Summer 2008
Posted by: Fats in: Fats, Vitamins & Minerals > Edward fans club > Wala lang > Edward's CnCThe weather started to change a few days ago - it is definitely warmer now and the wind is blowing in a different direction. It doesn’t drizzle in the afternoon anymore too. The thousands of birds that flock to the ridged walls of SM have disappeared. t must be summer. 
I feel better now too, after cutting off my hair the other day. It has grown too long and too heavy. I did think of keeping it long and braiding it in all sorts of styles but my hair is very thick so having it long isn’t very practical. Luckily I can cut my own hair so I don’t need to go to a hairdressers every now and then…
Have just started a new crochet project too, some filigree squares that I can later stitch together to make a whole dress. I wonder about that - if I can have enough patience to make a whole dress.
In the meantime, I found this photo of Edward, which cheered me up a great deal. Trevor and I was at the Fort Santiago a few months ago and we saw a pile of artillery shells and a lantaka (canon) on them. Funny really, since the lantaka comes from the Spanish period and the shells are from World War II. 
So I put Edward in the lantaka and took this photo.
I’m trying to get back to my readings too: SICP to learn about programming and Lisp; Political Economy of Adult Education (Zed Books) to pick-up on non-formal education where I started way back 2004 (after I stopped teaching at university); and a cheap hardbound book on needlework with instructions on knitting.
I thought maybe I could start learning how to knit again because there’s this lovely filigree design that I’d like to do and it’s only in knit.
The HTDP book on programming (using DrScheme) is now in my harddrive - and it certainly is much easier to read than SICP. However, I’d like to have it printed and my printer’s busted so that may take a while… It’s interesting to compare the two books though, where one has a practical (problem-solving approach) and the other has a conceptual approach. The “satisfaction curve” in reading SICP is definitely much steeper.
Switching between the political economy book and the SICP is interesting, though. I think there is a link between the two. I was hoping to write about this direction but I kept getting distracted (by cooking and eating for example!)
