On Sun, Dec 07, 2014 at 09:47:05PM -0800, Bret Victor wrote:
> >
> > In the hours after my Grilbert-zoom night session yesterday, I've been
> > reflecting and think I finally have the will to properly publish a
> > WotI of my own for the video projects and prototypes I've developed in
> > the past four (!) years.
>
> Hooray!
This has been slow-moving, but in the jetlagged haze of a dreary
morning in Brussels yesterday--and in the notable absence of a charged
computer[0]--I managed to get an outline and draft a first chapter of
what I've taken to calling, simply, The Documentation. This "morning"
(if waking up at 3am counts as morning), I transcribed the scribbles
from my notebook.
I've put so much of myself into the work I'm trying to document that
it's hard to get it all out and it's/I'm (indistinguishably) still too
sensitive and delicate for your harshest criticisms. Still, since this
is my first "explorable explanation" (though, at the moment, sans the
explorable parts), if you feel like trudging into an early draft I
*would* appreciate some high-level thoughts on whether the general
structure (to the extent you can make it out) and tone are
appropriate:
http://rmozone.com/misc/fivepart.html
Your correspondent,
R.M.O.
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While some of the Computer-Aided Distractions (CAD) have been
potentially useful, like figuring out the webaudio tapespeed garbage,
other times I've sat down to work on the essay and ened up with crap
like this that will certainly *not* be used:
http://rmozone.com/snapshots/2014/12/venn.html
Death to the static medium! Long live the static medium!*
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*What's the origin of this snow clone?