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What happened at the wedding: -Mom got Lenny (our ringbearer) to the ceremony site 10 minutes after we were supposed to begin. Glen and John rushed to get him into his tux. -Lenny then balked at walking down the aisle with all those people there. After a lot of encouragement and what seemed an eternity, he ran up to me at the altar. -I forgot my vows, and stumbled when reading them from my cheat sheet. Diana did the same. -Diana was the most beautiful I’ve ever seen her (and that’s saying a lot).
What happened on the honeymoon: -We dodged chickens left and right (the island is “infested” with them, according to one tour guide). -At various times, we ordered saimin (ramen soup) from a McDonald’s drive-thru, ate sushi from a conveyor, and had the most delicious (in fact the only) blue marlin I’ve ever had. -We got to reconnect with each other, without any kids, bills, or work to get in the way. -There are various other details, but I won’t trouble you with them.
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I wonder what the limit is on the number of enemies Geometry Wars can throw at you at once? ‘Cause I don’t think I’ve hit it yet, and I had 100-150 objects on the screen.
This game blows Robotron 2084 out of the water, BTW.
Read more...I was running late this morning, and when I walked into the office it was completely empty. Crap, I thought, today must be the off-site meeting. I looked up the address and raced off, in gross violation of the speed limit. Arrived at the meeting site to find an empty parking lot there, too.
I headed back to work to doublecheck the address and time, wondering if my boss would write me up for this one. I run into Dean, who works in the cube across from me, and in a half-panic ask him where the off-site meeting is. “That’s tomorrow,” he says. “Then where is everyone?” I gasp. “It’s MLK Day,” he says. “I’m just here to drop off a photo someone ordered.”
Whew. I seriously had no idea that my new company took Martin Luther King Jr. Day off. Well, now I’m just annoyed that I drove all this way needlessly. (When your commute is as long as mine, it’s not a trip to make lightly.) Guess I’ll spend some time coding on Zyps, since I have a nice quiet office to do it in.
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That’s my top score thus far on Geometry Wars (XBox, not XBox 360). My thumbs are about ready to fall off, but God, I love this game. Thanks go to “yakamoto” for the recommendation!
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> From: Me > To: Gary > Subject: Holy crap… > > $ rm -r /cvs > rm: remove write-protected regular file > ‘/cvs/foobar/Attic/DateComparator.java,v’? > ^C > > Can you help me figure out how much damage I did? > > -Jay
For those who don’t know, CVS is a program used for storing source code. An entire development department’s source code is usually stored in a single directory. And “rm -r” nukes entire directories (and all subdirectories).
Someone up there must like me, because that “write-protected file” was the very first thing it hit, and I cancelled it immediately. Otherwise, it would have nuked the entire department’s work (for the day, at least). In Gary’s words, they would have had to string me up.
Read more...Currently researching how to convert all the old SCCS projects to CVS. Gary H. has already blazed a trail in that direction, and is being a considerable help. I’ll be a much happier coder once this is complete.
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I just accidentally keyed “homer” (I meant to type “home”) into my Windows XP Run menu, and it took me to http://www.thesimpsons.com/. Did I just find an easter egg?
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Zyps,
originally uploaded by nephariuz.
Progress screenshot from my new simulation/game. Here you see a variety of "creatures" of varying color and transparency. Currently they are supposed to be chasing the white target, which is controlled by my mouse. Thanks to a newly-introduced bug, however, they are completely ignoring it.
Zyps
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Zyps,
originally uploaded by nephariuz.
Progress screenshot from my new simulation/game. This one was taken before the bug was introduced, so the zyps are following the target properly.
Grrrraaaaggghhh!
I’ve already plowed through the source for 3 different programs, trying to follow the flow of data for a single process. I’m not even sure where the trail ends. All of these things are dependent on each other, and before I run any of them, I have to be sure there won’t be any adverse side effects. Is this what I face for the next year?!
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