Too Late To Die Young
The day that Elvis died was like a mercy killing
America breathed a sigh of relief
We knew all about the drugs and the Vegas shows
And there wasn’t much of anything that looked like grief
And I guess he should’ve done like James Dean did
‘Stead of putting on weight and sinking down, down, down
It’s my 20th birthday today.
Sometimes I wish I was smarter than I am
With 20 years,
Gauß already had
shown it’s possible to construct a regular
Heptadecagon,
Ramanujan could calculate
the Euler-Mascheroni
constant in
his head to 15 decimal places and
Galois came up with the theory
named after him—he’d die soon after.
I haven’t even published a single paper. (I’m working on it, but I
only realized this a week ago and couldn’t get anything done in
between. I’m sorry.)
And now it’s too late to crash
Too late to burn
Too late to die young
I’m admittedly still on my first apartment, first car and in the first
city. Probably soon in the second apartment, second car and second
city—if that is easy, shall I perform induction on life?
Can you name the last good film Marlon Brando made
While trying to keep his kid from going to jail
And the old people in the street are telling you
Don’t become like me, but every day you creep a little bit closer
Geez, soon I’m thirty.
And now it’s too late to crash
Too late to burn
Too late to die—young
—Dan Bern, Too Late To Die Young
NP: Dan Bern—Past Belief
Mapping Programming Language IRC Channels
I enjoy lurking in obscure IRC channels and often have been amazed how
many people I met there I already knew from some other channel.
Today, this happened again, so I just had to map all language channels
I could find on Freenode and make a diagram of
their relationships.
I tried to find all language-specific general channels, and came up
with these: #perl, ##c, #python, ##c++, #ruby-lang, #haskell, #bash,
#lisp, ##java ###javascript, #perl6, #scheme, #erlang, #ruby, #latex,
#lua, #d, #asm, #zsh ##tcl, #ocaml, #fpc, #io, #awk, #sed, #forth,
#scala, #ada, #dylan, #sml, and #!/bin/sh.
I also added #rubyonrails,
#concatenative, #esoteric, #oasis, #haskell-blah, #ruby-de, #camping,
and #rack, which are not really general language channels but
interesting to see.
After frustration with R (I first wanted
to make a kind-of heatmap), I decided to use
GraphViz’s fdp. Here’s the preview of the
map (click for fullsize, beware: 1833x2084px):
If you want to print it, there also is a PostScript version.
The font-sizes are logarithmic, legend for the edges:
- If 45% of the smaller channel are in the other channel, there is a bold line.
- If 25% of the smaller channel are in the other channel, there is a solid line.
- If 10% of the smaller channel are in the other channel, there is a dotted line.
Enjoy.
NP: Jeff Buckley—Lilac Wine
WG Abi 2007 auf SuprGlu
In der Stufe haben wir ja einige recht aktive Blogger, und man kommt
kaum nach mit lesen. Statt alles in mein NetNewsWire zu importieren
suchte ich nach einem öffentlichen Feedaggregator und bin dann bei
SuprGlu gelandet.
Sämtliche Blogs der Stufe kann man jetzt also gesammelt auf
http://wgabi2007.suprglu.com/
lesen.
Wer noch andere stufenrelevante Blogs hat, bitte bei mir melden.
NP: Bob Dylan—Let Me Die in My Footsteps
