I was in a programming mood tonight and hacked out something I've been designing in my head for a while: an API for Swath that will give user-defined scripts advanced mapping capabilities.
And now for something completely different!
One of my New Year's resolutions was to write a book and start a cult. One of the most important doctrines of that cult will be that our awareness of the passage of time is critical to our appreciation of Nature and hence to our spiritual well-being. In most of our lives, one day can be almost indistinguishable from the next; days turn into weeks, weeks into months, and seasons slip by before we know it.
I've postulated something called a Drift Clock, which is a computerized clock programmed with your geographic location (possibly updated via GPS) that stretches or compresses the hours so that the sun always rises at precisely 6 A.M. and sets at 6 P.M. Living by this clock, we will become acutely aware of the changing seasons.
I've also invented a new calendar. It consists of twelve thirty-day months, each having six five-day weeks. New Year's Eve will be Winter Solstice and the new year will begin with five Feast Days.
It's been another sleepless night. Now I have to decide: go to sleep now, wake up at five in the afternoon, stay up all night again, and be tired for work tomorrow; or stay awake all day and sleep tonight.
Need... coffee...
And now for something completely different!
One of my New Year's resolutions was to write a book and start a cult. One of the most important doctrines of that cult will be that our awareness of the passage of time is critical to our appreciation of Nature and hence to our spiritual well-being. In most of our lives, one day can be almost indistinguishable from the next; days turn into weeks, weeks into months, and seasons slip by before we know it.
I've postulated something called a Drift Clock, which is a computerized clock programmed with your geographic location (possibly updated via GPS) that stretches or compresses the hours so that the sun always rises at precisely 6 A.M. and sets at 6 P.M. Living by this clock, we will become acutely aware of the changing seasons.
I've also invented a new calendar. It consists of twelve thirty-day months, each having six five-day weeks. New Year's Eve will be Winter Solstice and the new year will begin with five Feast Days.
It's been another sleepless night. Now I have to decide: go to sleep now, wake up at five in the afternoon, stay up all night again, and be tired for work tomorrow; or stay awake all day and sleep tonight.
Need... coffee...