Later in the evening at Borders doing christmas shopping. Felt myself tugged over by unseen forces to the litcrit section for a while. I have no good excuse. Mmm, Barthes, Kristeva, and friends. Also powerful, but thankfully transient, urge to acquire goatee, turtleneck, all-but-spent cigarette, cup of coffee, permanently bleak outlook on all existence. I did skim "A reader's manifesto" therein, though. It makes some good points against what it saw as overblown, pompous, pretentious "literature", but I am still skeptical. It lays into Mark Leyner pretty heavily, for example, and I kind of liked what little I read of him, anyway.
Later in the evening at Borders doing christmas shopping. Felt myself tugged over by unseen forces to the litcrit section for a while. I have no good excuse. Mmm, Barthes, Kristeva, and friends. Also powerful, but thankfully transient, urge to acquire goatee, turtleneck, all-but-spent cigarette, cup of coffee, permanently bleak outlook on all existence. I did skim "A reader's manifesto" therein, though. It makes some good points against what it saw as overblown, pompous, pretentious "literature", but I am still skeptical. It lays into Mark Leyner pretty heavily, for example, and I kind of liked what little I read of him, anyway.
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Day 3 of icfp: fiddling with heuristics.
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Day 2 icfp contest: Wiring search modules together.
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Day 1 of icfp: wrote some javascript to visualize boards.
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