Midaregami

Things are going well.

To wit:

• A discussion with Jake about note-taking led me to set up a locally-hosted Wiki to organize and cross-reference notes. It was supposed to be hard, but setting up MySQL and MediaWiki was almost trivial. I’ve set up categories for class notes, authors, primary sources, secondary sources, themes, and faculty. Those are just guesses at how I might need to organize it, but I’m hoping that the ability to hyperlink everything together quickly and easily will make the knowledge more accessible and studying more efficient. Ultimately, it should be barely more effort than taking notes in a text file.

• I got a box to ship my bike in, and a great honking case to pack my keyboard in. It’s huge.

• Accelerando is everything I hoped it would be. Oh, didn’t I mention Accelerando? I’m sorry, I was busy daydreaming about hyperintelligent lobsters. The daydream also included interstellar ships the size of a deck of cards crewed by the uploaded intelligences of posthuman revolutionaries. You can download the whole novel from Amazon for free. For free.

• The fourth volume of Samurai Champloo is excellent.

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