Jay McGavren's Journal

Sooo tired… The baby actually does pretty good about sleeping in these days. But knowing he could wake up at 4 AM the morning I’m scheduled for an interview or to give a talk makes me think twice when scheduling such things.

Maybe if he just went to a sitter’s house by default when there’s an important appointment the next day?

So maybe EVERYONE has this problem...

I dreamed a thousand new paths... I woke and walked my old one. --Chinese Proverb

2 hours for 2 seconds...

Our cactus in the backyard produces huge, beautiful blooms, but only at night, only for a couple weeks in summer, and each flower is gone by morning. This time lapse was made the hard way - by setting up a tripod, then going out back every five minutes to press the shutter button.

Diana's super-power of plot prediction strikes again...

Warning: Partial spoilers of Hancock plot within!

Here’s where my Safari Bookshelf sits at the moment:

Cross-Platform GUI Programming with wxWidgets By Julian Smart; Kevin Hock; Stefan Csomor Design Patterns in Ruby By Russ Olsen Ruby on Rails: Up and Running By Bruce A. Tate; Curt Hibbs The Rails Way By Obie Fernandez The Ruby Way: Solutions and Techniques in Ruby Programming, Second Edition By Hal Fulton

I’m actually pretty much done with the wxWidgets and Rails: Up and Running books, but I generally don’t delete books until I need the shelf slots. I retrieved The Rails Way because I’m not too pleased with the organization of the Rails: Up and Running book, and besides, I need a reference more than a tutorial now.

Gonna play with my new “purchases” starting tonight, so look for impressions in the coming weeks.