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| author | Owen Jacobson <owen.jacobson@grimoire.ca> | 2015-07-03 22:31:49 -0400 |
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| committer | Owen Jacobson <owen.jacobson@grimoire.ca> | 2015-07-03 22:35:09 -0400 |
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Fuck it, serve the files directly.
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diff --git a/.html/people/rincewind.html b/.html/people/rincewind.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8c2aca4 --- /dev/null +++ b/.html/people/rincewind.html @@ -0,0 +1,114 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html> +<head> + <title> + The Codex » + On Rincewind + </title> + + <link + rel='stylesheet' + type='text/css' + href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Buenard:400,700&subset=latin,latin-ext'> + <link + rel="stylesheet" + type="text/css" + href="../media/css/reset.css"> + <link + rel="stylesheet" + type="text/css" + href="../media/css/grimoire.css"> +</head> +<body> + +<div id="shell"> + + <ol id="breadcrumbs"> + + <li class="crumb-0 not-last"> + + <a href="../">index</a> + + </li> + + <li class="crumb-1 not-last"> + + <a href="./">people</a> + + </li> + + <li class="crumb-2 last"> + + rincewind + + </li> + + </ol> + + + + <div id="article"> + <h1 id="on-rincewind">On Rincewind</h1> +<p><a href="http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/index.php/Rincewind">Rincewind</a>, we are +told, is a wizard. On the Disc, wizarding is a profession; Pratchett based +them on the English academic system, with colleges and bursars and tenure. A +wizard is a man of some academic distinction, or a student of such a man; +career wizards are uniformly well-fed, of sound body (if not necessarily of +sound mind) reasonably dressed, opinionated, crankish, and - importantly - +capable of magic.</p> +<p>Rincewind is a wizard: he is not well fed, having spent his life being thrust +from one adventure to the next; his body is more attuned for running away +from things than it is for meandering the halls or sitting by a fire; his +opinions largely revolve around “is this new thing going to eat me,” rather +than more abstract matters; importantly, he is completely incapable of magic, +in spite of years of study.</p> +<p>Rincewind is a wizard, and the interesting thing about that is that the +reader is expected (and I certainly did) take both his and the narrator's +insistence on it at face value. Why shouldn't we?</p> +<hr> +<p>I had a conversation with <a href="https://twitter.com/aeleitch">@aeletich</a> a while +back, while she was teaching herself to program. I don't recall exactly what +prompted it, but at one point I told her to stop worrying about all the +better programmers out there: from everyone else's point of view, she was +already a wizard. There might be better wizards, and worse wizards, but she'd +already passed any sort of bright line delimiting “not a programmer” from +“programmer.”</p> +<p>I think self-identification is important, and overlooked.</p> + </div> + + + +<div id="comments"> +<div id="disqus_thread"></div> +<script type="text/javascript"> + /* * * CONFIGURATION VARIABLES: EDIT BEFORE PASTING INTO YOUR WEBPAGE * * */ + var disqus_shortname = 'grimoire'; // required: replace example with your forum shortname + + /* * * DON'T EDIT BELOW THIS LINE * * */ + (function() { + var dsq = document.createElement('script'); dsq.type = 'text/javascript'; dsq.async = true; + dsq.src = 'http://' + disqus_shortname + '.disqus.com/embed.js'; + (document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(dsq); + })(); +</script> +<noscript>Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href="http://disqus.com/?ref_noscript">comments powered by Disqus.</a></noscript> +<a href="http://disqus.com" class="dsq-brlink">comments powered by <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span></a> +</div> + + + + <div id="footer"> + <p> + + The Codex — + + Powered by <a href="http://markdoc.org/">Markdoc</a>. + +<a href="https://bitbucket.org/ojacobson/grimoire.ca/src/master/wiki/people/rincewind.md">See this page on Bitbucket</a> (<a href="https://bitbucket.org/ojacobson/grimoire.ca/history-node/master/wiki/people/rincewind.md">history</a>). + + </p> + </div> + +</div> +</body> +</html>
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