Archive for September, 2007
35 Days – There Isn’t Much Time! Make Haste, Posthaste!
Sep 27th
The last countdown-style blog I made, the countdown stood at 38 days. Now it’s 35 days. It feels like yesterday I made that blog post – where did the three days go??
I’m running out of time. So many things to do. So many people to see. So many loose ends to wrap up, and no time to do it all!
Must sleep. And while I sleep, the unyielding arrow of time continues ahead.
Running Log
Sep 25th
My hip’s still bothering me during the run, but its recovering a lot faster. I’d literally be limping around 2-3 days after a run. The run before this one, the pain had cleared up completely by the end of the next day. Now only 2 hours after the completion of tonight’s run, my hip’s feeling quite good now, although it did hurt quite a bit during the run.
I’ll take that as a sign of improvement.
Tonight’s run was a easy-going affair so that we dont kill ourselves for our 16-18 mile epic this weekend.
38 Days – Photography, discourse amongst giants
Sep 24th
I just discovered that photographer, Alec Soth has a blog. And it is suprisingly well-written with many thoughtful posts about the very nature of photography.One of the most interesting threads in there is one that tackles the age old question, “Can Art Be Taught?”I found it doubly interesting today having just come off a in-depth discussion with one of my co-workers on whether truly great programmers can be taught. Many of the points and rationales that are brought up in Alec’s post could be seamlessly lifted up from his blog and placed into the context of an article that ponders the question of whether programming can be taught, and there would be very little out of place.One of the strongest statements in the entire post is found in the comments section, where a commenter states:
But in the end my feeling is that the great students will become great artists anyway, with or without art school. The less stellar ones can be nurtured along to be better artists but no amount of education will turn them into great artists.
Indeed.