Amy has already chosen sides for when the tornado arrives.
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Amy waiting for tornado
Citizen action
Neighbors clear timbergrove opening neighborhood
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Tree down
Jack knifed truck
Avoid 640 east. Accident just before western after leaving i40
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Too much reality today
Time shifting my work today. That’s a benefit of freelancing (sometimes). My work will begin this afternoon and continue into the evening. This morning will be spent at my son’s college’s student services department trying to figure out how he is doing and if he needs help to succeed. Forecast for the rest of the month: Sh*t storm brewing, seek shelter under a blooming money tree.
Of Grasshoppers
Student: There is no good choice.
Master: After enough bad decisions, all choices will look good.
New sign
And 4 Firetrucks Flashed at the End of My Street
Three days ago I bought a rick of wood (that’s a 4×8 tightly stacked rectangle of corded wood for a fireplace or stove). I also bought a wire brush to clean my own flue. I am having seconds thoughts about not hiring Chimney Sweeps West. That evening, as I prepared dinner, I noticed some large trucks at the end of the road. I quickly dismissed them as moving trucks and realized they were fire trucks! Racing down the street to see which house was on fire, I counted 4 trucks and saw firemen on the roof. I figured the house was a goner but the next night the porch lights were on and the interior lights were on. Perhaps it was a flue fire. Today I got the story.
Sure enough, their flue caught on fire. Rural Metro turned on their meter to the tune of $1000 per hour per fire engine. They brought four engines on the assumption that this house was going to go up quickly. The fire was contained in the brickwork of the chimney. Dry chemicals were put down the chimney but could not stop the fire. The firemen went into their kitchen, got all their cooking flour, went onto the roof, and dropped the flour down the chimney. A fireball erupted from the chimney and extended 20 feet into the air burning the life out of the flue fire. In a dramatic light show, the house was saved…well…until Rural Metro puts a lien on it for their services.
Get 14,000 Followers On Twitter In One Day
How do you get 14,000 followers on Twitter in one day? Be the Dalai Lama! You can follow His Holiness at @OHHDL and of course visit the Dalai Lama website. And, on a lesser note, you can follow me on Twitter @djuggler.
Update: The title should have actually been How to go from 0 to 14,000 to 0 followers on Twitter in one day considering @OHHDL was an impostor. See Willfull’s comment..
Administrative Duties Call
Unfortunately, some days paperwork has to override programming. Tis one of those days.
Update: Hurray! I’ve rediscovered half my desk!
From the mouths of babes
Evan picks up an off-white hardcover book: "This you bible!"
Dad, chuckling: "That sure is!"
The book? Structured Programming: Theory and Practice (The Systems programming series)
Dog Days
I’ve heard of dog days of summer but for my two German Shepherds, a cold morning with frozen ground seems to be most desirable. They love this weather! They romp and roll and chase and pounce. I enjoy seeing them play.
State of Me
Dropped my cell phone and it died. Got a mean piece of mail from the postman. And Evan ripped all the keys off the laptop keyboard. I think I’m going to puke now.
Update: I hit the phone hard a couple of times with the palm of my hand and it made a miraculous recovery! The laptop will be covered under warranty but will be gone for about 3 weeks. I found a replacement keyboard on ebay for $20 but it was "similar to the OEM keyboard" and Dell was willing to ship one to me for $65 but it would also be 2 or more weeks.
Week Long Programming Debacle
I’ve solved it! A week ago started a series of unfortunate events that program progress on my application to a screeching halt. My efforts and work did not quit but every fix seemed to reveal another bizarre issue. But surely a professional programmer could figure all this out in a day rather than a week? No. Problem solving isn’t always that simple. This was akin to hiring a contractor to add a room to the back of the house but in starting to dig his foundations he discovers an old septic tank buried behind the house and in trying to remove it he discovers a cave under that. My problem began with a test when I cleared all my cookies.
On problem set off another. The development server, long overdue for an upgrade, lost its mind but this wasn’t immediately evident to me so I did a line by line inspection of the code searching for the answer to some really whacked out behavior. Eventually I realized the server was shot and moved to another server. After fixing several issues either hidden and discovered in the line by line inspection or caused by experimentation in attempts to fixed the oddities caused by the flaked out server, I eventually discovered the source of the original issue. In short, jQuery’s .filter gets overridden by jQuery’s .listen plugin so it appears.
jQuery has a built-in traversing function called filter() but handlers for events get bound only on the initial rendering of the DOM. If the DOM is modified dynamically, for instance if content is added with AJAX, then the newly added event handlers will not be recognized by filter(). Fortunately, Ariel Flesler stepped up and created a plugin called listen() (use the 1.0.3 version!) which registers the handlers for the matching events and this works for new content added via AJAX or other DOM manipulation. It seems, unless I am misinterpreting something, that listen() overrides filter() so if you have both filter() and listen() on the same page, your filter() events will never fire.
Another Snow Day
Monday saw school canceled early. Yesterday the road conditions did not permit school and the children stayed home to play.Today, it is too cold for school. Even Lincoln Memorial University closed leaving the question "how will students living on campus eat today?" Perhaps we need to have some homebound lessons.
