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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 22, 2006Java World: Healing the Math Wound
The binary system has 2 symbols.
The decimal system has 10 symbols. The hexadecimal system has 16 symbols. I knew this already, since the 5th grade, but ... Today my computer tutor taught the concept that the leftmost symbol in a number stands for how many times you've cycled through your group of symbols. I think I already "knew" this, but it felt new, and it made sense. Maybe I should just savor that for a while. Any number to the power of 0 equals 1. This felt counter-intuitive. He said it had to do with logarithms, and we decided not to "go there" yet. We are preparing the ground. I received the Dori Smith Java book from the library. I can pick it up easily with one hand. Have not dared to open it yet. Incantation: 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024 ... posted at
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