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Telephodot (aka “Threnody”) / Samuel Beckett
There’s a “video” of this at Vimeo. This was my working treatment: On a distant hillside two small figures were making their way down to a far-away road. Behind them, green waves of grass gave way to higher misty hills, … Continue reading
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Plot vs Story [updated]
The post on E. M. Forster’s definitions of plot and story has been significantly updated. My position hasn’t changed (defining “story” as the factual sequence of events is inadequate), but the discussion is more interesting. Permalink to the updated post: Plot … Continue reading
Windows 10 SSSD Floppy Disk Installation Notes
I was looking at this today:
The Management Paradox
I’ve had the somewhat dubious good fortune to have spent many years doing very technical work, and many more serving as an executive. Technical work usually involves intense concentration, periods of long focus, and the ability to hold a huge collection … Continue reading
Aluminium High-Voltage Power Transmission
Here’s a compendium of factoids on power transmission, with a little directly on skin effect (which may not be the only salient aspect). I believe that skin effect per se is due to AC. Since not all long lines are … Continue reading
Win10 Start Button: What’s an Application Launcher For?
The Windows 10 Start Menu is still buggy and barely functions for its intended purpose: finding, organizing, and launching programs. The bugs I’m dealing with (through a couple of updates since the public release of Win10) are pretty basic:
Windows 10 – The end of Microsoft?
I promised myself I would not attempt to review Win10 in any manner at all, so here’s a short rant on the surprisingly incomplete, poorly thought-out, much touted “new Start menu.” What I cannot understand is how this iteration of … Continue reading
Carmine
Red Alert: carmine Blue Red Ecco—cognitive dissonance.
Star Warts and All
As expectorated: Cardboard characters, plugged into a recycle of the first film, with brief and implausible “plot exposition” speeches to cover decades in which a few key events must have happened but during which nobody changed or learned anything. No … Continue reading →