Kurt Vonnegut - R.I.P.
Posted: 14 Apr 2007 11:11 PM
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Kurt Vonnegut passed away on April 11th, 2007. He was one of my all-time favorite authors.
I've read a few of his books; my favorite is 'Hocus Pocus'. Vonnegut's writing tended to piss 'the establishment' off - as a matter of fact, his work has been banned by public schools all over the place. (I consider this to be a good thing.) He was an iconoclast to the end, and I'm going to miss his writing.
One of my favorite Vonnegut moments was during his appear ance on the Daily Show (Comedy Central) - this was just a few months ago. During the interview, the conversion drifted toward global warming and climate change. Vonnegut said something akin to:
'Human beings are essentially a virus. It's only a matter of time until Mother Nature's immune system kicks in.' [ paraphrase ]
Which, I think, is an interesting way to look at our current situation. As Vonnegut himself might say, so it goes.
So it goes... goodbye, Mr. Vonnegut. Thanks for all the books.
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Death by Coding
Posted: 01 Apr 2007 05:35 PM
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Well, first I'll have to say that my new weblogger is much closer to completion now, with mad props to the folks over at Interface Technical Training (Phoenix, AZ). I attended their ASP.Net class here in Santa Fe last week. Aside from the normal course materials (which were excellent), both instructors helped me out with some architectural issues I had with the weblogger application.
Anyway, the class got me totally pumped to code, so I've been up late all week doing that stuff. I's tired today...
Peace out to anonymousrobot (congrats on the new machine!) and impoverishedcook (Congrats on the new job!)
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