vlion - a pursuit of the ineffable

Why are you always on the internet, vlion?

Because I read. This morning, to date-

• France is getting in on the surveillance game even more
• Grizzlies may hold clues to anti-obesity medication. Also, I used to drive by (and I visited several times) the WSU bear center, where the samples are taken
• Some perspective on Iran-American relations by a journalist visiting Iran very recently., who wrote a book 3ish years ago about Iran (that the Bellingham library has)
• A software engineer's take on the postmodern lit crit scene in the early 90s

This weekend, notable readings included-

• spatial-trees, a Lisp data structure library for dealing with data in metric spaces. I encourage the viewing of references, for fun. :-)
• GiST, the generalised search tree.
• Problems with gene-only views of gene expression This reminded me of a Lisp reprogrammable reader.

I also worked through a portion of Carl Hewitt's dissertation, which was the PLANNER system for goal-finding, and a miscellany of articles from Hacker News.

This is why I internet: a sampling of essays from a variety of authors on a variety of topics (regrettably, most material online readily available is from what I am coming to think of as the Internet Point Of View, and has a hard time dealing with genuinely alternate ideas (partially because the alternate idea-people don't always get online too much (Parenthetically))).