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A juggling technophile shares personal stories, challenges, humor and perhaps some political commentary.
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The outside cat killed another bat! How am I supposed to create a colony of bats with a bat killer outside?
Today is the deadline to sign the Kucinich petition to impeach GW Bush based on these articles.
Other than impeachment, censure is an option. Of course, with so little time left in the GW Presidency, what’s the point? Perhaps it prevents him from declaring martial law and stopping the elections in November? See President GW Bush 2004-indefinitely.
Evan’s "birthday car" which Noah has claimed:
Evan:"Nite nite Mom me"
Evan:"Mommy help me on shoes"
Despite the power blinking out and the Internet being down for the bulk of the day, I worked hard today, hit a programmer’s high, held the buzz, and came to a good place on my current project. Some of the stress has actually rolled off my shoulders and I feel good about the project. Now I can reabsorb the stress regarding the absurdities in my life right now. Tomorrow will be back to bureaucracy! I will have to spend a bunch of time on the phone and am thinking I may need to dust off the business cards of some old lawyer friends of mine. The next couple of weeks promise to age me by several years.
New guy in the funhouse! Want 2 know how he got bagged? A text the Company snagged. Could u have cracked it?
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On the brink of lunacy. The stress right now is beyond description. My golden plan for this year has fallen to pieces. We were supposed to take a right at the last fork in the river which would have led to calm waters. One of my boats has sunk and now we are in cascading rapids and fighting the current to keep from barreling over the waterfall’s edge. We devoured most of our remaining rations at the last camp and our dry bag with our wallets washed out of the boat on the last class 5 rapid which doesn’t matter because who knows when we will see another trading post! Is everyone wearing their life jackets?
With programming, over thinking a problem is a common pitfall. Sleeping on a problem often results in a quick solution for the mere fact that you quit thinking about the issue long enough to see the simpler solution. As we contrive our Rube Goldberg devices to solving programming challenges, we become like plumbers simply adding more pipes to divert the water to the end result. Quickly we paint ourselves into a corner and waste valuable time. I am there right now on what should be some simple css.
If I have a <tr> that has a class <tr class="foo"> and the <td> within the tr has an <a href> how do I style the anchor?
Before anyone jumps on the "Don’t use tables" bandwagon, this is semantically correct because the output is tabular data.
The solution should be tr.foo td a { }. But nothing changes. CSS is not magic; not spooky. CSS is relatively simple, and fun! But hiccups like this drive me to the brink!
I’m a little shaken. I’m very angry. I can’t think straight. I’m going to see if I can build a penny stove (see also and also) in 20 minutes to demonstrate to the scouts tonight. Then I am back to coding. Must deliver a feature by midnight tonight or my head is going to crack open.
Update: Fail. Back to code. Skipped scouts.
We’ve hit that time of the Monday where the walls begin to close in. This is the moment that I feel I need to continue programming to hit a milestone, simultaneously I need to be on the phone doing unpleasant bureaucratic things, and I also have a load of paperwork which demands I not ignore it a single more day. All the while I feel like I’m walking in glue. Since the world has gone micro, I think I’ll go have a micro-breakdown. Back in 15 minutes.
Dad:"Give me that bop please."
Evan, 3 years old handing over pacifier:"Here go."
Dad:"Thank you."
Evan:"Welcome."
Dad:"You’re a good boy."
Evan:"Yeah Dad dy."
Read the summaries at The Animation Blog and be sure to watch the first video of Pixar’s next movie – UP.
Oh yeah! Tron2 trailer leaked.
Who said it?