Thursday, 19 October 2000

A random stream of consciousness

Listening to:

Nielsen, symphony no. 6 Sinfonia semplice. More Nielsen. Again, I write this just as the symphony begins so I can’t really tell you anything about it. However, I have listened to each of his first and second symphonies more than once now, and I can definitely recommend them.

I feel as if I’m collecting a set of Scandinavian composers. I just need one from Sweden now, having already got Grieg from Norway, Nielsen from Denmark, and Sibelius from Finland.

A neat stock tip scam on Steve White's weblog. I believe he's a colleague of David Chess's. Do these people at IBM ever do any work? Do the chief executives of these computer companies realise that their valuable employees are spending all this time composing prose for the benefit of legions of fans?

I found myself working despite myself the other night. After an evening meal in college when I had perhaps a trifle too much to eat and drink, I woke up at about 1:30am and couldn't get back to sleep, so I spent three hours thinking about a whole new method for proving the result I want (an extension of this result about expressions in C; beware compressed PostScript). And now I should try and turn a late night ponder into something a bit more concrete.

(I’m writing on Thursday, because I’m off to Hanover for a long weekend tomorrow.)

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