Culture! My kingdom for some culture! Ewwww yogurt.

It's time for the Cambridge Shakespeare Festival and this year I'd actually like to go to one, specifically A Midsummer Night's Dream and maybe Twelfth Night too.

Midsummer is on 2nd to 28th August in Girton College, anyone interested?

Part progress in timeslices

Personality is my preprocessor.
Input and output signals are annoying things. Detaching from your own personality to watch how you handle the source data is an interesting experience but can leave you wondering why, it's hard to take a step back sometimes. Many people accuse others of 'not thinking' but stopping to think about every little situation (breathe in, breathe out, left foot, right foot) would increase the amount of time it took to do everything.
But a job thats worth doing is worth doing well, in this case life itself. It certainly seems like an ordeal to some, stress and strain are bigtime problems in modern life, information overflow and lack of worring about if the next wolly mammoth migration will stomp over your tent have brought new problems, we have too much free time - in a way - to think about and justify/query/think about life and ourselves. To compartmentalise existance and it's "requirements", such as they are.
Slide.
There has to be¹ a level of concern. Some level where you think 'stop' or something touches you inside outside the rationality of one side of your mind. Part of the development of ourselves, as I've rambled about occasionally before, is the identification of emotion as refined experiences rather than raw feeling and instinct. We have evolved, yes, but inside us is still something that still yerns to club a wolly rhino over the head with a club.
Pending...


1 Why exactly 'has to be'? Certainly we can be cold unfeeling logical things that deal with hard facts, statistics and numbers - not people. But this would make us politicians rather than people - acting for brute numbers rather than feelings and to my mind emotions are one of the most precious things about being human, we have to care because we can. Because if we can't we may as well reduce ourselves to lines of code in some great program somewhere. Maybe this is part of me subconciously wondering about if such things as 'souls' exist (which I don't believe in) but I do believe in emotive exchange and persistance, which I've discussed before.

Work snippet

Colleague: Do you have PD109¹?
Me: Erm, PD109 never existed.
Colleague: I have some unknown fix in my code that references it.
Me: You have a unknown reference in your code to a release that doesn't exist?
Colleague: Yes.
Me: That sounds about right for us.



1 A software release number

Mini party!

Since I'm stuck at home this weekend dog-sitting I've decided to have a mini-party, mostly themed around my ZIM DVD and anything else anyone wants to bring around, from around 8ish and I can give lifts if you like.

Come over, drink beer, eat snacks, chill... maybe risk a BBQ if it's nice.