Prosthetic Conscience

Swordfighting

So, how does swordfighting go along with all this peace and lurve stuff I do? There’s a good book on the subject called Herding The Ox, but here’s a quick movie quote that gets to the heart of it:

King of Qin: It just dawned on me! This scroll of Broken Sword’s isn’t about sword technique but about swordsmanship’s ultimate ideal. Swordsmanship’s first achievement is the unity of man and sword. Once this unity is attained, even a blade of grass can be a weapon. The second achievement is when the sword exists in one’s heart when absent from one’s hand. One can strike an enemy at 100 paces, even with bare hands. Swordsmanship’s ultimate achievement is the absence of the sword in both hand and heart. The swordsman is at peace with the rest of the world. He vows not to kill and to bring peace to mankind.
— Hero

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Image gallery code updated

I’ve written my image gallery code, and it works pretty nicely. I’ll post the source as soon as I get a chance. Two bugs: it doesn’t work nicely with the cacheing module, and headers in the description file are case sensitive. I can fix the latter, easily, but it means it crashes completely with cacheing turned on, rather than just not updating. Actually, I think I can fix both – I just need a case-insensitive subclass of dict to wrap the header data in, and there’s probably such a thing in the Python cookbook.

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