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private void alarmGoesOff

Fri, 08/08/2008 - 16:04 — dan 

import uk.myGeography.*;
import uk.childhood.cycling.*;
import parents.washingRoutines.*;
import parents.larkin.*;
import uk.job.random;
 
 
public class Morning implements AlarmListener {
 
 
	Life me;
	int today;
	boolean breathing;
	boolean sleeping = true;
 
 
	public Morning (Life alive, int today) {
 
		me = alive;
 
		this.today = today;
 
	}
 
 
	public void alarmGoesOff(MorningEvent m) {
 
		breathing = (me.stillAlive(today) ? true : false);
 
		 while (breathing) {
 
			wakeUp( me.initialAngst(), me.generalGuilt() );
 
			goToSleep( me.checkCheeseLevels() );
 
		}
 
		system.exit( me.religiousBelief() );
 
	}

A more perfect union?

Wed, 04/06/2008 - 09:40 — dan

Obama wins the democratic nomination and ends his first speech as nominee thus:

Now, the other side will come here in September and offer a very different set of policies and positions, and that is a good thing. That is a debate I look forward to. It is a debate that the American people deserve on the issues that will help determine the future of this country and the future for our children.

But what you don't deserve is another election that's governed by fear, and innuendo, and division. What you won't hear from this campaign or this party is the kind of politics that uses religion as a wedge and patriotism as a bludgeon. What you won't see from this campaign or this party is a politics that sees our opponents not as competitors to challenge, but enemies to polarize, because we may call ourselves Democrats and Republicans, but we are Americans first. We are always Americans first.

Easter links

Thu, 20/03/2008 - 16:03 — dan

Macro:

Further Firefox poetry

Wed, 12/03/2008 - 22:21 — dan
  • to get a passport
  • to get pregnant
  • to boil an egg
  • to get to the moon
  • to digest food
  • to walk a mile
  • to get to Mars
  • for hair to grow
  • to build muscle
  • to get a US passport

"How long does it take..." in Firefox quicksearch, using Google. Implying that each must be done before the next is possible. The US really have raised their citizenship bar. A whole phalanx of new and slightly meaningless sayings there too: 'weeell... you gotta boil an egg to get to the moon, you know...' etc.

When the lights go out

Wed, 12/03/2008 - 20:13 — dan

Just come out of a lecture by Peter Marshall, author of Demanding the Impossible: a History of Anarchism. (Note the link to Amazon. Tsk.)

Two things: first, an old friend from Sheffield had a copy of this book. Many years back, one of her friends misread the title as 'Demading the Impossible'. Demading the Impossible henceforth became a formidable superhero of inscrutable powers. There's even a drawing of him somewhere.

Second. A comment from the after-lecture question session: a young man related a recent tale from his hometown. One evening, early but already dark, there was a powercut. Showing no signs of ending, people lit candles, put them in jars and - after a while - started wandering out of their front doors. Chatting ensued. Chatting led to a large fire 'in an entirely inappropriate place'. A large musical band formed. Sometime after the music got going, some people in balaclavas clutching weapons turned up and asked if anyone fancied a fight. There was a thoughtful pause, broken eventually by a guitarist who starting singing, 'don't worry, be happy'. Everyone joined in. The storyteller didn't relate if that included the balaclava people. He ended with the question:

So, when the lights go out, what kind of anarchism will we have?

To the sun and back

Fri, 15/02/2008 - 20:29 — dan

Just been re-reading my wibble about romanesques and noted that a strand of human DNA is about a metre long.

The rough number of cells in a human body is 50 to 75 trillion cells. So - presuming only 30 trillion of those actually have DNA (I have a notion that some don't), how far would all the DNA in your body stretch?

Just over 100 round trips from Earth to the Sun. In your body, right now.

Cooool. Who can we test it on?

Pics

Thu, 14/02/2008 - 16:02 — dan

After suggesting to my supervisor that I might do some flash visualisation work to help communicate ideas from my PhD, it seemed only logical to get a graphics tablet. Capitalism, being the wonderful thing it is, now means these things are dirt cheap. As a result, I've also been using it in other programs, and it has reignited my urge to scribble and scrawl. I will occasionally upload doodlings. They're viewable either on the front page or via this category link, where there's also an RSS feed if you happen to want to keep up with my random computer daubings.

Begin again

Fri, 14/12/2007 - 22:01 — dan

Well, it's like this: I'm going to try and use coveredinbees as the information repository for my PhD. As outlined in 'about CIB', only time will tell if this is a good idea. Perhaps there's a good reason why I haven't heard of anyone else doing it.

The old site is here. This first bit of writing is mainly just for my benefit, so I have a record of what I thought I was doing at the start. See the subscription page for getting a relevant RSS for future postings.

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