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5 years agoremove unnecessary qualifier
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 24 Nov 2018 04:54:47 +0000 (20:54 -0800)]
remove unnecessary qualifier

5 years agodrafting "I Mean, Yes, I Agree"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 24 Nov 2018 01:43:28 +0000 (17:43 -0800)]
drafting "I Mean, Yes, I Agree"

5 years agocheck in
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5 years agodrafting "I Mean, Yes, I Agree"
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5 years agocheck in
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5 years agodrafting "I Mean, Yes, I Agree"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 15 Nov 2018 17:30:17 +0000 (09:30 -0800)]
drafting "I Mean, Yes, I Agree"

5 years agodrafting "I Mean, Yes, I Agree"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 12 Nov 2018 16:35:47 +0000 (08:35 -0800)]
drafting "I Mean, Yes, I Agree"

5 years agoax the "blame for misunderstanding" footnote
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 12 Nov 2018 04:44:21 +0000 (20:44 -0800)]
ax the "blame for misunderstanding" footnote

It's too passive-aggressive, and not adding a lot of value, besides

5 years agodrafting "I Mean, Yes, I Agree"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 12 Nov 2018 04:42:43 +0000 (20:42 -0800)]
drafting "I Mean, Yes, I Agree"

5 years agorename memetic-capture stub and add epigraph
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 11 Nov 2018 07:48:41 +0000 (23:48 -0800)]
rename memetic-capture stub and add epigraph

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5 years agodrafting "I Mean, Yes, I Agree"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 5 Nov 2018 07:56:48 +0000 (23:56 -0800)]
drafting "I Mean, Yes, I Agree"

The net wordcount gain here isn't great, but at least we've got the
skeleton in place, and I just need to finish shoveling text around?
Call it a week?

5 years agocheck in notes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 4 Nov 2018 16:40:26 +0000 (08:40 -0800)]
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5 years agodrafting money section for "I Mean, Yes"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 3 Nov 2018 17:44:56 +0000 (10:44 -0700)]
drafting money section for "I Mean, Yes"

6 years agooutlining for "I Mean, Yes, I Agree that Man"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 2 Nov 2018 15:33:49 +0000 (08:33 -0700)]
outlining for "I Mean, Yes, I Agree that Man"

6 years agocheck in
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6 years agonon-404 (for now??) "Power of the Powerless" link
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 29 Oct 2018 04:58:07 +0000 (21:58 -0700)]
non-404 (for now??) "Power of the Powerless" link

A friend of the blog informed me via Reddit PM that this link had gone
stale.

6 years agoedits to "Sticker Prices"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 29 Oct 2018 04:55:04 +0000 (21:55 -0700)]
edits to "Sticker Prices"

"An" anecdote.

Despite wanting to keep the focus on me and my feelings about the
Narrative (rather than picking on my anonymous interlocutor who could
have been anyone in the Current Year, really), the "outgroup
homogeneity" link opportunity is too perfect to pass up

6 years agoqueue "Sticker Prices", "Interlude XIV", "Laser 9", "Interlude XV"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 22 Oct 2018 05:09:48 +0000 (22:09 -0700)]
queue "Sticker Prices", "Interlude XIV", "Laser 9", "Interlude XV"

Hopefully this leading stack of M-W-F-M posts will set a precedent
that the blog is a going concern!

I feel a little bit bad about the awkward writing in "Sticker Prices"
(there's an interesting writing problem that I'm trying to solve there
that, uncharacteristically, I don't want to be too transparent about),
but whatever, it's not that important of a post, and I want to get
something out about how I felt at the conference

6 years agolottery Interlude
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 21 Oct 2018 06:06:44 +0000 (23:06 -0700)]
lottery Interlude

(This one is from the notes transcribed from one of my 2007 notebooks,
"We Have Better Graphs"!)

6 years agodraft "Laser 9"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 20 Oct 2018 23:56:52 +0000 (16:56 -0700)]
draft "Laser 9"

6 years agocheck in
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6 years agoanother (fictional, for now) sticker story; bump interludes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 10 Oct 2018 06:31:13 +0000 (23:31 -0700)]
another (fictional, for now) sticker story; bump interludes

6 years agodrafting "Sticker Prices" (better title)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 8 Oct 2018 15:50:14 +0000 (08:50 -0700)]
drafting "Sticker Prices" (better title)

I need to get my writing momentum back! Ship this soon!

6 years agocheck in
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6 years agopublish "The Information Theory of Passing"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 2 Oct 2018 03:36:38 +0000 (20:36 -0700)]
publish "The Information Theory of Passing"

Thanks, Sophia! <3

6 years agocheck in
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6 years agorefine focus of the third idea
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 19 Sep 2018 15:33:41 +0000 (08:33 -0700)]
refine focus of the third idea

6 years agosplit "Scattered ..." into three post ideas
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 19 Sep 2018 15:21:07 +0000 (08:21 -0700)]
split "Scattered ..." into three post ideas

I'm not happy with any of these titles, but that's not important now.

6 years agocheck in
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6 years ago"Categories Were Made": anchor site for "different kinds of women" objection
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 17 Sep 2018 04:43:48 +0000 (21:43 -0700)]
"Categories Were Made": anchor site for "different kinds of women" objection

6 years agodrafting "Scattered ..." (just as a dumping pad for raw material)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 17 Sep 2018 04:42:57 +0000 (21:42 -0700)]
drafting "Scattered ..." (just as a dumping pad for raw material)

6 years agocheck in
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6 years agodrafting "Scattered Personal Reflections ..."
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drafting "Scattered Personal Reflections ..."

6 years agocheck in
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6 years agodrafting "Scattered ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 2 Sep 2018 06:31:26 +0000 (23:31 -0700)]
drafting "Scattered ..."

6 years agocheck in
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6 years ago"Scattered ..." draft: swap in a sharper epigraph
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 28 Aug 2018 15:07:50 +0000 (08:07 -0700)]
"Scattered ..." draft: swap in a sharper epigraph

The Mulan quote risks falling into the "anti-identity-politics
identity politics" trap; this one is more situation specific and
having the epigraph represent the attitude that I'm wary of shows
self-awareness. (I would hope that even people who don't like me
should be able to appreciate my blog from a "villain protagonist"
æsthetic perspective.)

6 years agodrafting "Scattered ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 27 Aug 2018 06:30:10 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
drafting "Scattered ..."

6 years agocheck in changes to "Scattered ..."; reverse anchor to sticker discourse
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 27 Aug 2018 04:03:44 +0000 (21:03 -0700)]
check in changes to "Scattered ..."; reverse anchor to sticker discourse

6 years agocheck in notes/clippings
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6 years agocheck in notefile about a code-themed in-universe "deniably allegorical"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 27 Aug 2018 04:00:32 +0000 (21:00 -0700)]
check in notefile about a code-themed in-universe "deniably allegorical"

6 years agoguest post draft check-in: "The Information Theory of Passing"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 26 Aug 2018 02:45:45 +0000 (19:45 -0700)]
guest post draft check-in: "The Information Theory of Passing"

Sophia verbally said I could republish her analysis from our email
exchange the other year after I run it by her for edits (which, note,
I haven't done yet)! This is not quite verbatim from the email, with a
link to Wikipedia math, changes to formatting (subscript twos, Unicode
almost-equals, bolded list items, italicized "etc.", en dashes) and a
couple very minor wording changes (just "very different prospect"
instead of "very very very", cut phrase "in the rest of the email").

6 years ago"Interlude XIII" jumps the queue
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 26 Aug 2018 00:15:33 +0000 (17:15 -0700)]
"Interlude XIII" jumps the queue

6 years agostarting to draft "Scattered Personal Reflections After ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 23 Aug 2018 15:15:40 +0000 (08:15 -0700)]
starting to draft "Scattered Personal Reflections After ..."

6 years agocheck in notes/clippings
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6 years agocheck in notes/clippings
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6 years agocheck in notes/clippings
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 10 Aug 2018 05:32:42 +0000 (22:32 -0700)]
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6 years agopublish "Interlude XII"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 8 Aug 2018 04:37:51 +0000 (21:37 -0700)]
publish "Interlude XII"

6 years agocheck in
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6 years agobarest skeleton of reply to Ozy's reply to my reply to Scott
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 5 Aug 2018 22:55:18 +0000 (15:55 -0700)]
barest skeleton of reply to Ozy's reply to my reply to Scott

6 years agowrite interludes to disk
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 5 Aug 2018 21:47:39 +0000 (14:47 -0700)]
write interludes to disk

Maybe the "Interlude Numeral" naming convention is not great and I
should just think of actual titles? Where do these fit in to my
publishing schedule?—where would they if I _had_ a publishing schedule
lately.

6 years agocheck in notes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 5 Aug 2018 20:33:30 +0000 (13:33 -0700)]
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6 years agocheck in notes
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6 years agocheck in notes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 8 Jul 2018 20:24:15 +0000 (13:24 -0700)]
check in notes

6 years agocheck in notes and acclaim
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 1 Jul 2018 20:36:23 +0000 (13:36 -0700)]
check in notes and acclaim

6 years agocheck in notes and acclaim
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 3 Jun 2018 19:57:15 +0000 (12:57 -0700)]
check in notes and acclaim

6 years agocheck in
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6 years agocheck in notes
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6 years agocheck in
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6 years agoschedule "Reply to The Unit"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 19 Apr 2018 05:02:38 +0000 (22:02 -0700)]
schedule "Reply to The Unit"

6 years ago"Reply to The Unit" copyediting pass
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 19 Apr 2018 05:00:01 +0000 (22:00 -0700)]
"Reply to The Unit" copyediting pass

6 years ago"Reply to The Unit" ispell pass
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 19 Apr 2018 04:12:19 +0000 (21:12 -0700)]
"Reply to The Unit" ispell pass

I don't think I usually make this many typos?!

6 years agotwist the knife (queer the knife/nonknife binary??)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 18 Apr 2018 06:21:21 +0000 (23:21 -0700)]
twist the knife (queer the knife/nonknife binary??)

6 years agofirst contiguous draft of "Reply to The Unit"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 18 Apr 2018 05:49:26 +0000 (22:49 -0700)]
first contiguous draft of "Reply to The Unit"

6 years agocheck in
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6 years agodrafting "Reply to The Unit"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 16 Apr 2018 15:09:25 +0000 (08:09 -0700)]
drafting "Reply to The Unit"

Got to go dayjob now; is there a hope of finishing this tonight??

6 years agocheck in
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6 years agodrafting "Reply to the Unit"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 16 Apr 2018 00:08:40 +0000 (17:08 -0700)]
drafting "Reply to the Unit"

6 years agocheck in
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6 years agodrafting "Reply to The Unit"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 11 Apr 2018 15:00:18 +0000 (08:00 -0700)]
drafting "Reply to The Unit"

(I think writing in the morning—and I mean every morning—is going to be good
for me!)

6 years agocheck in
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6 years agodrafting "Reply to The Unit"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 9 Apr 2018 05:09:23 +0000 (22:09 -0700)]
drafting "Reply to The Unit"

6 years agodrafting "Reply to the Unit" (featuring dialogue formatting)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 8 Apr 2018 00:59:29 +0000 (17:59 -0700)]
drafting "Reply to the Unit" (featuring dialogue formatting)

(Arguably the dialogue formatting should have been a separate commit in order
to get a clean `git wordcount`
(https://github.com/zackmdavis/dotfiles/blob/9fb0964a/bin/git-wordcount) of the
actual writing progress here, but the perfect has reluctantly made some
strategic concessions to its ally the good in the service of their common cause
against the bad.)

6 years agoReddit is crazy
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 5 Apr 2018 03:33:29 +0000 (20:33 -0700)]
Reddit is crazy

6 years agocheck in
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6 years agodrafting "Reply to The Unit"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 29 Mar 2018 06:29:58 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
drafting "Reply to The Unit"

6 years agodrafting "Reply to The Unit"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 27 Mar 2018 06:45:58 +0000 (23:45 -0700)]
drafting "Reply to The Unit"

6 years agocheck in post-ideas file
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 27 Mar 2018 03:45:39 +0000 (20:45 -0700)]
check in post-ideas file

6 years agodrafting "Reply to The Unit"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 26 Mar 2018 06:08:32 +0000 (23:08 -0700)]
drafting "Reply to The Unit"

6 years agostarting to draft reply to Unit of Caring
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 23 Mar 2018 06:59:42 +0000 (23:59 -0700)]
starting to draft reply to Unit of Caring

6 years agocheck in
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6 years ago"'cause the critics all confused him with the great Elvis Costello"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 3 Mar 2018 20:57:02 +0000 (12:57 -0800)]
"'cause the critics all confused him with the great Elvis Costello"

6 years agopublish "The Categories Were Made for Man to Make Predictions"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:47:27 +0000 (08:47 -0800)]
publish "The Categories Were Made for Man to Make Predictions"

6 years ago"Categories" line edits
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 23 Feb 2018 09:27:37 +0000 (01:27 -0800)]
"Categories" line edits

6 years agomeetup delusions links: use a screenshot
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 23 Feb 2018 09:07:47 +0000 (01:07 -0800)]
meetup delusions links: use a screenshot

6 years agoreplacement notebook scans for "A Beacon Through the Darkness"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 23 Feb 2018 08:43:28 +0000 (00:43 -0800)]
replacement notebook scans for "A Beacon Through the Darkness"

I don't like original phone-as-copy-camera images—for one thing, they ended
up too redshifted. When I was at the copy shop the other week, I actually
made a scan; I want to retrofit them into the post now, especially given
that I'm expecting a traffic bump soon ...

6 years agoadjust display size of sheet music
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 23 Feb 2018 08:14:32 +0000 (00:14 -0800)]
adjust display size of sheet music

The unresized images were messing the right-hand-side layout of the blog.

6 years agophoto credit CSS
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 23 Feb 2018 08:00:35 +0000 (00:00 -0800)]
photo credit CSS

6 years agodrafting/editing "The Categories"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 23 Feb 2018 08:00:08 +0000 (00:00 -0800)]
drafting/editing "The Categories"

6 years agowork the "branding and market segmentation" phrase into the About page
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 23 Feb 2018 07:12:54 +0000 (23:12 -0800)]
work the "branding and market segmentation" phrase into the About page

6 years agodrafting/editing "The Categories"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 23 Feb 2018 00:12:33 +0000 (16:12 -0800)]
drafting/editing "The Categories"

6 years agocheck in
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6 years agodrafting/editing "Categories"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 22 Feb 2018 06:30:14 +0000 (22:30 -0800)]
drafting/editing "Categories"

6 years agosimplify "Simple Footnotes" fragment identifier
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 22 Feb 2018 00:28:04 +0000 (16:28 -0800)]
simplify "Simple Footnotes" fragment identifier

The article slug is already in the URL; repeating it in the fragment is
hideous.

6 years agolabel axes (albeit uninformatively), explain diagram in a boxed aside
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 22 Feb 2018 00:20:08 +0000 (16:20 -0800)]
label axes (albeit uninformatively), explain diagram in a boxed aside