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  Sunday 12 May 2002
Am I Otter Not?

I had an errand to do in Carmel today. It's about an hour's drive south of where I live. Haven't been down there in a while. Ocean street was a zoo. I suppose it always is on nice-weather Sundays.

Cypress Cove and Big Dome After finishing my errand, I went to Point Lobos -- "the most beautiful meeting of land and water in the world" as Francis McComas said. Sure looked like it today. I walked the whole way around most of the small park, probably about three or four miles. Saw squadrons of pelicans, colonies of seagulls, and flights of cormorants (except that the flight of cormorants on Bird Island weren't flying at all).

I've been to Point Lobos a few times, but had not previously seen the southernmost parts. Wow, China Beach is spectacularly beautiful, with white sand under the turquoise water, a shapely arch through the ridge, and several otters lazing around in the kelp beds. The cormorants would fly in, one at a time, land, and then fly away with a kelp leaf. I brought neither a camera nor binoculars, so I'll just point you to Uwe Steinmueller's very nice photos of Point Lobos.

One warning: this has apparently been a very very good spring for Poison Oak. The trails are well-maintained, but do beware of brushing up against *anything*.
10:28:11 PM   comment/     

ANOTHER TIMBOT

As I was saying (despite this), there apparently aren't enough words. Frequent readers of comp.lang.python probably have a few names highlighted -- among them are likely to be Guido, Alex Martelli ... and Tim Peters, aka the "Timbot". Well, Timbot, meet TIMBOT.

A year or two ago, I took a look at the O'Haskell distribution (that is not the Irish version of Haskell). I wrote a couple of small test programs. I had thought it was a merge of Object-Oriented Programming with the pure non-strict Functional Programming that is Haskell's heart. Not quite: O'Haskell's objects are more like active agents (they say "reactive") than like the objects Python folks would picture.

Timber is a continuation of the development of O'Haskell, and the Timber project has built a TIMBOT. (Beware that last link if you're on a dial-up: it has several images that are over a megabyte.)

(22 hours later:)
Ack! Tim Peters wrote me , pointing out three other Timbots:

http://download.com.com/3000-2032-4115148.html?legacy=cnet
http://www.linux.org/apps/AppId_1313.html
http://www.perlcabal.com/timb.html

Yipes, they're gonna take over!
12:07:40 AM   comment/     



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