Controlled Tango into Terrain (2008)(idlewords.com)
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Controlled Tango into Terrain (2008)
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Loved his metaphors of the extravagant promises of beginner dance workshops. I had similar realizations when involved in Argentine tango in the late Nineties. There's similarity to the coding bootcamp phenomenon--the workshops generate graduates with overblown ideas of their competence, and the locals retreat from engaging with them, but the workshops can't profit by teaching slow, gradual improvement of a subtle art form over many years of practice.
8-bit tango seems to be a largely unexplored genre, but there is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8SVYDvMVzY
The title is a tip of the cap to Controlled Flight into Terrain, CFIT.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_flight_into_terrain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_flight_into_terrain
Maciej is one of the internet's most beautiful people. I miss him. I hope he's doing alright.
His last comment on HN was like, five days ago. I'm sure he's okay.
good to see. It's been a little while since the last long form post.
Still waiting for the conclusion of the Antarctica trip...