It hurts my brain, it does!

[elfs]

So, last night, as I said, I took Kouryou-chan out to Kidopolis to let her run around and let off some steam. I was a bit creeped out when I found her and another girl on the back gym, and Kouryou-chan was teaching the other girl how to "duck and cover." "When the atomic bomb goes off, you do this!" Kouryou-chan said, then immediately fell against the padded wall in the classic duck-and-cover pose, hands over the back of her neck.

That's what I get for showing her the classic civil defense film. Once upon a time, necessary viewing for all kids her age, repeatedly, but not anymore. She doesn't even know what "the atomic bomb" is. I wonder how many kids do these days?

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Excellent news! The complete text of The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs is now on-line. Even better, when I installed MIT-Scheme on Gentoo, it saw that I had "apache" in my list of standard tools and installed the Wizard Book (as SICP is better known) under the HTML documentation tree stock. Sweet!

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And hot on the heels of my resolution to start learning Kanji, I've been given the assignment of internationalizing my programs at work for the Japanese market. Today, I've already had to use what little Kanji I know to make up names for files and folders on the filesystem. Since my Kanji vocabulary is limited, the three folders I have are "my folder," "forestry," and "Thursday." I'm sure things will get better. But at least I have an excuse to practice two things at once.

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[fallenpegasus]

I've told the people in my Knuth group that we get "done" with that, we should do the Wizard Book next.