<p><a href="http://retes.hu/~mega/git/?p=clon.git;a=summary">Clon</a> is a nice library for scheduling tasks within a Lisp image, but
it used the SBCL timer extension. I wanted to run something using Clon
-on <a href="http://trac.clozure.com/openmcl">Clozure CL</a> and so I looked at the SBCL and found that, after a bit
-of fairly straightforward editing, it was possible to write a portable
-version for any compiler supporting <a href="http://common-lisp.net/project/bordeaux-threads/">Bordeaux Threads</a>. The SBCL timers
-internally use <code>sb-unix:setittimer</code>; Rather than using <a href="http://common-lisp.net/project/osicat/">Osicat</a> to emulate
-this I chose to rework the scheduling loop to run in a dedicated
-thread that sleeps on a condition variable with a timeout. This seems
-<em>cleaner</em> to me than using POSIX lib calls, but requires a threaded Lisp
-to use.</p>
+on <a href="http://trac.clozure.com/openmcl">Clozure CL</a> and so I looked at the SBCL source and found that, after
+a bit of fairly straightforward editing, it was possible to write a
+portable version for any compiler supporting <a href="http://common-lisp.net/project/bordeaux-threads/">Bordeaux Threads</a>. The
+SBCL timers internally use <code>sb-unix:setittimer</code>; Rather than using
+<a href="http://common-lisp.net/project/osicat/">Osicat</a> to emulate this I chose to rework the scheduling loop to run in
+a dedicated thread that sleeps on a condition variable with a
+timeout. This seems <em>cleaner</em> to me than using POSIX lib calls, but
+requires a threaded Lisp.</p>
<p><a href="http://release.unknownlamer.org/trivial-timers/">Releases are available</a> with the usual <a href="http://unknownlamer.org/darcsweb/browse?r=trivial-timers;a=summary">darcs repo</a>. Currently there is a
native SBCL implementation and a portable implementation relying upon
written on top of Bobot++; if I find time I shall attempt to post the
source.</p>
-<p>There is now a <a href="http://unknownlamer.org/darcsweb/browse?r=bobot++;a=summary">darcs repo</a> available with a few minor changes. I am
+<p>There is now a <a href="http://unknownlamer.org/darcsweb/browse?r=bobot%2B%2B;a=summary">darcs repo</a> available with a few minor changes. I am
sporadically working to make the internals of the bot fully threadsafe
so that multithreaded Scheme extensions don't run into issues. I may
potentially clean up the Scheme interface as well (as it was clearly
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-<p class="cke-footer">unknownlamer: you cannot both me in the state of sin and grace
- simultaneously
-Tony: sure you can, sex while figure skating is pretty sinfully
- graceful
+<p class="cke-footer">Leebert: You don't listen to music.
+Leebert: You listen to the audio equivalent of /dev/urandom
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socieconomic dipole scale, and I also reject the <em>political compass</em> two
dimensional scale; my political belief system could best be described
as <em>curmudgeonly bastard</em> if you must have a label for it. This is only
-because being an curmudgeonly bastard isn't an ideology, but rather a
+because being a curmudgeonly bastard isn't an ideology, but rather a
broad set of ideas centered around the rejection of traditional
-heriarchial political and social structures (<em>i.e</em> hating everything). I
-reject the <em>ressentiment</em> (lookit I'm Nietzsche) of traditional
-anarchism and believe not that every man should have no master (for
-then <em>all</em> would be weak), but rather that he should be his own master.</p>
+political and social structures (<em>i.e</em> hating everything). I reject the
+<em>ressentiment</em> (lookit I'm Nietzsche) of traditional anarchism and
+believe not that every man should have no master (for then <em>all</em> would
+be weak), but rather that he should be his own master.</p>
<p>These short essays are mere stubs I wrote a long while ago, and each
will perhaps be extended in the future.</p>
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-<p class="cke-footer">unknownlamer: you cannot both me in the state of sin and grace
- simultaneously
-Tony: sure you can, sex while figure skating is pretty sinfully
- graceful
+<p class="cke-footer">Jessie: but today i was a nerd
+Jessie: i even read slashdot.
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<h1>The Wisdom of the Ancients</h1>
said he, 'and we did not catch a single bird all day. Then I used
underhand methods, and we caught ten birds in one morning. The <em>Book
of Odes</em> says,</p>
+<p class="quoted"></p>
<p class="verse">
He never failed to drive correctly,<br />
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-<p class="cke-footer"> It's no contest, but we still race there
- Like the saintly tortoise and the godless hare
+<p class="cke-footer">clinton: last time I was a bit weak (*sniff* level four and only 18 hp)
+clinton: I had a -1 intelligence modifier for the first three weeks
+emacsen: what about your character?
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A Picture</h3>
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- <tr><td align="center"><img src="img/photos/me/2008-03-09.jpg" alt="An Adventurous Young Lad" /></td></tr>
- <tr><td align="center" class="image-caption">An Adventurous Young Lad</td></tr>
+ <tr><td align="center"><img src="img/photos/me/2008-10-31.jpg" alt="A Terrifying Young Lad" /></td></tr>
+ <tr><td align="center" class="image-caption">A Terrifying Young Lad</td></tr>
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-<p class="cke-footer">clinton: last time I was a bit weak (*sniff* level four and only 18 hp)
-clinton: I had a -1 intelligence modifier for the first three weeks
-emacsen: what about your character?
+<p class="cke-footer"><emag> http://www.etonline.com/celebrities/news/38722/
+<Leebert> emag: I don't see any other source claiming she's dead,
+ just collapsed.
+<tim_m> what's wrong with et online?
+<ascii_phil> It keeps trying to use Skype to phone home.
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