Sunday, November 20th, 2005
The other evening I was writing code to rebuild “Find Coltrane” with Ruby on Rails instead of PHP. Before I went to bed I read something from “The Pickaxe Book” and then set it on my nightstand.
In the morning, I discovered that all 832 pages had fallen off the nightstand and landed on my glasses (also left on the nightstand) effectively rendering me sightless.
If you are considering learning a programming language, please be aware of the possible consequences to your health and choose one that has brief, thin, how-to manuals.
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Monday, February 7th, 2005
A few months ago, our friend Aamir made a gift of a special book to Eva. The other night as I was unable to sleep at 2:30 AM, I read the 110 pages of “The Old Man Mad About Drawing” by François Place with much delight. The story is a fictional account of a young boy’s relationship with the great Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai.
Woman in court dress, with a fan at her feet —Katsushika Hokusai
The book is a visual feast. Place’s illustrations are beautiful and give a great sense of the culture of the time. The typesetting in the book is also gorgeous and combined with a number of prints (actually photos of prints), by Hokusai himself, the read actually becomes therapeutic for the eyes.
Hokusai is probably most famous for the painting, “The Great Wave at Kanagawa” from a series entitled “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.” I believe he is also considered to be the inventor of the “Manga” technique of “thought up drawings.”
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