Atlas Shrugged Chapter 10: Wyatt’s Torch
One reason I wanted to post (if possible) after each chapter was that I figured it would keep me motivated to keep reading if there were evidence of my progress...
Month: June 2010
Atlas Shrugged Chapter 9: The Sacred and the Profane
I’m not sure if it’s my commitment to try to be more pleasant towards the book, or if this chapter was genuinely better than the previous one. Eithe...
Atlas Shrugged: Reassessment #1
Reflecting on the tenor of my summations of the last few chapters, it occurs to me that perhaps I have been less generous to Atlas Shrugged than I had originall...
Atlas Shrugged Chapter 8: The John Galt Line
Egocentrism abounds. When the first page of a chapter is an entire dialog, as in, involving two people, and there’s no telephone involved but we only get ...
Battleships update
I’ve been rather obsessively working on my Battleships program the last few days, and have quite a bit to show for it: The autosolver works now, as does t...
Let’s do start
Yesterday, I was discussing the German imperative with my wife. Due to habits formed in high school and college language courses, we tend to use the formal vers...
Embracing ethnic pride
I was raised as a cultural mutt. Half my family or so on each side is German but largely indifferent to that heritage (with occasional exceptions, such as my mo...
Atlas Shrugged Chapter 7: The Exploiters and the Exploited
What a whiny chapter. More after the summary. Chapter summary: It’s Dagny and Hank against the world. Dagny oversees the construction of the rail line. Th...
Battleships: Adding undo, autosolve, and a toolbar
I’ve been thinking lately of making my Battleships program more robust by having a complete autosolver and a random puzzle creator. The first step was pro...
Atlas Shrugged Chapter 6: The Non-Commercial
Ayn Rand is an odd lover: First she begins to seduce me in chapter 5, then she spits in my face for most of chapter 6, and then she bats her eyelashes coyly at ...