Anything Anyone Wants to Hear from Me?

@Tomas

Actually thinking about doing a book on that once my Polyglot Programming book is odne.

More Autobase love in general though. Gotcha.

@Brian

Yeah: the really great flame wars are the ones that are about one off-handed.

Which Congress apparently has figured out, judging from this “Wise Latina Woman” stuff.

On that topic, this is awesome (as long as you realize it’s a joke):

@Marc

Okay, seriously: I sleep starting sometime between midnight and two and wake up at eight. So I get from six to eight hours of sleep, depending.

Now and again, I’ll do a lazy Saturday morning (like I did this morning) and sleep in until noon. But I also didn’t go to bed until three—although most of that was catching up on Colbert Report, Daily Show, and NCIS while futzing on Facebook.

I’ve thought about doing polyphasic sleep, but everything I’ve read says that you have to have a lot of strict discipline and fight though six weeks to three months of misery to get to the point where your body is reset to the new normal. And even that “new normal” is only normal for your body—you’re still a bit off compared to the rest of the waking world. So I’m not sure it’s worth it. Maybe I’ll give it a shot when I’m in my doctoral program or doing the chaplaincy or something.

To answer the implied larger question “How do you fit everything you’re doing into your day?” The answer is: long days. I normally wake up, set coffee to brew, take the dog out so it can go to the bathroom, and then sit down with a cup of joe and my computer. I then don’t leave that seat until 9 or 10 at night, with the exception of a brief break to take the dog for a longer walk (~1 hr). The only exception to this routine is on Sundays (when I declare it Sabbath and don’t let myself anywhere near my computer) and sometimes on Saturdays (when I play catch-up on house chores and now-and-again see friends).

And right now, I’m actually in a position now where I have too much to do: my book is behind schedule, and I’ve not moved forward with either the Nonviolent Peaceforce or Freemasonry stuff I wanted to get to this summer. And I’ve also neglected those Grails plugins which haven’t been directly applicable to my work (most notably Autobase), as well as Ashlar (nee Cornerstone). And I’d like to work out more regularly (it was part of my regular schedule earlier this summer, but fell out when things got busy). Not getting to that stuff bums me out¹.

¹ Except for not getting around to Ashlar. Although I’d love to have it out there already, I’ve been reading lots of interesting papers and working with lots of interesting alternatives, and I think Ashlar is going to be a better language for it in the long run. In particular, I’m thinking I might do it as a statically typed functional language with an ML feel but a C-derived syntax, and with a prototype-based, structurally-typed object system (for those that really need OO) instead of trying to hack around with nominal typing and inheritance and mixins and all that jazz.