Das eez kaput! Sometime around 2002 I spaced the entire database table that mapped individual entries to categories. Such is life. What follows is a random sampling of entries that were associated with the category. Over time, the entries will be updated and then it will be even more confusing. Wander around, though, it's still a fun way to find stuff.
Maybe I would be happier if I just numbed the pain by painting my teeth with Liquid Paper, at night, like everyone else.
The scenography will be conceived in collaboration with a Montreal architect so as to maximize the functionality of the various places to be set up in the incinerator, all the while promoting an aesthetic approach that corresponds to the scale of the building.
The presentation of the works themselves and the design of novel presentation structures will focus on the increasingly narrowly defined relation between the work, the concrete context of its diffusion and the audience's perception within the interior spaces of the incinerator.
For the uninitiated this probably gives you same uneasy feeling I had the first day I was introduced to the Unix command line.
Note to self: consider proposal to write a Masters of Fine Arts thesis in shell script. You laugh. This is why I am a better Artist than you. No, really.
Anyway.
The first paragraph simply says : We're gonna hang stuff in a way that makes sure people appreciate how big the place is. Leaving aside, of course, our built-in ability to recognize really big things as being, well, big.
The second paragraph says : We know that only a small and rarified group of overly linear thinkers will be able to grok, let alone appreciate, any of the work on display. So for the pea-brains out there we'll just emphasize how small they are in such a big room.
The rest of the piece goes on to recycle (sorry) all the truisms of the industrial complex in an urban landscape, of renewing the space as some kind of sickly-sweet after-school special teen center (read: condos in five years) and as the site for, god help us, a little more self-exploration. All of it, I am loathe to admit, true enough in its own way.
But it's a bit discouraging that in all the high-minded blather no one thought to mention that right next to l'usine, the city has set up
one of eight
éco-centre
s
where people can bring all manner of crap for recycling or at least proper disposal.
The centers were created for residential use; people building highrises still need to rent their own damn garbage containers. I'm sure that there are some contractors who play fast and easy with the rules but by and large the centers are frequented by plain vanilla folks who want to do the right thing with their paint thinner or that wall they've just torn down in the living room.
The Éco-centre de la Petite-Patrie is not on the site of the incinerator, proper, but you would be forgiven if you thought it was. It is pretty much the only thing you notice when you're not paying attention enough to keep yourself from falling in to a giant garbage bin.
Frankly, I always thought it was just a matter of time before the center expanded in to the incinerator. Regardless, it is difficult to overstate just how important these places have become to the city-folk.
[A] concrete and anthropological definition of the urban desert
, indeed.
via Michael , who I'm relying on to remind me when the vernissage for this goofy thing is.
I came across
this
thanks to a friend who emailed the link with nothing more
than the words :
study hard...
Normally, any book aspiring to such Koolhaas-ian proportions — especially books about cooking; how fucking practical is something this big in the kitchen?! — will set off the bullshit detectors. Corn sorbet, anyone?
But this one came from someone whose opinion I trust so I pass it on to you with minimal commentary.
If DSSSL is XSLT's parent, that makes Scheme its grandparent and LISP its great-grandparent. Between XSLT's xsl:function element and its idea of node sequences, I realized that I could implement the classic car and cdr functions that return either the first item or the remainder of a list, respectively. LISP does stand for "LISt Processing," after all, and not "Lots of Irritating Silly Parentheses".
Hmmmm...I developed this for PBS as a quick way to display local station events. This app uses the iCal standard, but in an XML format (xCal) with a MySQL and perl backend. You can import xCal events from an .xsc file to MySQL. Uses XML/XSL/XSLT.
Which strikes me as something to consider given all the bad craziness coming out of Washington these days.One of the boldest features of the [ Prevention of Genocide Act ] was also one of its most novel. Instead of requiring the president to prove that genocide was being committed, which is always hard to do while atrocities are still under way and which an administration aligned with Hussein had no incentive to demonstrate, Pell's legislation reversed the burden: President Reagan was required to certify that Iraq was not using chemical weapons against the Kurds and that it was not committing genocide.
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 09:11:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Aaron Straup Cope
To: Benjamin Trott
Subject: Re: MT - two unrelated thingies
> > I mention all of this because it seems like it would be a nifty bit of
> > featuritis for Movable Type. Actually, I mention it because it would be
> > nice to have some kind of universal glossary system and MT is rapidly
> > approaching universal status (congrats!)
>
> I agree that a glossary system would be pretty cool. Though, it's quite
> doable currently just using the MT-Macro plugin. Have you taken a look
> at that?
Ah, I see. No I hadn't. That's cool - I gather I can do something like :
<MTApplyGlossary>
<$MTEntryBody$>
</MTApplyGlossary>
MT::Template::Context->add_container_tag(MTApplyGlossary => sub {
my $ctx = shift;
my $args = shift;
my $path = $args->{path'};
if (! $path) {
my $cfg = ... " # Remember how to get MT config manager here
$path = $cfg->{GlossaryPath} ||
return $ctx->error($ctx->errstr);
}
#
my $builder = $ctx->stash('builder');
my $tokens = $ctx->stash('tokens');
my $output = "";
my $writer = XML::SAX::Writer->new(Output=>$output);
my $glossary = XML::Filter::Glossary->new(Handler=>$writer);
my $parser = XML::SAX::ParserFactory->parser(Handler=>$glossary);
# Would also need to $glossary->no_do_startend_document_methods();
$glossary->set_glossary($path);
eval { $parser->parse_string($builder->build($ctx, $tokens)); };
if ($@) {
return $ctx->error($ctx->errstr.": $@");
}
return $output;
}
Which will almost certainly break because it is very possible that the
data passed to the plugin will not be well-formed. I suppose I could just
export the code for parsing double-quoted keywords as a package function.
I'm about to add support for <my_ns:glossary id = "some keyword with
spaces" /> per a request which I'm not keen to parse with regex(p)s since
you can also do <my_ns:keyword />.
I suppose the whole thing could be hacked together using HTML::Parser to
do the parsing since it is very forgiving. Well, it's something to work
with anyway.
Question : When a plugin is called, has the FH associated with the
document already been opened or are you just building a string? If there
is a FH, is there any way that it could be passed to the plugin?
I suppose not since that would make managing nested tags/plugins
impossible. Alas.
In the unsolicited advice department, I would only mention the docs for
plugins are less than inviting. I've noticed that other people who've
written plugins have posted code which is helpful, since you can sort of
infer what 'foo' does and how to get 'bar' from them.
But, if plugins are really more exciting that just returning the value of
system calls it isn't readily apparent how.
107 ->perldoc MT::Template::Context
No documentation found for "MT::Template::Context".
1. To like or prefer heavily. 2. To have strong interest in a person or object.
ex. 1. I sweat the new wu-tang cd. I sweat Carolyn when she wears anything.see also : sweat dict-ified
Why not take a web service that gives today's TV listings, for example, and combine it with a system that searches Google for details of the casts of each of the films. Then use another to order a pizza, to arrive just as the first advertising break starts? All from a few lines of simple computer code, and a bit of imagination, web services not only make this possible, they make it easy.I'm not trying to diss Ben who by all appearances is a clever guy; nor do I disagree with the overall thrust of his article. But it says something, I think, that these are the first things we think about doing with all the cool-ness we suddenly have at our disposal. Is your life really that complete -- or empty -- that you need to worry about whether the pizza arrives during a commercial? Am I so lame that I can't figure out for myself that the milk has gone bad? And if you never leave the house anyway, who the fuck cares if your toast(er) tells you it's raining?
Used to describe something that bothers you to no end and makes you wish you had a gun to shoot them.
ex. That guy we saw yesterday--Lyphen?--what a philish turd! I wish he just dropped dead on the spot! Not only was he rude, but he also smelled awful!
Absolute disaster--derived from "The End Of The World As We Know It"
ex. Every election year, candidates warn of a teotwawki if their opponents wins. As yet, though, the world goes on.
Gas, stomach pains, heartburn.
ex. Oooooooh man, had a bad burrito and now I got squirrels.
.xinitrc file. Or even an AUTOEXEC.BAT file, most of the time. Yes, they made their own bed but now is the time to point out the alternative not force them to sleep in it. That's just petty and mean-spirited.
Not only did the University rescue a beautiful property from the scourge of condominiums overwhelming Montréal but they're handing it over to the Fine Arts department. To borrow Ben's phrase :