M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 24 Nov 2018 04:54:47 +0000 (20:54 -0800)]
remove unnecessary qualifier
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 24 Nov 2018 01:43:28 +0000 (17:43 -0800)]
drafting "I Mean, Yes, I Agree"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 23 Nov 2018 21:25:12 +0000 (13:25 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 19 Nov 2018 07:24:02 +0000 (23:24 -0800)]
drafting "I Mean, Yes, I Agree"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 18 Nov 2018 15:12:50 +0000 (07:12 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 15 Nov 2018 17:30:17 +0000 (09:30 -0800)]
drafting "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"
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
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 12 Nov 2018 04:42:43 +0000 (20:42 -0800)]
drafting "I Mean, Yes, I Agree"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 11 Nov 2018 07:48:41 +0000 (23:48 -0800)]
rename memetic-capture stub and add epigraph
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 11 Nov 2018 00:19:27 +0000 (16:19 -0800)]
check in
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?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 4 Nov 2018 16:40:26 +0000 (08:40 -0800)]
check in notes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 3 Nov 2018 17:44:56 +0000 (10:44 -0700)]
drafting money section for "I Mean, Yes"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 2 Nov 2018 15:33:49 +0000 (08:33 -0700)]
outlining for "I Mean, Yes, I Agree that Man"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 29 Oct 2018 05:06:47 +0000 (22:06 -0700)]
check in
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.
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
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
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"!)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 20 Oct 2018 23:56:52 +0000 (16:56 -0700)]
draft "Laser 9"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 20 Oct 2018 20:21:36 +0000 (13:21 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 10 Oct 2018 06:31:13 +0000 (23:31 -0700)]
another (fictional, for now) sticker story; bump interludes
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!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 8 Oct 2018 00:48:55 +0000 (17:48 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 2 Oct 2018 03:36:38 +0000 (20:36 -0700)]
publish "The Information Theory of Passing"
Thanks, Sophia! <3
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 30 Sep 2018 19:51:48 +0000 (12:51 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 29 Sep 2018 15:40:14 +0000 (08:40 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 19 Sep 2018 15:33:41 +0000 (08:33 -0700)]
refine focus of the third idea
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.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 17 Sep 2018 04:44:25 +0000 (21:44 -0700)]
check in
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
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)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 16 Sep 2018 15:15:52 +0000 (08:15 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 15 Sep 2018 18:53:16 +0000 (11:53 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 4 Sep 2018 05:48:05 +0000 (22:48 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 2 Sep 2018 19:22:09 +0000 (12:22 -0700)]
drafting "Scattered Personal Reflections ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 2 Sep 2018 06:31:46 +0000 (23:31 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 2 Sep 2018 06:31:26 +0000 (23:31 -0700)]
drafting "Scattered ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 2 Sep 2018 02:39:19 +0000 (19:39 -0700)]
check in
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.)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 27 Aug 2018 06:30:10 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
drafting "Scattered ..."
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
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 27 Aug 2018 04:03:20 +0000 (21:03 -0700)]
check in notes/clippings
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"
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").
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 26 Aug 2018 00:15:33 +0000 (17:15 -0700)]
"Interlude XIII" jumps the queue
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 23 Aug 2018 15:15:40 +0000 (08:15 -0700)]
starting to draft "Scattered Personal Reflections After ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 23 Aug 2018 04:09:26 +0000 (21:09 -0700)]
check in notes/clippings
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 13 Aug 2018 02:55:53 +0000 (19:55 -0700)]
check in notes/clippings
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 10 Aug 2018 05:32:42 +0000 (22:32 -0700)]
check in notes/clippings
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 8 Aug 2018 04:37:51 +0000 (21:37 -0700)]
publish "Interlude XII"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 8 Aug 2018 04:00:29 +0000 (21:00 -0700)]
check in
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
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.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 5 Aug 2018 20:33:30 +0000 (13:33 -0700)]
check in notes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 27 Jul 2018 04:44:24 +0000 (21:44 -0700)]
check in notes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 8 Jul 2018 20:24:15 +0000 (13:24 -0700)]
check in notes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 1 Jul 2018 20:36:23 +0000 (13:36 -0700)]
check in notes and acclaim
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 3 Jun 2018 19:57:15 +0000 (12:57 -0700)]
check in notes and acclaim
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 17 May 2018 04:48:07 +0000 (21:48 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 4 May 2018 03:45:03 +0000 (20:45 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 28 Apr 2018 23:20:22 +0000 (16:20 -0700)]
check in notes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 23 Apr 2018 16:30:16 +0000 (09:30 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 19 Apr 2018 05:02:38 +0000 (22:02 -0700)]
schedule "Reply to The Unit"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 19 Apr 2018 05:00:01 +0000 (22:00 -0700)]
"Reply to The Unit" copyediting 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?!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 18 Apr 2018 06:21:21 +0000 (23:21 -0700)]
twist the knife (queer the knife/nonknife binary??)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 18 Apr 2018 05:49:26 +0000 (22:49 -0700)]
first contiguous draft of "Reply to The Unit"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 17 Apr 2018 05:36:21 +0000 (22:36 -0700)]
check in
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??
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 16 Apr 2018 05:25:10 +0000 (22:25 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 16 Apr 2018 00:08:40 +0000 (17:08 -0700)]
drafting "Reply to the Unit"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 14 Apr 2018 07:54:12 +0000 (00:54 -0700)]
check in
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!)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 10 Apr 2018 06:15:00 +0000 (23:15 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 9 Apr 2018 05:09:23 +0000 (22:09 -0700)]
drafting "Reply to The Unit"
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.)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 5 Apr 2018 03:33:29 +0000 (20:33 -0700)]
Reddit is crazy
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 31 Mar 2018 18:59:47 +0000 (11:59 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 29 Mar 2018 06:29:58 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
drafting "Reply to The Unit"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 27 Mar 2018 06:45:58 +0000 (23:45 -0700)]
drafting "Reply to The Unit"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 27 Mar 2018 03:45:39 +0000 (20:45 -0700)]
check in post-ideas file
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 26 Mar 2018 06:08:32 +0000 (23:08 -0700)]
drafting "Reply to The Unit"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 23 Mar 2018 06:59:42 +0000 (23:59 -0700)]
starting to draft reply to Unit of Caring
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 19 Mar 2018 03:43:01 +0000 (20:43 -0700)]
check in
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"
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"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 23 Feb 2018 09:27:37 +0000 (01:27 -0800)]
"Categories" line edits
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 23 Feb 2018 09:07:47 +0000 (01:07 -0800)]
meetup delusions links: use a screenshot
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 ...
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.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 23 Feb 2018 08:00:35 +0000 (00:00 -0800)]
photo credit CSS
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 23 Feb 2018 08:00:08 +0000 (00:00 -0800)]
drafting/editing "The Categories"
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
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 23 Feb 2018 00:12:33 +0000 (16:12 -0800)]
drafting/editing "The Categories"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 22 Feb 2018 06:32:20 +0000 (22:32 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 22 Feb 2018 06:30:14 +0000 (22:30 -0800)]
drafting/editing "Categories"
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.
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