Dreams
I had 5 dreams last night that I remember.
1) I dreamt something about a horse in our house. It was very person-like, and affectionate.
2) I dreamt I was in a classroom-like setting, with Jack Black in a teacher-like role. He was passing out DnD-type experience points while making fun of his students. He made some crack about me having one eye-brow. "You, with the eyebrow... 1000 experience points!" I was keeping track of this while writing on my jeans with a pen (light blue jeans, leaky dark blue pen) until my friend Eryn let me borrow a piece of paper (which has *his* experience points on it... I wondered how he was going to keep track).
3) I dreamt I was driving through a beach parking lot with my friends, and we were discussing how we'd just arrived in Vegas, and what we were going to do.
4) I dreamt I was driving on the freeway behind an old rusty VW bus. All of a sudden I noticed it was stopped, and I had the thought "Oh man I'm going to hit it!" and I woke up.
5) I used to remember #5, but now I don't. Oh well.
2003/10/30
2003/10/29
Adman's hot and ready to pop!
Let's see what's going on in my world here.
This week has been a li'l crazy because of the fires. Work has been kind of slow as people have been in and out, and we've been let out early each day to get home before dark (for some reason). But it's getting back to normal now.
The weather is clearing up here on the coast as the fires are moving east and the smoke is being blown away. It's going to be nice to see a nice, clear day again.
Norman and I have been trying to connect to each other to play Diablo II, and that hasn't been going very well. I was able to recruit a third party off battle.net and he was able to connect to my computer, so I'm going to say that proves that the problem is on Norm's side. :) We're both at the same point in the game, independantly, and I'm really hoping we can try to play the rest of it through together. It's always hard to mesh schedules, though.
I've been making bits of progress on my little programming project. I found some frames of animation of a little cartoon lady running around, so I grabbed that. I wrote the maze-generation algorithm that will create the set of rooms, and can run around that (each square in the maze is a complete room). Now I need to write a little room-creation tool, and create a bunch of rooms, and I'll have reached Milestone 1! This is good.
A Vegas trip is being planned. I'm going to take a Friday off work (when Diana has a half-day anyways), and we're going to drive up and meet other friends up there. I think my boy Baditude is going to drive up with us, which will be fun. (Reminder to self: Get car checked up before trip!) I wish we could fly both ways, but it just doesn't make a whole lot of sense financially. The drive back on Sunday afternoon is a killer, though. Anyways, we should meet up with Iwan, maybe Little Buhr, and Dr. Mick and some of his boys. I haven't seen Doc Mick in a long time, so I'm looking forward to that.
We bought an air purifier last night. It's a sellers market on air purifiers around here, itellyouwhatbuddy. Luckily, we had a 20% off coupon from Linens 'n Things, so that was nice. And the purifier we got was some ionic deal that doesn't have a filter. Some of the other ones I saw at Home Depot were ones with filters that needed to be replaced at $50 a pop, so this should work out well.
That's about all the news from me. Nothing too mind boggling, but hey, slow and steady...
Let's see what's going on in my world here.
This week has been a li'l crazy because of the fires. Work has been kind of slow as people have been in and out, and we've been let out early each day to get home before dark (for some reason). But it's getting back to normal now.
The weather is clearing up here on the coast as the fires are moving east and the smoke is being blown away. It's going to be nice to see a nice, clear day again.
Norman and I have been trying to connect to each other to play Diablo II, and that hasn't been going very well. I was able to recruit a third party off battle.net and he was able to connect to my computer, so I'm going to say that proves that the problem is on Norm's side. :) We're both at the same point in the game, independantly, and I'm really hoping we can try to play the rest of it through together. It's always hard to mesh schedules, though.
I've been making bits of progress on my little programming project. I found some frames of animation of a little cartoon lady running around, so I grabbed that. I wrote the maze-generation algorithm that will create the set of rooms, and can run around that (each square in the maze is a complete room). Now I need to write a little room-creation tool, and create a bunch of rooms, and I'll have reached Milestone 1! This is good.
A Vegas trip is being planned. I'm going to take a Friday off work (when Diana has a half-day anyways), and we're going to drive up and meet other friends up there. I think my boy Baditude is going to drive up with us, which will be fun. (Reminder to self: Get car checked up before trip!) I wish we could fly both ways, but it just doesn't make a whole lot of sense financially. The drive back on Sunday afternoon is a killer, though. Anyways, we should meet up with Iwan, maybe Little Buhr, and Dr. Mick and some of his boys. I haven't seen Doc Mick in a long time, so I'm looking forward to that.
We bought an air purifier last night. It's a sellers market on air purifiers around here, itellyouwhatbuddy. Luckily, we had a 20% off coupon from Linens 'n Things, so that was nice. And the purifier we got was some ionic deal that doesn't have a filter. Some of the other ones I saw at Home Depot were ones with filters that needed to be replaced at $50 a pop, so this should work out well.
That's about all the news from me. Nothing too mind boggling, but hey, slow and steady...
2003/10/27
I don't understand God.
With this recent disaster in San Diego, people have been calling for prayers. "Our thoughts and prayers are with the families", and "pray that the Santa Ana conditions let up", etc.
It seems to me, though, uneducated in these matters as I am, equally likely that God is punishing San Diego for it's wickedness (or something) than it is that he will help us through this. (Which is to say, both seem pretty unlikely to me, but equally so).
If the fire was God's will, then praying for help seems pretty silly, doesn't it?
If the fire was not God's will (is there such thing?) then it seems unlikely that He wouldn't know there was a fire going on, and that He would choose to help or not, whether or not we prayed. And sounds like he's not helping much.
Maybe I'm thinking of a too literal meaning of the term "prayer". If it's a metaphor for hoping everything gets better, then it makes a lot more sense to me.
Unless this is all a test to test mankinds faith, etc, etc, in which case, from a skeptical point of view, that's a pretty handy fail-safe answer for almost everything.
With this recent disaster in San Diego, people have been calling for prayers. "Our thoughts and prayers are with the families", and "pray that the Santa Ana conditions let up", etc.
It seems to me, though, uneducated in these matters as I am, equally likely that God is punishing San Diego for it's wickedness (or something) than it is that he will help us through this. (Which is to say, both seem pretty unlikely to me, but equally so).
If the fire was God's will, then praying for help seems pretty silly, doesn't it?
If the fire was not God's will (is there such thing?) then it seems unlikely that He wouldn't know there was a fire going on, and that He would choose to help or not, whether or not we prayed. And sounds like he's not helping much.
Maybe I'm thinking of a too literal meaning of the term "prayer". If it's a metaphor for hoping everything gets better, then it makes a lot more sense to me.
Unless this is all a test to test mankinds faith, etc, etc, in which case, from a skeptical point of view, that's a pretty handy fail-safe answer for almost everything.
2003/10/26
San Diego burns...
Holy shit, it's bad news bears around here. Diana and I woke and could smell smoke from fires way far away. During the morning, we could see little bits of ash falling from the sky. The fire is pretty far south of here, but another little bit of it is easy of us, and potentially heading our way.
This is scary.
I think the chances are pretty slim, but they've talked a lot on the news about people having to leave their houses at the last minute. We figured better to be safe than sorry, and decided to pack up some non-replaceables.
That's a weird thing to do: actually walk around and decide what you could and could not live without. We grabbed wedding pictures, of course. A change of clothes. Diana packed up all her teaching lessons from all the years past. I grabbed a Shakespeare book that was my great-great-grandfathers, as well as a little trophy my grandfather won when he was a boy. That's about it. It's weird to think that we have a lot of stuff, but nothing that we couldn't replace or live without, if it really came down to it.
I hope and doubt the fire will come our way, but even the thought that it could is pretty chilling.
In other news, we bought a bed this weekend. It's NIIIIICE.
That is all, for now.
Holy shit, it's bad news bears around here. Diana and I woke and could smell smoke from fires way far away. During the morning, we could see little bits of ash falling from the sky. The fire is pretty far south of here, but another little bit of it is easy of us, and potentially heading our way.
This is scary.
I think the chances are pretty slim, but they've talked a lot on the news about people having to leave their houses at the last minute. We figured better to be safe than sorry, and decided to pack up some non-replaceables.
That's a weird thing to do: actually walk around and decide what you could and could not live without. We grabbed wedding pictures, of course. A change of clothes. Diana packed up all her teaching lessons from all the years past. I grabbed a Shakespeare book that was my great-great-grandfathers, as well as a little trophy my grandfather won when he was a boy. That's about it. It's weird to think that we have a lot of stuff, but nothing that we couldn't replace or live without, if it really came down to it.
I hope and doubt the fire will come our way, but even the thought that it could is pretty chilling.
In other news, we bought a bed this weekend. It's NIIIIICE.
That is all, for now.
2003/10/24
Ok...
So what's the deal with this grocery store strike? Actually, I take that back. I don't really care what the deal is with the grocery store strike. They want something, and the employers want something, and they'll have to find an agreement somewhere. Whatever.
What I do care about is that somehow we, the general public, are now involved in their fight. Willling or not, shoppers are being used as a pawn in the negotiations by the union workers against the stores, specifically by being encouraged (or bullied) at shopping elsewhere.
Is this fair? Or even appropriate? It just seems wrong to me that a lot of people who probably don't know or care about the specifics of the negotiations are now unwittingly on the side of the union strikers through their actions of shopping elsewhere.
Comments?
Yesterday, we had a "team building" event at a local mini-golf place. Contests were held in lazer-tag and mini-golf. My team won both (we had a good team). Yay us. It was a fun day. Beat working, at least.
So what's the deal with this grocery store strike? Actually, I take that back. I don't really care what the deal is with the grocery store strike. They want something, and the employers want something, and they'll have to find an agreement somewhere. Whatever.
What I do care about is that somehow we, the general public, are now involved in their fight. Willling or not, shoppers are being used as a pawn in the negotiations by the union workers against the stores, specifically by being encouraged (or bullied) at shopping elsewhere.
Is this fair? Or even appropriate? It just seems wrong to me that a lot of people who probably don't know or care about the specifics of the negotiations are now unwittingly on the side of the union strikers through their actions of shopping elsewhere.
Comments?
Yesterday, we had a "team building" event at a local mini-golf place. Contests were held in lazer-tag and mini-golf. My team won both (we had a good team). Yay us. It was a fun day. Beat working, at least.
2003/10/22
Are you ready, kids?
(Aye-aye, Captain!)
I can't HEEEAAAAR YOOUUUUU!
(AYE-AYE CAPTAIN!)
Nothing like a little stress to make being not-stressed a lot more fun. My work-boy and I wrote an internet game used by the marketing department when they go on tour and meet with existing and perspective clients. They were in Boston, and are now in NYC running the game. Apparently, while in Boston, they were having problems, and hoped that we could have those problems fixed up. It was a problem that was beyond me (re: hardware and configuration that I don't have access to), but I couldn't round anyone up to fix it. I left messages for relevant people, and eventually someone got back to me. The problem was fixed at around 12:30am, and the game ran smoothely this morning (in front of a lot of clients as well as the heads of our company!). This is good. *phew*
I thought I was getting sick last night. I wasn't feeling that hot, and my throat was starting to get sore. I feel pretty good today, though, so hopefully the sickness has been averted.
A couple weeks ago was my 10 year high school reunion. This process dredged up a lot of memories, and made me wonder about a lot of people that I haven't heard anything about since high school. Anyways, I was able to track down an email address to an old classmate of mine who I went to school with from early elementary school (kindergarten?) all the way though high school. She wrote me back a nice long email, and it was surprisingly good to hear from her. It's really neat for me, in some vague conceptual way, to know that all those people that had some part in shaping my life are all still out there, doing whatever they're doing.
The snowball of a Vegas trip is starting it's way down the mountain. Look out!
(Aye-aye, Captain!)
I can't HEEEAAAAR YOOUUUUU!
(AYE-AYE CAPTAIN!)
Nothing like a little stress to make being not-stressed a lot more fun. My work-boy and I wrote an internet game used by the marketing department when they go on tour and meet with existing and perspective clients. They were in Boston, and are now in NYC running the game. Apparently, while in Boston, they were having problems, and hoped that we could have those problems fixed up. It was a problem that was beyond me (re: hardware and configuration that I don't have access to), but I couldn't round anyone up to fix it. I left messages for relevant people, and eventually someone got back to me. The problem was fixed at around 12:30am, and the game ran smoothely this morning (in front of a lot of clients as well as the heads of our company!). This is good. *phew*
I thought I was getting sick last night. I wasn't feeling that hot, and my throat was starting to get sore. I feel pretty good today, though, so hopefully the sickness has been averted.
A couple weeks ago was my 10 year high school reunion. This process dredged up a lot of memories, and made me wonder about a lot of people that I haven't heard anything about since high school. Anyways, I was able to track down an email address to an old classmate of mine who I went to school with from early elementary school (kindergarten?) all the way though high school. She wrote me back a nice long email, and it was surprisingly good to hear from her. It's really neat for me, in some vague conceptual way, to know that all those people that had some part in shaping my life are all still out there, doing whatever they're doing.
The snowball of a Vegas trip is starting it's way down the mountain. Look out!
2003/10/20
I had a great weekend
Lots of quality time with my most favorite wife in the world. Got to hang out with friends on Friday night for H-Bomb's birthday, and see a fun band. Went to the Zoo and walked around for a bit. The Chargers won. Made lots of progress on my latest programming project.
Everything's coming up Adman!
Lots of quality time with my most favorite wife in the world. Got to hang out with friends on Friday night for H-Bomb's birthday, and see a fun band. Went to the Zoo and walked around for a bit. The Chargers won. Made lots of progress on my latest programming project.
Everything's coming up Adman!
2003/10/16
Sad.
A friend of mine at work just found out that her boyfriend was killed in a car accident. They'd been dating for a good bit of time now, and were pretty serious and going to move in together. (He was from England, and they were going to spend time in both countries to decide who was going to move where). And all of a sudden, this.
I feel really bad for her. It's terrible to hear about someone losing someone like that. The only natural thing to do is to put yourself in that person's situation, and come to the realization that, at any moment, any of your friends or loved ones, or even you, could be struck down and killed.
And that's a suck-ass thing to remember.
So, find someone you love and give 'em a hug.
A friend of mine at work just found out that her boyfriend was killed in a car accident. They'd been dating for a good bit of time now, and were pretty serious and going to move in together. (He was from England, and they were going to spend time in both countries to decide who was going to move where). And all of a sudden, this.
I feel really bad for her. It's terrible to hear about someone losing someone like that. The only natural thing to do is to put yourself in that person's situation, and come to the realization that, at any moment, any of your friends or loved ones, or even you, could be struck down and killed.
And that's a suck-ass thing to remember.
So, find someone you love and give 'em a hug.
2003/10/14
Two quick things to make the world a better place.
1) Elevators shall be LIFO. Last In, First Out. Women and children be damned. It's really annoying to watch people shuffle around to make sure the ladies get out first.
2) Do NOT drive on the freeway with your blinker on unless you are actually using it. It's not that hard, people. I know you're old, and it's harder to hear and see things, but if you can't SEE the FLASHING LIGHT, or HEAR the TICKING SOUND, you might not be road-worthy.
That is all.
1) Elevators shall be LIFO. Last In, First Out. Women and children be damned. It's really annoying to watch people shuffle around to make sure the ladies get out first.
2) Do NOT drive on the freeway with your blinker on unless you are actually using it. It's not that hard, people. I know you're old, and it's harder to hear and see things, but if you can't SEE the FLASHING LIGHT, or HEAR the TICKING SOUND, you might not be road-worthy.
That is all.
2003/10/12
Poker update... it's 1am, and the tournament is on break.
3050 players entered.
After 1 hour, 1126 are left.
I'm currently in 5th place. At one point I was in 2nd!
That is all.
Ugh.
I'm dealt KJo, and limp in.
Flop comes KJx. I go all in. One caller. We flip 'em, and he's got KK. I'm basically drawing dead...
Finish in 357th place.
3050 players entered.
After 1 hour, 1126 are left.
I'm currently in 5th place. At one point I was in 2nd!
That is all.
Ugh.
I'm dealt KJo, and limp in.
Flop comes KJx. I go all in. One caller. We flip 'em, and he's got KK. I'm basically drawing dead...
Finish in 357th place.
2003/10/11
The Theater.
Diana and I went to the theater tonight, and saw the play "Proof". It was a surprise for Diana. It turns out she'd seen the play before when she was in New York visiting her sister, but I didn't know this. Oh well. She was pleased to see it again, though.
I noticed a couple of things about the theater:
1) The ushers are almost invariable OLD! Why is this?
2) When we approached the usher at the door, our tickets were in my coat pocket, and my hands were full of programs. I figured I'd just tell the guy our seat numbers. That didn't really fly. I had to fuss around with people waiting behind us to get all my crap together and give him the tickets, just so he could walk us to our seats which we could have found very well on our own. Oh well.
The play was pretty good. Clearly the best part was that the lead was played by Danica McKellar, who's probably best known by most for playing Winnie Cooper on "The Wonder Years". I heard her on the radio on a local morning show talking about the play, being a child actor, being a math whiz, and so forth. It sounds like she's a really smart person, and the way she talked about math reminded me of Diana. She not only was so gifted, but was truly enthusiastic about it, which was fun to listen to. So I bought tickets that very same day.
Winnie Cooper (and therefore Ms. McKellar) was not an insignificant part of my childhood, I don't think. I was roughly the same age as young Kevin, and it was a crazy age where all of a sudden one starts to notice girls and get weird feeilngs in your stomach. Everything was so goddamn nerve-wracking, but in an exhilarating, semi-pubescent sexual-tension sort of way. I'd notice girls, and notice them notice me, but of course each side has to play it cool and not make it obvious that we're noticing each other. And Winnie, while not the literal object of devotion or anything, was the incarnation of every girl I'd ever noticed in That Sort of Way, and all the glorious nervous energy that went along with it.
It was only within the last year or so when I saw a commercial and saw that she was going to be on West Wing that I noticed (ha!) that she'd grown up to be a total babe. Combine that with hearing her on the radio, and hearing how smart she was, and how *wise* she was was very impressive. And I know this sounds cheeseball, and I don't mean it to, but she reminded me of Diana. I don't mean "reminded" like I'd forgotten anything. "Reinfoced" might be a better word. All the things that I was so impressed with about her I've already found in Diana. (Although Diana hasn't been on any critically acclaimed TV shows lately, but who's counting?)
And now, I'm tired. But I just registered for a free poker tournament starting at midnight, and I've discovered a great new computer game called "Savage", which I've been playing around with. It's a fusion of RTS and FPS, which is a really natural fit. Imagine Warcraft II or Age of Empires type RTS, but where the units you command are actual human players rather that NPCs. So, one commander plays the game from "on high", issuing commands to the rest of the team who plays in a FPS style. Pretty cool stuff.
Diana and I went to the theater tonight, and saw the play "Proof". It was a surprise for Diana. It turns out she'd seen the play before when she was in New York visiting her sister, but I didn't know this. Oh well. She was pleased to see it again, though.
I noticed a couple of things about the theater:
1) The ushers are almost invariable OLD! Why is this?
2) When we approached the usher at the door, our tickets were in my coat pocket, and my hands were full of programs. I figured I'd just tell the guy our seat numbers. That didn't really fly. I had to fuss around with people waiting behind us to get all my crap together and give him the tickets, just so he could walk us to our seats which we could have found very well on our own. Oh well.
The play was pretty good. Clearly the best part was that the lead was played by Danica McKellar, who's probably best known by most for playing Winnie Cooper on "The Wonder Years". I heard her on the radio on a local morning show talking about the play, being a child actor, being a math whiz, and so forth. It sounds like she's a really smart person, and the way she talked about math reminded me of Diana. She not only was so gifted, but was truly enthusiastic about it, which was fun to listen to. So I bought tickets that very same day.
Winnie Cooper (and therefore Ms. McKellar) was not an insignificant part of my childhood, I don't think. I was roughly the same age as young Kevin, and it was a crazy age where all of a sudden one starts to notice girls and get weird feeilngs in your stomach. Everything was so goddamn nerve-wracking, but in an exhilarating, semi-pubescent sexual-tension sort of way. I'd notice girls, and notice them notice me, but of course each side has to play it cool and not make it obvious that we're noticing each other. And Winnie, while not the literal object of devotion or anything, was the incarnation of every girl I'd ever noticed in That Sort of Way, and all the glorious nervous energy that went along with it.
It was only within the last year or so when I saw a commercial and saw that she was going to be on West Wing that I noticed (ha!) that she'd grown up to be a total babe. Combine that with hearing her on the radio, and hearing how smart she was, and how *wise* she was was very impressive. And I know this sounds cheeseball, and I don't mean it to, but she reminded me of Diana. I don't mean "reminded" like I'd forgotten anything. "Reinfoced" might be a better word. All the things that I was so impressed with about her I've already found in Diana. (Although Diana hasn't been on any critically acclaimed TV shows lately, but who's counting?)
And now, I'm tired. But I just registered for a free poker tournament starting at midnight, and I've discovered a great new computer game called "Savage", which I've been playing around with. It's a fusion of RTS and FPS, which is a really natural fit. Imagine Warcraft II or Age of Empires type RTS, but where the units you command are actual human players rather that NPCs. So, one commander plays the game from "on high", issuing commands to the rest of the team who plays in a FPS style. Pretty cool stuff.
2003/10/08
Quick recap... Friday night, Diana and I went and hung out with Norm and Teri and her parents at the beach house. I wasn't sure how hanging out with her parents was going to be, but it turned out to be really fun. They're both really nice, and it was good to sit and get to know them. It's always great to see Norm and Teri, and we had a good time just sitting around and chatting.
Saturday evening, Diana and Iwan and I headed to the home opener of the San Diego Sockers! The game was pretty low scoring and boring, but it's still fun to see live sporting events. The Sockers lost.
Sunday, Dad and I went out for his birthday present to Fry's. We bought a DVD player, and headed back to their house and got it all set up. He seemed happy to have it, and hopefully they'll enjoy it. I watched the first bit of the Charger game over there, and headed home to watch the rest. Poor, poor Chargers. The state of San Diego sports is really in the shitter right now.
We rented two movies recently: "Confidence" and Jackie Chan's "Drunken Master". The first was ok. A heist movie that tried to be "The Usual Suspects", but wasn't as catchy or clever or good. I was hoping the latter would be better, but it wasn't nearly as cool as some of Jackie's newer stuff. So, a couple of duds there. Bummer.
Last night, Diana, who usually has class from 5-10pm got a call as she was walking out the door that it was cancelled. We spent the evening enjoying the couch and watching trashy TV, which is fun while we're doing it, but afterwards can leave one with a feeling of having wasted an evening.
Saturday evening, Diana and Iwan and I headed to the home opener of the San Diego Sockers! The game was pretty low scoring and boring, but it's still fun to see live sporting events. The Sockers lost.
Sunday, Dad and I went out for his birthday present to Fry's. We bought a DVD player, and headed back to their house and got it all set up. He seemed happy to have it, and hopefully they'll enjoy it. I watched the first bit of the Charger game over there, and headed home to watch the rest. Poor, poor Chargers. The state of San Diego sports is really in the shitter right now.
We rented two movies recently: "Confidence" and Jackie Chan's "Drunken Master". The first was ok. A heist movie that tried to be "The Usual Suspects", but wasn't as catchy or clever or good. I was hoping the latter would be better, but it wasn't nearly as cool as some of Jackie's newer stuff. So, a couple of duds there. Bummer.
Last night, Diana, who usually has class from 5-10pm got a call as she was walking out the door that it was cancelled. We spent the evening enjoying the couch and watching trashy TV, which is fun while we're doing it, but afterwards can leave one with a feeling of having wasted an evening.
2003/10/01
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BLOG!
Wow... I just was checking out my archives, and found that the ol' blog is about a year old. Nice work, me!
Diana and I were in bed last night flipping the channels. "Leave it to Beaver" was on, and she didn't recognize what it was. It wasn't like it was a weird part or anything; Wally and the Beav were having a little heart to heart. When she heard the names "Wally" and "Beaver", she guessed "Beaver the Cleaver"? She's so cute and television-retarded at the same time. Seriously, I think we could count on one hand the cumulative number of episodes she's seen of Bewitched, I Dream of Jeanie, Happy Days, M*A*S*H, I Love Lucy, The Munsters, Gilligan's Island, and Leave It To Beaver. And we didn't talk about it, but I have doubts about The Love Boat, too.
I'm not saying I'm a TV god or anything, but these, to me, represent some serious classics, and shows that I grew up with (when my parents weren't home and I was allowed to watch as much glorious TV as I wanted!) Nor do I (of course) think anything worse of Diana at all. It just kind of astounds me, for some reason, as these shows strike me as sort of ubiquitous fundamentals. I vowed that I would gather a representitive sample of each of those shows and watch them with her, but I'm not sure how I could accomplish that.
I think I did good work today. There is really nasty task that we programmers have to do when we're done with out programs and submitting them to the testing group. We have to find component that our program depends on, and write them out in a list. Then we have to find every component that THOSE components depend on, and add those to the list. And so on, until you get to components that don't depend on others. I think I've just written a small tool that will do that (pain in the ass) job automatically. My boy Bruce had the idea, and we talked about doing it on a weekend or after hours or something, but I had some time today and was able to get a good start on it, and stayed late tonight while Diana was working to get it finished up. I hope he can test it tomorrow, and release it on the masses! I hope it goes well, as stuff like this can directly influence year-end reviews, raises, and bonuses and whatnot.
Wow... I just was checking out my archives, and found that the ol' blog is about a year old. Nice work, me!
Diana and I were in bed last night flipping the channels. "Leave it to Beaver" was on, and she didn't recognize what it was. It wasn't like it was a weird part or anything; Wally and the Beav were having a little heart to heart. When she heard the names "Wally" and "Beaver", she guessed "Beaver the Cleaver"? She's so cute and television-retarded at the same time. Seriously, I think we could count on one hand the cumulative number of episodes she's seen of Bewitched, I Dream of Jeanie, Happy Days, M*A*S*H, I Love Lucy, The Munsters, Gilligan's Island, and Leave It To Beaver. And we didn't talk about it, but I have doubts about The Love Boat, too.
I'm not saying I'm a TV god or anything, but these, to me, represent some serious classics, and shows that I grew up with (when my parents weren't home and I was allowed to watch as much glorious TV as I wanted!) Nor do I (of course) think anything worse of Diana at all. It just kind of astounds me, for some reason, as these shows strike me as sort of ubiquitous fundamentals. I vowed that I would gather a representitive sample of each of those shows and watch them with her, but I'm not sure how I could accomplish that.
I think I did good work today. There is really nasty task that we programmers have to do when we're done with out programs and submitting them to the testing group. We have to find component that our program depends on, and write them out in a list. Then we have to find every component that THOSE components depend on, and add those to the list. And so on, until you get to components that don't depend on others. I think I've just written a small tool that will do that (pain in the ass) job automatically. My boy Bruce had the idea, and we talked about doing it on a weekend or after hours or something, but I had some time today and was able to get a good start on it, and stayed late tonight while Diana was working to get it finished up. I hope he can test it tomorrow, and release it on the masses! I hope it goes well, as stuff like this can directly influence year-end reviews, raises, and bonuses and whatnot.
Man, I had such a good Nethack game going last night, then I got ruined.
DianaFury was a female elven Wizard (chaotic). She started off with the force bolt and magic missile spells. There was a pair of gloves in the room she started in, which her pet dutifully brought to her. Since they weren't cursed, she put 'em on, and watched her strength jump to 25. Gauntlets of Power in the first room. Sweet.
She made it down to minetown, where the altar was coaligned, and got some holy water. One of the shops sold a lamp for 75, and dropping it on the altar confirmed it was blessed. She rubbed the lamp, and a djinni appeared and granted her wish of Silver Dragon scale mail. Sweet.
She then went to find Sokoban, and completed it, but needed to break a bunch of boulders along the way, which reduced her luck a lot, I guess. In Sokoban, she found a stray kitten on the last level, which grew very quickly into a large cat in the treasure room. The treasure room yielded a bag of holding, which was very needed with the scrolls and rings and potions she had. She then went back to complete the mines, which wasn't much of a problem. A nice dwarf was kind enough to bring the luckstone right to her. A polymorph trap turned her large cat into a Gray Dragon. Sweet.
This is where the problems began. She headed back to minetown, to do some killing and sacrificing to try to improve her weapon and get more holy water. She drank from a fountain (the guards didn't scare her!), and it overflowed making a couple little pools. She then got all her useless potions out of the bag of holding, and put all her other stuff IN the bag of holding in preparation to drop it and jump in the pool (to dilute her potions to water).
All of a sudden, the bag (which was FULL of goodies) was gone. My only guess is that one of my unID'd wands was a wand of cancellation (putting a wand of cancellation into a bag of holding explodes it, losing everything). All I was left with was the armor I was wearing (still not bad) and a couple of gems. My god wasn't happy with me, and sacrificing wasn't helping (I think it was all the bad luck I'd incurred in Sokoban). I starved to death soon after. Bogus.
DianaFury was a female elven Wizard (chaotic). She started off with the force bolt and magic missile spells. There was a pair of gloves in the room she started in, which her pet dutifully brought to her. Since they weren't cursed, she put 'em on, and watched her strength jump to 25. Gauntlets of Power in the first room. Sweet.
She made it down to minetown, where the altar was coaligned, and got some holy water. One of the shops sold a lamp for 75, and dropping it on the altar confirmed it was blessed. She rubbed the lamp, and a djinni appeared and granted her wish of Silver Dragon scale mail. Sweet.
She then went to find Sokoban, and completed it, but needed to break a bunch of boulders along the way, which reduced her luck a lot, I guess. In Sokoban, she found a stray kitten on the last level, which grew very quickly into a large cat in the treasure room. The treasure room yielded a bag of holding, which was very needed with the scrolls and rings and potions she had. She then went back to complete the mines, which wasn't much of a problem. A nice dwarf was kind enough to bring the luckstone right to her. A polymorph trap turned her large cat into a Gray Dragon. Sweet.
This is where the problems began. She headed back to minetown, to do some killing and sacrificing to try to improve her weapon and get more holy water. She drank from a fountain (the guards didn't scare her!), and it overflowed making a couple little pools. She then got all her useless potions out of the bag of holding, and put all her other stuff IN the bag of holding in preparation to drop it and jump in the pool (to dilute her potions to water).
All of a sudden, the bag (which was FULL of goodies) was gone. My only guess is that one of my unID'd wands was a wand of cancellation (putting a wand of cancellation into a bag of holding explodes it, losing everything). All I was left with was the armor I was wearing (still not bad) and a couple of gems. My god wasn't happy with me, and sacrificing wasn't helping (I think it was all the bad luck I'd incurred in Sokoban). I starved to death soon after. Bogus.
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