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bleh
Well, the physiatrist turned out to be a boring guy who talks in a boring way about things you already knew ( Read more... ) -
yay! something done right
Scheduled my appt with my Physiatrist to look at my spine. A Physiatrist, as I understand, is a physiotherapist who can prescribe. Time will tell if this is just a lousy MD who dabbles in physio, or some sort of physio End Boss. Also to-be-discovered is whether he'll inject cortisone into my back. I hope I can avoid any metal in my spine ( Read more... ) -
More medical voyeurism!
Well it's nice to have some validation, now I don't feel like such a whiner. I'm officially giving myself permission not to push myself so hard on projects from now on:
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Professional attire
Rocking my 'Howard Roark, Architect' golf shirt at work today. I honestly think two coworkers recognised it, including my direct manager. They kept flicking their gaze to it during the morning meeting. I felt like Harry Potter, or the first girl in grade 7 to get boobs. Eyes up here! -
Using my powers for good
Funny, I've never, EVER been able to feel good about my role at MS as a tester, I've always seen verification and defect finding/analysis as a massive waste of my time. I'm good at it, but it wasn't why I went to school ( Read more... ) -
This is what I do all day
spot the bug:
int retries = 10;
while (retries > 0 && false == Application.Current.Host.Content.IsFullScreen )
{
InputHelper.PressKey("esc");
Thread.Sleep(100); // insurance against slow input
}
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Douglas Cardinal, architect
This guy was a childhood hero of mine. I spent hours walking around and through the structures he made, and dreamed one day of bringing forms together and fusing function and aesthetics together in a way that inspired people the way he did. He designed a bunch of important buildings in Canada, including the Museum of Civilisation, the Edmonton ( Read more... ) -
Oily source
Debugging broken versions of the .net clr with broken versions of windbg makes me feel like Rand in the first 8 or 9 Wheel of Time books ( Read more... ) -
Building walls
Cool, my lead sheeting arrived at work today ( Read more... ) -
Nerd-o-rama!
Awesome! I just pointed out (at work) that we were being asked to solve the Halting Problem ( Read more... )
