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blog post Tachypsychia
Posted in I was a rake and a roustabout. on Aug 23, 2005 at 11:54 AM

Tachypsychia is a neurological condition that distorts the perception of time, usually induced by physical exertion, drug use, or a traumatic event. For someone affected by tachypsychia, time preceived by the individual either lengthens, making events appear to slow down, or contracts, objects appearing as moving in a speeding blur. It is believed that tachypsychia is induced by a combination of high levels of dopamine and norepinephrine, usually during periods of great physical stress and/or in violent confrontation.



blog post Boxing's been good to me, Howard.
Posted in the monoland diaries on Aug 18, 2005 at 6:35 PM

Here are some tips I've learned the hard way regarding the C API for embedding mono:

1. Method invocations always return objects of type MonoObject*; value types will require unboxing.

2. Method arguments are always pointers. Never pass anything by value. Value types should *not* get boxed when passed into a method invocation unless you're passing an value type in as an Object argument (ie: ArrayList.Add).

3. Value type arguments marked with the out keyword seem to be passed in the same way normal value types (by reference, no boxing). I'm unsure of Object arguments (I haven't had to do anything that awesome yet), but I suspect they need to be passed as MonoObject**.

Fun times.



blog post Friscalating
Posted in I was a rake and a roustabout. on Aug 16, 2005 at 2:46 PM

This is a made-up word, a neologism, if you will. Urbandictionary claims:

An effect caused by the sun setting over the horizon creating an optical illusion of shimmering, liquefied light. Akin to a mirage.

The crickets and the rust-beetles scuttled among the nettles of the sagethicket.
"Vamanos, amigos," he whispered, and threw the busted leather flintcraw over the loose weave of the saddlecock.
And they rode on in the friscalating dusklight.
- Eli Cash, from The Royal Tenenbaums

 



blog post Manzanita
Posted in I was a rake and a roustabout. on Aug 16, 2005 at 12:19 PM

The Manzanitas are a subgenus of the genus Arctostaphylos. They are evergreen shrubs or small trees present in the chaparral biome of western North America, where they occur from southern British Columbia in Canada, Washington to California and New Mexico in the United States, and throughout much of northern and central Mexico.

Manzanita is the title of a Mia Doi Todd album.



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