tiling the infinite plane: . . . a tumblelog . . .

Wednesday, the 24^th of January, A.D. 2007

in the 59^th minute of the 8^th hour ante meridium

a·bys·mal·i·ty

abysmality: the state of being abysmal; being at the lowest conceivable state; lit. being at the lowest possible depth.

They sound like morons, there is no music to cover their abysmality.

— Cycoclops

in the 19^th minute of the 8^th hour ante meridium

More simulated annealing:

Friday, the 19^th of January, A.D. 2007

in the 10^th minute of the 8^th hour post meridium

In the process of refactoring Markdown in C, I've checked out some other structured text formats:

atx (intro on Webarchive)
EtText
Latte, similar to TeX
Grutatxt
reStructuredText, from Docutils
Setext (R.I.P.)
Textile

in the 58^th minute of the 7^th hour post meridium

Achtung! Alles turisten und nontekniscen lookenpeepers!

Das komputermaschine ist nicht für der gefingerpoken und mittengraben. Ist zu easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen, und poppencorken mit spitzensparken. Der maschine ist diggen bei experten only. Ist nicht für gewerken bei das dummkopfen. Der rubbernecken sichtseeren keepen das cottenpicken händer in dem pockets muss.
Relaxen und watschen das blinkenlichten.

Thursday, the 18^th of January, A.D. 2007

in the 57^th minute of the 10^th hour ante meridium

Simulated Annealing on Wikipedia
Simulated Annealing, by Brian T. Luke
Traveling salesman problem (Wikipedia)
Algorithm of the Gods
- Algorithm of the Gods (Indiana University)
- Algorithm of the Gods addenda (Wayback Machine)

in the 11^th minute of the 8^th hour ante meridium

Tuesday, the 9^th of January, A.D. 2007

in the 49^th minute of the 7^th hour post meridium

. . . and sometimes, with a sly curl of the nose, he would mutter a series of murderous imprecations in which the word ‘editor’ seemed always to be present.

— from “The Great Automatic Grammatisator”, by Roald Dahl

in the 12^th minute of the 1^st hour post meridium

" The Most Dangerous Place in the World", by B.B.

in the 56^th minute of the 12^th hour ante meridium

WHO is Silvia? What is she?
That all our swains commend her?
Holy, fair, and wise is she;
The heaven such grace did lend her,
That she might admirèd be.

. . .

Then to Silvia let us sing,
That Silvia is excelling;
She excels each mortal thing
Upon the dull earth dwelling:
To her let us garlands bring.

— “Silvia”, by William Shakespeare

in the 29^th minute of the 12^th hour ante meridium

Currently I'm reading the following on everything2: