Resolutions
To learn some new fingerstyle acoustic guitar material; to finish reading Types and Programming Languages; to write some more articles for The Monad Reader; to start and finish a Haskell project of fair-to-middling coolness; to contribute in some as yet unspecified manner to the efforts of the mySociety folks – if all else fails, by sending them money; to write and record the rest of Grammar Schools For All; to read Paul’s letter to the Romans in its entirety plus at least one substantial commentary; to attain a professionally credible level of demonstrable proficiency in Java; to complete Half Cocks and get it into a form ready for publication; to read more CS research papers; to start having driving lessons; to play live in a venue somewhere in Northampton, even if it’s only some “acoustic night” somewhere; to swear less frequently and vociferously; to attend more assiduously to considerations of attire and personal grooming; to get to grips with Category Theory; to go swimming occasionally; to boot into my Linux partition more often than I boot into my Windows partition; to meet some more people from internet-land in real life; to go on holiday with Sarah and the children; to devise a plan for getting out of Northampton; to spend less time staring exhaustedly at a computer screen without actually doing anything productive; to review some poetry; to read some theory I haven’t already got on my shelves; to get better at playing over jazz chord changes; to post more stories to LtU; to take regular backups of the CTM wiki; to take regular backups of everything else; to get used to vim; to finish re-reading Middlemarch and start Daniel Deronda; to read some modern fiction that isn’t sci-fi, although I can’t for the life of me think what; to incur fewer library fines; to blog about more interesting things, or at least to blog less about totally uninteresting things.
January 3rd, 2006 at 11:21 pm
A good list. And I resolve to come and visit you in Northampton. Hold me to it!
Modern non-scifi fiction I have read in last 3 years that I scored 8 or more:
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 8/10
Lanark – Alisdair Gray 8/10
Ghostwritten – David Mitchell 8/10
Life of Pi – Yann Martel 8/10
Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand 9/10
January 5th, 2006 at 10:48 am
Good grief, Atlas Shrugged is massive! It probably should be read back-to-back with The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – both state, from remote loci of the political discontinuum (this phrase started out as “from opposite ends of the political spectrum”, and kind of mutated from there), a theory of parasitism. Both are also allegedly very boring – perhaps for similar reasons, although I’ll have to read them to find that out.