tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69591592009-02-21T09:58:02.045-06:00A trifling homage to John Ruskin; the pleasures and duties of work. And play.R Hayesnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959159.post-43995779005394461022008-11-16T21:48:00.002-06:002008-11-16T21:53:32.851-06:00

I don't want gay marriage to be the only goal. It's a start at some kind of justice, but I also want justice and respect for the leather dykes, the transvestite hookers, the truly outrageous and transgressive. Not tolerance. We tolerate bad things because tolerance is the lesser of two evils. I want respect and admiration for those who are creating themselves anew, through all the pain and

R Hayesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959159.post-42982738982578423622008-03-15T11:11:00.006-05:002008-03-15T11:53:26.996-05:00

Addison and Steele wrote The Spectator for, and helped create, the emerging coffeehouse culture of London in the 18th century. It is still read because it's damn good writing. They wrote it daily for a couple of years, then went on to other pursuits. Broadsheet burnout. It was a blog on paper, distributed via the emerging popular communications channel of the day. See the Spectator

R Hayesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959159.post-87448984236168413402008-01-28T22:47:00.000-06:002008-01-30T23:30:47.695-06:00

If you look at your lover and see yourself, your vision is obscured. If you love your lover in how they are similar to you, your love lacks respect. Nor is love for difference a good thing. If you love your lover for their strangeness, you are seeing them as an adjunct to your life, an accessory. Love your lover for who they are, complex, complete, self-created, seeking, searching.

R Hayesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959159.post-5188407166211658902008-01-11T22:10:00.000-06:002008-01-30T23:34:38.447-06:00

Sex is like dancing: creating art by merging body and mind. Kinæsthetic art. A performed art; transient, ephemeral. Sometimes more structured, sometimes more free-form. There is sex that follows known and agreed patterns; there is sex that surprises. Sometimes the best dance has surprises within the constraints of a structured form; sometimes the best sex is not spectacular or newsworthy.

R Hayesnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959159.post-76492820984237268162007-12-26T22:48:00.000-06:002007-12-28T23:01:06.647-06:00

Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes, Is the deed ever really done For Heaven and the future's sakes. [from Robert Frost, "Two Tramps in Mud Time", 1934] What's the difference between loving and being-in-love? What does love have to do with need? There's this awful word, "needy"; I have an idea what it means, I own up to being needy at times. I think it's

R Hayesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959159.post-1125371021535520622005-08-29T21:46:00.000-05:002005-08-29T22:09:42.070-05:00

The art market has created a sad disrespect for old material. Me, coming from folk music & dance, I think the old material is the best; it's been honed and perfected to suit us people very well. But it doesn't create much in the way of record sales, or work for reviewers or culture pundits. For that, you must have the new improved exciting novelty thing. Thinking about this helps me understand

R Hayesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959159.post-1084327979394053122004-05-11T21:07:00.000-05:002004-05-11T21:13:11.686-05:00

Victorian art and social critic. Christian enough to give away his inherited wealth. Wrote lovely convoluted prose about the connections between art, economics, morality, and consumption.

R Hayesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959159.post-1084327043463225262004-05-11T20:56:00.000-05:002004-05-11T21:07:09.916-05:00

Perhaps bugs are a necessary evil of the economics of software development; perhaps market forces will continue to drive feature change and improvement at a pace that overwhelms maturation. More mature areas of technology, while still offering opportunities for improvement, generally have learned to avoid the biggest pitfalls. And that, I think, is a useful way to think about bugs: as an

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If Java had a well-designed exception hierarchy, with a well-understood fixed structure and well-defined and constrained extension points the this need not be so. But as it is, any program that uses a combination of external libraries has to deal with several different exception hierarchies, and with nested and hidden exceptions, and so must be prepared to both handle and throw

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