Howardism Musings from my Awakening Dementia
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If you want to deny evolution and live in your world, in your world that’s completely inconsistent with everything we observe in the universe, that’s fine, but don’t make your kids do it because we need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need engineers that can build stuff, and solve problems.
—Bill Nye   [Note]
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Whence Spring?
Once upon a time, the Spring Framework was the cat's meow. Now, it has been branded with the evil moniker, Enterprise Software. But I have my own reasons for not caring too much for it.
Emacs E-Shell
How to get your aliases working in Emacs' pretty cool Eshell.
zsh: The Git Module
How many times do you type 'git status' or 'git add --update'? Perhaps an alias or two is in order?
zsh: Precommands and a Better Find
A precommand is a shell instruction that affects how the rest of the command line behaves. Zshell's nifty 'noglob' worked well for aliases.
zsh: More Word Expansion
Zshell has modifiers for the parameter (word) designators I mentioned last time. Let's look at some of these.
zsh: Bang History Word Substitution
I've been happy with Ctrl-R and the up-arrow to get to my command history, but word substitution makes we want to use the bang in zsh.
The Background for CAR and CDR
Lisp has a long tradition, and we see some peculiar features of the past in some of the function names.
Whence Forth?
Forth, like many other computer languages, gathered a lot of excitement, but failed to deliver anything more than printer drivers? But why, as is there a lesson for the Clojure Community?
Introduction to Literate Programming
Lately I've become quite excited with treating my computer programs as art that I can craft. I figured a simple introduction to literate programming may be in order.
Literate Programming Examples
The best way to describe literate programming is with examples. Here is a shell script and some clojure code to give you a taste of what you can do.

(RSS) Updated Essays

The Poetry of Stonehouse
Selected poems (and my musings) from "The Zen Works of Stonehouse" (Translated by Red Pine).
... in Buddhism
Résumé Crafting for Geeks
My résumé now begins as a JSON document. With the better formed data and extra informaation, I can now render my resume graphically. If you're a geek, you should too.
Unfold Your Own Myth
My interpretation and some of the mythic references of the famous Rumi poem.
... in Mythology
History of the Devil
While I'm no expert in ancient Hebrew, it doesn't take a mythologist to track the evolution of the devil. And by the term, *evolution*, I mean just that.
Printables for Children
Here are some printable coloring pages I made for my young children.
Is Zeus either Odhinn or Thor?
Thoughts on how the abilities and rituals of old gods get converted with the influx of new gods... especially the denigration of Odin and Hermes.
... in Mythology
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