Welcome, Koyaanisqatsi.
I saw the movie Koyaanisqatsi over 10 years ago now. I'm still dizzy. :-)
Thanks for the welcome; I'm glad to have found the resource.
Does the repetitive process of copying World Factbook data give you a similar feeling to watching the film
Koyaanisqatsi? *grin* When I was cutting and pasting this stuff, I felt dizzy after awhile, in the same way as watching the film. :-)
Ha. No, it doesn't make me dizzy; in small doses it's just something to pass the time with while waiting for people; in larger doses it's something easy and worthwhile that helps overcome insomnia. I have to admit that I take greater pride in the Ingmar Bergman entry than in the rest; I think I'll start reading up on Martin Scorsese and Joel and Ethan Coen to beef up those two pages. (I share a fondness for
The Big Lebowski, and just watched it again last night, in fact.)
The dude abides.
;:-) I just keep imagining you cutting and pasting while chanting Koyaanisqatsi.
:-) No, Koyaanisqatsi is just a movie I identify strongly with. (I could have called myself the Bicycle Thief, but that sounds too much like a violation of the fifth amendment.) ;-) I didn't go with my name because I'm an information junkie; as a result I've developed a great respect for privacy: once any bit of information is out in print or online, it can reproduced and collated infinitely, all without the careful judgment that typically goes with sharing some bit of information with a person, in person. In the entry I wrote about Ingmar Bergman, I wrote about the way he works because it is his work that I'm interested in; I expect to do the same for the other entries, though I would not mind if others added biographical details. I personally tend to see them as relevant only when they've had an obvious effect on the work. I don't mind being personable, I just feel that online, people get lost among the data. Suffice it to say I have no intention of becoming a celebrity. :-D
I note, now (aug 21) that in coming to see the Bergman entry as too dry, I overcorrected in the Brubeck one. Death in Tehran.
You know, it just occurred to me that since the CIA World Factbook does come out each year, much of the work I've done so far would have to be redone next year. I hope someone
is working on that Perl script. :-D
- Would it make sense to separate all the CIA data as subpage of each country? In the future, newer revision of the CIA data can be substituted mechanically. As it stands now, you will have a hard time doing the upgrade when other authors mixed their writings into the CIA data segment.
Now I'm curious as to whether there's any way to turn the autolinking off. Sometimes it's inappropriate, as in "Randle Patrick McMurphy
?": since I did not put the name in brackets, the site automatically wants to create an article called "McMurphy
?." I've tried the six apostrophe trick, to no effect. Will the autolinking eventually be removed?
I would like to see that removed eventually as well, but for now, you can do it ThisWay. --LDC
Thanks, LDC. --KQ
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