Currant Events (The trade mag for berry growers)

[flwyd]

Oh my girl sitting in the sky
Go buy candy and encouragement
I like to see you cry
Lay back

Oooh, don't talk to me
Please, just fuck with me
Please you know I'm feeling frail

Talk, talk, talk to me
Please just walk with me
Please no feeling frail

It's true sun's shining very bright
It's you I'm gonna love tonight
Ice cream tastes good in the afternoon
Ice cream tastes good if you eat it soon

Ooh, don't touch me child
Please - no !
You drive me wild
Please you know I'm feeling frail

Don't try another cat
Don't go where other you must know why
Ver very very frail

Oh my girl sitting in the sun
Go buy candy and a currant bun
I like to see you run
Like that...

-- Pink Floyd, "Candy and a Currant Bun" (derived from the more explicit Let's Roll Another One

Quickies

Congratulations and conGRADulations to Mlle. MLE, aka mlechan. Your intellectual powers have always impressed me, and you beat me to a degree, despite my year head start and your school's late end. I wait with anticipation to learn of your fantastic future adventures, and I hope you enjoy my package.

God is a ghost writer in the sky.

Productive Worker

I've hit a work ethic and productivity at work that I thought I'd lost in high school. (Thank goodness for a job I can arrive to at 10, rather than 9.) I take occasional breaks to read a few LJ posts or answer my email, but the power of long intriguing internet articles seems to have no effect on me. I also feel bad about updating my journal while I'm there, so you won't hear too much out of me this summer. My productivity at work seems counterbalanced by my inability to get going on any of the projects I'd like to do at home. However, I receive fairly large checks on a weekly basis, so I'll have the funds to travel next year and enough left over to have some fun now. Plus, not only do I get to have fun writing code, I get to enjoy debugging, since it involves in staring at maps.

In the last few days, I've learned that JavaScript is a much cooler language than I'd originally thought, given the amount of crap that's written in it. The coolest language feature I've found is that functions are first-class objects. That means you can assign methods to individual objects. It's like taking one assembly lines, making two identical automatic transmission cars, and then turning the drive() method of one of them into a standard transmission. JavaScript also supports closures, where one function returns a partially parameterized function. This means you can pass around a method which is inseparable from its argument, among other interesting things.

Motion Pictures

Although the Outdoor Cinema offerings this summer are lukewarm, IFS and Boulder Public Library have some good stuff. With Kubrick on Mondays and Kurosawa on Thursdays, I've got a cinemarific summer ahead. In the fifteen day period ending on Thursday night, I'll have watched nine black and white features and just one color feature (plus two color shorts and a black and white short). I'll write more about these later, but I'd like to note that of the five Kurosawa films I've seen, "Stray Dog" is the best. Those in Boulder should take in the free screening of Dr. Strangelove at 7 on Monday night at the Library. It's a fantabulous movie.

Same Olde, Same Olde

I went to the Ren Faire yesterday. I saw lots of lovely lasses in outrageous outfits, the same jousting they always have, a new show ("Washing Well Wenches"), and some cool-looking merchandise. I got a Robin Hood style hat and a Lone Ranger style mask, both for fairly cheap, and walked down Pearl St. in them at night to catch the bus. While several people said "Hey, Robin Hood!" what's perhaps more striking to those unfamiliar with Boulder is that about half of the people didn't indicate they thought I was anything out of the ordinary. I certainly wasn't the oddest thing on the mall; that award that evening went to the adults driving custom big wheels around near Old Chicago.

When I was younger, merely being around people pretending to be Elizabethan was enough to excite me. This time, most folks felt too inauthentic. The clothing looks cool, but the Ren Faire rarely goes any deeper than Ye Olde Langwyge and Punnery. One problem is that not everyone is in character, so it's not like a LARP, but period garb is the norm, so being weird doesn't challenge people's conception of the world. It's much more fun to wear garb to a bar or while walking across campus.

I think my genre tastes have grown. When I was younger, I loved fantasy books. Now I think it might be more fun to go to a RenFest-like event with a Film Noir theme. Faire Noir? Even better would be an Al Amarja Fest.</lj-raw<