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Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 22:56:28 GMTServer: NCSA/1.4.2Content-type: text/htmlLast-modified: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 07:52:26 GMTContent-length: 7618<TITLE>Labyrinth of Ambiguity - Yeehah</TITLE> <!-- Changed by: Zachary Mason, 30-Oct-1995 --><html><body><h1> Wackiness Ensues! </h1><p> These random syllables brought to you courtesy of <H1>Welcome to my web page, your personal fully "interactive" voyage of discovery.</h1><p><h3> Now stop wasting time surfing and go do something to abet commerce or the military.</H3><p>The home page for CSE sections AE and AG is <!WA0><!WA0><!WA0><!WA0><a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/zmason/142/section.sp96.html"> here. </a><p> Thought for the day: Computers have been going strictly downhill since the Apple II series. Ah, the Apple IIe, now there was a machine. One spentrelatively little time trying to install software apparently written fora circa 1956 programmable toaster on one's sparc, or waiting for the systemadministrator to come back from a two to three month lunch.<p>I suppose if youve gone to all the effort of looking at this page thenyou are either vaguely interested in me or what Im doing or you havesome scant hope of being entertained. <P>Ok, so a guy walks into a bar with a yak on a leash, and the thing is, the yakis huge. I mean really big. Even for a yak, and theyre pretty large to startwith. So the bartender says, "Hey, are you planning on bringing that thing inhere?" And the guy says "First of all, its a yak. And second of all, Im a freemason, so I should certainly hope that Im bringing it in here." I forgotto mention that this is in Nottingham (or any largish city in the UK that isntLondon.) Oh, and the bar is built on the site of an old pagan temple. Aw, forget it.<p> <P><h1><!WA1><!WA1><!WA1><!WA1><A HREF="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/zmason/loki.tiff"><!WA2><!WA2><!WA2><!WA2><IMG ALIGN=MIDDLE SRC="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/zmason/smallcat.gif"></a> This is my cat, Loki.</h1><p> Someday I hope to make him supreme ruler of the cosmos. So be kind to animals, because someday one of they will have absolutemastery of time, space, and the fabric of reality..<p> <h3><!WA3><!WA3><!WA3><!WA3><A HREF="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/zmason/jos.tiff"><!WA4><!WA4><!WA4><!WA4><IMG ALIGN=MIDDLE SRC="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/zmason/jos.tiff"></a> This is me (on the right) fencing <!WA5><!WA5><!WA5><!WA5><a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/zmason/bout.html">Sean McClean</a> in the 93 Junior Olympics. He won. I knocked him out of the epee tournament the next day, though...</h3>You can <!WA6><!WA6><!WA6><!WA6><a href="mailto: zmason@cs.washington.edu">send me mail...</a> particularly if you wish to say something nice about my cat.<p>Im a third year grad student at the <!WA7><!WA7><!WA7><!WA7><ahref="http://www.cs.washington.edu/">U of W CS dept</a>, where I studyAI, and any other cognitive science disciplines I can get my hands on.Im also interested in pure math, physics(especially cosmology andelementary particle physics), <!WA8><!WA8><!WA8><!WA8><ahref="http://ucmp1.berkeley.edu/welcome.html">paleontology</a>, cabbages, monarchy, whatnot. <p>Who am I kidding. I write email, read Dilbert, and drink alot ofmochas. (Dogbert has a place in my personal pantheon. Many realteam-players have never heard of him, yet.) I make fun of classicalAI, a field which makes medieval french theology look like vital,relevant, and fast-developing. As far as I can tell, these days doing'classical AI' consists of getting computers to do intelligent thingsfor which theyre well suited which sane people who are interested inthe same topic find uninteresting and useless. Ive heard faculty fromother CS disciplines describe some work as "pure AI", the connotationsof which Ill leave to the agile mind of the reader. Feh. Pardon me,Ill step over to the sink and spit out all my bitterness along withhalf of my last drink.<p>Sometimes I do research. It is,all in all, grad school.<p>An excellent site for studying the <!WA9><!WA9><!WA9><!WA9><a href="http://csugrad.cs.vt.edu/htbin/anagram-generator.pl">Ars magna.</a><p>My favorite authors are <ul> <li> Lord Dunsany <li> Stanislaw Lem <li>J L Borges <li> Italo Calvino </ul> I suppose William Gibson, HarukiMurakami, and J R R Tolkien also deserve honorable mention. Much as Ilove these authors, not one of them has written the final, perfectbook... But I think that some of them, Borges especially, have readfragments of it, and allude to half remembered passages in their mostsuccessful writing. <p> If you like children's books, try PatriciaMacLachlan. <p> Also, though I cant quite bring myself to put him inthe same class with the aforementioned authors, I highly recommendSteven Brust ("Agyar" and "Taltos" are good places to start.)<p><p>Though none of these have their <!WA10><!WA10><!WA10><!WA10><a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/zmason/books.html">books on-line</a>, many good authors do. <p>I am also a great fan of understated sarcasm. <p>I recommend this <!WA11><!WA11><!WA11><!WA11><a href="http://haven.uniserve.com/~puck/sandman/snow.html">excellent story by Neil Gaiman.</a><p><!WA12><!WA12><!WA12><!WA12><a href="ftp://chess/uoknow.edu/pub/chess/HTML/homepage">Chess stuff.</a><p><!WA13><!WA13><!WA13><!WA13><a href="http://www.traveller.com/chess/">Other chess stuff.</a><p>Some <!WA14><!WA14><!WA14><!WA14><a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/zmason/fb.html">recommended books.</a><p>Its always fun to reminisce about <!WA15><!WA15><!WA15><!WA15><a href="http://plato.simons-rock.edu/">Simon's Rock</a>, a wonderful place, although much better in the recollection than in the living. A nice place to wax nostalgic about but you wouldnt want to live there.<p><!WA16><!WA16><!WA16><!WA16><a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/zmason/inter.html">Click here</a> if you would like toknow more about interdisciplinary cognitive science within UW CS.<p> <!WA17><!WA17><!WA17><!WA17><ahref="http://www.ii.uib.no/~arild/fencing.html">Fencing</A> is fun. I am very picky about the <!WA18><!WA18><!WA18><!WA18><a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/zmason/blades.html">blades</a> I use.<P><P>I quite enjoy fencing. Some bits of it I have down quite well. For instance, I have more kime than a battleship full of suicidal klingons on PCP. However, as Coach Jim is often inclined to point out, <!WA19><!WA19><!WA19><!WA19><a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/zmason/subtle.html">my idea of tactical subtlety </a> could use broadening. <P>Poor Jim. <P><P>An interesting question is that of whether spirit or technique dominates. <P>Much as Im inclined to think the SCA consists of a bunch offerallieurs taking great pleasure in thwacking at each other with sticks in betweenbeers, <!WA20><!WA20><!WA20><!WA20><a href="http://mac9.ucc.nau.edu/rapier.htm">historicalfencing</a> is interesting. <p> You can always count on those wacky guys at the FIE to come up with some <!WA21><!WA21><!WA21><!WA21><a href="" http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/u/mabuckle/fencing/>zany,madcap, and riotous rule changes</a><p>Want to see my thrill-packed <a href="/homes/zmason/home.html">home page?</a><p>To be quite honest, I dont wander around the web much any more, as its almost totally vacuous. Oh well, maybe things will improve in a few centuries. Im inclined to doubt it but one might as well be an optimist. Sigh. <p>I recommend that you look into the poetry of Philip Larkin if youre having a particularly bad day, or if you just want one. <p>In need of a useful web services? <!WA22><!WA22><!WA22><!WA22><a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/nick">Nick</a> will take tremendous pleasure in providing them. Oh yeah, hes also good for a dose of neo-Luddism. Rather odd coming from a CSE guy, much less an AI flavored one. <p>You might want to check out the Electronic Muse, brought to you by <!WA23><!WA23><!WA23><!WA23><ahref=" http://psg.com/~mimi/">Mary-Suzanne.</a> Shes the only person I knowwhose cats have home pages.<p>Take a gander at <!WA24><!WA24><!WA24><!WA24><a href="http://www.scs.unr.edu/~adan/index.html"> Daphne's home page</a>. Shescool and has beaucoup attitude.<p>Ill leave you with this. (Thanks to Messr. Mehl...)<p><center><h3> When love is gone, there's always justice.<p> And when justice is gone, there's always force.<p> And when force is gone, there's always Mom.<p> Hi, Mom! <p></h3></center> -Laurie Anderson<p><p>Speak my language...<hr><address>zmason@cs.washington.edu <p><h1>P.S. <!WA25><!WA25><!WA25><!WA25><a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/zmason/rane.html">Hi Rane!</a></h1></address><p>⌨️ 快捷键说明
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