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| ''For no good reason''' (Pinky & the Brain-style), here is a rough and incomplete list of what I'm currently digesting, newest first. | |||
| * writing the page on ] meant taking it down from the shelf, so I may be dipping into that | |||
| * ]'s The Golden Gate | |||
| * Brian O'Doherty's The Strange Case of Mademoiselle P. -- features Anton Mesmer, Mr Hypnoto himself! | |||
| * Wuthering Heights, on hold | |||
| * ..and of course ''A la recherche du temps perdu'' -- currently taking a hiatus from volume 4, ''Sodome et Gomorrhe'', safe in the knowledge that I've got further in this than most people do.... *smug grin that only lasts until I realise how much of it I ''haven't'' yet read...* | |||
Revision as of 12:34, 27 May 2002
For those who really wish to know, I landed on Misplaced Pages quite by accident in January 2002: I was idly reading an article on operating systems for the next generation of mobile phones (I am not sure why...), which was detailing Micro$oft's foray into this field. The article went on to say that many cool things would be possible with the colour screens that we'd be seeing on advanced models; but that given minimal memory and ways of addressing the screen all aimed at minimizing power consumption, programmers who worked on games on 1980s computers such as the Commodore 64 and the ZX Spectrum would find their skills at squeezing the maximum effiencency out of the minimum code once again in demand.
In particular (it said), the problem of "attribute clash" seen on the Spectrum was again rearing its ugly head. Intrigued by the term — it was implied that it related to colour on the screen — I Googled it, and the first link got me to Misplaced Pages...
I do of course try and tone done my style when writing Misplaced Pages entries: I do have a tendency to ramble. ;-)
Articles
My principal fields of interest are music and maths, but also a mixed bag of things:
lately, I've started:
- Through the Looking-Glass
- Arlo Guthrie
- Oliver Heaviside
- Pink Panther
- Henry Mancini
- Baron Haussmann
- Oulipo
- La Vie mode d'emploi
Stuff I've added to lately:
Stuff I intend to read up on:
Reading list
For no good reason' (Pinky & the Brain-style), here is a rough and incomplete list of what I'm currently digesting, newest first.
- writing the page on La Vie mode d'emploi meant taking it down from the shelf, so I may be dipping into that
- Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate
- Brian O'Doherty's The Strange Case of Mademoiselle P. -- features Anton Mesmer, Mr Hypnoto himself!
- Wuthering Heights, on hold
- ..and of course A la recherche du temps perdu -- currently taking a hiatus from volume 4, Sodome et Gomorrhe, safe in the knowledge that I've got further in this than most people do.... *smug grin that only lasts until I realise how much of it I haven't yet read...*
Hi, tarquin, welcome to wikipedia. sjc
Hey Tarquin,welcome to the 'pedia -- like what you have done to the place. maveric149