Took the afternoon off from work today, and after doing a few chores headed off to stomp around the woods for a while. It was my first hike of the year, and it was beautiful. This time of spring is always fascinating. Everything is dormant, but showing tiny signs of waking up. There was almost no snow even fairly high up - a bit in crevices and ( Read more... )

It turns out the Muppet Show is available on NetFlix. This... is very cool. We've just in the last couple of days started watching it from episode 1. How they ever got this on the air is beyond me - it's wonderfully surreal, subversive, and often surprisingly risque. It probably had something to do with the 70s ( Read more... )

I'm watching this show on hulu called Chase. Live action video game / reality show. Actually pretty entertaining.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/42632/chae-the-harbor-10#x-0,vepisode,1

stupid brain tricks: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101727048

Via kassrachel, a meme: comment on this post and I'll tell you five subjects/things I associate with you. Then you post them in your lj and elaborate.

She gave me:

1. garden
2. game design
3. pottery
4. bread
5. books

( and so... )

The weather, it is gross.

The work, it is busy.

The economy, it is depressing.

The chocolate, it is tasty.

The brain, it is a bit frazzled.

The internet, it is nifty.

The visual basic, it is sucky.

The new NBGG game, it is fun.

http://nedbatchelder.com/text/stopbots.html

test-driven coding is all well and good in theory, but it doesn't take into account all the time spent debugging the testing framework ( Read more... )

I've now spent 4 hours trying to get through the simple "10-minute-tutorial" for using Netbeans for Ruby on Rails development. The difficulty is that basically every non-trivial step in the process involves directions that cause errors, which after a chunk of time doing research about turn out to be known issues with the system. Plus, the error ( Read more... )

its kind of like getting screwed, only less comprehensible ( Read more... )