Author: splicer

I’ve been try­ing to fig­ure out how to pass val­ues to meth­ods and return val­ues back to the caller in Java. Like in Perl I would do this:

sub gar
{
$in = $_[0];
$out = "gar gar gar $in gar gar gar";
return( $out );
}

and then every time I want to sur­round a string in gars I would just do some­thing like:

$newgarstring = gar( $stringtobegarred );
print "$newgarstring\n";

Now it’s occur­ring to me that maybe this is a … Read the rest

Today after work I went for my first-ever Aquat­ic Park swim. I bor­rowed a wet­suit to fend against the cold San Fran­cis­co Bay water, and went out into it. I’ve tried twice before with­out a wet­suit, and chick­ened out when the water reached my bel­ly. The water, yes, it’s cold.

The wet­suit I bor­rowed feels too small for me, but maybe that’s just a side effect of being prop­er­ly snug. It’s a shorty; the sleeves are long but the legs cov­er … Read the rest

I don’t under­stand the pur­pose of an IDE.

I’ve been try­ing to work with Apple’s XCode and it seems like a capa­ble lit­tle text edi­tor with a whole lot of stuff attached that I have no idea what it does. I do most of my work in emacs or BBe­d­it. I have the feel­ing that XCode would make espres­so for me, if I had half a clue. And peo­ple I talk to, like Xris say they have been spoiled by IDEs. … Read the rest

For about the fourth time since 1994 I’m dip­ping my toes in the waters of learn­ing Java. I have it in my head that I may be able to mar­ket myself more effec­tive­ly with Java expe­ri­ence than with Perl. Yes, I believe every­thing I’ve heard about Python being The Best Lan­guage Ev4R, but I’m pret­ty much con­vinced that it being so good is its death knell. The endorse­ment of so many savvy peo­ple puts Python in a won­der­ful … Read the rest

Mak­ing some small progress in the War On Clut­ter. I have a big box of unsort­ed papers that is near­ly fall­en apart because its con­tents were too heavy for it in the move. Now I have a sec­ond box, which is the new home of the con­tents of the first box.

Even­tu­al­ly what I need is a sys­tem for fil­ing the things that I intend to keep. But for right now I’m set­tling for just get­ting the stuff I think I … Read the rest

Last night talk­ing with my house­mate on the sub­ject of Every­one Thinks I’m Gay, it was sug­gest­ed to me that maybe I should­n’t wear my ear­rings. I have two pierc­ings in my left ear­lobe. For the last few years I’ve worn one small stud and a small ring.

So I took my ear­rings out, did­n’t think much of it until this morn­ing. I was get­ting ready to go out to the store, and I put my sun­glass­es on and checked myself … Read the rest

Does­n’t this look like fun?

http://www.anacablecarchase.com/2004/… Read the rest

OK, at my com­pa­ny we have five employ­ees. That’s total, includ­ing the owner.

We have some­where around a hun­dred Inter­net domains.

So why do we have to have dif­fer­ent rules for EVERY DOMAIN????

My tourcorp.com address is “steve” and my mapwest.com address is “s” and my gotoalcatraz.com address is “splicer.”

I’m cool with that and cool with hav­ing mul­ti­ple alias­es for the same mail­box. What I don’t under­stand is hav­ing to main­tain one hun­dred mail­box­es or even one hun­dred sep­a­rate alias­es … Read the rest

My clos­et lightswitch has been upside-down since I moved in.

No longer.… Read the rest

The box­es are los­ing and the piles are winning.

I broke down a cou­ple more box­es. Most of these are going right to recy­cling, as they’ve been in enough moves that I don’t think they’ll sur­vive anoth­er. There’s also the issue of space and I don’t real­ly have any place to store card­board, even fold­ed up. That’s kind of scary.

But with the help of The Con­tain­er Store and Elfa stuff, I’ve now got most of my CDs stored under my … Read the rest