We're charging ahead with a Raku Study Group this Sunday, despite
Memorial Day weekend-- everyone loves the spring, but it's hell on
allergies and scheduling a regular Sunday event.
"Today we know that sometimes hieroglyphics stand for the things of
which they are the images, but more frequently t
"The style of any mathematic which comes into being, then, depends
wholly on the Culture in which it is rooted, the sort of mankind it
is that ponders it. ... The idea of the Euclidean geometry is
actualized in the earliest forms of Classical ornament, and that of
the Infinitesimal Calculus in the
We've got the Raku Study group going, even as I type. Sorry if the email
address change is confusing: doomvox is now tailorm...@pm.me
Zoom meeting link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85308554316?pwd=52Bc9BpWgd7Xsi6tqQT2QhSQ8eWDkM.1
Passcode: 4RakuRoll
And riding fast on the heels of the last one, comes The Raku Study Group:
"There is no idea so frivolous or odd which does not appear
to me to be fittingly produced by the mind of man. Those
of us who deprive our judgment of the right to pass
sentence look gently on strange opinions; we m
The Raku Study Group
"This time for sure!" -- Bullwinkle J. Moose
April 6th, 2025 1pm in California, 8pm in the UK
An informal meeting: drop by when you can, show us what you've got,
ask and answer questions, or just listen and lurk.
Perl and programming in general are fair game, along with Ra
Doug Hoyte, "Let Over Lambda-- 50 Years of Lisp" (2008):
"It must also be pointed out that aif and alambda, like all anaphoric
macros, violate lexical transparency. A fashionable way of saying this
is currently to say that they are unhygienic macros. That is, like a
good number of macros i
"There is no royal road to logic, and really valuable ideas can
only be had at the price of close attention. But I know that in
the matter of ideas the public prefer the cheap and nasty ... "
-- C.S. Pierce, "How to Make Our Ideas Clear" (1878)
The Raku Study Group
March 9, 2025
"The term Baroque probably ultimately derived from the Italian
word barocco, which philosophers used during the Middle Ages to
describe an obstacle in schematic logic. Subsequently the word
came to denote any contorted idea or involuted process of
thought. ... In art criticism the word Baroque cam
"In my experience, the sweet spot is to implement new modules in a
_somewhat general-purpose_ fashion. The phrase 'somewhat
general-purpose' means that the module's functionality should
reflect your current needs, but its interface should not. ... The
word 'somewhat' is important: don't get carri
I've had to cancel the announced meeting on the 19th. The next Raku Study
Group is on January 26th. Hope to see you.
https://github.com/doomvox/raku-study
NOTE: this is a surprise meeting, happening a week earlier than scheduled.
"They say Confucius does his crossword with a pen."
-- Tori Amos, "Happy Phantom"
The Raku Study Group
January 12, 2025 1pm in California, 9pm in the UK
An informal meeting: drop by when you can, show us what
"You know how Apple will occasionally confuse the world by doing away
with standard features like a headphone jack? OK, well imagine a car
built entirely out of that kind of gimmick."
-- Drew Magary, reviewing the Tesla Cybertruck
The Raku Study Group
Sunday, Jan 5, 2025 1pm in Calif
A. J. Ayer, "Logical Positivism" (1959):
"... since the war the prevailing tendency in England has been
to replace this uncompromising positivism with its blanket
rejection of metaphysics, its respect for scientific method,
its assumption that in so far as philosophical problem
"The programmer may not even be aware that some of
his coding is intended to compensate for a limitation
of the machine. In which case he could hardly be
expected to mark it. For instance, much programming
has to be done to overcome the limited precision of
our machines-- or bet
"This is the peak era of prosumers, the blockchain era. We are
living in a metaverse where prosumers voluntarily re-create and
expand content. The value of the original content is then
maximized by its re-creation by these individuals, and within the
metaverse such contents will become
"Have you tried turning it off WITHOUT turning it back on again?"
-- Roadmaster, Dark Anachronist (RoadmasterWI at disqus)
The Raku Study Group
November 10, 2024 1pm in California, 9pm in the UK
An informal meeting: drop by when you can, show us what you've got,
ask and answer questions, or
I've got a surprise visit from some old friends this Sunday afternoon, so
I'm reluctantly postponing the usual Raku Study Group session to next
weekend. Sorry about the confusion...
In summary: there will be no meeting on Nov 3rd.
Instead, let's do one on Nov 10th.
Then we can resume the every-
"Everybody who was building big systems seems to have run into the fact
that the growth is *not linear*. The effort, the complexity, involves
interactions and interactions combine combinatorially and so things
that you thought you could extrapolate linearly you couldn't."
-- Frederick P.
"Anything not worth doing is not worth doing well."
-- Casey Crime Photographer, "The Red Raincoat" (1946)
The Raku Study Group
October 6, 2024 1pm in California, 8pm in the UK
An informal meeting: drop by when you can, show us what you've got,
ask and answer questions, or just listen and
"Booji Boy also says the next 50 years will be more about
action. 'And it'll be about positive mutation. Mutate,
don't stagnate.'" -- Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo, 2023
The Raku Study Group
September 22, 2024 1pm in California, 8pm in the UK
An informal meeting: drop by when you can, show
This will be an unusual meeting in that I won't be able to run the meeting,
and might not even be able to attend it, but feel free to use the zoom link
to drop in and discuss things as usual.
Note: if you have a paid zoom account, and are interested in helping out on
this meeting, ask me about beg
J. Stephen Lansing, "Priests and Programmers" (1991, 2007):
"But if we accept the argument that productive systems embody a
cultural or symbolic logic, new questions appear when we move from
theory to ethnography. The problem is a variant of the 'excess of
meaning' argument, which has often surfa
"On returning to Korea to set up a studio after studying abroad,
I started out designing pretty spaces that pleased clients.
That changed when I moved to a traditional house, a hanok, in
Bukchon, the oldest neighborhood in Seoul. I was impressed by the
wisdom and beauty of Korean tradition, and it
"Conceptual integrity is *the* most important consideration in
system design." -- Frederick Brooks, 1975
"... I combined these cool features in a way that makes sense to me
as a postmodern linguist, not in a way that makes sense to the
typical Modernistic computer scientist. Recall
"... as we looked from those headless, slime-coated shapes to
the loathsome palimpsest sculptures and the diabolical dot
groups of fresh slime on the wall beside them-- looked and
understood what must have triumphed and survived down there in
the Cyclopean water city of that nighted, penguin-fringe
>From "Merge and the Strong Minimalist Thesis" by Noam Chomsky, et. al.
(2023):
"Your knowledge of language is *infinite*, but your memory is *finite*.
Your knowledge of language therefore can't be just a list of memorized
sentences. A central component of any theory of language, then,
involves g
Dan M. Kahan, "Misconceptions, Misinformation, and the Logic of
Identity-Protective Cognition" (May 24, 2017):
"On issues that provoke identity-protective cognition,
the members of the public most adept at avoiding
misconceptions of science are nevertheless the most
culturally polarized. I
Rod McKuen, "Stanyon Street:
"But there is little salvage to be had
in bent and broken nails
and things that might have been ..."
The Raku Study Group
June 2nd, 2024 1pm in California, 8pm in the UK
An informal meeting: drop by when you can, show us what you've got,
ask and answer que
John Keats, "Endymion" (1818):
"Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing
A flowery band to bind us to the earth,
Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth
Of noble natures, of the gloomy days,
Of all the unhealthy and o'er-darkened ways
Made for our searching ... "
The Raku Study Group
Ma
"Social theory is largely a game of make-believe in which we pretend,
just for the sake of argument, that there's just one thing going on:
essentially, we reduce everything to a cartoon so as to be able to
detect patterns that would be otherwise invisible. As a result,
all real progress in social
"The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he
knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too
much to speak with detachment."
-- Raymond Chandler, "A Qualified Farewell" (early 1950's)
The Raku Study Group
April 21, 2024 1pm in California, 8pm in the UK
An informal meetin
"I do not think that society ought to maltreat men of genius as it has
done hitherto; but neither do I think it should indulge them too far,
still less accord them any privileges or exclusive rights whatsoever;
and that for three reasons: first, because it would often mistake a
charlatan for a man
Margaret Masterman, "The Nature of a Paradigm" (1970):
"This pre-scientific and philosophic state of affairs sharply
contrasts, however, with *multi-paradigm science*, with that state
of affairs in which, far from there being no paradigm, there are
on the contrary too many. (This
And this:
> March 10th, 2024 1pm in California, 9pm in the UK
Should've read "8pm in the UK".
On 3/7/24, Joseph Brenner wrote:
> Note: Here in the US, we are about to "spring ahead" one mooorre time,
> and the 1pm I'm referring to is an hour earlie
Note: Here in the US, we are about to "spring ahead" one mooorre time,
and the 1pm I'm referring to is an hour earlier than many of you expect.
"It's becoming increasingly unusual to read a report of a new
technology or scientific discovery that doesn't breathlessly
use the phrase 'it see
Would this trick help? You can define a "subset" that restricts
values to the uint16 range:
my subset FussyUint16 of Int where 0 ..^ 2¹⁶;
my FussyUint16 $x;
$x = -1;
## Type check failed in assignment to $x; expected FussyUint16
but got Int (-1)
"Over the years, executives have backed their desire to
eliminate programmers with staggering funds. Dozens of
simplistic schemes have been heaped with money and praise
on the promise-- as yet not kept-- of going directly from
sales proposal to a working data-processing system. But
John Dewey, "Logic: The Theory of Inquiry" (1938):
"... the more developed this field becomes,
the more pressing is the question as to
what it is all about."
The Raku Study Group
February 4th, 2024 1pm in California, 9pm in the UK
An informal meeting: drop by when you can, show
"New research from the University of Washington finds that a
natural aptitude for learning languages is a stronger predictor of
learning to program than basic math knowledge, or numeracy."
-- About the paper "Relating Natural Language Aptitude to
Individual Differences in Lea
Jean-Paul Sartre, "Existentialism is a Humanism" (1946):
"Who, then, can prove that I am the proper person to impose, by
my own choice, my conception of man upon mankind? I shall
never find any proof whatever; there will be no sign to convince
me of it. If a voice speaks to me, it is still
Edward Gibbon, "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire":
"Thus our tender minds, fettered by the prejudices and habits of
a just servitude, are unable to expand themselves, or to attain
that well-proportioned greatness which we admire in the ancients."
The Raku Study Group
"Such fullness in that quarter overflows
And falls into the basin of the mind
That man is stricken deaf and dumb and blind,
For intellect no longer knows
Is from the Ought, or knower from the Known--"
William Butler Yeats,
"A Dialogue of Self and Soul" (1933)
The Raku Study Group
December 3, 20
"... we not only wanted to fix things that we already knew were
suboptimal, but we also wanted to do a better job of responding to
cultural change, because we simply don't know what we'll want in the
future. So we though about how best to future proof a computer
language, much of the current desig
"All types of knowledge ultimately mean self-knowledge." -- Bruce Lee (1971)
The Raku Study Group
October 22, 2023 1pm in California, 8pm in the UK
An informal meeting: drop by when you can, show us what you've got,
ask and answer questions, or just listen and lurk.
Perl and programming in gen
"[Steven Mithen] describes the cultural
revolution that took place about 40,000 years ago and
that introduced complex multi-part tools and the
elements of higher culture, including art, religion, and
more complex forms of social organization. How to
account for this explosion of c
"Don't move your feet until the next beat comes--
One of the laws says pause between,
Though I would hate to make the game seem mean ...
Listen now to the sound of the Drum--
And don't forget we're nothing yet but water."
-- "The Drum" (1974) by Slapp Happy
The Raku Study Group
Sept
Dashiell Hammett, "The Dain Curse" (1929):
"Nobody thinks clearly, no matter what they pretend.
Thinking's a dizzy business, a matter of catching as
many of those foggy glimpses as you can and fitting
them together the best you can. That's why people
hang on so tight to their be
"A choice architect has the responsibility for organizing the
context in which people make decisions. ... There are many parallels
between choice architecture and more traditional forms of
architecture. A critical parallel is there is no such thing as a
'neutral' design. ... As good architects
"Perseverance of one's own culture does not require
contempt or disrespect for other cultures."
(Commonly attributed to Cesar Chavez)
The Raku Study Group
August 6, 2023 1pm in California, 8pm in the UK
An informal meeting: drop by when you can, show us what you've got,
ask and answer
Hey, anyone looking for a Raku meeting?
"My brain hurts!"
-- Gumby
The Raku Study Group
July 23, 2023 1pm in California, 8pm in the UK
An informal meeting: drop by when you can, show us what you've got,
ask and answer questions, or just listen and lurk.
Perl and programming in ge
>From David Byrne's "How Music Works" (2012):
"I had an extremely slow-dawning insight about
creation. That insight is that context
largely determines what is written, painted,
sculpted, sung or performed. That doesn't
sound like much of an insight, but it's
actually the opposi
References:
Try something like this, perhaps:
$x ~~ s:i/ ^ (.*?) '' .*? '
"The modernist architects and urban planners declared that 'less is
more,' to quote the famous twentieth-century architect Ludwig Mies
van der Rohe, streamlining designs to the point of turning cities
into exercises in geometry and repetition, with an endless succession
of avenues, street blocks,
"In the game of life and evolution there are three players at the
table: human beings, nature, and machines. I am firmly on the side
of nature. But nature, I suspect, is on the side of the machines."
George B. Dyson, "Darwin Among the Machines" (1997)
The Raku Study Group
June 4, 2023 1pm
"I definitely feel that there is something rotten in the
realm of programming. There is a lot of discussion, but
somehow I think that most of it misses the point. There
are too many fads, too many quick solutions, a too
wide gap between theory and practice."
-- Peter Naur, Communicat
"The thing about Computer Science is that it's not a Science,
and it's not about Computers. The disicipline that's about
computers is called Electrical Engineering. And Computer
Science isn't a science, because for the most part we don't
do experiments to find out what reality is like."
-- Bria
"So, is 'genius' the only way to explain it?
No, I'm sure there's something I can learn, even from a genius."
-- Bakuman (2008-12), Vol 3, Ch 23, "Conceit and Kindness"
Tsugumi Ohba & Takeshi Obata, trans. Tetsuichiro Miyaki
The Raku Study Group
April 16, 2023 1pm in California, 8pm
"The bloom is off the rose for the big tech companies.
We no longer hear so much gushing about putting a library
into everyone's hands, social media as a means of empowering
people to challenge their governments, or tech innovators who
make our lives better by disrupting old industries."
"The rarest of gifts in men, that on the one hand they should have
clear, firm ideas of their own, and, on the other, that they should
be able to accomodate themselves to the ideas of men differing from
them and give them their due ..."
-- Fritz Brupbacher on James Guillaume, from "No Gods, No M
"We live surrounded by a chaos of undifferentiated factoids
and half-formed allusions, and in the absence of convincing
structural links, we rely on, search for, or imagine flashes,
intuitions, hovering conceptual affinities, and hyperbolic
recurrences that can be explained only by accumu
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Destiny of Nations" (1817):
"But some there are who deem themselves most free
When they within this gross and visible sphere
Chain down the winged thought, scoffing ascent,
Proud in their meanness; and themselves they cheat
With noisy emptiness of learn
George Sand to Gustave Flaubert, November 29th, 1866:
"I have never ceased to wonder at the way you
torment yourself over your writing. Is it
just fastidiousness on your part? There is so
little to show for it... As to style, I
certainly do not worry myself, as you do, over
th
"Hermes the messenger helps us glimpse the powerful archetypal
connections between magic, tricks, and technology. But the god
does not bloom into a genuine Promethean technomage until he
heads south, across the wine dark sea, to Egypt. Here, in the
centuries before the birth of Jesus, the religio
"Looking up at the purple panorama
of the galaxy highway,
a shooting star pierces my heart"
-- "Macross 7" (1994), "Seventh Moon" by Fire Bomber,
The Raku Study Group.
January 1st, 2023 1pm in California, 9pm in the UK
An informal meeting: drop by when you can, show us what you've got,
as
"Is it any wonder if we at last grow distrustful, lose
patience, and turn impatiently away? That this Sphinx
teaches us at last to ask questions ourselves?"
-- Nietzsche, "Beyond Good and Evil", trans. Helen Zimmern
The Raku Study Group
December 18, 2022 1pm in California, 9pm in the UK
An
On the next few Sundays, I've got some schedule conflicts, so I've got
to skip holding the Raku Study Group when we usually would on December
4th.
Instead the next meeting will be on December 18th, and after that
we'll most likely do one on New Years Day itself, January 1st, 2023.
"They're all like 20-year old single Silicon Valley men, of course
they're afraid of commitment."
-- Matt S. Trout, on the pletheroa of Javascript libraries
"ES6: Almost an Acceptable Perl5?" (2017)
The Raku Study Group: An informal meeting: drop by when you can, show
us what you've got, a
"The FSF software distribution has added a third tape. The old
Compiler tape has been split into a Languages and a Utilities
tape. Some software has also moved from the Emacs tape to the other
two tapes ..." --"GNU's Bulletin" (1992)
The Raku Study Group
November 6, 2022 1pm in California, 9pm
"None of us can fully realize what the
minds of corporations are, any more than
one of my brain-cells can know what the
whole brain is thinking."
-- C. S. Peirce, "Man's Glassy Essence" (1892)
The Raku Study Group
October 23, 2022 1pm in California, 9pm in the UK
Zoom meetin
Now I tell you a secret
Don't hammer on the keys
For a little pianissimo
is always bound to please.
-- Marlene Dietrich & Hollander Victor,
"Naughty Lola" (1930)
The Raku Study Group
October 9, 2022 1pm in California, 9pm in the UK
Zoom meeting link:
https://us02web.zo
"Excursions in Number Theory" by Ogilvy and Anderson (1966):
"Until recent years the binary system was looked upon
as something of a mathematical curio of only
theoretical importance. Suddenly it has become
indispensable, and would have had to be developed in a
hurry had it not bee
"Ventnor's father had been destroyed for
gadgeteering and it was apparent that this
tendency had been carried forward to the next
generation. Worse, although latent, the
characteristic was predominent and increasing."
Philip E. High, "These Savage Futurians" (1967)
The Raku Study Gr
"Look out honey, 'cause I'm using technology
Ain't got time to make no apology"
-- Iggy Pop, "Search and Destroy" (1973)
The Raku Study Group
August 21, 2022 1pm in California, 9pm in the UK, 4am in Bali
Zoom meeting link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86108934482?pwd=MzNFQ1ptQWRBNm00akl
Walt Whitman, "Democratic Vistas" (1871):
"... ahead, though dimly yet, we see, in vistas,
a copious, sane, gigantic offspring."
The Raku Study Group
August 7, 2022 1pm in California, 9pm in the UK
Zoom meeting link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83144051426?pwd=UTVhclVPeVJlM0k0M3FNN1JqNXg0Zz0
"Coevolution and symbiosis are fundamentally about relationships, and
those change over time. A pet rat, a lab rat, a plague of rats and
rats of unusual size all have different relationships with human
beings, but they're all rats, and we're all humans."
Frank Landis, "Hot Earth Dreams" (2016)
"The sciences, even the best,-- mathematics and astronomy,--
are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even
without being able to make any use of it."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Plato, or, the Philosopher"
The Raku Study Group
July 10, 2022 1pm in California, 9pm in the
Frederick P. Brooks, from the additional material in the 1995
edition of "The Mythical Man-Month" (1975):
"Much more is known today about software engineering than
was known in 1975. Which of the assertions in the original
1975 edition have been supported by data and experience?
Which
Let's try that again, without the typo on the date in the message body:
it's on Sunday, June *5th*.
"Language is an artifact."
Guru Lou Fonghoo
Step 35 of the 85 steps of Fonghoosim (1972)
The Raku Study Group
June 5th, 2022 1pm in California, 9pm in the UK
Zoom meeting link:
https://
"Language is an artifact."
Guru Lou Fonghoo
Step 35 of the 85 steps of Fonghoosim (1972)
The Raku Study Group
June 6th, 2022 1pm in California, 9pm in the UK
Zoom meeting link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83136957677?pwd=WXRSRkZ0SjZ4aGNJZ2l1OWM3OExqQT09
Passcode: 4RakuRoll
RSVPs are u
Colin McPhee, "A House in Bali" (1944-47):
"Beside the palm-leaf books which he had been working on the day
before there lay a little fan of blossoms.
"How do you honour books in America? Durus asked as he set a
lamp on the table. A large mantis flew out of the dark and
Herbert A. Simon, "The Sciences of the Artificial" (1969):
"Since there are now many such devices in the world, and since the
properties that describe them also appear to be shared by the human
central nervous system, nothing prevents us from developing a natural
history of them. We can study them
Jane Jacobs, "The Death and Life of Great American Cities"
"Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and
success, in city building and city design. This is the laboratory in
which city planning should have been learning and forming and testing
its theories. Instead the practi
"I could see the writing on the wall.
It was my handwriting."
Jean Michel-Basquiat,
"Downtown 81"
The Raku Study Group
April 10, 2022 1pm in California, 9pm in the UK
Zoom meeting link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88273860585?pwd=eks5ZWFrNmdrTGF3VWFNVWtENkxmUT09
Paul Linebarger, "Psychological Warfare" (1947):
"Europeans described light, hard-hitting *numerically
inferior* cavalry as a 'numberless horde' because
Mongol agents whispered such a story in the
streets. To this day most Europeans do not appreciate
the lightness of the forces nor the c
> March 13, 2022 1pm in California, 9pm in the UK
Sorry, but thanks to the magic of "daylight savings time",
1pm in California is an hour earlier today, and that
"9pm in the UK" should've said 8pm.
Randall Munroe, "Excel Lambda":
"The Church-Turing thesis says that all ways of
computing are *equally* wrong."
https://xkcd.com/2453/
The Raku Study Group
March 13, 2022 1pm in California, 9pm in the UK
Zoom meeting link:
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Poul Anderson, "Harvest the Fire" (1995):
"Why this jagged distribution of greatness?
The incidence of innate abilities could
scarcely vary that much. The social
situation, the _Zeitgeist_-- were such
phrases anything but noises?"
The Raku Study Group
February 17, 2022 1pm in Cal
Lera Boroditsky, "How does our language shape the way we think" (2009):
We have collected data around the world: from China, Greece,
Chile, Indonesia, Russia, and Aboriginal Australia. What we
have learned is that people who speak different languages do
indeed think differently and that ev
David Auerbach, "Bitwise: A Life in Code" (2018):
"As a child, I had been drawn to computers because they were
free of society's tortuous value systems. Ironically, I now
live in a world where computers are the thoughtless arbiters of
those very same value systems. They have come to spea
Gary Snyder, "A Space in Place" (1996), "Language Goes Two Ways":
" 'Wild' alludes to a process of self-organization
that generates systems and organisms ... Wildness can
be said to be the essential nature of nature. As
reflected in consciousness, it can be seen as a kind
of open aware
Heraclitus, translated by William Harris:
From many things comes oneness, and out of oneness
comes many things.
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
The Raku Study Group
January 2, 2021 1pm in California, 9pm in the UK
Zoom meeting link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89182070922
James Baldwin, "The Fire Next Time" (1963):
"In all jazz, and especially the blues, there is something tart
and ironic, authoritative and double-edged. White Americans seem
to feel that happy songs are happy and sad songs are sad, and
that, God help us, is exactly the way most white Americ
Ibsen, "Peer Gynt" (1867):
"'Go round about', said the Boyg. So I must."
The Raku Study Group
November 21, 2021 1pm in California, 9pm in the UK
Zoom meeting link:
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Passcode: 4RakuRoll
RSVPs are useful, though not
That's a thought, but we haven't tried that one yet.
On 11/7/21, Walt Pang wrote:
> Is there a youtube channel for recording this?
>
> regards.
>
> On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 1:00 AM Joseph Brenner wrote:
>
>> > 11/07 1pm in California, 8pm in the UK
>>
> 11/07 1pm in California, 8pm in the UK
Oops. Actually more like 7pm in the UK.
On 11/4/21, Joseph Brenner wrote:
> Susan Sontag's "On Camp" (1964):
>
> "Camp taste is a kind of love, love for human
>nature. It relishes, rather than judges, t
say do given / 'Q' / { when "this has a Q in it" {"has a Q"}; default
>> {"no match"}}
>>
>> Regex object coerced to string ...
>>
>> I did have a place in the earlier discussion. I eventually realized that
>> if I thought
Susan Sontag's "On Camp" (1964):
"Camp taste is a kind of love, love for human
nature. It relishes, rather than judges, the little
triumphs and awkward intensities of 'character.'"
The Raku Study Group
11/07 1pm in California, 8pm in the UK
Zoom meeting link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/
> ... we'd need to go
> through detailed, calm, measured discussion if we're to minimize
> the pain it seems we'll inevitably endure pain to dig ourselves out
> of the hole we'd be in.
Yes, this could be a bad one.
Yes, thanks, I'd managed to forget that we had a go-round on this one
six months ago, even though that one came out of the Raku Study Group
I run.
I'm actually finding this one profoundly depressing, but I probably
shouldn't get into it. My thoughts are running along lines like "how
is it possibl
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