EdgeWiseCrumbling Thoughts and Powdered MemoriesPyDS bug or mismatched versions- April 19, 2004 Ok... I ended up getting this figured out. Apparenntly, PyDS is not really "ready" for Python 2.3, and there's some controversy over newer versions of metakit. The pyds-dev mailing list has a corrected DownstreamTool.py that works with Python 2.3, so most of the rest of the stuff will work. Confused me for a bit though.http://edgewise.pycs.net/weblog/2004/04/19.html#P149 Perfect is the Enemy of Good Enough- April 19, 2004 Voltaire said that "Best is the Enemy of Good" which apparently when translated from French into Russian and back to English via 1960's, Soviet Admiral S.G. Gorshkov, is "Perfect is the enemy of good enough." This is similar to the Japanese concept of WabiSabi, which is basically finding beauty in imperfections. Completely unrelated, but another cool Japanese concept is "ikigai" which combines purpose of life, value and meaning of being alive, ground for living, emotion that makes life worth...http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TheBestIsTheEnemyOfTheGood Secular Abortion Views- April 19, 2004 I would be very happy if alternatives to abortion were much more viable, as I think this would reduce the incidence of abortion more than outlawing it. Bolstering this opinon is this WHO report on unsafe abortions which has this quote: Contrary to common belief, legalization of abortion does not necessarily increase abortion rates. The Netherlands, for example, has a non-restrictive abortion law, widely accessible contraceptives and free abortion services, and the lowest abortion rate in the...http://www.robertcorr.net/blog/archives/000100.shtml Nonviolent Communication in Dating- April 19, 2004 I started dating the most amazing woman on earth. Our first date we hung out in the Arb for 8 hours just talking. Pretty much all our dates end up lasting that long, just because we're talking, laughing and having a good time. I am delighted by her least remark, her most stray thought, her most mild opinion, and am fascinated by all her subtansive differences. The most wonderful thing is that she's at least as intelligent as I am, but her intelligence is very complimentary to my own (although...http://edgewise.pycs.net/weblog/2004/04/19.html#P146 Nearly Perfect Geek Score- April 19, 2004 I managed to setup my new Shuttle ST62K Linux machine and reclaim alpha geek status. Both the new machine and the old machine did the same stuff, but this is something I could realistically leave in a living room, since it's small, stylish, and virtually silent. Plus, the new one is faster, has a DVD burner, and firewire and USB 2 (necessary for plan below). It's running Gentoo Linux, ddclient DynDNS, Squid, PyDS, IvyTV and MythTV. Gentoo was the only way to get all the hardware fully supported.http://edgewise.pycs.net/weblog/2004/04/19.html#P145 |