Don't have much time... just wanted to mention that this has been an amazing weekend. Damn. And its only the first weekend of a 3 week vacation. If the rest of the vacation goes like this, I don't think I'll have much to complain about ( Read more... )

I was reminded tonight about the line about putting salt in an open wound... namely that it's bad... False Creek (read: very dirty, salt water) + open blisters the size of quarters on your heals = pain. :/

Oh baby.

Redesigned some code last week... finally got the new implementation requested from the lower layers today so I came in to put our implementation in place...

Old workfow: user selects 10000 items (yes, stupidly large and unlikely, however...) and clicks ok button... waits over one hour for the results to come back ( Read more... )

Given the "no field sports" rule for the summer, I've been trying to do my best to go rowing on a regular basis... I've had some good rows, some not so good ones, and some rather scary ones (rowing a single for the first time was... interesting ( Read more... )

Got some news to share... In rather gramatically incorrect english: I ARE TEH PROMOTED! :)

(A human tale - by me)Last weekend was... well... awesome ( Read more... )

Freakin beautiful weather today (and tomorrow by the sound of it!). Typical Vancouver summer weather: low-mid 20's, nice breeze, very few clouds. Not much to complain about there. Still no field sports, but rowing and cycling are legit ( Read more... )

They need a best of Slashdot commentary site (a la Bash.org)... My method of reading /. has always been: look for a suitably stupid / controversial article with lots of commentary, filter by highest ratings and then look for amusing posts. Today gave me this gem:

1st poster: Wait, wasn't sony buying apple? No wait. Disney was buying apple. No, ( Read more... )

Tonight was my first night of adult rec rowing for the summer (I took a week off after the regatta)... it was also my first swim in False Creek ( Read more... )

Went to the grocery store last night to buy some laundry detergent and some cereal. Continuing my trend of picking up a different cereal each time I buy a new box, I ended up with Raisin Bran... Which lead me to this question ( Read more... )