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Saturday, 17 May 2003
SF pics ::
I like it when friends visit from out of town; I get to be a tourist in my own backyard. I hadn’t been to Muir Woods in about 12 years. My friends remarked that, other than the spectacular redwoods, it reminded them of their native Thailand. We came across the rose garden in Golden Gate Park by luck; it was just beginning to bloom (note to self: go back next weekend). I’d never seen the Japanese tea garden there and liked it a lot. There was a bit of regret at having forgotten my camera the first day, but J took a lot of photos and promised to have the film processors put them on the web. ...
Between the piano and C++ ::
Mark Bernstein comments on a New York Times piece: “The distance between the paintbrush and programming in C++ is that, with a brush, you can rationalize mistakes. That’s all. The distance between the piano and C++ is.... what, precisely? Dexterity, I suppose.” ...