.3
Allows you to style the health bars, mana bars, and last hit indicators on creeps. You can change width, height, color, alpha, etc...
Includes last hit indicators that support shield breaker and daemonic.
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awesome. can you also make it so full hp creeps dont have health bars visible? thanks in advance ( ask bangers tho cuz it is his creation )
I really like the custom color that you can set on creeps and as told above it only miss the function to hide the bars when creeps got full HP
Very nice. Does this also have the fading options of Alt Info Revised? (Fade out bars of higher-health creeps.)
No. You're wrong..
This seems nice. Tried Alt Info Revised once and thought it was pretty crappy. Hard to see when you're supposed to attack creeps. I run Last Hit Assist with Bigger Creep Healthbars.
Also, what scoreboard are you using?
Edit: Just tried it out and it's great. Got one complaint though: when using "Last Hit Bar" you're able to change the color, but when using "Last Hit Line" it seems to be black without any option to change it. Black line = hard to see. Hard to see = bad.
Also last hit isn't accurate on catapults/ballistas, but it's always been like that afaik, so I doubt that is your fault.
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Fleiva id like to use ur version I like the color changing health bar.
Once its finished ofc
Static= constantly there, aka not always drawn on screen every 10 seconds
Like when the creeps run the bar gives a blur its redrawing it on your screen, otherwise itd look more crisp
It means this:
Btw, I did some coding modifications, like the small pixel white dots and changing the little black bar to 70% opacity, but the "shadowed" color separation can be done ingame by setting the value to 0 0 0 0.7 (black with a 70% alpha). You can use both #000000 and 0 0 0 color systems in order to change them in the mod CP.
This mod is great my Cleaner nameplates/LHA broke so i needed one and Alt Info Revised just looked horrible. Thanks.
@above: have a look at Taoins original
I have an updated version if you want it. I didn't think anybody else needed it so I didn't upload it. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2251907/LHAa...Battles.honmod
@magina http://www.december.com/html/spec/color.html
@Max This one i like alot very dfferent, and i find it more intresting
can you also integrate cleaner battles interface that removes the black area behind the creeps hp? thanks in advance


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For a unique experience, why not try winter horseback riding at Fernwood Hotel. Tell all your friends back home how much fun it was to ride a horse without having to leave the property. Riding a horse takes you back to a simpler time and lets you experience the beauty of the Pocono Mountains covered in a blanket of white. After your ride enjoy a bite to eat at one of Fernwood Hotel's new restaurants including NY Deliand Bagel, Big Daddy's Family Dining and Bleachers Sports Bar and Grill. Fernwood Hotel offers an indoor pool, the area's largest video play area in the Game Zone Arcade and weekend entertainment in Bleachers Sports Bar & Grill. Go horseback riding, then relax with a swim, take a soak in the jacuzzi and have dinner at one of the many restaurants on property. In addition to your package receive a 10% off Restaurant Discount Card to be used at any of the restaurants or Gift Shop located in the Fernwood Hotel lobby.
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Overnight hotel accommodations start midweek from just $69.50 per person, per night based on double occupancy and includes two (2) tickets to horseback riding per reservation. Enjoy a 10% off Restaurant Discount Card at time of check in, one per reservation. Add $10 per person, per night and make it a weekend stay or ask about one of our famous Heart-shape suites with in room saunas for just an additional $10 per person, per night!
Subject to availability and applicable taxes. Holidays and President's week rates may be higher. Cannot be combined with any other offer. Prices based on double occupancy. Horseback riding hours are from 9am-4pm. Our Stables are closed Tuesdays and Thursdays, October through May.
Guest can also enjoy:
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- Game Room / Arcade / Redemption Center
- Pool Tables
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- Picnic Area / Volleyball Court
- Indoor / Outdoor Pools
- Fitness Center
- Four Restaraunts And Bars On Property
- Karaoke Every Friday In Bleachers Sports Bar & Grill
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- Bumper Boats (seasonal)
- Snowtubing at Fernwood Winter Fun Center (seasonal)
- Paintball
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By Wanda Bryant
I've had the honor of serving on the N.C. Court of Appeals for almost 12 years. I appreciate the trust and confidence of the people of this state, who celebrated my appointment in 2001 and elected me to an eight-year term in 2004. I believe the trust and confidence shown me is due to my judicial philosophy, which is very simple: I am committed to the fair and proper interpretation of the law and to the fair and equal application of our laws to all people.
As an appellate judge, I've written well over 1,200 opinions on issues that touch the lives of most North Carolinians, including individual liberties, personal injury, property rights, quality of life issues and environmental issues. In each opinion, I work hard to provide a careful analysis of the facts and a fair and just application of the law. I have also served as an appellate judge mediator, where I have resolved dozens of cases pending appeal, to the satisfaction of all parties - a significant accomplishment.
Based on my personal and professional background, the depth and breadth of my public service, and the range of legal issues I have addressed in opinions exhibiting sound legal reasoning, I believe I am uniquely qualified to continue my work on the Court of Appeals.
I am proud of my service as a judge and embrace it as a culmination of my upbringing and my life's work. My early desire to become a lawyer was not based on personal gain or benefit, but to serve. My experiences as a young child fueled that desire - as one of the first African-American students to integrate the public school system in Brunswick County, and as the child of parents who taught that much of what we do is not about us as individuals, but involves a greater need, a greater purpose. Serving as a judge on the second-highest court in this state is the highlight of a professional life spent in dedication to public service, to a greater purpose.
Prior to my tenure here at the Court of Appeals, I served as a state and federal prosecutor. During almost 10 years as a prosecutor, I conducted approximately 200 jury trials, and was involved in investigating and prosecuting thousands of additional cases.
I then served as senior deputy attorney general in the N.C. Department of Justice, where I helped to create the Citizens' Rights Division. My division provided legal intervention and technical assistance to citizens involving issues of child abuse, elder abuse, victims' rights, hate crimes and consumer-protection issues, including predatory lending. We created the first Sunshine Office in the state, providing access to public records and open meetings. We also provided direct community policing training and assistance to law enforcement officers, community organizations, and individual citizens through our Safe Neighborhoods Initiative.
The depth and breadth of my experience as a public servant allowed for a seamless transition to the Court of Appeals. Almost 12 years later, I remain passionate about the rule of law, and firm in my conviction that it is the duty of appellate judges to fairly and accurately apply the law to the facts of the cases on appeal.
I am dedicated to the cause of justice for all people without regard to race, creed, color or financial standing. I invite you to tour my website to get a glimpse of my career in public service. Please note that I have served on many boards and commissions and have been affiliated with many organizations and activities. I have also been the recipient of numerous honors and awards for which I am very grateful. Thank you for taking the time to read this message. I ask for your vote in support of my continued service on the N.C. Court of Appeals.
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"Five US states have adopted science education standards that recommend introducing two highly charged topics — climate-change science and evolution — into classrooms well before high school," reports Nature (July 3, 2013). NCSE's Scott interviewed by Inside Climate NewsNCSE's executive director Eugenie C. Scott was interviewed by Inside Climate News (July 2, 2013). Teaching evolution in Turkey
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A judicial doctrine that allows a plaintiff to hold otherwise immune corporate shareholders personally liable for the debts of or damages caused by a corporation under their control. The corporate veil can be pierced when shareholders have acted intentionally and illegally, when the corporation has neglected corporate formalities, and/or when the corporation is found to be a mere alter ego of the shareholders (a shield set up to defraud creditors). This doctrine applies to limited liability companies as well. Also known as disregarding the corporate entity.
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Welcome to the Maine Department of Conservation, Bureau of Parks and Lands. Designed to harmonize with mountain, lake, and seashore, Maine's state park system is as varied as the state's landscape. All of these areas are represented in the nearly 600,000 acres managed by the Bureau of Parks and Lands: Maine State Parks; Public Reserved Land; State Historic Sites; Boating Facilities; Snowmobile and ATV Trails; and River Corridors.


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Series Description: Quilting Arts promises a new look for quilting television, with something for everyone who loves quilting. The show combines basic traditional quilt techniques every quilter needs to know with contemporary art designs and techniques. Host Patricia (Pokey) Bolton, invites quilt artists each week into her studio to share their expertise. She opens each show with a short feature relating to the show's theme. Tech savvy quilters will love the weekly digital segments. Also featured on each show is Sue Hausmann in a machine quilting segment.
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Replacement high flow pleated cotton air filter for all S&S Super E and G carburetors for Harley-Davidson® motorcycles except on Buell® models. The low restriction media, combined with the larger surface area provided by the 1 inch wider filter, adds an airflow increase of up to 37% over our standard filter - the ultimate free breathing set-up for your engine! This filter, in conjuction with a filter adapter (not included), extend the Teardrop housing out 1 inch. The resulting band of exposed filter peeking out from under the Teardrop imparts a high performance street racer look.
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Development of 55-inch Professional Grade Display for Audio Visual Industry by NEC
NEC Display Solution America made yet another addition to its digital signage product line up, by introducing a 55-inch P551 professional grade P Series targeted for AV as well as digital signage market. The P Series also provides 40-inch P401, 46-inch P461, 52-inch P521 and 70-inch P701 for digital signage industry, such as airports, public information, rental and staging as well as healthcare centers. The new display offers twice the refresh rate in comparison to other competitive displays, while reducing blur occurring in fast moving images with a 120Hz setting. It comes with wide range of inputs including DispalyPort, HDMI, DVI-D, 5 BNC in/out (RGBHV, DVD/HD, and composite video), as well as RS-232 and Ethernet connectivity, which can be used for remote monitoring, control and e-mail notifications for diagnostic purposes. Furthermore, P551's integrated expansion slot enables users to connect to variety of peripheral devices such as single board computer, DVI daisy chain module or internal HD-SDI as well as additional P551. Read more


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Saturday 7 December 2013, 10:07今年「TeX & LaTeX Advent Calendar」に入りました。 14日に私の書き込みを書きます。 それ前このサーバにGeSHiと言うプリティプリントソフトを備え付けています。 この書き込みはGeSHiのテスト・ポストです。
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今年「TeX & LaTeX Advent Calendar」に入りました。 14日に私の書き込みを書きます。 それ前このサーバにGeSHiと言うプリティプリントソフトを備え付けています。 この書き込みはGeSHiのテスト・ポストです。
PROBLEM: Since just before the Twitter IPO, when they changed their site code, mouse copy-and-paste no longer works on Twitter's Web site viewed in Firefox. Where before one could highlight text with the mouse and then middle-button click to paste it somewhere, now that either causes the former contents of the clipboard to be pasted, or the string "witter.com". Copy and paste still works if and only if once uses explicit "copy" and "paste" commands with the keyboard or menu bar, but that is much less convenient, and is annoying to discover on the fly. Observed in several versions of Firefox under Linux; similar problems have been reported with other browser and other operating systems. Problem is specific to Twitter.
SOLUTION: In "about:config," set "dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled" to "false." Explanation below the cut.
Back in 2009, I posted some notes I'd prepared on hypergeometric tail inequalities to this Web site - mostly so that I could find them easily myself, should I need to in the future. In the years since, that set of unpublished notes has become one of my most-cited works. I'm not sure how I feel about that, but whatever; I have stuck it on arXiv to make future citations easier and increase the chance that they'll spell my name right.
I've posted Tsukurimashou 0.8, the latest version of my Japanese-language font project. This version contains 1502 kanji, including all through Grade Four. There are relatively few infrastructure changes for the fonts in this version, but Kleknev is new in this release (still at alpha status) and IDSgrep 0.4, released a few days ago and included in this package, contains some new and exciting speed enhancements.
UPDATE: I presented Tsukurimashou at TUG 2013 in Tokyo this October. You can read my slides (PDF file) on the conference Web site, and see some photos from my trip in my photo gallery. The paper will appear in TUGboat 2013.3, which will be posted on TUG's Web site (initially members-only, eventually open-access, or visit your library) in the near future.
I just got back from a trip to multiple conferences in Ontario, and that makes it a good time to update my publications page. Most people interested in my academic work are likely to find out about it from other sources, but I'm going to post some brief and relatively non-technical introductions here as well for my general Web site readers. The official versions of these papers are mostly behind paywalls, but there are also unofficial "preprint" versions available to all.
The Firefox GUI becomes more annoying with each "upgrade." I don't know if they're taking bribes from Chrome, or if they took advice from the same "professional" UI designer who broke GIMP, or what, but it's really become a problem. For those who haven't given up on Firefox yet, however, and for my own future reference, here's something useful I managed to figure out after a lot of hair-tearing.
You start typing a partial URL into the location bar, and the drop-down list of suggestions appears. But there's a URL on that list that should not be there. Maybe it's something embarassing you don't want other users of your browser to see; maybe it's merely a site other than the one you want to be the match for the few characters you typed, and yet for some reason it keeps coming up as the preferred suggestion.
I followed a link from Warren Ellis's Twitter feed to this posting about a half-day MP3: "Frolic in Brine, Goblins Be Thing" by Aairria. The idea of a work of audio art (I hesitate to call this "music" but I suppose it meets the definition) consisting of twelve hours of background noise appealed to me. But I didn't really want to spend the time it would take to download that (probably more than real time, because the MP3 is high-fidelity) on my slow home network connection and then make a block of time to listen to it, and I was also a bit disappointed to find out that the actual title is "Frolic in Brine, Goblins Be Thine" (a reference to the Ring movies), which I think is much less interesting than the typo.
The same artist has a bunch of other work online. I downloaded Sleepwalking and listened to it during one of my Sunday-morning urban hikes. It's about 65 minutes of basically just a humming noise. On the one hand, I definely got something out of it. There's more going on here artistically than one might expect from the description "65 minutes of humming." On the other hand, by the end of it I felt disappointed. I thought that it didn't live up to its possibilities. So the next step is, can I do better?
I got Csound and played with it for a while, and have posted the first of my results to a new account on SoundCloud. Below the cut (because I don't want to put external-site iframes on my front page) are embedded Flash players.
When I was preparing the Tsukurimashou 0.7 release, I had to build the entire package several times from scratch, to verify that all the necessary pieces really were included in what I was preparing to ship. When I run the build on my development machine it normally re-uses a lot of previously-built components, only updating the parts I have recently changed. That kind of incremental compilation is one of the main functions of GNU Make. But if I'm shipping a package for others to use, it has to work on their systems which don't have a previous history of successful builds; so I need to verify that it will actually build successfully in such an environment, and verifying that means copying the release-candidate package into a fresh empty directory on my own system and checking that the entire package (including all optional features) can build there.
Tsukurimashou is a big, complicated package. It's roughly 92,000 lines of code, which may not sound like so much. For comparison, the current Linux kernel is about 15,000,000. Tsukurimashou's volume of code is roughly equivalent to an 0.99 version of Linux (not clear which one - I couldn't find numbers I trusted on the Web just now, and am not motivated to go downloading old kernel sources just to count the lines). However, as detailed in one of my earlier articles, Tsukurimashou as a font meta-family is structured much differently from an orthodox software package. Things in the Tsukurimashou build tend to multiply rather than adding; and one practical consequence is that building from these 92,000 lines of code, when all the optional features are enabled, produces as many output and intermediate files and takes as much computation as we might expect of a much larger package. A full build of Tsukurimashou maxes out my quad-core computer for six or eight hours, and fills about 4G of disk space.
So after a few days of building over and over, it occurred to me that I'd really like to know where all the time was going. I had a pretty good understanding of what the build process was doing, because I created it myself; but I had no quantitative data on the relative resource consumption of the different components, I had no basis to make even plausible guesses about that, and quantitative data would be really useful. In software development we often study this sort of thing on the tiny scale, nanoseconds to milliseconds, using profiling tools that measure the time consumption of different parts of a program. What I really wanted for my build system was a coarse-grained profiler: something that could analyse the eight-hour run of the full build and give me stats at the level of processes and Makefile recipes.
I couldn't find such a tool ready-made, so I built one.
I'm very happy to announce the release of version 0.7 of Tsukurimashou, my Japanese-language font project. That is a link to the release page for the source code package on SourceForge.JP; see also the complete list of downloadable files and the project home page. This has been almost nine months in the making, and as I said on Twitter, the yak hair is thick on the floor. Release notes below the cut.
Here are the slides (PDF) and an audio recording (MP3, 25 megabytes, 54 minutes) from a talk I gave today about one of my research projects. You'll get more out of it if you have some computer science background, but I hope it'll also be accessible and interesting to those of my readers who don't. I managed to work in Curious George, Sesame Street, electronics, XKCD, the meaning of "truth," and a piece of software called ECCHI. I plan to distribute the "Enhanced Cycle Counter and Hamiltonian Integrator" publicly at some point in the future. Maybe not until after the rewrite, though.
Abstract for the talk:
It is a #P-complete problem to find the number of subgraphs of a given labelled graph that are cycles. Practical work on this problem splits into two streams: there are applications for counting cycles in large numbers of small graphs (for instance, all 12.3 million graphs with up to ten vertices) and software to serve that need; and there are applications for counting the cycles in just a few large graphs (for instance, hypercubes). Existing automated techniques work very well on small graphs. In this talk I review my own and others' work on large graphs, where the existing results have until now required a large amount of human participation, and I discuss an automated system for solving the problem in large graphs.


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"Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant."
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