Fred and Loathing on The Internet

Dancing About Architecture Is More Fun Than Writing About Music

2023-Sep-07

Today’s update brings back the sidebar that used to be on the homepage. If you wanna see what I’ve been listening to recently, I’ve repositioned that sidebar to a header on the /about_me section. The about me has also been beefed up with a whole lot of copy about the app itself and a very brief tech career bio. I would like to start introducing a lot more non-euclidean geometry in the next update. I think I got the full grasp of the bootstrap container-row-column relationship. Now I want to throw some curves in the element spacing. Some small static images to spice up the design.

The next book I’m thinking of tackling is Eternal Golden Braid. I tried before, much like my first pass at Gleik’s The Information. I didn't even get past the midpoint of the book before I decided I did not understand enough of the book to continue. The author builds a lot of semantic paths to explain what is happening in the case of Escher, Godel, and Bach. I could follow along each narrative sample of those three people, but the meta-language in between explaining what they have in common was all pops and buzzers to my feeble brain. I heard he wrote a book thirty years later addressing the ‘strange loop’ concept that he found to be the crux of that book’s reasoning, yet was not exactly grasped by the book’s laudatory critics. I might go for that book instead to give me a primer on the headiness of EGB.

Our Fake History was mentioned before because I used to exclusively listen to that podcast on Spotify, yet that app does not have a venue for rating podcasts. You can just ‘follow’ or not. The podcaster signs off episodes by beseeching the audience to either sign up for the patreon or to leave a favorable review on whatever platform you use to hear the podcast. I am now one of the $5 a month listeners and I am leaving a favorable review on the venerable public site fredlambuth.com!