{"id":7322,"date":"2026-10-24T16:52:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T16:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=7322"},"modified":"2026-10-24T16:52:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T16:52:35","slug":"another-saturday-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/24\/another-saturday-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Awake early for more medical fun.   Did I get finished?  No, of course not.  But it&#8217;ll happen after I get back from my trip.  This time next week I&#8217;ll be fumbling around trying to make sure I have everything I need for travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Discussion in IRC about travel in and out of NY when the weather might be bad. The thing we&#8217;re going to is &#8220;upstate,&#8221; but I think Amtrak might be the better option, even with a direct flight from DCA to pretty much where the event is.  I suspect the ride fares on the ground probably would be a little more expensive, too;  leaning towards the train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Okay, the ride on the train is a couple of hours longer. But we would be spared dealing with TSA, carefully packing bags, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other stuff &#8212; the past few days have brought more than a little comfort when it comes to the AI freakout. This morning&#8217;s piece linked in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/the-last-essay-ai-writing-tech-books-future\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TheFP<\/a>&#8216;s morning collection kind of shines a bright spotlight on this existential fear that many in the writers&#8217; world seem to have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I remember someone from my past who&#8217;d refer to himself as a &#8220;code poet.&#8221; Um. Okay. The code you wrote exists to fill a purpose. Likely nobody&#8217;s ever going to read it, nor is anyone ever going to be inspired by it.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Furthermore, does it even matter if it&#8217;s gone through tools to permit compilation?  Those interesting things you had in your unicode source went away completely unnoticed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, my thoughts on the physical act of writing aren&#8217;t really that different.  Yes, the vast majority of my output comes via a QWERTY keyboard to a buffer of some sort where I refine things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, when it comes to the content, itself, how many different ways can you write one thought?<br>Does the particular manifestation really matter all that much?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you think it does, please make the argument in support of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I do think there&#8217;s a lot that happens with the use of unnecessarily-flowery language.  <br><br>Bob walked to the store down the street.<br><br>In his special, expensive designer shoes, Robert journeyed to the retail establishment at the end of the long city block.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t get it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However you&#8217;ve found to communicate a message really isn&#8217;t that important.  The message is yours, and it likely can&#8217;t be neatly-replicated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe I can string together enough to hammer out an OWT on this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m sure the very-scared will find some reason to tell me I&#8217;m wrong.  But what&#8217;s new?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awake early for more medical fun. Did I get finished? No, of course not. But it&#8217;ll happen after I get back from my trip. This time next week I&#8217;ll be fumbling around trying to make sure I have everything I need for travel. Discussion in IRC about travel in and out of NY when the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scarred-brain-murmurings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7322"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7325,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7322\/revisions\/7325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}