This is realy only of interest to me but here is a running list of books I have read, am reading, or intend to read in the near future.
My onShore Development page, including a photo tour of the house of hack smack dab in the middle of Chicago's ultra-trendy Eckert Park district, home of Bialy's fine dining as seen on "The Real World, Chicago".
As promised to a few, snaps of the pad.
At long last I have replaced the Fry Street pictures with pictures of the new neighborhood. The old ones can still be found here.
Ah, snow. I remember when I delighted in the miracle that transformed the world from its banal grass and cement covered self into a fantasy land of childhood entertainment. Then I left school.
I have posted pictures of the soon to be infamous Chicago winter of 2000-2001.
Monica and I went on a trip to Rhode Island to visit friends and investigate graduate schools. I had fun with my new digital camera and decided to cronical the whole thing in a web album. Note that it is still now and may always be a work in progress.
Inspired by a late night of drinking and reminiscing about the 'good old days' I was driven to hack together this homage to Norman Jewison's only mildly disturbing vision of the future. Perhaps it's not the pinnacle of the film-makers art, but I have always had a special place in my heart for this tale of individuality, hero worship, and the ability of one man to shake the system. It also has some kick-ass butt whomping. Like every other personal interest project on my docket, it aint done.
Quantum Psycholgy - E and E-Prime , by Robert Anton Wilson
There are certain objects of our affection that reveal their beauty and charm only when we make a chivalrous but determined assault on their defenses; they remain impregnable if we don't lay siege to their inherent complexity. -- Christian Queinnec, "Lisp In Small Pieces"
Lisp is it. My language (well, family of languages) of choice. I have been extremely fortunate so far to be able to do what very few lisp programmers are able to do, earn a living coding in lisp. When I started at onShore Devel I was hired for my Java skills and spent much of my time coding in perl. When the time finaly came for me to try my hand at the companies Flagship product, which is implemented almost exclusively in lisp, I was hooked.
Beating the Averages, by Paul Graham
My common lisp crypt library providing the functions needed to carry out the Diffie-Hellmen key exchange protocol.A web album wherein is detailed the discovery, purchase, and restoration of an antique radio.