Sometimes I get an idea for a project, but it's beyond my means to get on with it. Rather than let these ideas slip, I've begun writing them up: partly so that I can return to them later and recover my earlier understanding, partly to help anyone else who might want to have a go at them. The projects described below don't necessarily fit in with the somewhat grandiose plan I sketch as part of what finger might tell you about me, but they've had my attention at some stage or another and I'm interested in who's doing what that resembles them – other folk are more likely to actually put any of these projects into practice …
with an eye to looking inside electrons and their kin.
a dream of the common folk's own journeys to the moon; and the Crazy Eddie project.
or, at least, some thoughts inspired thereby.
how it might be a neat idea to have a game simulate the kinds of reality some real robot has to deal with – and have the robot's control system deploy what players did that worked well.
python librarywhich deerly needs a major over-haul, but what I have works quite nicely.
Inspired by this page, it's time to write a program that'll find coincidences among a random set of data using only a given family of operations (specifically: all but only the relations some crank has used to come up with coincidences) and a given tolerance with which the random data must fit.
the adventure movie, drawn from Snorre's account of
the sagas of the Norse kings: Harald Sigurdssen (IIRC), nephew of Olav the fat
(or holy, if you count canonisation for (fataly, of course) losing a battle
against a bunch of Danish christians who considered him a heathen); starts aged
4 with the tale of the illustrious uncle asking a few nephews what they want to
be when they grow up, others saying sane things like a farm with lots of pigs,
but Harald wants an army so I can take your farm, your pigs and anything else
I want
; holy
uncle's recognition of king material; gets all the way
round the mediteranean in the 11th century (complete with extant memorabilia
engraved with Harald Hadrada told me to leave my mark
grafito); lives up
to Uncle's prophecy, gaining the epithet Hard Ruler along the way; dies
memorably at Stamford Bridge; leading naturally to the sequel, Harald II –
Godwinson's saga
, complete with political machinations in Wales (with cameo
by any Welshman who can get the chance, as Llewellyn, albeit being shafted by a
crafty diplomat), Edward's gift of England to The Bastard, the Bayeau account of
Harald's inconvenient oath to uphold that, Stamford Bridge (again) and … a
gloriously tragic ending !
Written by Eddy.