This page presents some images I want friends to be able to see. If you are looking for NCITS/J13 documents, try here.
I've started a web page about constructing a natural horn at Atelier Harlow in Tokyo, Japan.
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| Here are Chie and Anna at Halloween, 1996. | Oso, Dec 2004 This is about as pensive as he gets. Anna took this picture. |
A photo of a distant gull taken on a very overcast day in the spring
of 1995 at Dogashima on the Izu peninsula, southwest of Tokyo. It was
shot with a disposable panoramic camera and was almost monochromatic.
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| Anna at the 1997 Franz company picnic. | Daddy at the 1997 Franz company picnic. |
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| Anna in Sonoma wine country, summer 1998. |
Anna at the 1999 company picnic. |
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| This shows why I think crystals of silver are superior to rows of pixels. This was taken on 35mm Kodachrome using only the illumination of a single internal wax candle. Overexposure does neat posterization things with silver. Photography is about light, not pixels. |
Sensical Oxymoron is the only exemplar of its class.
(c) smh 7Sep2005
Maxwell's daemon might have been here.
Text written above a urinal in the men's room of the Yale computer
center sometime in the late 1970's.
Temporal logic just isn't what it used to be.
(c) smh 2005
If you do it right the second time, you wouldn't have had to do
it the first time.
(c) smh 2006
It took me a great many years to learn that I was too old to learn anything new.
(c) smh 2005
Valves are highly overrated. Especially the thumb valve.
(c) smh 2005
In a vacuum no one can hear you clam.
(c) smh 2009
Nothing is too high to be taken down an octave.
said by
conductor and trumpeter John D. Corley ca 1970, but I seem to remember
he was quoting some earlier master.
Once you realize you are confused, you are no longer confused!
(c) smh 2006
The package system is in Chapter 11
- unidentified
Common Lisp guru in the 1980's, which property was voted by X3J13 as
an nonbinding suggestion to the ANS for CL project editor.
Summer goeth before the Fall.
(c) smh Jun2007
I'm typing faster than I'm thinking than I'm typing.
(c) smh Mar2008
Being Turing equivalent means never having to say you're sorry.
(c) smh Aug2008
Life indicts art far more than art indicts Life.
(c) smh Oct2008
The only difference between a stupid question and an ignorant question is stupidity.
(c) smh Nov2008 revised Sep2009
A squid has tentacles, but an octopus has only eight.
(c) smh 2005
We could shoot ourselves in the foot, but our weaponry lacks
anything with sufficient range. We'll have to shoot ourselves in the
hand instead.
(c) smh 2009
Go ahead and shoot. You'll be doing me a favor.
Bogart to Bergman in Casablanca (1942)
It should have been simple, but then we decided to implement it.
(c) smh 2009
If computer animation had been invented before ballet, would it
have been necessary to invent ballet at all?
(c) smh 2009
Many wise men have called me an idiot. Only some of them have
been right.
(c) smh 2009
Modern processors are subtle and quick to anger.
(c) smh 2009
Someone who is illiterate in four languages is arguably still
better educated than someone who is illiterate merely in
three.
(c) smh 2010
If you put a cucumber into salt water, it eventually becomes a
pickle. How do dolphins avoid the same fate?
(c) smh 2010
If the XML W3C Recommendation were just a little easier to
understand, more people would realize just how difficult it is to
understand.
(c) smh 2010
Even a golden cloud has a lining that is mere base silver.
(c) smh 2010
Complexity has a cost. So does simplicity.
(c) smh 2010
Statistics is a plural noun. The singular is not statistic; the singular is anecdote.
(c) smh 2010, revised 2011
Why is it that mindless tasks require the most thinking?
(c) smh 2011
Think globally, act lexically.
(c) smh 2011
>A small mind is the hobgoblin of consistency.
(c) smh 2011
The statement "I'm a very good liar" is true regardless whether it is true or false.
(c) smh 2011
Studies have found that 137 percent of all statistics published on the internet
are inaccurate or simply incorrect.
(c) smh 2011
There are two kinds of semantic web applications: those that
divide neatly into two kinds of semantic web applications, and those
that do not.
(c) smh 2011
That is a typo; I was typing faster than I was thinking than I
was typing.
(c) smh 2011
Twits twitter.
(c) smh 2011
Goethe said, if God created this world, he should review his plan.
(c) Marlene Dietrich (?)
Consider: How would one go about turning a Klein bottle inside out?
(c) smh 2011
Sanity is not thread safe.
(c) smh 2011
Is the following statement a tautology?
It is easier to prove that a non-trivial logic cannot be both
consistent and complete than it is to implement such a logic.
(c) smh 2011