LemonodorA mostly Lisp weblog by John WisemanFOR GREAT TOCK!- April 28, 2008 Photo by Jacob Appelbaum. Over the last 13 years Eric did his best to teach me about the manly mysteries of sideburns and other mojo, the female predilection for butt dances, vomit-inducing parabolic trajectories and recent work in unification grammars. He was a supporter of and mentor to lemonodor, and me. He knew we would miss him and he was right. I guarantee I'll be removing my pants in tribute to his memory. Update: Len Sassaman has a post about Eric.http://lemonodor.com/archives/2008/04/for_great_tock.html Pop Culture Theorists In my Boing Boing- April 22, 2008 From Lederm&252;ller's Amusement Microscopique tant pour l'Esprit, que pour les Yeux; Contenant Cinquante Estampes .. Dessin&233;es d'apr&232;s Nature et Enlumin&233;es, avec leurs Explications, 1766. The Daily Cross Hatch has an interview with Scott McCloud and Douglas Rushkoff, plus video and audio from their panel at the NYC Comic Con via Boing Boing. How do you see pop-culture&8217;s recent flirtation with comics as affecting the medium McCloud: I think it&8217;s benign right...http://lemonodor.com/archives/2008/04/pop_culture_theorists_in_my_boing_boing.html MCL as Swank Client- April 10, 2008 Terje Norderhaug is doing some cool stuff. His Swank client for MCL “turns MCL into an IDE for other Common LISP environments.” Put another way, you can (for example) run the ClozureCL compiler and environment from within MCL, developing and executing code simultaneously on MCL and ClozureCL. Forms in Fred or an MCL Listener can be evaluated on ClozureCL. The MCL Apropos Dialog, Trace Dialog, Package indicator and Packages Inspector all works for ClozureCL much like they do...http://lemonodor.com/archives/2008/04/mcl_as_swank_client.html lemon tumblr- April 8, 2008 Lemonodor.tumblr.com has the rest of the ephemera that I can't cram into this page here. Prefilled with 5 pages of stuff for your enjoyment, hardly any boring text. Like Jorn Barger's Robot Wisdom auxiliary, except his auxiliary contains the longer stuff, mine is the short stuff.http://lemonodor.com/archives/2008/04/lemon_tumblr.html OpenDMAP- April 3, 2008 Edward Hopper, Rooms by the Sea, 1951. I learned from Will Fitzgerald that OpenDMAP has been released. OpenDMAP is an ontology-driven, rule-based concept analysis and information extraction system. Unlike traditional parsers, OpenDMAP does not have a lexicon that maps from words to all the possible meanings of these words. Rather, each concept is associated with phrasal patterns that are used to recognize that concept. OpenDMAP processes texts to recognize concepts and relationships...http://lemonodor.com/archives/2008/04/opendmap.html Watch Out For The Hindley Milner Type Checker- April 2, 2008 Conrad Barski has posted a sneak peak at his upcoming Lisp textbookcomic: “Land of Lisp”.http://lemonodor.com/archives/2008/04/watch_out_for_the_hindley_milner_type_checker.html Perfectstorm- April 1, 2008 Johann Korndoerfer's perfectstorm is a “real time strategy game study written in common lisp using OpenGL for graphics display and cairo for texture generation.” It's nice to see something written in Lisp that doesn't look terrible, and almost wouldn't surprise me if I saw it on my XBox 360.http://lemonodor.com/archives/2008/04/perfectstorm.html Weekend of Lisp Meetings- April 1, 2008 Game Boy damaged in the first Gulf War. CRACL met in LA on Sunday, though I was unfortunately not able to make it. Apparently 70 people showed up to the Boston Lisp meeting (pictures).http://lemonodor.com/archives/2008/04/weekend_of_lisp_meetings.html Controlled Tango Into Terrain- April 1, 2008 Table of contents of a letter Ann wrote in 1993. Maciej is learning to tango. The host seats guests around the dance floor based on his guess at their dancing skill and other intangible factors (such as how great they look). Men ask women to dance by trying to make eye contact and nodding towards the dance floor in a gesture called the cabeceo. In theory this is a discreet way for men to save face in the event of a refusal; in practice it means men cross the darkened room, stand three..http://lemonodor.com/archives/2008/04/controlled_tango_into_terrain.html |