Monochromatic Outlook

I got out there for the Cable Car Chase after basi­cal­ly neglect­ing my train­ing for a month. I don’t real­ly rec­om­mend tak­ing a month off, but I learned some­thing about over­train­ing, I think. I’ve done some swim­ming and gone to one run train­ing ses­sion in the last month, and I’ve been to the gym a cou­ple of times, but basi­cal­ly have not run at all since I did Run Hit Won­der last month.

I was going to be very pleased to … Read the rest

Cable Car Chase is TODAY! I have to be there at 6:30 to pick up my race num­ber because I did­n’t get it yes­ter­day or the day before. So here I am at 6am. The sun has­n’t come up and I’m putting on sun­block. LOL.

http://www.anacablecarchase.com/2004/

5.67 miles, but with some fair­ly steep hill work. Yay for San Fran­cis­co! I’ll be very hap­py if I fin­ish in under an hour, but that’s a … Read the rest

Where do you fall on the lib­er­al — con­ser­v­a­tive polit­i­cal spec­trum? (Unit­ed States)
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Just remem­ber that by San Fran­cis­co-Berke­ley stan­dards, I’m a right-wing fas­cist. OK, maybe just a mod­er­ate fas­cist. But cer­tain­ly far enough to the right of cen­ter in SF pol­i­tics to gen­er­al­ly avoid telling any of my close friends who I vote for.… Read the rest

I have draw­ing bris­tol in 11“×14″ inch sheets.

Why do I need a 42″ draw­ing table?

I mean, even if I actu­al­ly ever used it, that is.

Wail—Mighty Pur­ple… Read the rest

One house­mate took a mat­tress from the garage that belongs to the land­lord. Now the land­lord says no bicy­cles in the garage. Or box­es, or any­thing. Great.

House­mate claims that the oth­er house­mates said it was OK and is defen­sive, claim­ing land­lord is try­ing to cre­ate dra­ma to have con­trol. Hel­lo? Jus­ti­fy­ing a wrong action with the overreaction?

I real­ly real­ly don’t like my bikes being out­side. It’s not a good way to store bicycles.

The land­lord is also say­ing … Read the rest

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