Jun. 8th, 2005

prog: (blair_witch)
My landlord left me a tasty dinner (in a plastic bag suspended from my door handle; she does this often). I'm enjoying it now. But what I took to be pasta when I popped it in the microwave is actually beans. Very large beans, each kidney-shaped and the size of a medium shell or a small ravioli or something. They're pale, and have a pleasantly bland taste. Good with veggies (incl.), but: the biggest beans I've ever seen.

What am I eating? I hope it isn't actual kidneys. I bet not; they're very beany, whatever they are.
prog: (tiles)
Crappy work day today. Woke up late, got in after lunchtime, didn't feel like doing much, and lo it came to pass. The pessimist in me points to how happy I am during the rest of the week and insists I should just throw in the towel and work only on you-know-what, but the pragmatist reminds me that I am in an enviably sweet position and should just suck it up.

Starting early tomorrow would fix things. Who knows if I can actually do it or not.

On that note, I went ahead and ordered myself one of those Sleeptracker watches a few weeks ago. Sorry to say that my relationship with that company has started on the wrong foot; the product was backordered, but they went ahead and charged my credit card immediately anyway. That's rather shady, at least according to what Andy England taught me way back when. I don't know where it is now (my email receipt doesn't mention the backorder date), so I'll write them and ask. OK, I just did. At least they included a phone number, too.



Speaking of you-know-what, I pressed [livejournal.com profile] rikchik into trying a second time to teach me how to play Texas Hold 'Em. It worked this time, since I actually wanted to learn; it had finally sunk in earlier that same day that Volity really needs a Holdem game done for its public beta launch.

I have feeble poker-fu and was the first player to get dead, but learned a lot, and read up on the game and its basic strategies via the ol' Wikipedia today. My inspiration yesterday was actually Andy Looney's most recent weekly update, which noted how its zero-sum tournament variant actually more resembles an ordinary tabletop card game than an interminable gambling game.



[livejournal.com profile] cnoocy reminded me that I completely forgot about my Volity slideshow plans. He followed up by suggesting a good time to have it done: end of July. There is a good reason for this. Maybe the spec will even be done by then.



Couple of links:

Heavy: A fascinating description (and a followup article) of one of the wellsprings of militant ignorance that we are up against, right in the heart of America. Also part of the reason that I very much desire to sock in the mouf every dKos dunderhead who claims to cheer on successes by various anti-intellectual American movements, on the grounds that they make the neo-cons with whom they are entangled look like scary theocratic fascists that nobody will want to support. I say to them: You don't get out much, do you. Never give them an inch. Not one more damn dime, ha ha. I'll have more to write about this later. (from [livejournal.com profile] hrafn)

Light: A cool computer-enabled human-vision hack. I like how the magenta patches really do vanish if you stare at the cross long enough, leaving only the moving green blob... which isn't actually there in the first place. So strange! (from [livejournal.com profile] pseudomanitou)
prog: (monkey)
I was amused to see this distillation of the origins of a certain computer language on one of its mailing lists:
Once upon a long time ago, Jon Orwant threw coffee cups and swore. And Perl 6 was born.

It's even funnier because it's basically true, though if you ask him about it Jon will politely insist that it was just the one coffee cup, really.

I wish I could tell you more about what was happening with Perl 6, though. Apparently something interesting has been afoot via this "PUGS" thing, but I have zero reason to actually comprehend it at this time. I think that [livejournal.com profile] daerr groks it, so I can just treat him as an external memory cache and access him when I need to. (So far he's tried to explain it to me my shoving a laptop screen full of alien syntax in front of my face at 2 a.m. during a recent visit to the sleep-inducing underground offices in WTVL. The obvious coolness and elegance of it failed to instantly flash-absorb into my brain. Maybe next time!)
prog: (blair_witch)
I found my Shuffle; it's been in a pocket in my bag, all by itself, for weeks.

If I can find the USB cable that I thought would be there I'll really be happy.

Update: Found it. Well, that's pretty good.

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