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This.
(Minus a couple of personal-life details ^_^)
First off, I’m actually perfectly well off. I live in a good-sized house, with a nice yard, with deer occasionally showing up and eating the roses (my wife likes the roses more, I like the deer more, so we don’t really mind). I’ve got three kids, and I know I can pay for their education. What more do I ( Read more... ) -
"In bits no keyboard stroke had flipped"
I'm working on my final project, which is due on Friday, but took time out to say goodnight to gipsieee. We snuggled in bed for a bit and talked about Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken. As I climbed out of bed to return to my project, I told her I'd be back in an hour or so unless I got really caught up in things, which got me the following in response ( Read more... ) -
A Day Late, But No Less Meaningful
I am thankful for gipsieee. For her support of my hobbies, and my geekiness, and my wackiness. It makes me incredibly happy to know that she's looking forward to our next camping adventure, and that we have Bromptons, and that we're seriously looking at making or buying a tiny house in the soon-enough-that-I-can-keep-being-excited-about-it-rather-than- ( Read more... ) -
Contrived Example of the Importance of Polymorphism
(Posted to the local Java Users Group mailing list. Reposted here for your edification, or at least hopefully enjoyment ^_^)
There are lots of reasons why polymorphism (one object being treated as a different kind of object) is a valuable thing to have in a programming language.
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In which I swoon over automation and gripe about popular user interface models
Oh AutoHotKey, is there anything you can't do?
My capslock key is now a middle mouse button and I have smooth scrolling whenever I want it despite my two-button trackball. All it took was Capslock::MButton.
UI tweaks FTW! ^_^
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It's that time of year again
Happy birthday, margoeve!!! -
According to My Internal Clock it's About Five of Autumn
Yesterday was awesome, but overwhelming. We opened most of the windows downstairs and had a cool afternoon/evening while repeated rainshowers swept the neighborhood and I alternated between cooking, reading, and kitchen maintenance. I made a batch of spaghetti sauce from a recipe from Mom that turned out deliciously, oatmeal chocolate chip ( Read more... ) -
Pet Sitting
Would anyone be willing to house or look in on our cat and/or hedgehog while we are away for the wedding (ie the 2nd half of August ( Read more... ) -
I never thought of it like that before
A little gem that gipsieee pointed me to earlier this afternoon.
Don't Wake The ProgrammerI never thought of programming like this before, but after thinking about it, and about how it works for me, holy crap he's exactly right! No wonder I get so irritable when I'm interrupted abruptly--or why I can handle little interruptions reasonably well, but as ( Read more... ) -
About 11 hours late...
This didn't actually happen to me at the time, but it would have been incredibly apropos of my mental soundtrack to be playing Weird Al's "Everything You Know Is Wrong" while I was trying to figure out why my Elevator Simulation Project (the last one for my C++ class) wasn't working:
Everything you know is wrong ( Read more... )