Hacking on

[mdlbear]

Continuing Friday's hacking and CD-burning frenzy, I've spent a lot of my time over the weekend cleaning up my album-burning and track-listing scripts and makefiles. Also going though my recorded tracks (an often-excruciating process), making notes, and marking the ones that are useable (four or five so far, but I've only gone through half of them).

I might have gotten more done, but as I was cleaning out shelves in the bedroom I came across my copy of The Mouse and His Child by Russel Hoban. It's a kids' book (talking animals and windup toys), but closer to The Hobbit than to Velveteen Rabbit. Windup toys have to be wound in order to move, and can only do what they're designed to do. Apart from thinking and talking, of course. Highly recommended. Along the way you'll meet an odd assortment of windup toys, an oracular frog, a turtle who writes plays in the style of Samuel Beckett, and Manny the Rat.