{"id":899,"date":"2008-04-14T16:16:28","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T16:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=899"},"modified":"2014-03-06T18:57:30","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T23:57:30","slug":"three-more-snippets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=899","title":{"rendered":"Three more snippets"},"content":{"rendered":"

To persuade you that McDaid’s Keyboard Practice<\/a> belongs in your life, I offer these:<\/p>\n

\nOf software:<\/p>\n

These tools are all written by programmers driven by frightful agendas: lobbying memos from marketing, quarterly marching orders from managers, apologetic memos from engineering VPs describing overblown promises made to analysts by desperate CEOs<\/b>, pet peeves, side bets on Easter eggs, crank theories, smoldering resentment over midyear reviews, bad habits from college programming courses, and the numb, looming horror of fixed ship dates. It’s a wonder any of this stuff works. Ever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of the sorting of the ambitious young:<\/p>\n

They all dream of becoming the Elect – until they spend long enough in the City to realize that dreams don’t come true. The culture protects itself from an excess of artists by throwing up filters<\/b>: editors, critics, teachers, device logging, all the machineries of meritocratic Selektion. Someone needs to determine where the culture will invest its reproductive capital. (“Money’s own genitals!” yelped Rilke<\/a>, but we never learned who he was transcribing.)<\/p>\n

The downside, as always, is time lags, slippage, human error, and an inevitable overgating<\/b>. Are a few false negatives too high a price to pay?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of the limitations of the ambitious young:<\/p>\n

But their understanding of the world has been shaped by the presuppositionless “now this”-ness<\/b> of the Net. Everything to them is sequence; flipping through the world by remote control, reality is just one damned thing after another. Their narrated digital space is not a medium that promotes reflection or deductive logic<\/b>. And their induction never pushes past vague first-order syntheses; they’ve been taught to distrust master narratives<\/b>, and schemas, res ipsa loquitur<\/i>, are always tools of oppression.<\/p>\n

No wonder they can’t play Bach.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To persuade you that McDaid’s Keyboard Practice belongs in your life, I offer these: Of software: These tools are all written by programmers driven by frightful agendas: lobbying memos from marketing, quarterly marching orders from managers, apologetic memos from engineering VPs describing overblown promises made to analysts by desperate CEOs, pet peeves, side bets on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2542,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions\/2542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}