Blog posts from 2011

1. An imaginary mix

   Sometimes you hear something like a beat or a riff or whatever and think, well that’s nice. Wayne’s World - Garth ‘I like to play the drums’ Steve Gadd - Playing in the pocket sample, youtube Harry…

2. torrent applescript folder action

   I made an OS X folder action to move .torrent file downloads to a directory watched by my torrent client. It’s pretty clumsy. on adding folder items to thisFolder after receiving added_items set…

3. Stephen King on fiction

   JP: I’ll tell you what I responded to. In the last two paragraphs, the tears sort of jumped to my eyes, but I realized that it wasn’t the deaths, oddly enough, that I was responding to – it was the…

4. Synecdoche and Metonymy

   Look: Because synecdoche is a concept intimately associated with metonymy, not calling metonymy by name, one could claim that synecdoche is a metonym for metonymy. By similar standards, because…