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Well, I think my return to work might have been a bit premature. I just am really tired and after rummaging around down in the basement to see what I had for aquarium stuff, I was actually panting. I'm in terrible shape, but not that terrible! The aquarium is all ordered and we'll be picking it up on Black Friday. It's a 30 gallon, 3 feet wide, a foot deep, and 16 inches tall. Going out on black friday should be fun. The shop is a 90 minute drive away, but has an insane selection and I feel like I want to support that kind of place. The owner has already spent time with me figuring out what I wanted to get. The local shops are, well, horrible. No nothing unless you want to have swords and neons in a 10 gallon. We had one good shop, but it seems to have decFish are disposable pets for children. It's quite a contrast to all the fantastic shops I had access to in both the Pioneer Valley and Montgomery County. Anyway, the current plan is for Tanganyikan Cichlids. These are small and more peaceable than the Malawi ones I used to keep. There's some really funky ones that nest in shells, so I'll make a bed of those in the front, then put some rocks in a corner and do maybe a pair of some kind of rock dwelling fish. Then something roaming around the upper parts of the tank. I suspect it might end up being something dull like zebras. Maybe the GM ones. But it will add some visual excitement. I guess for this size Tanganyikan tank this is kind of standard. I already ordered some limestone rock to buffer the water and I have 4 dozen escargot shells coming. I always galls me to pay for rocks, but... In other news, the raid last night got cancelled due to lack of players. I wasn't sad. Janna is off right now at the farmer's market and we're going to do something nice for this evening and watch Star Trek.
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Mom's plan:
Drive up to Oakland, stay a few days, drive back.
As you can imagine, this plan was making me a bit nervous and concerned. I tried to talk her into flying, but no, she has a car full of things to bring to me, including a cooler full of meat, and could not be dissuaded from doing so. But she had surgery pretty recently, and four surgeries in the past year, and I was just feeling really tense about this plan.
New plan:
I'm flying to San Diego today and driving her back to Oakland. Then Wednesday, I'll drive her back to San Diego and fly back home. This plan has several benefits:
1) Mom doesn't have to make the drive alone, which is really hard on her even when she's feeling well
2) Mom and I get hours in the car together to chat and catch up
3) There's no room in the car for the people mom takes care of, so she's not tempted to allow one of them to come with her; this means she'll get to actually relax for a few days and let me take care of her
I much prefer the new plan. Now to wake the boyfiend so he can drive me to the airport. See you tomorrow!
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Rye bread dough
I made 2 loaves of rye today: one in a loaf pan and one like this so we can have "cocktail rye" slices. We'll see how it goes. My mom and someotherguy both love rye bread and I had some rye berries handy. |
600 g. warm water 400 g. all-purpose flour 250 g. each whole-wheat and rye flours (if you use store-bought, you might need a little more liquid) 18 g. salt 60 g. sugar 12 g. yeast 2 tsp. or so caraway seeds, optional, plus more (optional, as well) for the tops I just tossed it all into my Kitchenaid and kneaded until it was the right texture, but you can halve this and use a bread machine, or whatever. Or heck, you can do a sponge and all that fancy stuff, but I almost never bother. I'm sure my bread would be better if I did, but I don't. Tags: bread, vegan
Current Location: 94609
Current Music: Wire in the Blood, season 6, The Dead Land
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I found out yesterday that Kodak has shut down the Digital Cinema group that I belonged to for over 6 years, a victim of a Kodak’s inability to keep up with an incredibly rapidly changing marketplace. Some years before that, I’d had the pleasure to work with many of the same people on a product called “Cineon”, a very high end post production and digital editing program for movies. Alas, technology marched on faster than we did and today people are doing on their Macintoshes and PCs what we were doing on 16 processor million dollar SGI Onyx computers.
But in both cases, I was working with the finest group of programmers, QA people, applications specialists and sysadmins it’s ever been my pleasure to work with (with the possible exception of GeoVision, which was also exceptional). And although I might be cutting my own throat because I’m still in the job market and many of them will be entering the job market very shortly, I sent out this message to the Peernet Rochester Yahoo Group.
I just found out that my old colleagues on the Digital Cinema team at Kodak all got their notices today. And while I’m probably going to be competing with them for some of the same jobs, I’d just like to put a shout out to any hiring managers here to let them know that if you see a software developer or tester with experience in the Kodak Theatre Management System on their resume, you could not do better than to hire them. They are positively the best group of people I’ve worked with in my 25 years of working all over the world.
Ok, if there was some way to put these things on a scale and see how it balances, I’d probably put the team at GeoVision (not the Albany group, the original ones) and the Cineon team as tied for first best, and the Digital Cinema group as a fairly close second, and a couple of the people at SunGard right up there.
Man, I hope we all end up employed again soon. And I hope we all end up working together some time.
Oh, and if you’re one of my former colleagues from Kodak, give me a shout off-line and I’ll hook you up with the Peernet group – it’s really been helpful.
Originally posted at Rants and RevelationsTags: geekery, revelation
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#257 - "Chafed Dickens [1 of 5]"It's getting into the Christmas season, so we better have some X-mas specials. Sexy Losers is no exception this year, and this week we kick off with the first part of the Chafed Dickens storyline. The ghost in this strip is none other than Matt, the original creator of the sex/politics newsblog Sensible Erection (www.sensibleerection.com) who has supported the strip throughout the years. Thanks, Matt! Next week: the ghost of the past shows Mike his origins!I had this idea several years ago, but for some reason only now it's seeing the light. The reason probably is because at 5 strips, it's pretty demanding and needed more preparation than I was ever ready to do. I started it once years ago but I started late and knew it was impossible to finish it by Christmas and I abandoned it. It was only this year when I came across the technique for doing Christmas strips that I needed -- start in July. Doing the odd panel here and there really helped ensure that this Christmas I could make this series, and discarding the old artwork and coming up with a different finale kept it fresh. I hope you enjoy it. It's both fortunate and unfortunate that Disney decided to come out with its own retelling this year of the Christmas Carol, even though this strip had other inspirations. It's fortunate that it makes the parody currently relevant, it's unfortunate that maybe it will be seen as a parody of that movie specifically, which it is not. This version is actually inspired by the WKRP in Cincinnati episode "Bah, Humbug" in which Arthur Carlson is visited by ghosts who get him to give Christmas bonuses in very much the same vein as the original telling of Christmas Carol. But what struck me about that particular parody was that it really didn't play with the conventions -- just adapted them to fit the episode. I always thought that was unfortunate as the story needed to be parodied in a way that pokes fun at the original rather than simply pay homage to it.
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So, I just kicked out another edition of Red State Poly, and I’m trying to figure out what, if anything, I should do with it. There are a few things I could do: obviously, I could work hella harder to make it absolutely consistent with all browsers, but now it works with IE6, 7, Firefox and Chromium, so I’m happier with it.
I found a nasty bug in jQuery’s cookie handler. Under Chromium, it returns null, not an empty string, when there are no cookies. Ick. Handled and fixed. My code also passes most of the JSLint whines.
There are a few things I could do with it. I could (1) make it handle 20 names gracefully, (2) make it handle multiple dates per woman, and calculate fertility based on that, (3) make editing of incorrectly entered dates more graceful.
All of these would be work, some moreso than others, for what was essentially a lark I wrote months ago to teach myself how jQuery was different from EXT-JS. This page is a one-shot pure Javascript play that demonstrates my client-side scripting chops. There’s no server-side at all to it. Does anyone think I ought to pursue this further, or is it “good enough” as is? And what do I do with it?
The source code is all there, by the way, in case anyone wants to review it. I haven’t compressed the Javascript at all.
This entry was automatically cross-posted from Elf's technical journal, ElfSternberg.comTags: javascript
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So... One of our reenacting buddies is going to have some of the guys he was stationed with in rhe middle east send us free spare parts and military equipment for Smutyanka, all the way from Iraq/Afghanistan! There are thousands of Urals over threre (leftovers from the Soviets), some of which are even being used by the US Army. So, if we need things like wheels, etc that are hard to get here, he'll have them send us some! First off, we're getting a machine gun pintle mount for the sidecar. Not only are they hard to get over here, but when you can find them, they're still like $400, minimum. We'll be getting ours for the cost of shipping! I love Urals. What other motorcycle brand could you get spare parts for from the middle of a warzone? Posted via LiveJournal.app. Tags: via ljapp
Current Location: US, Virginia, Arlington, Arlington, 36th St N, 5357
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