---
author: Chris Hodapp
comments: true
date: 2009-05-01 12:10:59+00:00
layout: post
slug: '20090430'
title: 2009.04.30
wordpress_id: 147
categories:
- Scratch
tags:
- blogs
- books
- comic
- graphics
- links
- log
- notes
---

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## log

  * Here is the umpteenth post made to my Wordpress in an automated way…
  * I guess here is where I put "Hello, world" and for once it's actually kind of accurate because the post is going where the world can see it. 
  * So, uh, _Hello, world_
  * Did I fix my idiotic bugs yet? 

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## graphics

  * [http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=532&type=overview](http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=532&type=overview) (John Carmack on id Tech 6, Ray Tracing, Consoles, Physics and more) 

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## links,blogs

  * [http://www.tanashabitat.com/](http://www.tanashabitat.com/) (Tana's Habitat - a site Jane recommended for useful information about living on your own. It looks far more suited to her gender than to mine, but it still has some good advice.) 

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## notes,technobabble

  * [Perl 6](http://dev.perl.org/perl6/) has two main interpreters: 
    * [Rakudo Perl](http://rakudo.org/) which uses [Parrot VM](http://www.parrot.org/) and PGE 
    * [Pugs](http://www.pugscode.org/) which uses [Haskell](http://haskell.org/) (and [Hugs](http://haskell.org/hugs/) or [GHC](http://haskell.org/ghc/)) 
  * Stuff about [Erlang](http://erlang.org/) I should remember: 
    * shared-nothing, async message passing 
    * single assignment 
    * strict or eager evaluation (as compared to lazy evaluation like in Haskell) 
  * Stuff about Smalltalk I should remember: 
    * ["Messaging" is more important than "objects"](http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/1998-October/017019.html)

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## books

  * [The Burgomeister's Books](http://www.truly-free.org/), a large library of ebooks; you have a borrowing quota but items are downloadable and in open formats 
  * [The story of stuff](http://www.storyofstuff.com), a flash video Joc sent me; it's kind of long but worth the watch 

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## comic

  * [This Modern World](http://thismodernworld.com/) by Tom Tomorrow - a webcomic and blog I first came across in Citybeat, but came across by accident later