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I came back from vacation almost a week ago.
I went to one of the many caffees at work today. That had me think about food at home back in France. I think my mother is a really great cook and I love all her dishes. Stuff I can remember eating during this trip, in no particular order:
The astute reader will notice this is actually a mix of cuisine Normande, Spanish and Languedoc. That's what I take for granted when I hear "French food", including the associated variety and freshness. That's also one of the reasons I have a hard time appreciating so-called "French restaurants" as authentic.
That's basically the second time it happens. Or maybe the third. Every time I come here and I have some expectations on how I expect my vacation to be and it turns out to be something radically different.
Different doesn't mean bad.
Years from now I'll look at this and though it was a great time -- which it has been. There are always ups and downs and you can't always get all you want, it's all about compromises I guess.
But yeah, that was radically different and unexpected -- or maybe not totally, we knew it wouldn't be as before. After all it's not all about me anymore, nor even the two of us: now it's about the four of us and it takes a different kind of thinking and getting things done.
All in all we all had a good time, 612 pictures were taken and we're back to packing luggage again...
We're now spending some vacation time in Agde. The incoming trip was mostly uneventful and even though it was long and tiring it went much more smoothly than anticipated.
The AirFrance flight was actually nice, the babies had a good amount of nap/sleep and overall a good meal and the individual seat-mounted screens had nice comics to keep them from getting bored. They even went for a nice little walk and enjoyed the stairs in the 747.
The TGV leg of the trip was a bit harder at first. Eventually they fell asleep for a good part of the trip, so that was nice. Yet overall dragging the luggage in and out of the train in the ultra-short stops was the most stressful part.
Anyway I'm glad we're here at last. It's been a while.
200 + 1 = 170
Pretty odd math isn't it? Well that just means that whenever I read ASOT 200, I somehow end up listening ASOT 170 back again. That's been going on for months and I see no end to it right now.
A while ago I started a list of ASOT episodes I like best and which time codes. So I got so far as 170, 171 XXL part 2 & 3, 186, 187, 188, later 198 and of course 195 and 200 XXL part 1 & 2 (first half). I stopped after 188 since the exercise was rather pointless -- it's not the mix that is spectacular in itself as much as the tune. And since some tunes are outstanding, whichever episode happens to contains them is a better episode.
So fine, I could make a list of tunes I find my favorites, right? Sure I could but it would be rather long and mostly pointless. It's not really the tune itself that matters as much as the pattern it embeds. And if you read the quote here, you can quickly take a guess at why the patterns work and by that I mean they don't only work for me.
I see trance exactly like what the word means or at least implies. The music is inconsequential, what matters is the harmony that it generates. If you happen to be receptive to this harmony, then it works, otherwise it won't.
There's a common thread around people around me to consider that GPL is "bad". (Disclaimer: All characters in this movie are totally fictional.)
When trying to understand what they mean, I generally find two causes:
For the latter part, there's not much I can do. The best way to deal with irritating and annoying people is to ignore them, in the hope they just go away. There are evangelists everywhere. GPL fanatics are mostly irrelevant and they don't bug me so I can ignore them, except maybe the ones working for FSF or the ones actually drafting the GPL but then it's their job to do so. Heck they don't complain about paid Microsoft evangelists. Amusingly (or sadly) most people whom I hear complaining about GPL fanatics are actually anti-GPL fanatics themselves.
Now for the viral part, well yes GPL is viral and I have no problem with that. The main complaint I hear is that by using GPL I prevent others from using my work and instead I should be using a more liberal license such as MIT or BSD.
This is false on two levels.
First by using GPL I don't prevent others from using my applications. At the contrary, they are free to use them as they wish and they have free access to it and any updates. I don't either prevent others from reusing the source -- as long as their application is also GPLed, meaning I will have access to it.
But then that's exactly what they mean -- they want to be able to access my source and embed it in whatever software they have. If the software is commercial and close sourced I'm sure to have a problem with that and that's exactly why I choose the GPL in the first place, i.e. that I don't want others to take whatever I wrote and monetize it without retribution. I would, however, be more than happy to dual-license it against a reasonable compensation.
In the case the target software uses a more liberal license, say, MIT-based one, using GPL still prevent it from being included. That may be but again dual-licensing is always an option, although I would not degrade the original license from GPL to MIT since it would undercut the protection granted by the original GPL version. In this case I would instead advocate including GPLed code with permission from the author. Amusingly most people will refuse that because they are anti-GPL fanatics.
Now note that I'm not myself a GPL fanatic. I use GPL when I think it suits me, mostly for home projects that I want to open but where I don't really expect others to embed them -- i.e. applications instead of libraries. My idea is that by publishing an application as GPL, nobody will be able to legally take it as-is and sell it, yet however if any feels like it they can use it and extend it and hopefully give me back patches (which has happened in the case of RIG.) They can make money by using the software if they wish, directly or indirectly, there's nothing wrong with that (it's their effort as a user, not mine, also true for RIG BTW.)
If I were to create a library and wanted others to use it, then yes I would consider a more liberal license such as MIT. Note that here there are two cases. If I just want to make it available to anyone for free, I'd just put as MIT and maybe ask for a credit line and/or keep an embedded comment line with credits -- in which case the compensation is hopefully fame and showcase. However if I wanted to make money from it I could dual source it as GPL and closed, the latter for a fee -- GPL apps could pick up the library (they wouldn't pay for it anyway) and make it popular and closed apps could always buy a license.
To finish I'd say that where ever I said GPL earlier I meant GPL v2. Version 2 seems just fine to me right now. GPL v2 is about giving rights back to authors & users whereas the new version 3 seems to follow some kind of political agenda designed to restrict the rights of a number of people.
From Wikipedia on Progressive Trance:
Compared to trance, the progressive wing is usually deeper and more abstract, featuring a lower average bpm (around 125-135) and a recurrent melodic structure intuitively described in a 'build-up -> climax -> break-down' manner. Each of these three structural elements are emphasized temporally and/or in their intensity (a 'build-up' sequence can sometimes last up to 3 or even 4 minutes), while subtle, incremental/decremental acoustic variations (i.e. gradual addition/subtraction of instruments) anticipate the transition to the subsequent structural element of the track. The initial build-up and the final break-down are generally very similar, adding a feel of symmetry to the general structure of the melody. Furthermore, a progressive trance track is usually longer than a regular trance track, ranging in length from 5-6 to even 12-13 minutes.
I can see the structure flowing. I feel right home here :-)
Reading the trance article brings lots of good memories... For me, it all started about 11 or 10 years ago with Cosmic Cubes which was an awesome multi-volume compilation -- just check the line-up and you'll see the familiar crowd. Then was Rave Mission another annihilating multi-volume masterpiece, with it's splendid Vol. 11, then it was Goa Trance time with Astral Projection and of course Hallucinogen. Then all that was superseded by Progressive Trance and Paul van Dyk, Oakenfold, Tiesto and finally Armin van Buuren.
Looks like I definitely lost my favourite flashlight. It's definitely not broken, it has batteries and everything. It's not really lost either. It's just sitting there and it's been weeks since it was last used.
Usability is broken.
I need to find some books on fixing that kind of stuff. I had one lying around a while ago but it's been a while and amusingly I didn't need it back then -- reading technical manuals can be entertainment per se, your mileage may vary :-) [permalink]
So it did happen eventually. Yesterday I though was today and when today finally happened it took me a while to realize. Bleh. Sloooow...
Anyhow I got the feedback. Geez, 3 months is kinda excessive. The usual great but in fact who cares? Priorities keep dancing and I don't play that dance.
Did I just quit today? Ah no, that was a decade ago.
Slow morning... it took me a while to realize we hadn't changed months yet. For a moment I though I was the fool. But no it just turned to be a bad morning.
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