Dataspace 2: Revenge of the Data Model
Prelude: Dataspace 0: Those Memex Dreams Again Dataspace 1: In Search of a Data Model Dataspace 2: Revenge of the Data Model Dataspace 3: It Came From The S-Expressions Dataspace 4: The Term-inator I...
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Prelude: Dataspace 0: Those Memex Dreams Again Dataspace 1: In Search of a Data Model Dataspace 2: Revenge of the Data Model Dataspace 3: It Came From The S-Expressions Dataspace 4: The Term-inator I...
View ArticleDataspace 4: The Term-inator
Prelude: Dataspace 0: Those Memex Dreams Again Dataspace 1: In Search of a Data Model Dataspace 2: Revenge of the Data Model Dataspace 3: It Came From The S-Expressions Dataspace 4: The Term-inator I...
View ArticleDataspace 5: Introducing /all
Prelude: Dataspace 0: Those Memex Dreams Again Dataspace 1: In Search of a Data Model Dataspace 2: Revenge of the Data Model Dataspace 3: It Came From The S-Expressions I want a Memex. Roughly, I want...
View ArticleDataspace 6: Terms as Types
Prelude: Dataspace 0: Those Memex Dreams Again Dataspace 1: In Search of a Data Model Dataspace 2: Revenge of the Data Model Dataspace 3: It Came From The S-Expressions Dataspace 4: The Term-inator I...
View ArticleDataspace 7: A Low-Level Encoding
Prelude: Dataspace 0: Those Memex Dreams Again Dataspace 1: In Search of a Data Model Dataspace 2: Revenge of the Data Model Dataspace 3: It Came From The S-Expressions Dataspace 4: The Term-inator I...
View ArticleDataspace 8: Example: Movie data
Sidebar: Here’s a quick comparison of what I’m hoping to achieve in terms of syntax and readability, and an example of why I think it’s important to spend a fair bit of time thinking about syntax....
View ArticleDataspace 9: A Tower of Nulls, And Awkward Sets
Prelude: Dataspace 0: Those Memex Dreams Again Dataspace 1: In Search of a Data Model Dataspace 2: Revenge of the Data Model Dataspace 3: It Came From The S-Expressions Dataspace 4: The Term-inator I...
View ArticleIncreasingly Inaccurately Named
Well, that was (un)expected. My 80s synthpop playlist project is now a quadrilogy. I’d been thinking since the last one that I did have quite a few loose ends left over from Tomorrow, mostly on the...
View ArticlePlaylist Notes: Now They Are Dreams
Playlist notes for Now They Are Dreams. Look away if you don’t want to know how the sausage is made. It’s mid-2017 and I can’t tear myself away from the ongoing global geopolitical disaster of the...
View ArticleThe Last Jedi: On Letting The Past Die, Or Killing It
In 1977, George Lucas, his wife Marcia, and a few close friends made something extraordinary. For 40 years we’ve been unable to stop thinking about the strange little comic book movie that could, Star...
View ArticleThe Last Jedi: Rise of the Flopbuster
The Last Jedi is a heckuva movie, to echo the famously glowing review US President George W Bush gave the FEMA manager who handled a hurricane in New Orleans. It has broken everything it touched: It...
View ArticleThe Last Jedi: Dawn of the Freeze Wars
(Previously: On Letting The Past Die, Or Killing It, Rise of the Flopbuster) The Last Jedi is a weird, bad movie that might kill an entire franchise and even seriously wound Disney at the height of its...
View ArticleThe Last Jedi: The Drunken Priest and the Drunken Father
Thanks to the Birth Movies Death community, I’ve been able to tease out some more of my complicated feelings about The Last Jedi. I’m reposting my posts because I want to preserve them beyond Disqus....
View ArticleBlack Panther
I saw it, and I liked it. Okay, it’s a little silly that I can write four posts on The Last Jedi and one sentence on Black Panther, but that’s because TLJ is super weird and fascinatingly broken and...
View ArticlePlaylist Notes: Now They Are Dreams, Take 2
I updated a bunch of playlists! First, I did some semi-major surgery on my ‘imaginary SF trilogy’ closer, ‘Now They Are Dreams‘. It had always a little underpowered to me. The second half was great, a...
View ArticlePlaylist Notes: Movies, Stars, Machines, Ghosts
So after completing the ‘Tomorrow Trilogy’ (quadrilogy? though really only parts 2, 3 and 4 are a true trilogy; I think of 1 as an overture), I… made some more. I had songs left over, and feelings I...
View ArticleDataspace 10: An Array Representation
Prelude: Dataspace 0: Those Memex Dreams Again Dataspace 1: In Search of a Data Model Dataspace 2: Revenge of the Data Model Dataspace 3: It Came From The S-Expressions Dataspace 4: The Term-inator I...
View ArticlePlaylist Notes: Eclipse Suite part 1 (Cosmic, Wheel)
So back in July there was an eclipse, and the sky put on quite a show. A total lunar eclipse near dawn combined with Mars at its brightest in 15 years, with Venus, Jupiter and Saturn also bright and in...
View ArticlePlaylist Notes: Eclipse Suite part 2 (Lighthouse, Sun)
On the week before the July eclipse I finished the third of the Eclipse Suite, which went right out into far-future sci-fi. Because I realised I had three songs from about 1978 about ‘space...
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