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Writer StatementI agree with John Gardner that the writing of fiction is the "creation of a vivid and continuous dream." To write, one enters this dream state and allows one's characters to inhabit one's being and to speak through one. My fiction influences are diverse and range from 19th-century traditionalists like Henry James, Edith Wharton and George Gissing to 20th-century modernists like James Joyce and Virginia Woolf and postmodernists like Donald Barthelme. The Decryption of Floriform X -- This short, illustrated fiction was written on Twitter circa 2008, each tweet numbered to keep track. The God of Wind and Air -- Unfinished sequel to Decryption, written collaboratively on Twitter. The Manuscript of Jacob Hall -- Why write fiction? What is it "for"? |
Wednesday, February 15, 2006Hello Java World
Had my second tutoring session with the computer tutor at the local senior center. Now retired, he worked as a physicist. He also taught Java at a community college, so he's going to try and teach me that. I have to read the first 2 chapters (72 pp.) of a 1,000+ pp. book, Beginning Java 2 by Ivor Horton, by next Wednesday.
We spent half of today's session downloading the necessary Java platform, about 50 MB (it took about 40 minutes). During that time, we discussed machine language and assembly language, as well as Goedel and Leibniz. Then we downloaded a big bunch of examples from the book. Next week we're going to install this platform, so that I can begin to run sample Java programs. He told me that the typical college format was 3 hours lecture followed by 3 hours lab. (How do people have the stamina for that?) Relevance to an artist? Well, the Groupboard's a Java applet. Wouldn't it be cool if I could make my own with customized features? posted at
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